The process of writing this book began in 2006 after watching my first 24 hour marathon of Ghost Hunters. Through the course of writing it, my main focus was how the main character, Brigit Malone, would keep a promise she had made to her true love. In the days prior to and the days since its publication, I have been asked many times over : What's it about? It's about the power of True Love and the measures one might take to hang onto that love. It's the idea that True Love can exist and reach beyond the grave to affect the ones still existing on the mortal plane. It's about the truths of being good and being a good person. It's about the power of Faith -- faith in love, faith in honesty, faith in courage and, in a round-about-way, faith in the Divine. It's about continuing to grow and looking deeper than the surface because not everything is as it seems. It's about meeting a challenge -- rising to the occasion despite the discomfort of it and learning from it. It's about treating one another with a respect not based solely on likenesses and commonalities. The one commonality we all share is that we are all humans and we all have a soul. It doesn't matter what color our skin is, what subculture we identify with and find a place in, what label we put on our faith, who we voted for in the last election or who we love in our lifetime. What is important, in this writer's humble opinion, is that we are human, we have loved and we are all sparks of the Divine.
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