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Marsha
Briscoe
Marsha has been involved in some form with reading and writing most all her life. Having taught a variety of college English courses, spanning the range of composition to British literature and world literature, she is a published poet and essayist. But she did not try her hand at writing a novel until the mid 1990s when the idea for her reincarnation romance, A Still Point in Time, came to her in a dream. From this dream emerged a haunting and deep-seated conviction that the characters she created in A Still Point in Time had indeed known one another in the past. A Still Point in Time was a 2001 PEARL Award Nominee/Finalist in the Best Time Travel category. Marsha’s second novel, A Family Matter, is a contemporary treatment of the ancient Phaedra myth. Marsha is proud that her sonnet “Of Eros and Psyche” was voted a Top Ten Finalist Best Poem in the P&E 2001 Readers Poll in addition to her being voted a Top Ten Finalist Best Poet Published in 2001. Marsha is a member of the Romance Writers of America and has served as an officer of her local Kentucky chapter. The proud mother of three grown sons, Marsha lives in Kentucky with her lifetime soul-mate husband and two dogs. She enjoys in her spare time tennis, golf, and piano. Home page of Marsha Briscoe: http://www.marshabriscoe.com A Still Point in
Time Single, childless, and
forty-three, college English professor Laura Bouvoire is
determined to have a baby by in vitro fertilization. But
her plans to beat her ticking biological clock meet
opposition when she falls in love with her thirty-year-old
college student, Dante Giovanni, a computer repairman
determined to escape his trailer-park existence and the
tedium of his blue-collar job. A devout Catholic, Dante is
morally and ethically opposed to test-tube babies, which
he deems an aberration akin to abortion and "against
the natural order of things." As Laura and Dante's
relationship turns to passion and passion turns to love,
Laura's pregnancy becomes an issue that Dante must not
only confront, but resolve. Will he be able to re-think
his beliefs and realize he must make a choice between his
values and his love for Laura? Soon after meeting Dante,
Laura purchases an antique amethyst brooch identical to
one she saw in a portrait by the 19th century artist/poet
Dylan Leone Gordon. Touching or wearing the brooch
precipitates her dreams and visions of lovers in another
century. As the dreams intensify, she researches Gordon
and the elusive woman whose face peers from his paintings.
A poem by Gordon affirms her suspicions that past lives
may be involved. Obsessed by dreams of lovers in another
century, Laura delves into that past life. There,
tormented voices from another age reveal century-old
karmic debts... Voices that hint at Dante's role, as well
as Laura's, in those debts... Have Laura and Dante's
lives been brought together for a purpose? Will the
secrets from the past that Laura uncovers threaten to take
it all away? A Family Matter Salina Faye Drummond Graves,
recently married to a man twice her age, faces an
agonizing truth -- the betrayal of her father, Minos
Drummond, by her elderly husband, Lyman Graves. But the
truth of that betrayal lies in her deceased father's
missing journal. With this knowledge and a posthumous cry
for family vindication from her mother, Salina embarks on
a desperate search for the journal, a document revealing
the horrible events leading to Minos's financial and
mental ruin and ultimate suicide. Determined to exonerate
Minos of the crimes for which he was so cruelly framed,
Salina's hunt for the elusive journal is temporarily
thwarted when her tyrannical husband is critically
injured. When her attractive, but errant stepson, Paul
Titus "Mick" Graves, returns home to tend his
comatose father, Salina is inexplicably drawn to the man.
Warring with her illicit feelings for her stepson, now
sharing the ancestral home carved into the kudzu jungle of
eastern Kentucky where Lyman's Poseidon Coal Company
dominates and fuels the economy, is Salina's dogged
determination to carry out her plan of vindication. Will
she be able to find her father's journal, absolve her
family name, and survive the metaphorical storm
surrounding her relationship with her stepson? Will the lives of these characters
be able to surmount the ill-fated, archetypal destiny
inherent in an ancient Greek myth girding this story? electronic version |
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