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<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
Beginning in the swinging sixties and ending in the 1990's my time in the National Health Service was rooted in a time of constant change and amazing developments. As I climbed the ladder in my nursing career I became part of the latest discussions about scientific advances. Coupled with my natural love for solving puzzles it was almost inevitable that there was a crime novel somewhere in my brain!
I had itchy feet after taking early retirement and set up a health related business that continues to thrive, albeit now with my eldest daughter at the helm.
With time on my hands I turned to writing and my first book 'Jack-Knifed' sat on my laptop for some time before I got up the courage to ask my husband to read it. Almost a week went by and as he had made no comment I figured he was summoning up the courage to tell me it was rubbish. John is not someone who gives out praise unless it is justified so when he told me that it was as good as many books he had read and a hell of a lot better than lots of others, I was amazed and encouraged.
I have since gone on to complete four novels in the DCI Martin Phelps series, based in Cardiff Bay and the fifth is currently keeping me awake at night.
It is my husband who has been the driver in relation to publishing the series and continues to be my number one fan.
