The Map of Orbis Terrarum: Melanie Simpson Mystery Book Two
About this ebook
Recently selected for the Library Writers Project noting, "Your novel was a standout!"
Her fate rests with the map…
Fifteen-year-old Melanie Simpson's life has been ripped apart and is lying in shambles. With her mother near death, she may soon be orphaned. And her relationship with her boyfriend, Frankie, falters, regains footing, and falters again as Mel tries to keep a balance between love and deceit—afraid to know which will win out.
Someone then steps into her life, changing it forever. She may need to leave home and lose her close friends, possibly forever. She also learns of a truth she refuses to believe, and runs from it. But from what, and into what?
Still, she continues her quest, driven by destiny as defined through a connection with the Sky People and a link to the stars. She resumes her search for the mysterious Orb, a device given to her father by a dying alien. Now that he has died, it is up to her to locate the Orb and finish his work.
Then she learns of a professor who has a film of him with the Orb. The film shows a hologram of a sixteenth-century map, the Map of Orbis Terrarum. It displays points of energy around the world her father was studying. Could the map reveal the purpose of her quest?
But in her efforts to reach the professor, death and destruction find their hold.
The many layers of Melanie Simpson continue to unfold, driving her along a path of destiny.
About the author
DJ developed his creative writing skills at the San Francisco Art Institute, and then at the Log Cabin Literary Center in Boise, Idaho with a writing group called the Magnificent Seven. DJ also spent many years in the advertising and marketing fields writing and producing creative content for radio, print, and television. When DJ isn’t out traveling the stars following Melanie Simpson around and documenting her great adventures, he is buried deep in an Oregon burrow he calls The Writing Cave, honing his craft and building his novels. It is there under the light of a gooseneck lamp he can be found diligently working on Melanie's next story, and other inspired novels.