Author of two sci-fi novels "Trapped in a Dream" and "Essence", Victoria Caro's third novel "Mary's Apostles" presents an intriguing historical thriller.
"I strive to tell deeply meaningful stories packaged in a riveting thrill with a touch of kind humor. In Trapped in a Dream, my hope was to convey that small, kind acts can unsuspectingly snowball into great deeds. In Essence, I wished to show that 'different' is not a threat to 'normal' but a potential contributor to 'better'. And in Mary's Apostles, I call for Reason and Faith to team up to make the world a better place." |
Mary's Apostles
Read a free sample here Twenty-five years ago, Sofia Auru-Soto survived a traumatic event that everyone around her celebrated as a divine miracle. Today, Sofia is a psychologist running from her past and dedicated to discrediting irrational occurrences. Her life will take an unexpected turn when her estranged sister, Lily, a history professor, shows up without warning accompanied by an enigmatic journalist, Michael Amir, asking for her help. She claims to have discovered a hidden message in a papal homily that reveals the existence of a surprising alignment of Marian shrines as if a divine path of sorts. Convinced it guides to a prophetic secret, Lily seeks Sofia’s analytical genius to decipher its ultimate destination. But they must hurry; dark forces trail Lily and have already attempted to thwart her investigation. For Sofia, an innate skeptic, the request makes her uncomfortable for obvious reasons, but worried about her sister’s delusional claim and suspicious of the sinister influence the charming Michael seems to have over her, she agrees to collaborate. The next forty-eight hours unfold into a race through the most intriguing miracles, legends and sacred artifacts in history in search of the clues that complete Mary’s Path to its final prodigious revelation. Read a free sample here |
While on vacation in Spain with Chris, Faith telepathically witnesses the brutal assault of a man through the eyes of the attacker. From the disturbing experience she takes away that the assailant is a woman and that it happened in a laboratory. But she also senses something is terribly wrong with this picture.
Faith and Chris immediately inform his parents, George and Teresa Luxford, who, fearful for their safety, have them team up with an old colleague, a Spanish professor, Xavier Vall, whose loyalties are not always clear, but who is uniquely qualified for undisclosed reasons to keep them safe. So, clueless as usual about what is going on, and accompanied by a professor who is as charming as he is unpredictable, Faith and Chris find themselves embroiled in the pursuit of a sinister woman unaware she is the product of a science far more advanced than their own and willing to stop at nothing to protect a secret. Read a free sample here |
Faith Fernandez is a young teacher dedicated to helping her community but hides a secret: All her life she has sensed the telepathic presence of someone else her age. While children, he was her imaginary friend; in her teens, he became her guilty fantasy; now, he avoids her.
Christian Luxford is a tormented neurologist with a secret: All his life he has sensed the mysterious telepathic presence of someone else his age. While kids they played together; in his teens he was intoxicated by her; now he avoids her, devoted to unraveling the cause of what he believes is a delusion. When Faith suffers a brutal attack that leaves her trapped in a strange state of lucid dreaming unable to wake up, he, Chris, the greatest expert in the field, is called in to examine her. Chris then discovers perplexed that his attractive ghost is very real and that he has become her only contact with the outside world. All the while, the attacker, for unknown reasons, still lurks looking to finish the job. The race to save her life and unravel the secret for their enigmatic connection will uncover unsettling truths about their past. Read a free sample here |