California Angel - Softcover

Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075280278X ISBN 13: 9780752802787

Publisher: Orion Pub Co, 1996

Synopsis

Toy Johnson believes she is a good teacher, a devoted wife, and a decent person. So how can it be possible that she has been arrested as a child stealer and charged with murder? And she is helpless to defend herself with her version of events, because it defies all the rules of logic. Childless and unfulfilled in her marriage, Toy had been desperate to find hope for the future, and at last her life had meaning with her 'dreams', where she was able to save lives and heal children. But now the trial forces those around her - those who love her and those whose lives she has saved - to judge whether or not the seemingly impossible can in fact be real ...

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About the Author

With a BA in English and 5 years as a photographic model behind her, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg studied criminology. She served in the Dallas Police Department, New Mexico State Police, Ventura Police Department and as an Investigative Probation Officer in Court Services for the Country of Ventura where she handled major crimes. She lives in California.

From Publishers Weekly

In a surprising departure from her bestselling legal thrillers (Mitigating Circumstances, etc.), Rosenberg tells a warmhearted story of divine intervention and angelic miracles. Protagonist Toy Johnson is a charismatic teacher who insists on thinking positively about the futures of the underprivileged children in her inner-city school in Santa Ana, Calif. Though Toy is beautiful (she has "flaming red hair"; her skin is "as translucent as the finest silk") and wealthy, she is unhappy: she has been unable to conceive, and her surgeon husband does not sympathize with her need to donate money to the needy families of her young charges. Idealistic Toy craves "magic, miracles, overnight solutions." She has had this sense of mission since the day she suffered cardiac arrest, when she had a vision in which she helped an autistic boy. Now, having decided that she needs some space to consider a separation from her husband, Toy goes to New York, where she suffers recurrences of cardiac arrest, each time having vivid dreams of saving children from grave danger. Yet these children turn out to be real, and mounting evidence indicates that her lifesaving actions may occur during out-of-body astral projections. Soon Toy understands that she is an angel, deputized on missions of mercy. Rosenberg's fervid, exalted prose often soars to melodramatic heights, and her basic premise requires the same kind of belief that draws readers to The Celestine Prophecy. She eschews heavy-handed sermonizing, however, and intriguing plot twists keep the narrative moving briskly. Literary Guild main selection; audio rights to Penguin Highbridge; author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Pub Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 075280278X
• ISBN 13: 9780752802787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1