THE
SOUL RETRIEVAL
by
Ann W. Jarvie
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BLURB:
Inspired
by a true story, The Soul Retrieval is a suspenseful tale of love,
loss and healing which follows traumatized southern beauty Henrietta
Clayborn as she moves between her home in a small South Carolina town
and the New Mexico Native American reservation whose spontaneous
healings keep drawing her physician husband back. Tortured by her
awful secrets, Henrietta struggles to thrive in either locale, but it
is her unlikely friendship with Joe Loco––an eccentric Native
American mystic with an Elvis fetish and a gift for healing––that
shows her the way to be whole again.
Set in
the late 1950s, The Soul Retrieval is richly woven with spiritual
insights but also deadly secrets, forbidden healings, a murder
mystery, stunning scenery and an unforgettable cast of characters.
A story
of transcendent and inspiring power that is both entertaining and
enlightening, readers will be cheering for the uptight woman from
South Carolina to push through her fears of the forbidden as she
searches for truth and healing, faces great obstacles on the frontier
of self and ultimately becomes more than she ever thought possible.
Excerpt:
After
finishing the second nocturne, he looked up at her. “You know that
I’ve been researching the high incidence of spontaneous healings
here, right?” Jeff was both a lead physician and medical researcher
at the Medichero Indian Hospital. He reached for a pack of cigarettes
from the pocket of his short-sleeved white shirt.
“Uh-huh,”
Henrietta said. She barely heard what he said. How am I going to get
into it? How am I going to tell him? She had asked herself these
questions at least a million times. She picked up a pen and notebook
from the coffee table, trying to keep her hands busy.
Jeff
smoked in silence a moment before continuing. “There’s more to it
than even I imagined.”
“More
to what?” she asked. She absently doodled on the page without
looking up. How am I going to tell him?
Jeff
blew smoke. “The spontaneous healings that I’m so interested in
... the medicine men here seem to be doing something real to affect
the recoveries.”
Now he
had her attention. “They are?” She looked at him. “Like what?”
Instead
of answering, Jeff got up and turned toward the bay windows that
cradled the piano in a small alcove off the living room of the
doctor’s cottage. His silhouette against the bright morning light
was a man-shaped eclipse, his muscled edges luminous and blurred by
the smoldering tobacco. It gave him an unworldly appearance, and
Henrietta was reminded about how often she felt like an outsider
here, and even back home.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Ann W.
Jarvie has a B.A. in journalism and more than twenty-five years’
experience as an award-winning writer in advertising and public
relations agencies, both in South Carolina and Chicago. She now lives
near Phoenix, Arizona, where she spends part of her time as a
freelance copywriter and the rest writing fiction.
The Soul
Retrieval was inspired by Jarvie’s maternal grandmother’s
fascinating life on Indian reservations, where she lived with her
physician husband until his mysterious and untimely death.
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