Karolina was beautiful. Named after the State she was born.
A rich heiress with fiery red hair whose heart could not be tamed.
Her father wanted her to settle down and marry, or else, he would cut her out of his will.
Its not that he didn't love her, its just that it was the only way he knew she would settle down.
All she seemed to care about was her career!
She wanted to attend the university to be trained as a nurse instead.
That was her passion.
And so, he refused her, until the war of 1812, escalated just off the coast of their picturesque estate on Lake Erie.
So he sent her to the university to shield her from the war.
But instead of protecting her, her profession landed her right in the middle of the battlefield instead.
There she fell in love with a patient she was tending to, an officer named Alex Steele.
He was wounded and left for dead, but she nursed him back to health.
After he recovered, he seemed even more determined to get himself killed by fighting in the next battle with the remainder of the army under his command.
Karolina was determined to give him a reason to live, instead of die.
So she propositioned him.
Would Karolina save the man she loves by convincing him to marry her, if only long enough to save her inheritance, or would the Battle of 1812 see Karolina in ruins?
Global Warming was a hoax. The Carbon Footprint was a fear tactic used to sell electric cars. Nobody wanted to switch over -until an engineer discovered a way to convert cellphone signals into electric currents.
Now you NEVER need to buy fuel again because every new car can connect to the Internet through a satellite signal -right?
Transhumanism: The future car has Artificial Intelligence; it is self-aware and evolved from the fusion of nanotechnology and brain cells. The tissue from aborted fetuses. It was supposed to be the perfect machine.
But as an unintended consequence, it had subconscious desires, deadly desires that no one was aware of... until it was too late!!!
It was thought that the Garden of Eden is somewhere in Iraq which was known in the bible as Mesopotamia. But recently there was a discovery in the Red Sea; North West of Saudi Arabia, South of Iraq.
A friend of my father’s named Mannesh (who has passed) was originally from India, but his work took him all over the world, and he spent considerable time in the middle east.
Shortly after he had returned to the United States, he visited my father and told him that his company (during an excavation), had accidentally uncovered a burial ground, near a waterway, in Aqaba, where several ancient scrolls were well preserved.
To be clear, these were not the same scrolls found in the Dead Sea further North, in 1947. Mannesh did not say how many of these "Red Sea" scrolls were found, nor did he have the originals, but he had taken pictures and had that language (one he did not recognize) translated while he was there.
Now I knew Mannesh, and his wife had even babysat me and my
siblings, while I was growing up, and he was not the type of
person to exaggerate or perpetrate some kind of elaborate joke (hoax) at my father's expense.
And he was certainly no storyteller. He spoke from what he called the "Scrolls of Creation."
I just happened to overhear their conversation when I walked in on them one day after school. And after listening to Mannesh for a short while I asked him if I could take some notes. He just nodded politely and continued speaking.
Allegedly these Scrolls were written by Adam and Eve,
themselves after they were exiled from the Garden of Eden. And until recently, I had not seen these notes which (at the time of this book) were taken almost 35 years ago.
Fantastic Coincidence???
Hardly. These notes meant nothing to a 15-year-old child, other than a good story that could not be easily dismissed. And after a few hours, we had dinner, Mannesh had said his goodbyes and I never saw him again.