About
Dr. Frank Seitz, a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist for 36 years and former Catholic Seminarian, has written two dozen professional articles and three books about the challenges within the human psyche. Once featured on "60 Minutes", he has evaluated and counseled numerous clergy in their crises of intimacy. He lives in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife Adele.
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
More than 350,000 Americans suffered and died in “this old crazy Asian war” sung about by Kenny Rogers in 1969. Wounds made in the jungles and rice paddies of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia found their way back to the United States, carried there by the bodies, minds, and hearts of our troops. This is a novel about six of them – aging combat veterans – seeking treatment in a V.A. psychiatric ward in Montana. Veterans still bleeding from “A Thousand Daggers.” Their stories are fictional; their experiences are not.
Reviews
<p class="CMPSTDCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:0in;">“I found myself totally caught up in a delightful and compelling cast of characters embroiled in a wickedly original story line with so many twists, turns and tangles that I couldn’t put the book down. It was an epic read; one that I would recommend to anyone who has any interest at all in the human condition, clinical and forensic psychology, the Vietnam conflict, or the first and second Gulf Wars. Its backdrop is the emotional wound and the excruciating recovery of people deeply scarred by awful events both in combat and at home. It is a story of redemption; of salvation, of heroes being heroes again.”</p>
<p align="right" class="CMPSTDCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:right;">—Colonel Thomas E. Diamond, USAF (Ret)</p>
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<p class="CMPSTDCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:0in;">The author “has captured all the nuances of the people, politics, illness, grit and determination that flowed through our psychiatric experiences. He shows the overly analytic approach that we thought was helpful…and it was not. He projects a truly genuine love of our veterans and their struggles.”</p>
<p align="right" class="CMPSTDCxSpLast" style="text-align:right;">—H. Eugene Evans, Ph.D.</p>
