The Ghost of Mt. Soledad: A Love Story - Softcover

Brady RN, Joan

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9780615324821: The Ghost of Mt. Soledad: A Love Story

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ISBN 10: 0615324827 ISBN 13: 9780615324821

Publisher: Pachyderm Press, 2010

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In the summer of 2007, amidst an ongoing debate over the constitutionality of a lone, twenty-nine-foot cross atop San Diego s historic Mt. Soledad, a local freelance writer inexplicably goes missing.
Margaret Duran, middle-aged and never-married, accepts an assignment to write an article about the so-called cross controversy for a prominent magazine. While researching the piece, Margaret visits the mountaintop where an old war memorial sits at the base of the cross.
As the tourists leave for the day and dusk settles over the spectacular city below, Margaret is stunned to find herself confronted by a handsome, young man who tells her that he is the ghost of an American soldier who died in combat during WWII...and who claims to have shared a past life with her.
Margaret is terrified and begins to doubt her own sanity, but the charismatic ghost manages to take her on an enchanting odyssey into an eerily familiar past. There, in the caves and crevices of her memory, all the wilted dreams and possibilities of her forgotten youth begin to unfold again, like the petals of some magnificent flower.
Before long, Margaret realizes that she will have to choose between the sane and satisfactory life she has built for herself and the love of a ghost who just might be her forever soul mate.

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The story takes place in the summer of 2007 amidst San Diego's record-breaking heat wave, and its even steamier, real-life-debate over the constitutionality of the cross on Mount Soledad.

MARGARET DURAN, a forty-five-year-old, never married freelance writer accepts an assignment to write an 'Op-Ed' piece about the controversial cross for a local magazine called, "Single in San Diego." While doing her research, Margaret visits the mountaintop and is confronted by--and inexplicably drawn to--the ghost of a handsome young American soldier from WWII. He claims his name is LUCAS JOHN CAMERON, and that he and Margaret had been lovers in a past life during the 1940's. He insists that they died in each others' arms, inside the Rock of Gibraltar, during air attacks by the Italian army and the Vichy French.

At first, Margaret doesn't believe him, but then he tells her things about her past life that explain a lot about her present-day life. For instance, Margaret always wondered why the Spanish language always came so easily to her ]] until the ghost talks about her former life growing up in the south of Spain before moving with her family to the British territory of Gibraltar ]]where she eventually became a nurse.

When Margaret questions him about the current-day "Mt. Soledad Cross Controversy," the ghost simply tells her that "God really doesn't mind the separation of church and state. It's the separation of people that breaks His heart."

Margaret must choose between the sane and satisfying life she has established for herself in reality, and the very convincing story of a ghost who just might be her forever soul-mate

About the Author:

One of seven siblings, Joan grew up on the New Jersey shore. While studying nursing at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, she worked for two summers as one of the state s first female lifeguards.
In 1994, at the age of forty-three, she left her career in nursing to pursue her life-long dream of becoming a writer. Bringing with her a six-year-old, oft-rejected manuscript and only what possessions would fit in the back of her eight-year-old Toyota, she set out on a solo journey across the country, settling (only by chance) in the completely unfamiliar city of San Diego.
Having never taken a writing class in her life, yet, still passionately believing in the potential of her manuscript, she signed up for a one-night class at The Learning Annex on How to Get Published. The rest, as they say, is history.
Brady s best selling debut novel, God on a Harley (Pocket Books, 1995) was translated into seventeen languages around the world and was endorsed by well known self-help experts, Wayne Dyer ( Your Erroneous Zones , etc.) and John Gray ( Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus ). Film rights to this inspirational story were sold to Mimi Polk Gitlin, co-producer of the classic blockbuster, THELMA AND LOUISE .
Since the success of her first novel, Joan has developed an especially large and loyal following in the Latino community. She has since penned an additional six novels, most of which have become best sellers in Spain and Latin America.
Today, she is an internationally recognized writer and lecturer. In addition to seven successful books, she has also contributed numerous articles to professional journals and is frequently asked to speak to a wide variety of groups and organizations. She has been a guest on many television and radio programs here in the United States, as well as in Barcelona, Spain, and in Mexico City, Mexico.

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