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During a vacation in the desert, Martin and Leigha are mysteriously separated. Caught between fear, exhaustion, and the scheming medicine woman, the couple struggles to find each other and escape the desert before it’s too late.
Author’s Note
Maranther’s Deception came to me as a dream. By the time I awoke it was a complete story. I grabbed a pen and wrote the following note:
Traveling in Mexico with a Mayan woman, we come across an abandoned native village with lots of stone masonry. We stop to explore the ruins, go into the first building and it becomes a maze of rooms. We can’t find our way out.
The further along we go the more the rooms begin to fill with furniture and household items. It looks like someone lives here after all. After much effort, sure each door will lead outside, we finally find our way to an alley but are forced to go through yet another door. My woman friend steps through the door and disappears. I realize, too late, that some force wants to separate us. I’m told about a local medicine woman’s mischief.
Since I write by the seat of my pants, with no real plans or outline, within the first few dozen pages the story took a left turn and went off in an entirely different direction.
