The Unfolding: Book 1 in the Brain Storm Series (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781977211217)

Staring at the clouds through the airplane window, Bella tried to imagine what her grandmother's house looked like. She visualized a small cottage with a white picket fence, a covered porch with an old rocker, and lush flower gardens. Anna Neusa was 96 when she died, and outlived her only daughter, Bella's mother. Why hadn't Mom and Grandma kept in touch over the years? What could've happened between them that separated them for life?

Since they'd only met twice, Bella was surprised to be notified that she had inherited the estate. How had the law firm gotten her address? Social media probably helped. Bella was an author, and Sanders Publishing, her agency, was all over the internet. One great thing about being in the book business was that, with the right equipment, you could work from anywhere. And Bella supposed she might be in Phoenix for a while.

Nothing prepared her for her arrival at Grandmother's. Bella's ideas of Anna Neusa were a mismatch to what she saw. How could a fortune teller, as she was called in family circles, live such a large life? From the start, finding out was unnerving. It challenged everything she'd been taught to believe about life, death, the seen and unseen.

In league with the presence of her grandmother, Bella finally uncovered a 50-year-old secret that upended her beliefs. She was next in the psychic lineage and her gift was beginning to unfold. Suddenly, invisible phenomena, mysticism, science and metaphysics become mainstream. Entangled in a cycle of unending questions, Bella was swept up into the high tech world of iris and thumbprint authentication, hidden chambers and secret devices designed to further experiments in thought transfer.

Was Grandmother actually related to Nikola Tesla? Her unpatented technologies piggybacked his ideas about energy movement. But Anna's interests were aimed at a different type of greater good, helping people identify their brain storms, the thoughts that prevented them from moving forward. Military personnel, veterans and first responders seemed to find their way to Anna's clinic. Although they had already completed all the conventional treatments, they were still unable to live fully. With the use of original inventions, multidimensional communication, and the gift, healers accompanied these everyday heroes over the final hurdles: mending spirits, renewing faith and rediscovering passion.

As the scope of Bella's responsibilities unfolded, she became intimate with the patriot plight and aligned herself with Gran's mastermind group. The circle was composed of psychics and other brain stormers. The seer, the interdimensional medium, and the shaman provided unique, highly specialized insights into their patient's problems. Others, including Bella's sexy, skinny-dipping neighbor, Bruce, offered other types of awareness. Called the Michelangelo of wood, he chiseled away the layers that covered the masterpieces, a coveted talent in wood sculpting and in life redesign. As patients chipped away ideas that didn't serve them, the lives they dreamed of began to unfold.

The Unfolding is book 1 in The Brain Storm Series.

Other Books in The Brain Storm Series, also in production, are: Resurrected, In Medias Res: Into the Middle of Things, and Hidden Harbor.

Other books by bestselling author Leslie Edgewater include All the Dark Corners.