Pacifica - Softcover

Zeller, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530808464 ISBN 13: 9781530808465

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Leaving is the same as arriving. In pursuit of her art, fleeing an unhappy affair, Nola Lynch sails from New York, through the Panama Canal, to California. Alone. The year is 1914. The Panama Canal has just opened after tortuous years in the making and the United States feels proud and invincible. In Mexico, revolution rages between plantation owners and the peons. And movie makers flee New York for the ease of shooting motion pictures in dry, sunny Hollywoodland. Nola anticipates romance, excitement, adventure, and she finds it all in a ship-board magician with a dark secret and in a séance gone horribly wrong. But a shipwreck changes the course of her life when Nola becomes the hostage of a Mexican revolutionary who is not what she expects, and his brutal brother who is everything fearful. After her release, she is rescued by people enticed into the chaos of motion pictures makers and finally makes her way to Los Angeles. Can a young woman alone in a rapidly changing United States find the strength to survive? Or will society and propriety defeat her independence in the end?

About this title

About the Author:

The author of numerous short stories and novels, Jill Zeller, writing as Hunter Morrison, lives near Seattle, Washington with her patient husband, and two self-absorbed cats and their thralls, two adult English Mastiffs. Her works explore the boundaries of reality. Some may call it fantasy but there are rarely swords and never elves. For more http://jillzeller.com/

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530808464
• ISBN 13: 9781530808465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280