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46.
Ascending
Sherrie
Cronin
Genre: Fantasy, contemporary,
metaphysical
Publisher: Cinnabar Press
ISBN: 9781941283035
ISBN: 9781941283233
ASIN: B00I58T5FU
Number of pages: 405
Word Count: 135,000
Cover Artist: Jennifer FitzGerald
Book Description:
Teddie likes her country music
and her old pick-up truck and she's not sure how she let her best friend talk
her into spending a semester abroad in Darjeeling India. Once she arrives, her
innocence quickly collides with an underworld in which young women are bartered
and sold. As she fights to understand a depravity that she never dreamed
existed, Teddie finds that her own mind develops a unique ability for locating
her friends and that an ancient group is willing to train her to use her innate
skills for out of body experiences to save others.
It will require trust in ideas
she barely believes, and more courage than has ever been expected of her. When
it becomes clear that the alternative may be her friends' deaths and the
unchecked growth of an evil crime lord's empire, Teddie accepts the challenge
and shows those guilty of unspeakable crimes just how powerful a young woman
can be.
Available at Amazon
Note:
this is collection, not a series. The books can be read in any order.
About
the Author:
Sherrie Roth grew up in Western
Kansas thinking that there was no place in the universe more fascinating than
outer space. After her mother vetoed astronaut as a career ambition, she went
on to study journalism and physics in hopes of becoming a science writer. She
published her first science fiction short story long ago, and then waited a lot
of tables while she looked for inspiration for the next story. When it finally
came, it declared to her that it had to be whole book, nothing less. One night,
while digesting this disturbing piece of news, she drank way too many shots of
ouzo with her boyfriend. She woke up thirty-one years later demanding to know
what was going on.
The boyfriend, who she had
apparently long since married, asked her to calm down and explained that in a
fit of practicality she had gone back to school and gotten a degree in
geophysics and had spent the last 28 years interpreting seismic data in the oil
industry. The good news, according to Mr. Cronin, was that she had found it at
least mildly entertaining and ridiculously well-paying The bad news was that
the two of them had still managed to spend almost all of the money.
Apparently she was now Mrs.
Cronin, and the further good news was that they had produced three wonderful
children whom they loved dearly, even though to be honest that is where a lot
of the money had gone. Even better news was that Mr. Cronin turned out to be a
warm-hearted, encouraging sort who was happy to see her awake and ready to
write. "It's about time," were his exact words.
Sherrie Cronin discovered that
over the ensuing decades Sally Ride had already managed to become the first woman
in space and apparently had done a fine job of it. No one, however, had written
the book that had been in Sherrie's head for decades. The only problem was, the
book informed her sternly that it had now grown into a six book series. Sherrie
decided that she better start writing it before it got any longer. She's been
wide awake ever since, and writing away.
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