In the opening scene of the first book in the series, Gaia’s Intervention,
we find a woman adrift and marooned in a thunderous, tumultuous sea.
She is alone and clinging to a piece of flotsam, and the reader finds the
woman to be pregnant. By all rights, she should accept her fate and
succumb to the elements, but she continues to fight on in the face of
overwhelming odds, clinging to life and refusing to quit until she has
nothing left within her to resist the battering forces of a sea gone mad.
Later in the book we learn the woman survives with the help of a dolphin
and that her name is Harriet Grahm. And although she has no recollection
of her former life, she ends up taking on a new identity, becoming Amphitrite,
one of the cornerstone characters of the story. During her ordeal at sea,
something incredible has happened to Amphitrite, and her failure to remember
her past has somehow given her the power to glimpse the future. Henceforth,
she becomes a firm believer in this power and what the future holds, convinced
her visions are real, and it is this ability that spills over and infects the reader to
make the story palpable and real.
Writing the novel was a labor of love that took four years to complete.
In creating it, I had to constantly challenge myself to come up with new
ideas, not always knowing where the story was headed since some of the
characters within the developing plot started taking on a life of their own.
I only knew I wanted to take the reader on a journey to high adventure,
an escape from the often mundane routines of everyday life most of us
encounter, and in adhering to this I kept imagining what I’d like to see
on the big screen if the novel was ever made into a blockbuster movie.