From her surreal world and as the silent observer, Paula watches in fascination as the events that occurred in the State of Victoria, in Australia, play out to their final conclusion. She knows these Victorian Victorians oh-so-well. She does not understand at a conscious level why this should be so. After all, she has a busy life of her own back in Los Angeles as the new twenty-first century approaches. She knows little of Australia, or of its nineteenth century history. Book Four of this seven-book Series finds Paula taking a journey to Australia and, in particular, to the Gold Coast while on a frantic search for her missing sister. Along the way, she meets Lachlan Jefferson. She becomes involved with him when he requires her skills as a croupier. He needs her help to defeat a confidence trickster who has Lachlan marked as his next victim. The actions that they take have fatal consequences when they set up a gambling event to turn the tables on the fraudster. What is puzzling to Paula is the fact that she knows these people, yet she has never met them in this lifetime. However, she recognises them from the Victorian era, which she viewed in detail from her detached reality of the Gold Coast Hospital. This was when she was recovering in the two-bed ward following a fatal accident on then Gold Coast. In this setting, she studies the child who is attempting to take Paula on what seems to be a wild goose chase. Then, the medication appears to take a hold of her senses again. From there, she begins to focus her full consciousness on her American life, which she left behind her. This is where she drifts then, although it is to an earlier period of her life - back in Las Vegas, the city that she loves and to the casino where she works.
About the Author: AWAKENING TO AWARENESS is the fourth book in the seven-book Stella McMillan Series. The first trilogy was set in Victoria, in Australia, during the nineteenth century. Book Four, the first book of the second trilogy, is set in Las Vegas initially. From there, the story moves to the Australian Gold Coast in 1989 while the main character, Paula, is drifting in an out-of-body reality. She re-visits this earlier part of her current life while her physical body is recovering from surgery after an accident on the Gold Coast in 1999. Rather than focussing on the trauma that is affecting her presently, she re-lives this drama-filled period of her life when was searching for her missing sister. Here, she joins forces with Lachlan Jefferson to defeat a confidence trickster. Through a game of blackjack, they hope to turn the tables on the fraudster who is without morals or conscience. He is attempting to relieve Lachlan of a great deal of money. The gambling event that Paula and Lachlan stage, brings about grave consequences when their quarry kidnaps one of their own. All of their resources are needed to defeat him. Eventually, Paula is required to face up to her current whereabouts and the dire situation, in which she finds herself a decade later. She is faced with a life-and-death decision. She is all alone while drifting in a surreal reality that is far removed from her comfortable physical life. 'All alone, Paula stood there -and, for a long, long time - an eternity really!'