While exploring the remote
possibility of contacting her dead husband through a spirit medium, a young
widow is pronounced insane and committed to an asylum against her will. As she
struggles to escape the nightmare she’s been thrust
into, she is stripped of everything she holds dear, including her identity and
her reason to live. The fight to reclaim what is rightfully hers will test
every aspect of her being, up to and including her sanity. Is she up to the
task, or has her grip on reality already slipped away?
Book Six of The Golden City series, The Madness of Mrs. Whittaker explores two major forces of early twentieth-century America: the religious movement called Spiritualism and treatment of the mentally ill. Like all of A.B. Michaels’ novels, it is a stand-alone read.
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Any of my friends and family can tell you I’m
pretty neurotic about not liking to fly or go on bridges or be in elevators or
be in tight places. But I have visited a
few places that, now I think back and say, “What were you thinking??” Once, while working in public relations for
Hilton Hotels Corporation, I rode in an open-air construction elevator to the top
of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
It was being renovated and Hilton was one of the sponsors, so our
department produced a short documentary about it. Even typing this makes me
nervous! The other unbelievable
adventure was spending eight hours in a cave, as part of a caving class
I took. We literally had to walk in a line and follow the leader from one end
of the cave to the other. If I had
freaked out, there would have been nowhere to go. Again, I am sweating just remembering it. These are the kinds of activities it’s much
better to have done than to do!
I love traveling more than I fear flying, so
I have been all over the world, including Europe, central and south America,
China, Tibet, Russia, and of course the United States. What’s left on my bucket
list? The problem is, it’s too long: I’d
love to return to most places I’ve been. The world is a fascinating place.
I married relatively late (thirty-five) and
found I couldn’t have children biologically.
So, my husband and I opted for open adoption which entailed working up a
“resume” and advertising to prospective birth mothers. The young woman who chose us to adopt her baby
said she picked us, not because of our sterling credentials, but because we had
our picture taken with our adorable wiener dogs! Our older son (we have two)
now lives and works in Denver—-and yes, he is a dog lover.
I’m not particularly athletic, but I happen
to be a pretty good bocce player and have won several medals in our summer
bocce league.
I adore quilting. There’s always something new to learn, plus I
enjoy creating something that lasts and gives comfort to others—kind of like
writing! It’s also wonderful to be part of a group of like-minded women; they
are my kind of peeps!
A native of California,
A.B. Michaels holds master's degrees in
history (UCLA) and broadcasting (San Francisco State University). After working
for many years as a promotional writer and editor, she turned to writing
fiction, which is the hardest thing she's ever done besides raise two boys. She
lives with her husband and two spoiled dogs in Boise, Idaho, where she is often
distracted by playing darts and bocce and trying to hit a golf ball more than
fifty yards. Reading, quilt-making, and travel figure into the mix as well,
leading her to hope that sometime soon, someone invents a 25+ hour day.
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