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.
