Patricia Mason – författare

The lush, majestic mountains of Western Pennsylvania are ever changing. Fog, mist, glorious sunrise, sunset, and tumultuous storms set the patterns of continuity. The mountains are as old as time.As one looks down from the top, a panorama of contrast is evident. Dense forest, hard-won fields with herds of cattle, and farms dot the landscape where agriculture is possible. Small villages are scattered, containing poverty, wealth, and somewhere in between. Years of persistence created tradition and community.The mountains harbored a truly evil man. His life was ruled by rage and destruction and created terror in those who crossed his path.The ghost child knew with certainty that he was a monster.No name was given to her. She was shunned. Her mother died giving birth to her and was erased from the family Bible. The child was born out of wedlock and was made to pay for the sins of her mother.Her sentence of isolation and servitude was not handed down by her community or its rules and practices but by that one vicious, violent man.A steady, determined spark of life lived within the ghost child. She survived; she listened and learned. She vowed to escape the monster.She didn't know what awaited her, but even the possibility of death could not dissuade her.She escaped. She lived.She named herself Sarah. She became real.

Found in a cardboard box, merely hours old, she was one of the lucky ones. She was rescued, she survived, and she was cherished.Amara's adopted mom and dad said she was the best of all cultures, a melting pot of humanity in one human being. Indeed, her life was a tapestry of threads woven from the individuals who had come before, those who had created her.One simple DNA test was all it took to unravel the mystery of Amara.This is the story of her journey, the tale itself weaving into and out of the lives of the people she meets, her family by blood.She learns who she is and how she herself is woven into the fabric of time.