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Blurb:
On a lonely strip of Death Valley
a failing musician awakens to an intriguing new life. One filled with ancient
languages, a hidden identity, and the woman who holds the key to his
destiny...his connection to the lost pages of the Dead Sea Scrolls. But there
are those who want to keep the secrets buried...and will stop at nothing to
keep the prophecy from unfolding.
Excerpt:
She’s feeding me again. I like how
her long fingers break off a piece of bread and dip it into the bland broth.
The way she looks at me makes me feel naked and vulnerable yet infinitely safe.
Clean and pure.
I’m not sure how long I’ve slept but
it seems like a long time. My body aches in ways and places I couldn’t have
imagined possible and my head feels like it’s trapped in a vice. It hurts to
open my eyes too long; especially when the sun shines thru the big windows this
place has lining every wall. I think we’re in the woods because all I can see
are trees and she doesn’t have a single curtain or blind to block out the
world.
The bed I’ve been sleeping on is in
the middle of the room and covered in the softest white sheets, a pile of blankets
and white Christmas lights strung across the headboard. This place looks like a
cross between a fairy’s cottage and a hunting lodge; with its wood walls and
beams.
She has candles everywhere, most of
them half burned, and crystals in all shapes and sizes hang from hooks and
nails. It suits her, this place. Everywhere I look there’s a clue to who she is
and what she loves.
Sometimes I see a flash of light and
the ache in my head is blinding. The pain leaves me breathless.
Why is she helping me?
AUTHOR Bio
and Links:
Mattison
started her career in Chicago appearing on television and radio. She founded Cheshire
Smile Productions, bringing to life and penning her first feature film FISH
WITHOUT A BICYCLE, a festival winning coming of age comedy which was directed
by Brian Austin Green. “Fish” is now available on Netflix. Mattison also wrote
Cheshire’s second release THE THIRD WISH now available at Blockbuster and
distributed by the Hallmark Channel.
Lionsgate’s
FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY, based on a true story of Jewish gangsters set in the
1970’s starring James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Edward Furlong, and Jeffrey Tambor
was also produced and written by Mattison.
Most
recently Jenna has written a TV movie called COMMITTED, which wrapped
production this spring to premiere on television this fall. Her novel The Tree of Jesse is a romantic
religious thriller and will be released this spring, available worldwide.
Mattison wrote the book while recovering from a traumatic injury and says that
the novel, “wrote itself,” with historical facts just begging to be included.
“I didn’t write this…it came from somewhere else. Somewhere good. Somewhere
pure.”
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