Michael Burns

Michael Burns

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was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. My family moved to NewHampshire in 1950 where I attended high school, graduating in 1957. I deferredentrance to college to serve in the U.S. Navy for four years, seeing duty inSoutheast Asia in the early days of the Vietnam War. After mustering out of theNavy, I returned to New Hampshire where I met and married my wife, andmatriculated at the University of New Hampshire.

 

Encouraged by my freshman English teacher, I first becameinterested in writing fiction in 1963. I continued writing after being inspiredby the late Thomas Williams, National Book Award-winning author and mentor tomany young writers, among them John Irving.

 

In 1971 Ijoined the faculty of St. Paul's School, a college preparatory boarding schoolin Concord, New Hampshire. I retired from that school in 2004 after 33 years ofteaching chemistry, life science, and creative writing. At present, I am livingwith my wife in rural New Hampshire where I am at work on his fourth novel.Gemini, my first novel, was published by Poncha Press in 2001. Where You Are ismy second novel.

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>

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