Nights of the Road

By Midi Berry

Book Overview

The world of twenty-first century US rock music intertwines with life at the seventeenth-century English court of King James the First. Both places and periods come to sparkling life, with meticulous attention to historical and geographical detail, in Nights of the Road. Sarah James believes she left an unhappy past in England behind when she arrived in Los Angeles. Her counseling practice is off to a flying start, she loves her ocean-side apartment, and she is enjoying a promising new relationship with American rock music promoter, Bob Howard. But Sarah's world is turned upside down when a British musician kidnaps and holds her in his isolated cabin in the California desert. Is her drink-sodden captor only using Sarah as a pawn to coerce Howard into mounting a tour for his failing rock career? Or does he hold ancient issues and personal grievances to settle with both Sarah and Bob?Sarah must travel across time and continents to free herself and heal an ancestral legacy marred by patriarchal abuse of power. She must also aid a tormented man to transform his present ruinous path into a road to resurrection. Her greatest ally is a real-life, seventeenth-century heiress from the court of James the First, who knows a thing or two about the abuse of power, since she was sold into marriage at the age of fourteen to save her father's political skin and pursued by King and Church beyond her native shores..." A compelling story that brings two time periods richly and vividly to life. It's a big, bold, ambitious and thought-provoking book and I found myself thinking about it a long time after I had finished it." Nicola Cornick, international best-selling author.'Rock music meets the Stuart royal court in this haunting tale of two heroines, each as beleaguered as she is loved. This novel of swashbuckle and self-discovery shifts between time and place - from hipster LA to the ruined ramparts of Corfe Castle. Read it fast for its pyrotechnical plot, or savor more slowly as a literary spritzer for the soul.' Madeleine Kingsley, journalist and book reviewer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986382817
• ISBN13: 9780986382819
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Midi Berry
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher