Jeanne Helen Cates
Jeanne was born and educated in Cheshire, England. Her interest in writing began in 6th grade when she wrote and acted in a play performed at the school in between dodging German air raids in the Second World War. Her interesting life led her to America and met her husband, an officer in the U.S. Air Force. After returning to civilian life they had many adventures, moving around the country for her husband’s jobs and were in key places where history took place. She studied Parapsychology at the Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Her husband was employed at NASA working on the Lunar space module, and assisted with the Safe return of Apollo Thirteen. They moved to Washington DC where her husband was offered a position at the Naval Research Lab. Here her career began as a property manager of high end, multistoried condominiums. Her writing took the form of monthly newsletters and she met many famous individuals, including the satirist writer, Art Buchwald, who inspired her to write. After retiring she became interested in doing fiction. She currently lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband of fifty-six years, and is a member of the Round Rock Baca Writers’ Club. She has a grown daughter,son and granddaughter.
Titles Available from Jeanne Helen Cates
 | Bartas, an Atlantean pilot crashes his air machine on the coast of Lemuria, a Utopian place of spiritual people believing in reincarnation. The inner continent is plagued by wild beasts causing the Lemurians to abandon their homes and go to live along the mountainous coast in dwellings built into the cliffs. He is rescued from drowning by a beautiful, young Lemurian woman, Liestra, a spiritual healer, and her half-beast half-human servant. Her father is a physician. Together they nurse him back to health. Bartas is intrigued by the young woman who is very different than any woman he has ever known. He goes with her and her servant on an inland trek to explore the old capitol city of Mu and they have to defend themselves in an encounter with a vicious beast. Facing danger with Liestra makes him realize without her his life would be empty. He takes her to Atlantis with him. They are beset with many problems, her disapproving parents, Bartas’s former jealous lover, and a scheming high priest, and trying to survive earth changes. Can their relationship withstand these challenges? Will they meet again in some future life to rekindle their love and work out their Karmic destiny? |
