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Monday, June 29, 2015

"Passenger to Paradise" - the Second Book is Set in Sedona



"Bell Rock - Sedona" ©Mary Montague Sikes
After Jamaica, the journeys of the "Passenger to Paradise" continued. She visited Sedona and fell in love with everything about the picturesque terrain of red rock formations against glorious skies. She remembered the same scenery from the old western movies that brightened her weekends long ago, so she enjoyed seeing them even more.

During that initial trip to Sedona, she took a pastel workshop the first week and then grew enchanted with vortexes and meditation wheels. These elements eventually help form the second "Passenger to Paradise" book, Eagle Rising. As with Hearts Across Forever, a touch of the paranormal creeps into her dreams, and she goes on a journey into the spiritual lands of the Indians.

Unable to shake the horror of her fiance's death, Rachael Barker draws the concern of her kindly boss at the Observer Times. Perhaps, he thinks, an assignment in the exotic desert community of Sedona, AZ, might shake Rachael's malaise, so he sends her to cover the enigmatic New Age guru, Arch Adamson at his Earth Awareness seminar. Unnerving things begin happening before Rachael can interview her subject...she meets Derek Ryder, a man with an obvious secret in his past, but is further shaken by her experiences in the mystical desert where an Indian warns her to leave their hallowed ground undisturbed. As Derek and Rachael search for answers, a new question presents itself: Can they overcome their wounds? 
    Lots of travels. Lots of stories. That's the life of the "Passenger to Paradise".
"Sedona Red Rocks" ©Mary Montague Sikes  

3 comments:

L. Diane Wolfe said...

Congrats on the book.

I've never been to Sedona but the pictures are beautiful.

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Congratulations! Is your new book out now?

Notes Along the Way with Mary Montague Sikes said...

Thanks, Diane! So many great photo ops in the Red Rock Country!

Alex, Eagle Rising has been out for several years. It's one of the Passenger to Paradise books.