Release Date: July 23rd 2015
Summary from Amazon
The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas has been called "America's
Most Haunted Hotel" largely because of the events of the 1930s when Dr.
Norman Baker ran a "cancer treatment hospital" which he called his
"Castle in the Air."
Follow the fictionalized story of Clara, the young, unwed pregnant niece of Dr.
Baker who comes to help at the cancer center in exchange for room and board and
finds things aren't quite what they appear to be. Caring for an ill young boy
at the center she feels her maternal instincts kick in - something is
definitely not right at her uncle's hospital. But what? Will she be able to
piece together the clues in time to save herself and the boy? Or will be
forever be doomed to reside in the Castle in the Air, where once you check
in...you never leave.
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Excerpt
On the second floor the distinct smell
of a cedar tobacco pipe lingered in the air. Clara coughed as they ascended the
stairs further.
“This is where sick folks get well,” Dr.
Baker said opening his arms like a magician readying the crowd for his next
trick. One bedroom door on the second floor was open. Clara curiously poked her
head in. “Every room has a connecting bath.”
“Nice,” Clara mumbled as Dr. Baker
quickly pulled the door shut coming within inches of smacking her in the face.
As they made their way up another level
Clara began to probe her uncle. “So what is it you do here exactly?”
“We cure cancer, tumors…without
operation, radium or x-rays.”
“And how do you do that?”
“I have found the cure.”
“It works on all cancers? Cancers of the
stomach as well as the head?” Clara asked.
“Indeed,” Dr. Baker said, an air of
arrogance in his voice. “Do you doubt me?”
Yes. Perhaps. I don’t know.
“No of course not. I’ve only just met
you. Why would I doubt you?” Clara said, covering the truth of her thoughts.
“I once did a brain surgery in front of
a live audience.”
“You made an operation into a show?”
Clara asked appalled by his flamboyant excitement.
“But it is a show. A feat of nature,
beating it at its own tricks. Don’t you agree?” he asked, searching her eyes
for even the slightest falter of disagreement.
“I don’t know enough on the subject to
have a real opinion I suppose. I’m only nineteen you know.”
Dr. Baker took a second more to stare at
her before turning and pointing toward the staircase leading to the fourth
floor.
Whew.
“Yes, well you do have a lot to learn. A
bit of ignorance should be expected. I forget how vacant-minded the youth are
these days. Lily will show you to your room.” With that he turned on his heels
and began back down the third floor hallway.
“Bye,” Clara let out meekly. “Thanks
for…the tour.”
About
the Author
Jennifer Tressen is a wife, mother and
writer. A former actor, she spent nearly ten years in the entertainment
industry appearing in commercials, print ads and television shows. It was her
love of storytelling that pushed her to the other side of the camera and sent
her to film school at Chapman University. Although she entered as a
Cinematography major, Jennifer graduated with a degree in Screenwriting after a
single required screenwriting class forever changed her path. She found a
passion for writing she had forgotten in her childhood. Everything she learned
about screenwriting and especially storytelling she attributes to her mentor,
the late Blake Snyder.
After several years of writing and editing for producers and other
screenwriters her curiosity led her into writing novels. As a huge fan of Young
Adult and New Adult literature this is where her pen tends to lead her.
However, she does have plans to release a few middle grade fiction and adult
novels in the future.
Jennifer attributes her love of reading and writing to her mother who always
reminded her of the power of literacy. Besides telling her and her siblings
that they could do anything they wanted if they knew how to read and write, she
said, "You can go anywhere in a book. You can be anyone."
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