THE SACRED GLADE
DIANE CHARLES LINFORD
ISBN# 978-1-60168-000-6
July 2006
Aspen Mountain Press
www.aspenmountainpress.com
E-Book
$5.99
225 Pages
Paranormal/alternate reality
Rating: 5 cups

Diane Sanders Tanner is the twenty-nine year old wife of self-made multi-millionaire, Lee Tanner. Although she feels isolated emotionally and physically from her husband, she longs for a child – the one thing she does not have. She wonders if her husband will stop in his quest for more money long enough to see that they already have enough in each other. Will she ever be more than an asset in his climb to wherever it is he plans to end up?

Diane Sanders Graham, Diane Tanner’s offbeat alter ego, is married to Joseph Graham. Unlike Diane Tanner, she is loved and cherished, has three beautiful daughters, and is valued by her husband for all that she is. And yet, she feels she has missed something essential by making the choices she has in the past.

After simultaneous fires in each Diane’s realities, a link is established between the two very different worlds in which they live. Through communicating with each other, they discover that the blind date one rejected and the other embraced many years ago was the point at which their life paths split from each other. They agree to swap lives, and realities, for a time. Each is looking for what the other has in her own life but ultimately, it is left for the reader to decide which Diane has the best that life can offer.

Ms Linford has written an exceptionally unique story that explores ‘what if’ and alternate realities wonderfully. Written in the first person, the fast paced and gripping plot draws the reader along on a journey of discovery from page one. First person point of view does not often work well, but when it does? The result is a wonderfully involving story, such as The Sacred Glade!

Caro
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