Mary McDonald

Mary McDonald

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When I'm not writing, I'm a respiratory therapist. I've been married 25 years and have three children.

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 book started as a short story based on a writing challenge. The challenge was to have your character wake up in a padded room and not know how they got there. The challenge was issued around the same time as the headlines were debating the treatment of American enemy combatants. Not the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. but American citizens who were designated enemy combatants. I wondered what would happen if an innocent man was accused? I've always been a fan of the reluctant hero and time travel fiction, and while this isn't exactly time travel, there is a fantastical element to the story. The short story morphed into a novel because readers of the story wanted to know what happened to the character. The padded room has been replaced by a cell and the character knows how he got there, but he's still confused as to exactly why and how he can explain.

Reviews

<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;">I thoroughly enjoyed reading No Good Deed. The first five chapters were consumed in the blink of an eye. I didn't want to put the book down.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />The themes are very relevant, and could have been yanked right out of today's headlines: terrorists, controversial interrogation techniques, and the rights (or lack thereof) of detainees. I always just kind of assumed detainees were legitimate bad guys who had it coming. But what if they're not? No Good Deed explores that question in a riveting, page turning way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Not my usual genre, but I'm glad I read it!</span></span>