Hi there, and thanks for sticking around! And hello if you’re a new visitor! Welcome to Bridgetown!
So…what is The Bridgetown Trilogy, you say? Where is this mythical B-Town? And why does the banner picture of the city look suspiciously like downtown Los Angeles as seen from the Getty Museum? What is this trilogy all about anyway?
Well–it’s high time I give you the rundown. The one-sentence pitch that I’d come up with, which I’m currently using:
Caren Johnson’s younger sister has been forcefully awakened as a powerful and supernatural deity, revered by multiple worlds…and a war has just been declared in her name.
Nice kicker, eh? I’d like to think so. [Mind you, that was probably the hardest damn thing to create. I’m not one for brevity.]
So let me give you the situation: Caren Johnson is an elite member of a special branch of the Bridgetown Metro Police called the Alien Relations Unit. With the humanoid Meraladzha living among us, the ARU has been tasked with keeping the peace between aliens and humans. She’s proud of her work; she’s followed the career paths of her parents, Aram and Celine, both highly revered and decorated ARU agents. They were both killed in the line of duty five years before the events that take place in the trilogy. She’s become the legal guardian of her younger sister Denni, a precocious and very intelligent fifteen year-old, and she loves her dearly. Caren does her best to balance life and work, but because of her parents’ history, they sometimes blur…
Aram and Celine were also a part of an elite force called the Mendaihu–a collection of supernaturally strong and highly spiritual people whose primary goal is to protect the planet…not just the humans and the aliens, but their souls within as well. The reasons for their deaths had never been officially released publicly, but Caren knows why; they were protecting their daughters from a potential evil that had come to kill them.
Caren fears she will become Mendaihu as well, for it’s in her soul and in her blood. But what she fears most is when Denni ‘awakens’ to her own Mendaihu powers. Her one wish is to let Denni live a normal life without such heavy responsibility.
Nehalé Usarai, a rebel Meraladian and an one of the strongest Mendaihu in the province, has other plans. He knows Denni’s fate…but he also knows that she’s the current incarnation of the One of All Sacred, one of the highest revered deities in Meraladh history. He performs a dangerous and potentially lethal Awakening ritual, and in the process not only awakens Denni, but a large swath of Bridgetown as well. He knows this is dangerous, but he fully believes that she will bring peace and balance to the world.
The only thing that could stop her is an equally strong and formidable force called the Shenaihu; they are the yang to the Mendaihu yin, their spiritual opposite. When one acts, the other must act in kind to retain the balance, or the both the physical and the spiritual world could spiral out of control.
Both sides have other plans, despite the balance. It will be up to Denni, Caren, and a host of others, both awakened and not, to ensure that the balance returns.
The story takes place over three books: A Division of Souls, The Persistence of Memories, and The Process of Belief. It’s about many things: belief, patience, clarity, and love. It’s about physical and spiritual evolution. It’s about family. If I had to whittle it down to a single sentence, I would say this: it’s about devotion to oneself despite outside influence.
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At this time, the first book has been submitted to a potential publisher, and I’m currently awaiting a response. I’m keeping my options open, but my aim is to have the trilogy published by a professional house.
Here’s to hoping!
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