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Ann W. Jarvie has a B.A. in journalism from the University of South Carolina and more than twenty-five years’ experience as an award-winning writer in advertising and public relations agencies, both in Chicago and South Carolina. Her new release, The Woods of Hitchcock, is the sequel to Jarvie’s award-winning debut novel, The Soul Retrieval, which received four literary awards, the highest score by Writer’s Digest e-Book Awards’ judges (5 out of 5 on all points) as well as myriad positive reviews. However, both novels stand on their own. Born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in North Augusta, South Carolina, she has two adult sons and currently lives in Arizona with her husband, their boxer dog and boxer mix rescue.
About the books...
Overview
The Woods of Hitchcock is a psychological thriller about a Chicago copywriter and victim of violence who returns home to South Carolina’s equestrian country to solve a riddle involving murder, the metaphysical and her eccentric family’s secrets.
Synopsis
Suzanne Clayborn is a psychically gifted southerner working in a Chicago ad agency, her dream job, which also conveniently takes her away from the ghosts of her past. But when she wakes up bound in a dark room and nearly killed, she realizes all she wants is to return home to her horse, her eccentric family and the one place she feels safe: Hitchcock Woods, an enchanting equestrian forest preserve in South Carolina.
But instead of finding solace, Suzanne becomes entangled in a local murder spree, while stumbling upon a decades-old manuscript entitled The Secrets of Bears Repeating––written by her sage grandmother, Henrietta. Exploring it, Suzanne uncovers a tome of long-buried family haunts and ancient metaphysical secrets, offering healing and inspiration. She also begins to understand the importance of her unwanted psychic abilities, especially after meeting a mysterious stranger in the Woods whose ominous riddle suggests others close to her will die within the week…
Brimming with raw emotion and a trail of psychological twists, a story of hope and transformation begins to unfold within Suzanne. Yet with the riddle’s deadline looming, Suzanne’s present must ultimately collide with a violent past. Will she be able to solve her life’s riddle and fulfill her destiny? Or will she die along with those she loves?
The Woods of Hitchcock is a psychological thriller about a Chicago copywriter and victim of violence who returns home to South Carolina’s equestrian country to solve a riddle involving murder, the metaphysical and her eccentric family’s secrets.
Synopsis
Suzanne Clayborn is a psychically gifted southerner working in a Chicago ad agency, her dream job, which also conveniently takes her away from the ghosts of her past. But when she wakes up bound in a dark room and nearly killed, she realizes all she wants is to return home to her horse, her eccentric family and the one place she feels safe: Hitchcock Woods, an enchanting equestrian forest preserve in South Carolina.
But instead of finding solace, Suzanne becomes entangled in a local murder spree, while stumbling upon a decades-old manuscript entitled The Secrets of Bears Repeating––written by her sage grandmother, Henrietta. Exploring it, Suzanne uncovers a tome of long-buried family haunts and ancient metaphysical secrets, offering healing and inspiration. She also begins to understand the importance of her unwanted psychic abilities, especially after meeting a mysterious stranger in the Woods whose ominous riddle suggests others close to her will die within the week…
Brimming with raw emotion and a trail of psychological twists, a story of hope and transformation begins to unfold within Suzanne. Yet with the riddle’s deadline looming, Suzanne’s present must ultimately collide with a violent past. Will she be able to solve her life’s riddle and fulfill her destiny? Or will she die along with those she loves?
Overview
The Soul Retrieval is a suspenseful novel of love and healing centering on a traumatized southern woman, her spiritual journey, the Native American mystic who guides her, and the murder mystery that ultimately threatens to unravel her.
Synopsis
Inspired by a true story, The Soul Retrieval is an award-winning suspenseful tale of love, loss and healing which follows traumatized southern beauty Henrietta Clayborn as she moves between her home in a small South Carolina town and the New Mexico Native American reservation whose spontaneous healings keep drawing her physician husband back. Tortured by her awful secrets, Henrietta struggles to thrive in either locale, but it is her unlikely friendship with Joe Loco––an eccentric Native American mystic with an Elvis fetish and a gift for healing––that shows her the way to be whole again.
Set in the late 1950s, The Soul Retrieval is richly woven with spiritual insights but also deadly secrets, forbidden healings, a murder mystery, stunning scenery and an unforgettable cast of characters.
A story of transcendent and inspiring power that is both entertaining and enlightening, readers will be cheering for the uptight woman from South Carolina to push through her fears of the forbidden as she searches for truth and healing, faces great obstacles on the frontier of self and ultimately becomes more than she ever thought possible.
The Soul Retrieval is a suspenseful novel of love and healing centering on a traumatized southern woman, her spiritual journey, the Native American mystic who guides her, and the murder mystery that ultimately threatens to unravel her.
Synopsis
Inspired by a true story, The Soul Retrieval is an award-winning suspenseful tale of love, loss and healing which follows traumatized southern beauty Henrietta Clayborn as she moves between her home in a small South Carolina town and the New Mexico Native American reservation whose spontaneous healings keep drawing her physician husband back. Tortured by her awful secrets, Henrietta struggles to thrive in either locale, but it is her unlikely friendship with Joe Loco––an eccentric Native American mystic with an Elvis fetish and a gift for healing––that shows her the way to be whole again.
Set in the late 1950s, The Soul Retrieval is richly woven with spiritual insights but also deadly secrets, forbidden healings, a murder mystery, stunning scenery and an unforgettable cast of characters.
A story of transcendent and inspiring power that is both entertaining and enlightening, readers will be cheering for the uptight woman from South Carolina to push through her fears of the forbidden as she searches for truth and healing, faces great obstacles on the frontier of self and ultimately becomes more than she ever thought possible.