Twisted Roots: A Light Into the Darkness

Samuel stopped and shook his head at the night sky as though it knew the secret he was about to reveal. "There are magical places that exist in this world, Jessica, places the Master Architect created to balance good and evil. The time will come when you will leave this house and enter into another life that awaits you. A life you deserve with a greater purpose. You don't know how special you really are."

For years, Jessica has fought for her father's life by agreeing to every little whim her twisted mother's mind could conjured. Close to her twentieth birthday, her scheming mother forces an engagement. If Jess refuses, she'll shut off the machines keeping her father alive. Having no choice, she agrees, but hours later finds her father already dead. She knows then she has to escape her prison, or she'll end up just like her father.

TWISTED ROOTS Saga Continues, Summer 2014

Excerpt:

"For a moment, I thought I heard the crash of waves and smelled salt in the air.  My heart raced and my eyes flung open to see the swamp and not the ocean--the scene I used to wake up to in my prison.

A vision of my father stepped out of my thoughts and projected in front of me.
 
Waves crashing?  Salty air? The ghost of my father?  Have I gone mad?

He hovered mid-air and then zipped around the room as though he was looking for something.
 
Search your memories, Jessie.  You must hurry. Time is running out."

Synopsis:
Jessica discovers her father was not only part of the Cherokee clan, but had a shaded past. For reasons unknown, he had hidden three sacred scrolls deep beneath the earth.  What's in these scrolls can change the fate of the world, if in the wrong hands.  Jessica and a long lost sibling are the only ones who can retrieve these scrolls scattered around the world.

Jessica's quest not only takes her away from the protection of her home in the swamp, but away from her one true love.  If she doesn't get the scrolls first, her dream of a future with him will be lost forever.

Jealousy is an influential path to wickedness.