Stella McMillan

Awakening To Awareness Stella McMillan

From her surreal world and as the silent observer, Paula watches in fascination as the events that occurred in the State of Victoria, in Australia, play out to their final conclusion. She knows these Victorian Victorians oh-so-well. She does not understand at a conscious level why this should be so. After all, she has a busy life of her own back in Los Angeles as the new twenty-first century approaches. She knows little of Australia, or of its nineteenth century history. Book Four of this seven-book Series finds Paula taking a journey to Australia and, in particular, to the Gold Coast while on a frantic search for her missing sister. Along the way, she meets Lachlan Jefferson. She becomes involved with him when he requires her skills as a croupier. He needs her help to defeat a confidence trickster who has Lachlan marked as his next victim. The actions that they take have fatal consequences when they set up a gambling event to turn the tables on the fraudster. What is puzzling to Paula is the fact that she knows these people, yet she has never met them in this lifetime. However, she recognises them from the Victorian era, which she viewed in detail from her detached reality of the Gold Coast Hospital. This was when she was recovering in the two-bed ward following a fatal accident on then Gold Coast. In this setting, she studies the child who is attempting to take Paula on what seems to be a wild goose chase. Then, the medication appears to take a hold of her senses again. From there, she begins to focus her full consciousness on her American life, which she left behind her. This is where she drifts then, although it is to an earlier period of her life - back in Las Vegas, the city that she loves and to the casino where she works.