Content: literary fiction

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This is the story of Shara, a contemporary, religious Jewish woman whose past collides with her present. The portrayal of her lifestyle, culture, marriage, etc., are authentic. I am interested in all comments, including nitpicky language issues. I don't mind compliments if you have no criticisms to make. :) They'll help keep me going so I can finish the book. Thank you and enjoy.

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Set in 1953 post-hurricane Puerto Rico, David Brandt, a mining geologist, arrives in the coffee region of the Cordillera Central to purchase property for copper excavation. The owner is away at a political rally, and the wife, knowing nothing of her husband’s intention to sell, mistakes Brandt for Red Cross. Brandt goes along with this idea so as not to stir up trouble. But, the deeper Brandt becomes immersed in the lives of the people, the culture, the land, the more conflicted he is about his role. But, things aren’t what they seem, and in the end, it is Brandt who is deceived.

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A great secret is revealed when an assassin tries to kill eighteen-year-old Gabriel Adam; Gabriel is one of four Archangels, born into human form to prevent beginning of the End of Days. Now, he must leave behind the normal life he's known to fulfill a prophecy kept secret for centuries by a clandestine group. Thus begins The Secret of Gabriel Adam, a 75,000 word commercial fiction. Sixteen hundred years ago, the Roman Empire declared the prophetic book, The Apocalypse of Solomon to be heretical and banned it from Biblical canon. With every copy destroyed, the prophecy and all the knowledge it contained to endure the apocalypse was lost. However, one copy survived and now resides in England. With the assassin still in pursuit, Gabriel and his zealous father must travel to England in hopes that the book will guide them. Joined there by Micah - a beautiful Archangel girl - Gabriel must uncover a faith in himself he didn’t know existed before a metaphysical transformation can unlock the power that dwells inside him. But with only two under-trained Archangels and the other two missing or dead, the only hope at stopping the assassin and the End of Days is a weapon hidden inside the Ark of the Covenant somewhere in Aksum, Ethiopia.

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Premise: Teens in profane 1970s New York get cast in a High School production of Romeo and Juliet and are moved to passion and violence in their real lives. I begin with a quote from the Queen Mab speech in Romeo and Juliet, and also this 2007 quote from Lizzie Ratner of the New York Observer: "A lot has changed from a quarter-century ago or so, when our fair city was best known for graffiti-decorated subways, blasting boom boxes and the faint smell of urine rising from the summer pavement. … The dog shit was piled so high in the streets you needed a mountain ax just to traverse the sidewalk—but we liked it. The buildings were so blackened by grime you could barely see them in the dark—but we liked it. The subways were so dangerous you felt you were descending into Hell—and we liked it, we loved it, hallelujah!" Violence, sex, romance, drugs, religion, and Shakespeare's poetry through the eyes of gritty teens from Brooklyn and Queens.

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