Fearless…a paranormal memoir

by M.D.Sacca

It all started on the fourth of July in 1954, or within a few days of that. I’d like to believe it was the fourth, a day of celebration. Of course it never was a day of celebration. It was a day to keep secret, deny and try to forget.

I don’t know if it was because of her pride, her vanity or her faith that she maintained her silence. I only know that secrets have a way of eating you alive. They fester and percolate. They invade your dreams. They grow into monsters and wait in the shadows to be set free. And as each year passes your secret ripens. It grows branches until in the end it has deep roots and compounded consequences. Even now that her secret has been revealed she’s having a hard time owning it, as if a crowd will show up on her doorstep, drag her into the street and stone her to death.

I have done my best to convince her it means nothing to me, the secret of my conception, of my paternity. She is my mother after all. I could never stop loving her. But I now realize it was never about me. It was about her. She was protecting herself…at my expense. 

It was about what people might think. What I might think. How God would punish her for her sin. Ultra conservatism after all is fraught with misery. Fear of God will make people do crazy things, keep dirty little secrets, fret,  lay awake at night and worry about their condemnation. She was determined to take the secret to her grave. It was as if she never said it out loud it never happened.

But she didn’t count on the fact she had a tenacious son. One who was going to keep digging. And as determined as she was to take her secret to the grave I was equally determined to reveal it. Then in February of 2023 with the help of a nationally recognized organization known as the DNAngels I discovered in 24 hours what I did not know for 67 years. My father was Jimmy Sacca.

I was raised in a cult. It’s always gnawing on my consciousness. Even as an adult there is no being completely free of it. Many of the options for my future were taken off the table. As a child I was being spoon fed nonsense that couldn’t possibly be true…like mankind is only 6,000 years old and there’s no such thing as evolution. I was encouraged to defy the medical establishment and ignore the scientific community. If I questioned the validity of ‘Heaven’ or ‘Hell’, the ‘resurrection’ or any number of scientifically challenging positions I was told to simply ‘have faith’.

I have always been a skeptic. I believe what I have seen with my own two eyes. I wouldn’t have written this book but it was a story I had to tell. I speak from a unique perspective. I can testify to the fact there is life after death, another dimension, a heavenly realm and most probably other earthlike planets capable of sustaining life. You see on July 28, 2013 I died.

It was a sudden cardiac arrest, the widow maker. For days I layed in the ICU hovering between life and death, crossing between this dimension and the next. And I can tell you this…it’s not what you think. I came back. It wasn’t my time. I should say I was sent back. And I am here to tell my story.

‘Fearless’ is a memoir that grapples with issues of life and death, faith and science, ultra-conservatism, organized religion and it’s unintended consequences. It’s about learning to fit into a world I was conditioned to shun. It’s about family relationships, sexual abuse, betrayal, love and intuition. It’s about secrets and lies and my fundamental right to know my father, who he was and what he was like. It’s a compelling look at ‘the other side’, dreams, the paranormal and other mysteries of the universe. It’s Catcher in the Rye meets The Celestine Prophecy.

The Widows of Sunrise Cove

a novel by M.D.Sacca

This is the story of a small town in Northern California where children are being abducted by human beings from another planet. It follows Rebecca Beesting, a seventeen year old who is obsessed with the 1960s as she navigates moving back to Sunrise Cove from San Francisco after an ten year absence. As if it isn’t stressful enough, she has to come to terms with her grandmother’s passing and deal with past insecurities that have everything to do with a boy named Jake.

With the help of four older women who call themselves the widows of Sunrise Cove Rebecca discovers she has the gift of intuition and a surprising inclination to the paranormal.

With the help of her best friend Sadie Thompson and her grandmother who has passed into the dimension of transition Rebecca meets an eclectic menagerie of characters that convince her there is something nefarious happening in Sunrise Cove and as more and more children begin to disappear Rebecca is desperate to expose the perpetrators and their spacecraft that is hovering just offshore behind a cloak of darkness.

Along the way she can’t resist her growing attraction to Jake Campbell and with the widows help she begins to harness her powers of astral projection and mental telepathy which along with her autobiographical memory begin to support a new reality. She was born a witch.

She begins to realize the Traskians are targeting children with an above average intelligence quotient to help repopulate their aging planet that has been driven underground by global warming and provide them with the stem cells they need to make a cocktail to reverse the aging process.

In this, the first book in the series, we come to find out the Traskians have abducted children from every major continent on the planet earth and are taking them back to Trask.

In book two the children must overcome their prejudices and work together to escape a planet that is quickly becoming unsustainable.

Book three will take place on board the spacecraft that has been commandeered by the children. They will have to rely on their grit and ingenuity to pilot it through a universe that is fraught with danger. They quickly find they will have to work together to achieve a common goal.

Along the way they will come to realize that what matters most in life is your acceptance of diversity as a human condition and your respect for the environment.

The Widows of Sunrise Cove is a fast paced coming of age story that is the stuff of fantasy but grounded in reality. Meant to be read with Alexa and a bottle of wine it has all the excitement of a grown up Harry Potter with a female protagonist. It’s magical realism with the heart of Practical Magic and the soul of The Echo of Old Books.

Midnight Pass…a screenplay

by M.D.Sacca

Midnight Pass is a multi-dimensional character driven one hour

drama about a middle aged white man who confronts racism in

a small town. It is set in Florida in the present time with periodic

flashbacks spanning four generations past. It was inspired by the

recent rise of white nationalism that is threatening the progress

of generations of blood spilled in the fight for civil rights.

It has the racial divisiveness of The Help, the desperation of Celie

in The Color Purple, the romance of The Bodyguard, the musical

genius of Crazy Heart and the humor of This is Us. It is emotional,

dramatic, at times dark and brooding, at times full of optimism.

It is a balance of good and evil, wisdom and ignorance, love and hate. A marriage of human

drama and common misconceptions. It is a generational study of what it means to be black

and white in America. An irresistible story about second acts told against the backdrop of

a little town called Sanctuary.

The Story

MICHAEL’S on the edge. His blue collar career is coming to an end. He has to make a change.

But he only knows how to do one thing and he’s getting too old to do it. His wife is no help.

She’s too consumed with saving the planet. Her vegan cooking and sugar-free diet are really

starting to annoy him.

Forced to have surgery for a work related injury he is confined at home for several weeks of

recuperation. Boredom sends him to the garage one day where he picks up an old guitar, a

guitar he never learned to play. But on this day something magical happens, something clicks,

and his life will never be the same.

When there’s an opportunity to buy the family homestead MICHAEL let’s his wife talk him into

it. The deal is too good to pass up. But there’s one little problem. It’s in Sanctuary, Florida,In the

middle of nowhere.

Built on the banks of the Peace River is the little town of Sanctuary. With its quaint houses and

wraparound porches. But there’s something ugly hiding just below the surface and it’s wrapped

in a package of southern hospitality and black eyed peas.

MICHAEL’S transition to middle age comes with an obsession to play guitar, harness his dream

and discover his passion…no matter what the cost. But when he makes an unusual alliance with

a black woman who teaches him how to sing from his soul, sparks begin to fly and the racial

tension is off the charts.

Midnight Pass is an epic tale spanning four generations of two very different families, each with

a matriarch that establishes a rivalry and a long history of racial tension. It’s all about diversity,

love and loss, family relationships, faith, voodoo, infidelity and the American dream. It’s about

middle age, second acts, finding your talent and reaching for the stars. It’s a generational study

of civil rights intended to show how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go with a POV

that looks at both sides of the racial divide so that by the end of its run the viewer will realize

we all bleed red. We all taste rain. And together we make beautiful shades of gray.

Midnight Pass the book…coming soon.

Winslow Maine

a novel by M.D.Sacca

Winslow Maine by M.D.Sacca is for anyone who enjoys a paranormal mystery. Think The Haunting of Blackwood House or Ghost on the Left.

Jim and Patty Jenkins live in Los Angeles, California. They don’t even know a woman named Margaret Pollack. So when a notice shows up in their mailbox from the trustee of her estate it’s a complete surprise.

Patty is the heir to a farmhouse in the middle of Maine. Further investigation reveals an unexpected relationship. Margaret Pollack is Patty Jenkin’s mother. It’s an alarming development that has Patty Jenkins on the next plane to Portland. She rents a car and drives to the little town of Winslow Maine. Once there she finds a sketchy middle aged man who produces the documents identifying Margaret Polluck as Patty’s mother. He convinces her to follow him to the courthouse to complete the paperwork necessary to validate the will.

A quick trip to the bank to sign the proper documents and an unexpected encounter with an eccentric neighbor leaves Patty confused but she is determined to solve the mystery of her dna. It’s an emotional roller coaster where by the end of the day Patty Jenkins owns the property at 1545 Maple Ridge Road.

Before flying home she decides to drive by the homestead. It sits on 40 acres of trees and 5 acres of pasture. She parks her car in the driveway and strolls around the house, peering through the windows, reluctant to enter the residence by herself. She’s feeling an eerie presence she brushes off as her overactive imagination. It’s a blustery afternoon, the skies are gray and there’s a chill in the air…as if summer is on hiatus. Patty takes one last look around, climbs into the car to leave but the car won’t start. On top of that she has a creepy feeling she is being watched. After several tries it fires up and she quickly drives away.

Two months later it’s the end of summer. Patty is back in L.A.. Covid-19 is spreading through the suburbs like a forest fire. People are sequestered and beginning to work from home. Children are being told to stay home from school. The Jenkins decide to pack up and move to Maine for the winter. By the time they arrive it’s well into Fall and absolutely gorgeous. But Mother Nature has a surprise in store for the Jenkins family, who have never even seen the snow and who have never lived outside the convenience of their suburban L.A. bubble. It’s a strange juxtaposition that quickly takes a terrifying turn when it becomes apparent there are unexpected residents in the farmhouse.