Soul Trade

Their bags are packed and ready, but their family can't fly home. "Soul identified, Erik the Red.""Soul identified, Helen of Troy."Those words are all it takes to take an already unpredictable airport and turn it into a madhouse of chaos.Finn is taken by uniformed officials to an unknown location while Helene swiftly escapes with their infant son Per, returning to their vacation home on the island to hide and create a plan.Both are in a race against time to reconcile with their past, reclaim their present, and reunite for their future.

This book was written by Soul Trade #3 main character Evelyn Freeman as a part of a capstone project for a writing class she takes before the events of book three begin. This work is important to share because in writing these poems, she starts to become more self-aware of the scars she carries and that impacts what happens nextEvelyn writes -Dear Dr. Jane Caldwell, This is my capstone project created from the perspective of contemporary artist and dancer, Summer Cody based on her work "My Life As A Ghost". Summer justified her creations by saying-As a ghost I feel that there is not adequate representation of people like me. People with complex identities and deep physical, emotional, and intergenerational wounds that have been unaddressed; people who have survived a traumatic event, moved to the After life and then feel forgotten by those around them. Those people are people like meand together, we are ghosts. I hope my work provides comfort so that they knowthat we know, we are not alone. This capstone is a poetry book that expresses my understanding of the expressions of her experience. This assignment has helped me accept that I am a survivor, too.Sincerely,Evelyn Freeman

Evelyn Freeman had been given her fair share of lemons in life, but she knew where she had come from and she knew what she wanted-a lemonade kind of life, filled with self-healing and helping others who had experienced trauma.But when Gabriel Downing appeared out of nowhere, she realized that her reality was much more complicated than she wanted to acknowledge. With her roommates by her side, Evelyn will stop at nothing until she has faced her past, in this life and the ones before it, so she can save herself and The Others before it's too late.

ABOUT THE BOOK - This book was written by Soul Trade #3 supporting character, Dr. Jane Caldwell long before we meet her in this series, before she even started work at the university. This piece is important to share because Madam hid a copy of this text in her survival pack that she took with her into the Bermuda Triangle, where it gets into the hands of Anne Bonny. What happens next is the story for Soul Trade book #4. INTRODUCTION by Dr. Jane Caldwell I do not want to talk about the whale or what happened to the whale.I do not want to talk about his life or the way it impacted me.The whale was nothing and the whale was everything -a cold reality the way that truly important things often are. I understand now how it feels to be truly helpless.I have to move forward, because that is the only choice that there is.I have to take an action, but for the first time in my life I have no idea what to do.I have given myself permission to be still- to sit here on this island, to find a safe place to rest and think.And I have given myself permission to write.I have given myself permission to be quiet.I am gifting myself these days of nothing.Writing in this journal is the only action I am capable of right now.This will be a way to explore these surroundings and move forward in a way honors these memories. My goal is to find a way to give myself permission to let go, forgive myself for who I was, and learn who I want to be.