Vicki
Boyd had a normal, happy childhood until the day her parents died in an
airplane accident—one she saw weeks before it happened. Overnight, she and her
three siblings—a younger sister and two younger brothers—were orphaned and
placed into foster care. And overnight, she received national attention for her
premonitions.
Not
just the media and fascinated public were watching. The CIA was watching as
well; specifically Sam Mazoli, the supervisor of an office working with psychic
spies. For the first time, he had an opportunity to take a child and mold her
into a psychic operative. So when Vicki arrived home from school one day, she
found a strange man waiting for her; a man who had adopted her but brought her
to an imposing, secure facility resembling an institution. During her teen
years, she didn’t have school and girlfriends, proms and boyfriends, and her
thoughts didn’t range from getting the keys to the car to hanging out at the
mall.
Her
teens and early twenties were spent learning how to be the best psychic spy the
CIA had ever employed. With just a simple latitude and longitude, she could
travel in her mind to any location on Earth, providing information to
operatives on nuclear facilities, threats to governments, blueprints of enemy
weapons—or anything the CIA wanted but couldn’t physically reach.
But
when she is sent on a mission deep in the Amazon jungles and it results in the
deaths of innocent children, she’s had enough. She quits the CIA and is determined
to start life over in a small town helping an elderly lady who advertised for
summer help. It’s her first chance on her own, but she isn’t alone for long…
Between Irishman Dylan Maguire and the CIA, who refuse to let her go, she’s in
for the ride of her life.
If the Black Swamp Mysteries series was made into a movie, who do I see playing the part of Vicki? Amy Adams would be my pick.
Next Tuesday: Dylan Maguire.
Next Tuesday: Dylan Maguire.
