EAST PATCHOGUE, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Author Cathryn Raka spins a compelling tale about a young woman trapped in a remote island shrouded in mysterious secrets. Fascinatingly provocative, The Virgin Sacrifice will challenge readers' imagination and moral beliefs with delicate issues woven into an engagingly intricate plot.
The book's protagonist, Kara Tolley, inherits an ancestral home situated on an island off the coast of Maine. Left to her by a reclusive distant relative, Wright House becomes Kara's refuge from her depression over personal problems at work and the fact that her fiance is missing in Vietnam. She decides to develop the artist in her, which she discovers ties her to the Wright family. Leaving the busy metropolis of New York to live on Wright Island begins to seem like a good idea, especially after meeting the island's most eligible bachelor, Andrei Marguse, a brilliant scientist at Wright's Island Space Research Center.
Falling in love with Andrei completes Kara's good fortune at coming into wealth and gaining an ancestral house with servants -- the troubles of the past seem miles away. But the mysterious island beckons to Kara, as the last of the Wright family, to discover its deeply-buried secrets. Why do people on the island suddenly go missing or end up in tragic deaths? The more Kara learns about her family, the more she is sucked into a strange world that bizarrely fuses the past with the future. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
Cathryn Raka lives on Long Island with her semi-retired physicist husband, two dogs, and two horses. In recent years, she spent much of her time caring for and training her horses in dressage and carriage driving. She has been a student, a researcher, a teacher, and -- from time to time -- a writer. The Virgin Sacrifice grew out of her interest in storytelling; Raka weaves her educational and scientific background into the plot. Begun in the late seventies, it was rewritten in the mid-nineties. The style changed, the plot remained the same.
The Virgin Sacrifice * by Cathryn Raka
Publication Date: October 19, 2005
Trade Paperback; $18.69; 248 pages; ISBN 978-1-4134-6067-4
Cloth Hardback; $28.79; 248 pages; ISBN 978-1-4134-6068-1
To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x.7876.
For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.