Publisher's Synopsis
What happened at Dr. Arcanum Lock's camp for child psychics back in 1965? What was the Evolutionary Spirit Project? Were they really taught to channel spirits, or was something else, something far more dangerous and sinister going on? What does it have to do with national security today? Gillian Goodwin gets an SOS from old friend Jack, an aid relief worker headed to Somalia. He needs to figure out how he ended up on a Homeland Security watch list and get off it in time rescue famine victims before it's too late. But Jack's on someone's kill list. The only reason he's alive is because Gillian decided to follow him to that clandestine meeting.... While Jack is in the hospital's ICU, recovering from the attempt on his life, their mutual friend Val calls in a panic from Washington, DC. A vicious blackmailer is taunting the violinist with The New Hope Orchestra with the exposure if she doesn't do what she's told. Val is desperate to keep her husband from finding out the well-hidden secret she's kept for decades. As she tries to help her friends, Gillian becomes a target herself. But why? What is so special about a children's author from Massachusetts? Maybe it has something to do with her husband, Geo, and the "Stand Down!" technology he's developing for the U. S. Navy. In a world of duplicity and deception, Gillian Goodwin has to dig deep and discover what's real and what's not, from her three marriages to the lifelong friendships she's counted on, nothing is what it seems in this harrowing Cold War journey with phony psychics, terrorists, and spies on all sides. The answer lies in the distant past, back at Camp Eirene, where Dr. Arcanum Lock and his friends ran their "Whole World Healing" peace camp for child psychics. Was it really a legitimate endeavor or an intelligence game designed to help the Soviets penetrate the U. S. government? Gillian is haunted by what happened at that camp that summer in 1965, and the specters that cling to her threaten national security on several fronts. The only way to save anyone is to find out what really was going on and to trust in herself to recognize the truth when she sees it.
