The Truthseekers
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This is not just the story of revenge in another era. This is the story of a lovers’ triangle which spanned several centuries, beginning in the 16th Century with the liaison between a young nobleman and Marguerite de Valois, (nicknamed Margot,) the disinherited daughter of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France. Margot was Queen Catherine’s third daughter, stunningly beautiful, an articulate writer and poet as well as one of the most fashionable women of her time. She was a patron of the arts, talented, quick-witted with a sharp intelligence.
Margot also had the reputation for being one of the most scandalous, promiscuous women of the court and one of the most vindictive and bloodthirsty as well. It was rumored that she actually drooled with excitement and concentration while witnessing the torture of those who displeased her. Just as the lower jaw of a housebound cat quivers while – in frustration or anticipation - it watches a bird outside through an indoor window, Margot’s jaws would tremble and her teeth could be heard to chatter in excitement when listening to the tortured screams of those she condemned, or especially while watching some offending lover undergo genital mutilation or limb amputations.
She initiated most of her sexual encounters. She seduced those men into her bed knowing they would never dare to refuse her. Margot was lustful, indiscriminate in her sexual adventuring and yet jealously possessive of the men she bedded. She was known to be obsessive and driven, paranoid that anyone might take advantage of her. Therefore, no one ever opposed Marguerite de Valois and survived unharmed to tell about it.
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Kaitlyn Hilson and Paul Stedding are a modern couple engaged and deeply in love, two normal individuals with goals and happy lives, until an invisible window between this world and another is left mysteriously, unintentionally ajar and their nemesis from many incarnations returns in spirit, driven as always to lure Paul back into her control and destroy Kaitlyn forever.
The spirit of Marguerite de Valois, third daughter of Catherine de Medici. the Queen of France, has had an obsession with Paul which has never subsided, but has become stronger through each incarnation. Her jealousy and hatred for Kaitlyn has driven her every thought and desire to destroy, becoming the chief focus of her existence throughout time.
As the accidental opening has appeared between realms while she has waited and watched - whether it was due to Fate’s capriciousness or miscalculation – Marguerite’s spirit slips through into an unfamiliar existence where she is fearless in exploring, occupying and wrecking havoc wherever she can, even when it comes to murder.
About the Author
Jann Jansen has been a professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Northern California since 1975. She has a Bachelors Degree in creative writing and two Masters Degrees in literature and psychology. Currently, she has published non-fiction books and many newspaper articles. THE TRUTHSEEKERS is her first novel.
Jann Jansen had five children with her first marriage and three adopted children with a subsequent marriage. She is a self-proclaimed lover of all animals, having once operated a small dog shelter. She now lives alone with seven dogs, three cats and a pet dove.