LindaKaySilva

I have always been fascinated by past lives. Love at first sight, five year olds who can play Beethoven, people who come out of comas fluent in a foreign language:past lives at work. What other explanation is there when we meet someone for the first time, yet they feel so familiar, so comfortable to us? Where do our phobias come from? How is it we know some of the things we know, yet have never learned? I pondered these questions as I delved deeper into Druidry and the mystical arts, and the deeper I dug, the more I could hear Cate, a Druid Priestess from the first century, calling. She was not calling me. She was calling Jessie. And so, hearing this, I knew the novel needed to be written; that it was time to create a series and a character who manages to find herself only when she steps through the portal and into a hostile world where Druids are being hunted, their way of life destroyed. Jessie (and the rest of us) can only know where we are going when we know and understand where we have been.

Cate needs her to save the Druids from annihilation, Jessie needs Cate to help her on her true path, and I needed them both to tell their story. Tell us about Jessie Ferguson. How will readers relate to her? Why will they care what happens to her? Great questions! Women readers will relate on so many levels because we all hear that inner voice from time to time. Call it instinct, call it womens intuition, the fact is, we have all heard it. Some of us truly listen to it, while others do not at all. This voice comes from our past and our past knowledge and wisdom returns to us through residual memories. Readers will want to see how revisiting her own past saves her present life; a life that has no goal, no ambition, nothing but a great big void. Many of us of feel or have felt that void and have no idea where it comes from. I believe it comes from not understanding our purpose here in this life. We think love will fill it, or a career, or children;and then we are disappointed when, even with full lives, that dull ache still exists. That ache means we are not living according to our purpose, and that purpose can be found by understanding what our purpose was in the past. What did we DO in our other lives to make an impact on the world? Once Jessie discovers that purpose, it changes EVERYTHING about her life. I hope Across Time has the ability to touch lives the way Jessie and her past with Cate have touched mine.