About
I'm an author who specializes in science fiction stories from a Christian world view. They look at the intersection of science and spirituality with fresh insights.My "day job" is as Director of Engineering at a high-tech firm, and I'm also the pastor/rabbi/whatever of a Messianic congregation outside of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.I've been married for over 34 years, have one son in the marine corps, and three attitude-enhanced little dogs.
Description
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
Story Behind The Book
I wanted to have some fun, taking an alien missionary and dropping her in the middle of a rural community, while she tries to answer questions about her own faith, as she challenges the humans she comes into contact with.
I also wanted to play the game of "what if" there actually were alien races out there? How would God work in their lives, and what would happen if one of them came here?
