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Seven War-Scarred Minds, A Bevy of Emotional Demons,
 Brilliant Idea, And a Long Walk in the Park

Looking for Canterbury Follows a Compelling Journey Deep Into the Past
In Search of a Way To Escape It

With his best friend dying in his arms, gutted by shrapnel and pleading to go home, and the enemy storming their Viet Nam bunker, Harry Baylor makes a split-second decision. It’s one all of us might make under the circumstances, but it haunts Baylor even now, decades later. So much so that it has ruined his life.

He’s not alone. Six friends are wrestling with battle-summoned demons, too, and they’re losing.  With their homegrown support group disintegrating, these seven once-vibrant people are fast approaching the point of mental surrender, giving in to their miserable, tortured lives.

Then Baylor has an idea. What if he can use half his life savings, Geoffrey Chaucer’s blueprint for soul-revealing story telling and a journey through Central Park to help all of them forget the horrific visions of the past? What if simply ignoring the taunting inner voices will silence them…at least for a little while?

It’s a brilliant plan! But will it work?

As the battle-hardened but enthusiastic troop of modern day pilgrims begin their trip, things start looking up for the first time in years. They’re enjoying the best food. They’re reveling in each other’s company. They’re relaxing. They’re laughing. They’re enjoying life!

But as the tale telling begins, they make a devastating discovery. The demons they hoped to leave behind have come along for the ride. Can these desperate souls continue their journey without making their lives even more unbearable? They’re willing to try. They’ve got nothing to lose but their sanity.

Rich with breathtaking scenery, stirring dialogue, compelling suspense and a deep understanding of human nature, Looking for Canterbury takes readers on a memorable journey into the timeless realities of trauma, healing and the troubled mind.

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Looking for Canterbury

By Jason Marks         ©2002

Distributed By Ingram and Baker and Taylor Book Distributors

Available nationally at Barnes & Noble stores, Amazon.com, BN.com, Borders.com

Paperback ISBN: 0-7388-6527-3, $18.69 retail

Hardcover ISBN: 0-7388-6526-5, $28.79 retail

Published by Xlibris Corporation, Philadelphia: (888) 7-Xlibris, www.xlibris.com

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A Family Falls Prey to Deceit, Betrayal and a Thirst for Revenge
Ground Cover Takes a Gripping Look at the Devastating Results

A father's desperate attempt to save his daughter has catastrophic consequences.  A marriage strained by distance and shattered by death, disintegrates. A family spins out of control as a mother  wages a futile battle to hold it together. The twisted wreckage of a helicopter entombs yet another victim of a murderous battle for control  over the Brazilian rainforest. All jagged pieces of the gripping new book. Ground Cover, by debut novelist Edith Marks.

With rich description and compelling action. Ground Caver takes readers on a spellbinding journey into Boston's highbrow art culture, the breathtaking depths of the Amazon, the lush and deceptive sanctum of a powerful corporation and finally to a hospital room where an unlikely resolution between mother and daughter brings death and new life.

Delving deep into the vast pool  of human emotions, Marks skillfully weaves readers into the fraying lives of the Hart family, a group plagued by loss and driven by hatred and a need for revenge. Adam Hart, a renowned environmentalist who, at the expense of his

relationship with his wife and children, is fighting a dangerous—and ultimately deadly —

battle to protect the rain forest from the choking hands of big business while simultaneously stalking the killer of a compatriot. Desperate to end his daughter's heroinaddiction, Adam brings her to the Amazon where he is convinced a cure exists, yet undiscovered by modem medicine. His misguided efforts prove to be the deathblow to his marriage and the catalyst that sparks his family's implosion.

With compounding complexity. Ground Cover lays open the lives of Adam's wife, Cleo, whose blossoming art career proves both a source of momentary emotional respite and a foray into a deceh-laced relationship with Adam's cousin, Gus; El, their rebellious, angst- ridden daughter who, with the help of Adam's lover, has uncovered a surprising murderer; and Orin, their promising teenage son torn between his love for his family and the need to punish those who helped destroy it.

As the riveting  plot of Ground Cover plays out, readers will be moved as the sounds of a wheezing respirator fall silent and a cathartic last heartbeat relieves the pain of guilt and launches a new beginning.

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Ground Cover (ISBN: 1-58851-582-6) is published by AmErica House, Publisher America Books, Baltimore., MD .

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