About
In 8th grade, author Jolea M. Harrison was required to writea 5-page essay on a person from history that she admired. She wrote 40, got anA and her teacher, Mrs. Miller was so impressed, gave her extra, extra credit.After reading The Lord of the Rings, the fantasy bug bit, which was thencomplicated by her immediate love of Star Wars and other works of sciencefiction. Not paying attention to genre barriers, Ms. Harrison set out to writethe story she wanted to, combining these two genres in an enticing and uniqueway, producing eight novels in the Guardians of the Word series. The firstbook, Chosen, was recently published to excellent 5 star reviews. The secondbook, Myth has just been released this November. Telepath is on track torelease early February. The remaining Legend, Union, Adept, Seer, and King willbe released over the next two years.
Her other interests are teaching in the field of specialeducation, and maintaining her Civil War era home. On a recent fact findingmission about the house, she discovered the name of a young soldier who died therewhile being cared for by the doctor who owned the house at the time. She hastwo children who firmly believe in ghosts.
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
Chosen is the first book of the series, Guardians of the Word, but ended up being the last book written! An unexpected twist in the plot cropped up in King, the 8th book, which in turn informed the author of the true beginning of the story and proved the theory that sometimes characters have a mind and will of their own.
