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.
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?
Автор: Butler Patrick Название: Hidden History of Uptown and Edgewater ISBN: 1626191433 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626191433 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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If any place in Chicago has been all things to all men, it has to be the corner of the city that is occupied by Edgewater and Uptown.
Babe Ruth and Mahatma Gandhi found a place of refuge at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, but the locale has also been a sanctuary for Appalachian coal miners and Japanese Americans released from internment camps. Al Capone reportedly moved booze through a secret tunnel connecting the Green Mill and the Aragon Ballroom, "Burglar Cops" moonlit out of the Summerdale police station, and a "Kitchen Revolt" by some not-very-ordinary housewives sent once-invulnerable machine ward boss Marty Tuchow on his way to Club Fed. Ferret out the hidden history of Uptown and Edgewater with veteran beat reporter Patrick Butler in this curio shop of forgotten people and places..
Автор: Edgewater Leslie Название: The Unfolding: Book 1 in the Brain Storm Series ISBN: 1977211216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977211217 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2641.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Staring at the clouds through the airplane window, Bella tried to imagine what her grandmother's house looked like. She visualized a small cottage with a white picket fence, a covered porch with an old rocker, and lush flower gardens. Anna Neusa was 96 when she died, and outlived her only daughter, Bella's mother. Why hadn't Mom and Grandma kept in touch over the years? What could've happened between them that separated them for life?
Since they'd only met twice, Bella was surprised to be notified that she had inherited the estate. How had the law firm gotten her address? Social media probably helped. Bella was an author, and Sanders Publishing, her agency, was all over the internet. One great thing about being in the book business was that, with the right equipment, you could work from anywhere. And Bella supposed she might be in Phoenix for a while.
Nothing prepared her for her arrival at Grandmother's. Bella's ideas of Anna Neusa were a mismatch to what she saw. How could a fortune teller, as she was called in family circles, live such a large life? From the start, finding out was unnerving. It challenged everything she'd been taught to believe about life, death, the seen and unseen.
In league with the presence of her grandmother, Bella finally uncovered a 50-year-old secret that upended her beliefs. She was next in the psychic lineage and her gift was beginning to unfold. Suddenly, invisible phenomena, mysticism, science and metaphysics become mainstream. Entangled in a cycle of unending questions, Bella was swept up into the high tech world of iris and thumbprint authentication, hidden chambers and secret devices designed to further experiments in thought transfer.
Was Grandmother actually related to Nikola Tesla? Her unpatented technologies piggybacked his ideas about energy movement. But Anna's interests were aimed at a different type of greater good, helping people identify their brain storms, the thoughts that prevented them from moving forward. Military personnel, veterans and first responders seemed to find their way to Anna's clinic. Although they had already completed all the conventional treatments, they were still unable to live fully. With the use of original inventions, multidimensional communication, and the gift, healers accompanied these everyday heroes over the final hurdles: mending spirits, renewing faith and rediscovering passion.
As the scope of Bella's responsibilities unfolded, she became intimate with the patriot plight and aligned herself with Gran's mastermind group. The circle was composed of psychics and other brain stormers. The seer, the interdimensional medium, and the shaman provided unique, highly specialized insights into their patient's problems. Others, including Bella's sexy, skinny-dipping neighbor, Bruce, offered other types of awareness. Called the Michelangelo of wood, he chiseled away the layers that covered the masterpieces, a coveted talent in wood sculpting and in life redesign. As patients chipped away ideas that didn't serve them, the lives they dreamed of began to unfold.
The Unfolding is book 1 in The Brain Storm Series.
Other Books in The Brain Storm Series, also in production, are: Resurrected, In Medias Res: Into the Middle of Things, and Hidden Harbor.
Other books by bestselling author Leslie Edgewater include All the Dark Corners.
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