The Amber Seven

The Amber 7 - A SynopsisBorn under different stars but are they destined for the same fate? Four guys and three gals are inseparable during their college years; living on the edge, enjoying carefree lifestyles; reluctantly parting ways upon graduation. Now, a decade later, some indefinable force is slowly reuniting the Seven under mysterious and frightening circumstances. Aberrations, deliberate distortions, and the paranormal join with career forces to spin their lives out of control....
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The Amber 7 - A SynopsisBorn under different stars but are they destined for the same fate? Four guys and three gals are inseparable during their college years; living on the edge, enjoying carefree lifestyles; reluctantly parting ways upon graduation. Now, a decade later, some indefinable force is slowly reuniting the Seven under mysterious and frightening circumstances. Aberrations, deliberate distortions, and the paranormal join with career forces to spin their lives out of control. The novel begins with the spirit of Steve, manifesting as the trickster, touching the lives of Tara, a stockbroker struggling to handle strange dreams and moments of disturbing clairvoyance; and Jeff, her current lover wrestling with his ambitions for success. Romance, suspense and intrigue fill the pages of this novel. Kari Court, a kooky, sex hound had puzzled everyone at college with her involvement in mysticism which she shared with her colorful witchcraft friends and a beer-loving Syrian Hamster, the life of every party. As the Seven said their final goodbyes in a small grove of trees near the Amber Lake, Kari had conducted a strange, spiritual ceremony. It was an event none of them would ever forget. The key each had received that memorable day was a fetish; sacred and cherished. Was it now a force controlling their lives? Tara Cook, a single, career girl working for Harris & Upton, a powerful Chicago brokerage firm has money and power in her genes. Her ancestor, GG Cook, a brash young man, had come to America from England at the turn of the Twentieth Century and made a fortune in the Anthracite Coal Industry only to lose it during the Great American Depression. Tara, now a fearless stock jockey, had been carefully honed through childhood to be the one to recoup her family's lost fortune.Through her job, she reconnects with Jeffrey Fuller when Harris & Upton engaged his employer as a client. Jeff becomes DNA Biotech's Sales Manager for the Central U. S. Region. After he moved back to the Chicago area, he and Tara lived together.One day, Jeff is returning from a routine business trip to the employer of his former Amber roommate, Craig Timco, a DNA slicer employed by Moore Biotech. While making his sales call, Jeff had mistakenly been given the wrong envelope by a temporary secretary; it contained important segments of research Craig had been secretly conducting on a human growth hormone that could literally suspend the aging process. He was cleverly doing his own research using his company's resources and disguising it within his employer's estrogen studies. Once Jeff realizes the significance of what has innocently fallen into his hands, his life and Tara's become a strange maze of twisted ambitions.Tara begins to experience strange phenomena. In desperation, she turns for help to her old Amber roommate, Kari, an expert in the occult; but Kari's life is so disjointed it scares Tara. Meanwhile, another college friend, Felicia Turner, who had been an Anthropology Major has returned to Amber for her PhD and might know more about mysticism and the occult than an ordinary witch. But Felicia has her own problems - the sudden and mysterious death of her boyfriend, Steve Wilson, a fun-loving body builder. Was he Kari's victim? To Tara's dismay, Kari has not changed her mischievous college ways and when the truth is revealed about the nature of Steve's death and Kari's possible involvement, Tara is drawn deep into the conflict. Felicia seeks revenge by going to Kari's apartment with intentions of gaining retribution. Meanwhile, Jeff is determined to keep Craig's research and make it the centerpiece of his own multi-million dollar business venture, but that requires Tara's complete cooperation. He needs money and a firm like Tara's employer behind him. Craig, after returning from a company-forced vacation, discovers his research is missing and traces the disappearance to his friend.