The Moon Path: Book 1 of Ravenwood: A Seeker's Memoir

By Jack Peredur

With fresh-found love in a new town, Jack Peredur and Suzanne Marat have a leg up on life in the early 1970s - or do they? Lured by a leading scientist's promise of mentorship, Jack's moved from New Jersey to a college in the South. Suzanne's traveled further, setting aside a promising career as a dress designer in Paris.

Though she seems to be winning Jack's heart, Suzanne dreads the day he learns the terrible reason she left France behind. When their clothes come off and the truth comes out, will her beauty and charm be enough to keep him from turning away in horror?

Nick Valentine and Alaine Lancaster are locals: he a shaper of psychedelic light, she a reader of the Tarot. But when the image on a card she's dealt to Jack turns suddenly real before her eyes, Alaine begins to guess what danger may soon drag them all into the shadows of The Moon Path.

Those familiar with the history of America in the 1970s will recall the Ravenwood Disaster, in which thirteen college students and faculty met their end in a basement apartment near Russell University in Columbia, South Carolina in the spring of 1972.

Some truth, but much more falsehood, has been written about that tragedy. The Ravenwood Thirteen have been called witches, orgiasts, devil worshippers, drug trippers, a suicide cult, even a terrorist group somehow slain by their own intended weapons. Witches indeed they were - well, most of them - but none of those other things: bold explorers, rather, in worlds beyond this one we all know. Explorers who, through sad mischance on their greatest journey, were unable to return.

Ravenwood Associates was formed to honor the memory of the Thirteen who died, to share information, and hopefully, eventually, to set the record straight before the public. That last was impossible in the years closely following the disaster, and some details can likely never be told. The passage of nearly half a century, though, has brought widening public acceptance and understanding of philosophies, religions and lifestyles far from the common norm.

It is time, therefore, to reveal as much as prudence and old oaths of secrecy allow.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1086020189
• ISBN13: 9781086020182
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"