Two Empaths living 350 years apart vow to right a centuries-old wrong, inadvertently exposing a multi-billion dollar international conspiracy in which millions of people being abused because they've been erroneously labeled mentally ill.
Other than the very young and the very old, the most vulnerable people in our society are the mentally ill-or those who are deemed to be. After all, with a documented history of mental illness, even in face of the most deplorable abuse, who's going to listen? And in our world, like it or not, if you have no voice, you have no power.
Dark, meticulously researched, and deeply disturbing, "Finding Emmaus" is simultaneously experienced through the lives of two otherwise ordinary people living three centuries apart, who discover in adulthood they are not mentally ill, but are in reality exceptionally gifted. Because of that and because of the appalling things that happen to each of them during the time they believe themselves to be ill, they embark on personal journeys-Frank in the 1600's and Katherine in present day-actually finding a way to transcend time and death, meet each other, and then work together to save millions of others who've been ostracized from society and victimized because they, too, have been erroneously labeled mentally ill.
Wiccans have their Book of Shadows; Christians have their Bible. Even the secular world has its encyclopedias, but for Empaths there was nothing until 17th century Empath Francis Nettleton sacrificed everything to spend his life creating one authoritative body of knowledge, a central set of guiding principles meant to put an end to the relentless persecution and needless suffering of anyone who did not-or could not-fit the societal mold. He named it "The Lodestarre."
"Finding Emmaus" is a deeply disturbing, suspenseful tale of love and sacrifice, obsession and the abuse of power, and the indisputable human right of free will. It is a story with an intriguing cast of historical and fictional characters artfully woven together, who will keep you guessing as to what will happen and what choices they will make from one minute to the next as they weave in and out of the story and each others' lives.
"The only thing worse than having an incomprehensible, incurable illness is having an incomprehensible, incurable illness in isolation." ~Francis Josiah Nettleton, 1739~
