Secrets in the Fog (copyright November 2007) can be read in thesis format at the Reeves Memorial Library of Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA.
Set on a college campus near Bar Harbor, Maine, this YA romantic mystery tells the adventures of a teen prodigy and her first love experience during a summer program for outstanding high school students.
Cover art by Ellen Spain.
Invisibility is more than "Harry Potter's" cloak or the illusion a good magician performs when she makes a tiger or a Hummer disappear. FACT: The real invisibility cloak was developed by the Federal government and is used today by the military. The invisibility project's secret, along with that of the Puke Ray, was leaked to the media and is now the basis for television programs anyone can watch on the Discovery and Science channels. Now imagine a scenario that took place a few months before the invisibility project and the puke ray became public knowledge, when some teenagers with special psychic abilities stumbled upon a militarily secured government test site shrouded in secrecy by the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Secrets in the Fog: the Invisibility Project is a paranormal mystery in which teenage prodigy Morgan Walker discovers her destiny. Born with clairvoyant ability but instructed by her parents never to use it, she realizes her fate while attending an island ecology summer program at a prestigious college near Bar Harbor, Maine. She develops a close friendship with sixteen year-old Peter Dugua, a Passamaquoddy Native American intent on preserving his heritage. As they secretly investigate why nearby Acadia Laboratory is producing a black toxic fog, they discover that the Defense Intelligence Agency is secretly testing a highly classified invisibility cloaking device on nearby Gull Island, a wildlife sanctuary. The students get caught up in a life and death situation when they discover corrupt federal security contractors for the project helping terrorists steal the invisibility cloaking system.
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Secrets in the Fog: the Invisibility Project was released in May 2009, by eTreasures Publishing (250 pages) as an eBook and printed trade-back, ISBN: 978-1-61623-076-0. Available from the publisher eTreasures Publishing in PDF e-book Format: $5.50 and on CD-ROM: $7.95. Available in Paperback $15.00 from Amazon.com and on Kindle and Mobipocket.
Secrets in the Fog: the Invisibility Project is a delightful young adult mystery/suspense novel. The authentic New England coastal setting of a college campus for academically advanced students has appeal even to adults who enjoy harking back to their college days. The intellectual investigations prior to the launch of the research expedition to the island builds toward the crisis of the serious technology theft which ties into the black fog.
It's fascinating to watch young people learn to marshal all their resources including some psychic abilities to work together as a team. They push aside competitiveness and self interest to rescue each other and discover the Secrets in the Fog.
Barb Miller, Weavers Old Stand Press
A group of interesting high school students with psychic powers find their abilities challenged and their lives threatened when they join a special college program--only to uncover a top secret military project that certain operatives will do anything to protect. A definite most excellent read.
Adaptability: This is the sort of project that sometimes comes together under the aura of unexpected big box office, a Young Adult novel that spills over into mainstream. There's plenty of bumping around in the woods and dangers along a fogbound coast, but even more in the way of strange and unusual phenomena...paranormal communications, flashes of electrical disturbances, oddly threatening storms...all made more frightening by the presence of the special teenagers, who are only coming to understand their unique powers.
Production Consideration: The author knows the rugged coast of Maine like the back of her hand, and writes knowingly of the dangers and mysteries that abound there even today, when people think they know more than actually they do about themselves and the world we live in. The special effects, while important to this picture, do not present difficulties.
Pitch this directly to Producer Carroll Ballard. He might like to be connected to the next Harry Potter-ish series to hit the big screen. Studios and agents may contact the author directly.
John Klawitter, Hollywood Havoc Book Reviews
The Old Forbes Road: from Hanna’s Town to Pittsburgh (copyright 2006, to be released in 2010: non-fiction History) is a photographic approach to appreciating the rich history of Colonel George Washington's and General Forbes' trek in Westmoreland County to secure Fort Duquesne.
