Fierce Peace

A FRAGMENT OF WOOD, EMBEDDED IN HARDENED TREE SAP, FOR OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS Jessica Snow lost her father when she was only five years old. Two years later, on a lovely and pleasant May afternoon at the local mall, she left her mother, Mary Snow, chatting on the phone while Jessica dashed off to purchase a surprise gift of Mother's Day flowers at a store not thirty feet away. She was gone for seven minutes. When she returned, her mother had disappeared Thus begins, for Jessica and her mother, a terrifying descent into a nightmare world of paralyzing fear and mind-numbing terror as they are tormented by a series of cataclysmic events that have no rational or earthly explanation. Jessica begins to "see" people who appear to be dead Her mother searches desperately for an explanation to account for these sudden horrifying experiences police, doctors, friends, associates but everyone is baffled. Jessica and Mary Snow are utterly alone. Then, one day, Jessica discovers a mysterious gold and white kitten and hope returns This may prove to be their salvation a final force to defend Jessica and her mother from the ancient nightmares which have clawed their way into the modern world. And the answer will end with FIERCE PEACE.