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Erica Gore

Erica Gore

About

I am a retired primary school teacher who writes mystery adventures for young readers.  My stories are aimed at the children trying to make the transition from picture books to novels.  They are about real kids with no special powers who have to use their wits to cope with the situations in which they find themselves. 

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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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

This story was inspired by a visit from a carpet python to my own backyard. The hungry reptile came in search of a meal, namely my four little peach face parrots. I called the local snake man to come to remove the python. He laughed at me and told me that since it was "just a little one" I could have moved it myself. I don't think so. I am not a snake charmer.

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<table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="10" style="padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma, Arial;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;width:550px;"><tbody style="padding:0px;"><tr class="rowcompletedon" style="padding:0px;"><td style="padding:8px 0px 0px;font-size:14px;width:140px;" valign="top"> <div align="left" style="padding:0px;"><strong><span class="gray-text-underline" style="padding:0px;font-size:12px;">Completed on</span></strong></div> </td> <td style="padding:0px;font-size:14px;" valign="top"><strong><span class="gray-text-underline" style="padding:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:30px;">12/10/2014</span></strong></td> </tr><tr class="rowscore" style="padding:0px;"><td style="padding:8px 0px 0px;font-size:14px;width:140px;" valign="top"> <div align="left" style="padding:0px;"><strong><span class="gray-text-underline" style="padding:0px;font-size:12px;">Review Rating:</span></strong></div> </td> <td style="padding:0px;font-size:14px;" valign="top"><strong><span class="gray-text-underline" style="padding:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:30px;">5 stars! </span></strong></td> </tr><tr class="rowdummy" style="padding:0px;"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0px;font-size:14px;" valign="top"><span class="gray-text-underline" style="padding:0px;font-size:12px;"><strong>Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite</strong><br style="padding:0px;" /> E.J. Gore’s children's and preteen detective mystery, Taya Bayliss: Snake Charmer, is so much fun to read. Taya and Chris have an important mystery to solve while they make preparations for their party, and Taya gets to meet a Carpet Python. While I’ve long been a snake fancier and have owned Burmese and Reticulated Pythons, I was thrilled to learn about this most interesting Australian python. Too many people have irrational fears of these gentle creatures, and Gore’s story is a bright light shining in appreciation of another of God’s creatures. Taya is a marvelous, intuitive sleuth and the two detectives are prodigious at what they do. Taya Bayliss: Snake Charmer is an enjoyable and satisfying mystery and it’s most highly recommended.</span></td> </tr></tbody></table><p> </p>