The Unfolding: Book 1 in the Brain Storm Series, Edgewater Leslie
Автор: Edgewater Leslie Название: Resurrected: Book 2 in The Brain Storm Series ISBN: 1977212573 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977212573 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1905.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Have you ever done something that you'd give anything to take back? Bruce did. And back-paddling to try to justify his actions occupied a lot of his time. Choices had consequences, and looking back, he wondered if what he lost was greater than what he gained.
In college, Bruce made a choice that changed him forever. It wasn't something you could see by looking at him, but it lived inside, at home where all those dirty little secrets were buried. Every day since, he struggled to dull his remorse and free himself from the bondage of his past. He was damaged, broken. It was his brain storm, the thoughts about what he'd done, that kept him stuck and prevented him from living fully. On the brink of suicide, he met his neighbor, Anna.
At a time when he needed it, Anna threw him a lifeline. She had friends. Her mastermind group was composed of, among others, a psychic, a medium, and a shaman. Though skeptical, Bruce allowed the brain stormers to provide unique insight that gently nudged him in a new direction. With their guidance, he rediscovered a life worth living.
Bruce became the Michelangelo of wood. He could look at a piece of wood and see the sculpture inside it. He often wondered whether it was the masterpiece crying out for expression, or something in him screaming to be released. Either way, it had become a fulfilling line of work.
When Anna died, Bruce was devastated. And then came Bella, her granddaughter and heir. From the start, they made discoveries that coaxed them out of their comfort zones and into uncharted waters. They became a matched set. Not long after, he summoned the courage to tell Bella his 30-year-old secret.
Bruce and Ivy made a pact of silence. Neither wanted their families to know about the pregnancy. The shame it brought to them both, was punishment enough. They weren't in love, didn't want to get married, and weren't ready to be parents.
Being raised Catholic, neither wanted to abort the child, so they agreed to adoption. At birth, the baby was taken immediately, without them seeing or knowing anything. And that was supposed to be the end. They went their separate ways.
Their vow of silence made it impossible to work through the feelings and consequences of their actions. Bruce never married or had a family. Ivy married and had children, but felt that her marriage was built upon a lie, or, at the very least, a half-truth. Neither could live fully with their unanswered questions and regrets.
A closed adoption made it impossible to legally get information about their child, but he never stopped trying. Bruce eventually found out they'd had a baby girl who died a few months later from complications of a birth defect. The sadness and remorse he'd suffered through the years was nothing compared to the grief that became his companion when he learned the truth.
Then, out of the blue, Bruce got a message.
"Your daughter is alive."
How could that be?
Bruce was against Bella's idea of turning things over to others for investigation. He'd promised Ivy complete secrecy. As far as he knew, she'd kept her part of the bargain. He, on the other hand had told someone, Bella, and she told someone. And now, the only thing he was sure of was that he had to find Ivy and let her know what was going on.
Join Bruce and Bella as they seek the truth. With a closed adoption, how do you get access to privileged medical records? How do you find someone if you don't their name?
Unexplainable things were happening to and around Bella. She couldn't talk about them with just anybody. There were only a few trusted insiders, the brain stormers, who would take her seriously. In their absence, she had no one to confide in. In the past weeks she had been unable to have a telepathic conversation with Maddie or Gran, and couldn't seem to get her energy back. Her gift was changing, and she attributed it to her journey into and out of the vortex.
The closest examples to what Bella experienced were the sun miracles reported at Medjugorje, a phenomenon explained as a religious or mystical experience. What happened with Bella could be described similarly, but she wasn't praying when it happened. She was sitting in a boat underneath a bridge at sunset. Two things these experiences had in common were the extraordinary sunsets and the feeling of being transported somewhere else for a short time.
It's funny how you can play with words to manipulate meaning. Bella could say that she had experienced something without admitting that she'd participated in an event. But it was splitting hairs. It was impossible to define what took place. If things were as they appeared, she took a trip. But where did she go? Did she travel in time, to the past or future? Or did she drift downstream into some remote off-chute along the Mississippi? An even bigger question was, could she ever go back?
Bruce was frustrated because he felt that Bella shut him out completely. Why would she do something like that? They were a thing. There must be more to the story. Maybe she was hurt or in some kind of trouble. After careful deliberation, he contacted the brain stormers to see what they were able to intuit. It was another dead end. As a last resort, he flew to St. Louis to find out what was going on.
When he arrived at her home, Bruce found evidence that she'd left in a hurry. For one thing, her packed bags were sitting by the door. Where would she go for weeks without them? There were fresh foods spoiling on the counters and in the refrigerator. She didn't do things like that. It didn't add up.
Lounging by the pool and drowning her sorrows in chocolate, Bella wondered why Bruce just up and left without a word. Even though they weren't legally committed to each other, they were inseparable, best friends. They joked about being friends with benefits, but they both knew they were a matched set. She understood why he hadn't reached her in the past two days, her phone was dead. But what about the weeks prior? These past months were magic. There was no forewarning, no hint that he needed space. It wasn't like him.
Returning to business as usual was difficult. As it turned out, other members of the mastermind group had been channeling a string of numbers, too. Each of the psychics had received them in different fashion, but it was the same group of numbers Bella received. When they put their heads together, and Bella recounted her experiences, things began to fall into place. It was a calling.
Partnered with other members of the mastermind group, the circle of trust expanded. Their vision and mission broadened. Their destination became clear. Where it lead them wasn't on any map. What they agreed to undertake was the adventure of a lifetime, a trip into the invisible.
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