The Chosen

When I chose the protagonist for my first novel Mission Fake Epiphany, it was because she was a young English woman, living in a foreign land, being Yugoslavia under communist influence in the mid 1970's.

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I named her Rosalyn Shaye. She was a shy wisp of a girl at the age of 21. I had a lot in store for her, some of which, I worried, might be too much for one person, let alone a naive young woman (no offense implied) to contend with. She had no idea that her boyfriend, Paul Xavier, was a secret agent.

Now, Rosalyn turns out to be a lot stronger than she would ever have dreamt. She discovers, however, she is a feminist with a strong desire to do the right thing. She explores Catholicism, since it seems to supply a kind of conduit to her family in England. Since she is living independently for the first time in her life, she doesn't pay much attention to her boyfriend's advice, when they're not actually living together yet.

Rosalyn's tendency to be a rebellious soul, takes her by surprise when she finds herself caught up in a smuggler's plot. She suspects that her closest friends are in danger.

The police can't take her seriously, and presume she is suffering from paranoid delusions, which makes you wonder why? And so Rosalyn's tendency towards being a vigilante develops at an alarming rate.

Rosalyn is set on a life changing journey in which she learns who are her real friends.

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