LOVE OF MY LIVES, a first novel, by lin cochran

I REMEMBER BEING MURDERED. I died in 1865, a terrifying violent death. I shall never forget it. Chapter One is a first-person short story written by Emily Mason-Wohl, the protaganist, a 34-year-old editorial writer and co-owner of the Water's Edge Daily News. She writes about a past life where she lived and died in Chetco, Oregon, a town now known as Brookings, Oregon. Chapter Two begins the present day story, set in 1978-79, in an imaginary town on the Sun Coast of Florida, that has been invaded by a psuedo-religious cult, headed up by a television evangelist, which is buying up many of the buildings in the city of Water's Edge, decimating the tax base. A large hotel is being used by the cult as headquarters, but a farm north of Water's Edge masquerades an assisted living facility for church members. In reality the farm is a cover for the hideous practice of training children to be sold as sex slaves in foreign countries. However, the plot is almost background to the second-level story, which is the relationships between Emily and Armand, a music critic for another newspaper, and Emily and Marta, the City Prosecutor for Water's Edge. This is where the real action takes place. The inner lives of the characters, their psychological growth (and periods of regression) attainment of insights, and Emily's realizations of truth about who they all were before. It is contemporary, psychological fiction, filled with romance, sex, and enough suspense to keep the reader turning pages. APPEARING ON AMAZON SOON.