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Back to Salem
by Alex Marcoux

The protagonist in this fast-paced, can’t-put-it-down novel is a respected novelist and talented screenwriter named Jessie Mercer. Why was she having more and more vivid dreams about the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s is the subject of Back to Salem, an exciting and provocative metaphysical mystery.

Author Alex Marcoux has woven a story of intrigue and her threads are the inhumanities of humankind upon humankind. Why are so many things happening in Jessie’s life that relate to the witch trials in her dreams? And what did the psychic say about Jessie’s confusion with her past-life issues? What value is there in hypnotic regressions? Are they safe? Are they trustworthy?

With the help of the psychic, Jessie travels back to Salem and becomes the husband of the witch known as Rebecca, the witch to be hanged in her dreams. What is it like to be a witch in this Protestant society? And what is it like to be accused and threatened (and killed) because of your beliefs?

Back to Salem is written on two different levels, past and present, that connect to each other. In her current life, Jessie meets Taylor Andrews, the star of Jessie’s new film. What is their connection now, and in the past? Indeed, why does Jessie call Taylor, Rebecca? What was the deception so many centuries ago that forced Jessie to go back?

Alex Marcoux answers all these questions in her new spellbinder. In this reviewer’s opinion, Back to Salem is one of the most engrossing, imaginative, suspenseful and revealing novels written in the last fifty years!

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