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Power of Three

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In this fast-paced science fiction thrill ride, gravely ill Shannon Kendricks, attorney and seaquarium volunteer, must return the alien child Essi to her world, while trying to free a captive beluga Juneau, and combat a pair of ancient aliens set on destroying Earth. Her friends can help, but not everyone will survive. On the upside, with the arrival of the alien child, Shannon’s physical appearance changes dramatically and she now possesses useful, near-magical traits to help her with barriers that appear insurmountable. Will Shannon succeed in her quests before it is too late, or run out of time? Find the answers in POWER OF THREE, a thrilling novel from Cathy Parker.

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Like her protagonist Shannon Kendricks, Cathy Parker is an attorney. She volunteered as a zoo keeper's aide for eight years and did have a very special beluga buddy, Mauyak, just as Shannon Kendricks has. As to encounters with alien children, as in the trilogy, she is not saying. She was also a radio and print journalist and once was the 'Jill of all trades' for a small satellite paper in Wyoming. She did everything from taking to the photos to writing the articles and op-ed pieces to helping with layout and hauling the newspapers through blizzards once a week. As a result, she saw lambs being born and went on a cattle drive and ate her first (and last) Rocky Mountain Oyster. She has seen mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda and orangutans in Borneo and even rocked an orphaned baby orangutan to sleep on her chest. She has volunteered with a chimpanzee sanctuary for former research subjects. So you can see where her heart lies. Currently she lives in Costa Rica with her black cat. All similarities between her cat and the trilogy's Narcissus are purely and probably coincidental.

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The Wild

When I created the special telepathic bond between my protagonist Shannon Kendricks and the beluga whale Juneau, I knew one thing. I didn't want a "cute" relationship between a pet-like whale and her 'owner;' I wanted a relationship as it might possibly be between a wild creature and a human. As a result, some of Shannon's understanding of the whale comes through dreams. In this way, Shannon filters the content so that she -- and you the reader -- can understand it, but the underlying experience is the wild creature's. In this excerpt, Shannon dreams of Juneau's capture when she was very young by the people who would place her in captivity. It begins with Juneau's love of the wild and ends with her terror. I can't pretend to really know the mind of a wild animal and I am hoping to help readers see this point too. Shannon stays out of the mind of Juneau to the extent she can precisely because she has experienced its wildness. And she cherishes that unknowable quality in Juneau.

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Power of Three

…Cold black waters surge around her; her strong body flexes and ripples. So good here. Her arms move in short arcs. She tastes the water; the others have fled, moving away from land. Whistles and clicks echo through the water and she understands. Trouble comes. Follow. The sweetness of swimming free, racing, turning, diving in vast waters tingles along her spine. Her muscles stretch, strong, rhythmic. So good.

Pain! She bumps against webbing, hard, ropey. Like strings of intertwined kelp.

Fear courses through her. Away, get away.

The net surrounds her. Panic whirls like hurricane winds.

She struggles. Struggles.

Can’t break through. She redoubles her efforts.

She flees downward, then up, then back, faster and faster, desperate to find a way out.

She twists, bucks, dives, but the webbing tightens.

The kelp becomes bars.

A tight little box encloses her. A coffin. She can’t move, can't swim. It is as if she is dead.

Then the water becomes mud and the mud dries.

Can’t breathe…

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Cathy Parker

Power of Three

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