Helen Prentice

Meera's Second Life Helen Prentice

Publisher Marketing: From the much-praised author of Wise Ones of Mull and Anna: Her Calling, comes the third story of the Vision trilogy: Meera's Second Life. When Meera survives an accident which kills her beloved husband Will, she must begin a new life. But first, this gifted woman must win back her memory and understand the meaning of the marvelous moments of her past. These gifts must sustain her and open her to new awareness of the transcendent, the seeing of a mystic. That hard-won wisdom helps her to understand the meaning in both the ordinary and extraordinary events that have happened and have yet to happen. Through them she must develop her inborn sensitivity to the life and language of plants, a sensitivity she shares with readers of her persuasive column in Gardening for You. For them, she sacrifices a promising academic career to argue for this vision of the truth, even when she faces possible death in dream encounters with the aliens from planet #766. Meera's one real intuitive bond is with her friend Anna, whose gift of Power has been inherited from the Wise Women of old, and who has created Mountain Meadow, where healing happens for Meera and other seekers. With no more effect than the flap of a butterfly's wing, what can Meera achieve? She has searched all her life for her destined path. Has she found it now? In remarkable ways the author has bound spiritual and intellectual wisdom into a compelling story.

Contributor Bio:  Prentice, Helen At Stanford one of my stories won an award; it and the next one were published in a prestigious little magazine and Stanford Short Stories. Then living ordinary life intervened in the shape of marriage, children, and an intermittent profession Now, no longer young, I bring all my past into Anna, the character who shares these gifts and the responsibilities that go with them.