Color coded love stories and revealing female anatomies lead to the murder of world renowned sculptor, Bruce Jones. In life, the artist loved women, almost as much as women loved him. Adored for his art and colorful personality, Bruce is mourned by the world at large. The tale is launched with the multifaceted perspectives of four ex-wives, the current wife, and his new love interest and their children. Mary, Bruce's wealthy first love, is always in perfect pink; the color of love. Mother of Clair the famous actress and Aaron the corporate lawyer. Leslie The Second's color is yellow for her sunny nature as much as for her fears and insecurities. Her only son Bobby is vulnerable and lost. Mourning his father's death, he finds himself. Petra The Third, is outstanding in orange, representing not only her native Holland but also her love of the fruit. Cherished her freedom and had no children of her own. Toni The Fourth is a vibrant passionate Italian red and part of the eventual glue that creates and solidifies this dysfunctional Jones family. Her teenage daughters Tina and Isa are as different as night and day. Brooke The Fifth a gold-digger. Green, her color, reflects the color of money and envy. Her young son's Kyle and Caleb are too young to understand why their world has been turned upside-down. Mara, as blue as the ocean was the last woman to steal Bruce's heart. Mother to newborn Baby Peter is the unexpected gift and surprise. Bruce Jones' eight children speak out, too. They are as distinctive as the women he loved, their mothers. Loose ends are tied up by the insights of Sylvia, Aaron's wife and a trusted keeper of secrets; Scott, the private investigator and family friend; Nona, the quintessential grandmother everyone loves but to whom few are truly related; and Detective Jim Miller who will not rest until he discovers Bruce Jones' murderer.
About the Author: M.C.V. Egan is the pen name chosen by Maria Catalina Vergara Egan. Catalina was born in Mexico City, Mexico where she spent most of her childhood. When her father became an employee of The World Bank in Washington D.C. in the early 1970s, her entire family moved to the United States. Catalina was already fluent in English, as she had spent one school year in the town of Pineville, Louisiana with her grandparents. There she won the English award, despite being the only one who had English as a second language in her class. In the D.C. suburbs she attended various public and private Catholic schools. She studied in Lyons, France, at the Catholic University for two years as well as Kursverksamheten vid Stockholm and Lund Universities In 1981, due to an impulsive young marriage to a Viking; a Swede named Lars, Catalina moved to Sweden where she resided for five years and taught at a language school for Swedish, Danish, and Finnish businesspeople. After her divorce she then returned to the USA, where she has lived ever since. Catalina has been married to Tom for twenty five years and they have one son and a five-pound Chihuahua. M.C.V. Egan is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Swedish. Although she would not call herself an astrologer she has taken many classes and taught a few beginner classes in the subject Her first book The Bridge of Deaths revolves around her maternal grandfather's death in 1939. She now works on various writing projects and a new series DEFINING WAYS uses Astrology and other Metaphysical tools. You can find M.C.V. Egan everywhere online www.thebridgeofdeaths.com