Vickie McGillis
Published: 2019-10-19
Total Pages: 258
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Evelyn Smithson had just finished her shift at Rooney’s Diner in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when the pregnant eighteen-year-old girl was mugged and brutally stabbed. Since Evelyn was the fourth young woman attacked that summer of 1964, residents feared they had a serial killer in their midst. As Evelyn lay there dying on the sidewalk, she reflected on her life, praying to God to save her unborn baby. Minutes later, she was discovered by her best friend, who summoned an ambulance. Unfortunately, hospital staff were unable to save Evelyn, but the viable fetus was delivered via cesarean section. Sadly, just as her newborn daughter took her first breath of life, Evelyn Smithson exhaled her last. Since the baby’s father was purportedly killed in Vietnam, and the mother was now deceased, the orphaned child was adopted by a couple in Rochester, Minnesota. Franklin and LaVonne Barth named their newborn daughter Cassandra, and she enjoyed a typical happy childhood…until thirteen years later, when she became plagued by nightmares of a murdered pregnant woman she had never seen or met. As a result, Cassandra’s health, disposition and schoolwork suffered, so her parents took her to a psychiatrist. Through hypnotherapy, they learn that the murdered woman was Cassandra’s birth mother, and a composite artist sketch reveals Evelyn’s killer to be someone other than the convicted serial killer. Will Cassandra’s extraordinary connection to her deceased mother ultimately lead authorities to the real killer, or has this gifted adolescent unwittingly constructed a portal, making her his next target?
