Jeffrey Underwood

Sea of Impulse Jeffrey Underwood

Publisher Marketing: It is La Maupin. La Maupin's life is a flame. And then expires too quickly. She dies at only the age of thirty three. This French beauty has a panoply of talents far ranging and effective. The span is from an operatic contralto on the Paris stage to the rarest of them all, a female fencing master; from taking a nun's vows to eschewing decency in a lifetime rife with sexual experimentation; from crimes against the Crown and King to convincing that Sun King to spare her the indignity of being executed; from the heights of a near royal birthright to an unknown pauper's grave of no concern to anyone and the absolute obscurity for her that prevails after. Until now! Now she is accidentally sprung from that invisibility and is released to the world once again. La Maupin, otherwise known as Julie d'Aubigny, reached for it all. This 17th century human comet is somehow connected to the fate of Sarah's mother and her dear friend. The connection, its discovery, is critical. A life, maybe lives, depends upon it! Parallel to La Maupin's drama, the story of the attempted revival of a business is told as well. Sarah's clan is in pursuit of relics again. And it is the Languedoc of southern France and Castle Montsegur which may reveal the only key to that business surviving. Is a relic found? Does La Maupin's influence that leaps four hundred years into the present batter all? Even salvation lurks in the shadows. Contributor Bio:  Underwood, Jeffrey Jeffrey Underwood graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology. Though he has practiced as a Registered Nurse for many years, he comes from a family of published authors. His first published work was The Forbidden Tome; Hansel and Gretel's True Tale. His second was entitled Lethal Assumed; Lost Tome Found. Three more books in the Entity Saga, written dually, fall under his and coauthor Kate Taylor's rubric. Three thousand miles apart is no deterrent to the creative bond that he and Kate share. He currently resides in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, a suburb of Seattle and again hopes that those who read soon to be published, Eyes of a Pagan Queen, also co-written with Kate Taylor, will relish the brand new characters and plot in what could very well develop into a brand new saga. Kate Taylor collaborated with Jeffrey Underwood on five prior novels, entitled: Treason's Truth; Mac Alpin's Scotland, Eagle's Eclipse; America Before Columbus and Tasman's Travail; The Journey Down Under and most recently, Eyes of a Pagan Queen and White Scream. Kate has award winning history working in Activities in long term care and is a Licensed Nursing Assistant, as well. Highland Gals becomes one of an expanding library of serious efforts at writing as her first work is entitled The Pink Eraser. She has contributed to books in the Activities profession. Kate resides in the small town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. She has much in the way of writing to share. She hopes that all who read this tale of fiction will want for more. Kate and Jeff have also combined playfully in writing Rule of Thumb & Fingers, a texter's bible with lots of laughs and Sock Monkey Life which is full of sheer creativity. Jeff and Kate met online and found that their collaborative interests meshed splendidly and this novel is an example of that blending of gusto for writing that they certainly both have. Contributor Bio:  Taylor, Kate Kate Taylor was for almost thirty years an Associate Lecturer with The Open University and is an Honorary Lay Canon of Wakefield Cathedral. She is a popular lecturer on local history.