Have you ever had a moment in your life, when you paused what you were doing and pondered if you lived in another lifetime? Perhaps, you were the son of King Midas, or a surgeon traveling among Black Beards crew across the high seas. Whichever it was, you just knew deep inside your heart, that this was not your first time on Earth.
Well, for Bill, this happened to be the case for him. For him, he was a pilot, who unfortunately, became mixed up in something far greater he could ever thought to handle.
Based on the devastating true events on April 15, 1939,
The Bridge of Deaths, written by M.C.V. Egan is a tale full of mystery, love, knowledge, and it will leave you with one question burning in your mind: What happened on that plane all those years ago? This story begins with Bill, who has been suffering from nightmares of an event that he has no clue what it's about. That is, until he meets Maggie at Foyles Bookstore, and from there their loves begins to blossom. Now these two can be no more different than oil is to water. For Bill is a sensible, levelheaded, man of common sense; whereas Maggie comes from a childhood fairies, wishes, and believing in the power of crystals. But those opposites do not matter for these two, for their feelings for each other is far greater than anything you can imagine. As much as I would love to just tell you that this story is all about their love, sadly I would be untruthful; for we still have the deal with Bill's nightmares and what they could ever possibly mean. With Maggie's spiritual background from her childhood, she encourages Bill to open his mind to past-life regression; and before they both realize, things soon begin to unravel. Left with details of a plane crash by Storstrom Bridge(aka The Bridge of Deaths), and that in his past-life regression he was somehow a part of it, him and Maggie set out to finding answers. Soon, they seek the help of Catalina, who's grandfather was a victim on the same flight, and with her knowledge of what she has come up with from her research, she agrees to assist them. Before any of them realize, they begin to open up a giant can of worms that they will never see coming.
As much as it would give me great pleasure to continue telling you everything about this story, I must refrain myself so that I do not give everything away. So, if you haven't had the opportunity of reading it, then I highly suggest that you go and get yourself a copy of
The Bridge of Deaths as soon as possible. For those who have read it, I hope you agree with me when I say that it was spectacular; and if you were left with some questions do not fret. For I was able to have some of my own answered by the author herself:
1. Is Bridge of Deaths really a culmination of 2 decades of research? Why are you so interested in WW II History?
Yes, at least a good eighteen years of research. I was so clueless when I began to dig around the plane crash that killed my grandfather in 1939 so I guess someone with a better historical background would have never taken that long.
I am embarrassed to admit that I had to look up almost every incident I came across even something as common knowledge as The Munich Pact.
I know I had to have studied it at some point in school or university but to be honest I know I did fail history at least once.
2. Why are you releasing a revised edition and what is different from the original?
When I released the original in 2011 I was so afraid that people would dispute some of the files I used that I carefully and meticulously added footnotes for EVERYTHING, over 200.
To my surprise some people loved that, mainly lawyers! But it felt like awkward reading for some, and it was understandable, especially in the e-book format as the footnotes can be distracting. In the revised version I added the necessary footnotes to the narrative and got rid of all of them. I also summarized tow parts that were loaded with information and detail and added them to the back as appendices for the more curious readers.
The book is formatted in a very user friendly way so the reader can go from one chapter to the other or to the appendices.
To give it a more up to date touch, as the book takes place in 2010. I added an epilogue in the summer of 2012.
The new cover has the image of my grandfather's watch which is part of the story.
3. Over 200 footnotes? So this is not a novel, or is it?
Oh yes it is a novel. It has fictional elements so it must be categorized as such. The characters that sift through the data are fictional even if two are strongly based on real people; one of whom is me!
I also used very "unorthodox" ways to research such as psychics and past life regressions; not my own, and that to many is fiction.
4. How did you use psychics and past lives?
I have two watches, one is my grandfather's and another sent to us by British Airways LTD. The use of psychometry is not that scoffed at, I mean FBI has used it, so I thought, why not? It was just amazing, with no photos or previous knowledge a psychic started describing the bridge and another the lettering on the wing of the plane.
The most shocking was that all described to a T another of the men who died for the second watch, no spoiler! I won't tell you which but it was uncanny. There were five people gifted in psychometry who did this for me.
The individual who had the long past life regressions, five in total has asked to remain anonymous, but I was allowed to sit in and take notes, they were also recorded but the quality is horrible which is a shame because just like Maggie in the book, I did go 'under' and slept through one of them!
About The Bridge of Deaths
"M.C.V. Egan twists truth
and fiction until you question your perceptions...it is a story of real love,
triumph and search for self."
- Beckah Boyd @ The Truthful Tarot
5 out of 5 stars:
"An unusual yet much
recommended read." - Midwest
Book Review
On
August 15th, 1939, an English passenger plane from British Airways Ltd. crashed
in Danish waters between the towns of Nykøbing Falster and Vordingborg. There
were five casualties reported and one survivor. Just two weeks before, Hitler
invaded Poland.
With the
world at the brink of war, the manner in which this incident was investigated
left much open to doubt. The jurisdiction battle between the two towns and the
newly formed Danish secret police created an atmosphere of intrigue and
distrust.
The Bridge of Deaths is a love story and a mystery.
Fictional characters travel through the world of past life regressions and
information acquired from psychics as well as archives and historical sources
to solve "one of those mysteries that never get solved." Based on
true events and real people, The Bridge
of Deaths is the culmination of 18 years of sifting through conventional
and unconventional sources in Denmark, England, Mexico and the United States.
The story finds a way to help the reader feel that s/he is also sifting through
data and forming their own conclusions.
Cross The Bridge of Deaths into 1939, and dive
into cold Danish waters to uncover the secrets of the G-AESY.
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About the author
M.C.V.
Egan is the pen name chosen by Maria Catalina Vergara Egan. Catalina was born
in Mexico City, Mexico in 1959, the sixth of eight children, in a traditional
Catholic family.
From a
very young age, she became obsessed with the story of her maternal grandfather,
Cesar Agustin Castillo--mostly the story of how he died.
She
spent her childhood in Mexico. When her father became an employee of The World
Bank in Washington D.C. in the early 1970s, she moved with her entire family to
the United States. Catalina was already fluent in English, as she had spent one
school year in the town of Pineville, Louisiana with her grandparents. There
she won the English award, despite being the only one who had English as a
second language in her class.
In the
D.C. suburbs she attended various private Catholic schools and graduated from
Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland in 1977. She attended
Montgomery Community College, where she changed majors every semester. She also
studied in Lyons, France, at the Catholic University for two years. In 1981,
due to an impulsive young marriage to a Viking (the Swedish kind, not the
football player kind), Catalina moved to Sweden where she resided for five
years and taught at a language school for Swedish, Danish, and Finnish
businesspeople. She then returned to the USA, where she has lived ever since.
She is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Swedish.
Maria
Catalina Vergara Egan is married and has one son who, together with their
five-pound Chihuahua, makes her feel like a full-time mother. Although she
would not call herself an astrologer she has taken many classes and taught a
few beginner classes in the subject.
The
celebrated her 52nd birthday on July 2nd, 2011, and gave herself self-publishing
The Bridge of Deaths as a gift.
