Dream By Proxy-Book 2
Seventeen-year-old EMMA CONNER knows no other world than Taylorville, a town in Appalachian country. It is a world she and her friend JOLENE yearn to escape. Jolene’s ticket out is a scholarship to Boston to pursue her dream in Marine Biology, and she enrolls in a program on board a schooner, SeaQuest. Soon, the tragedy of a family caught up in dark secrets, shatters Jolene’s dream before she embarks. Jolene’s goals suddenly ripped away is more than Emma can withstand, so she assumes Jolene’s identity and lives her friend’s dream on board the SeaQuest.
During this journey, Emma confronts the division between rich and poor, faces the rejection and harassment from her peers and encounters challenges brought on by nature. Through each predicament, Emma practices the wise teachings of her grandma, finds compassion for other’s suffering and discovers a new strength within herself. When a freak wave hits the SeaQuest, Emma redeems her simple but honorable hillbilly heritage in a battle of survival. She recognizes that it’s what lives in her heart that matters. Dream By Proxy is a story of psychological adventure across cultures and seas.
Shame By Proxy-Book 1
Lowe’s contemporary fiction is an unforgettable, realistic, and ultimately heartbreaking story of revenge, courage and spiritual growth––Kirkus Review
Wade Malone has returned to the harsh poverty of his Indiana home of Taylorville to hide out from his recent past deeds, and within one day he places his daughter, Mattie, on display in a most humiliating, public way. This is not the first abuse seventeen-year-old Emma Connor has witnessed, and this violence triggers her and her best friend Jolene to seek revenge on Wade. Fortunately for Emma, she lives under the care of her Grandma Rose, who teaches her the ways of being a healer––things that Grandma learned from a Mayan shaman years ago. Grandma recognizes Emma is to come into her own understanding and greater wisdom with their town’s dark forces of violence and power.
Along their way to retribution, Emma and Jolene suffer the difficult and deadly consequences of karmic law. It is a justice where fighting violence with violence only produces more violence and the rules of power appear antithetical. It is only when Emma engages her extraordinary healing practices that she is able to discover the unexpected depths in herself, what it means to have compassion for another, and what it takes to break the cycle of violence.
The question is, at what cost does Emma pay before understanding her role in the struggle?
About M.C. Lowe
M. C. Lowe is the author of Dream By Proxy, Shame By Proxy and the non-fiction, Apolcalypse of the Mind: Transforming Ego into the Stillness of Consciousness. Born in Southern Indiana, she received her Ph.D. in Psychology and now lives near Boston. The violence she witnessed in her world and her philosophical, consciousness and psychological study of the subject inspired her to write her stories.
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