Publisher's Synopsis
Once again, the Jacobs family travels abroad in pursuit of ancient artifacts, this time to the ancient City of Angels, Venice, Italy. Gwydion's year in a San Francisco high school helped him become more of an adult. But it could never prepare him for his encounter with his vicious arch enemy, who has grown stronger, bolder, and more twisted with hatred during his time at the Monastery in Brazil. The young autistic boy is abducted and taken to a deserted island and his enemy subjects him to an ancient ritual that the Church would never have approved of. With the intervention of a guardian angel beyond his understanding, Gwydion barely escapes alive, and leaves his enemy writhing in agony, spiritually trapped among the tormented ghosts on the deserted island in the Venetian lagoon. Part 3 of Gwydion Jacobs Murder Mystery, and book 8 of The Glass Planet science fiction series. Using fictional characters, the author takes the reader through a journey of discovery, uncovering the secret Extra-terrestrial origins of the bible and other god centered religions around the world. By combing through the new translations of the Nag Hammadi Library and the Dead Se Scrolls, N. M. Reed through her characters, an autistic boy of dubious breeding, his strange angelic sister, and his grounded rancher wife, and a host of others, find passages and old stories that seem to be the log of experiences of encounters of a third kind: actual contact and instruction from alien visitors. Stories that were the inspiration for the final draft of the bible, but were taken out and literally buried in the sands of time, only to be discovered haplessly by travelers thousands of years later. The progenitors of our civilization were describing aliens encounters, but didn't know how to say that. They just viewed these powerful "star-people" as gods. All of the great religions seemed to have been formed this way. Why else would humanity be so enthralled and have such a devotion and reverence to anything, if it weren't something absolutely amazing and out of this world. So instead of god being an unknowable, unfathomable force to human kind, lurking in the unknown void of heaven or hell, our gods are the blood spirit and intellectual ancestors and genetic makeup of our own selves. And interestingly, this brings us full circle back to the true-believers who are sure that the bible is a literal translation of the word of god. And looking at it as the experiences with the alien progenitors of our modern human race, providing the missing link in our evolution, it just might be so.
