Professor Caitlyn Morrys, a passionate and vocal educator at a small college, finds herself at the heart of a fierce debate over academic freedom and teacher tenure. The situation takes a deadly turn when the college President, who is Caitlyn’s primary adversary, is discovered stabbed to death in his office. Acting Chief Inspector Cormac Robertson, who strongly believes in the power of past life regression, decides that the key to solving the murder lies in uncovering Caitlyn’s past lives through hypnosis. While under hypnosis, Caitlyn reveals numerous details from her previous lives, offering insights into historical connections and motives for the crime.This information enables the detective to identify the main suspect, who he realizes is on their way to attack Caitlyn again, seeking revenge for a betrayal from their past lives.
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REVIEWS:
“Those not familiar with the inner workings of higher education may be shocked at the complexity and hellishness of various committees, faculty hierarchies and the pressure to publish. Tiegerman devotes substantial real estate to these topics, laying groundwork in the process for the motive of the killer or killers. Caitlyn’s passion and idealism is also a doorway into putting her character into potential danger as well.”
– Mishka Rao, Best Thrillers
“The book brims with twists and turns that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. It also highlights the unpleasant reality of the divergence of opinions on political views on university campuses, which can lead to tension between professors and students.”
– Amanda Hanson, The US Review of Books
INTERVIEW
- How do you balance writing with other aspects of your life?
Because I work and I have a full-time job, I need to balance my life so that writing fits in with family, career and this new part of who I am – a creative author. I have loved writing Past Lives Denied, and it is my goal to complete the Past Lives Denied Trilogy in order to help other people deal with this self-discovery journey.
- What challenges did you face while writing this book, and how did you overcome them?
The original manuscript for this book was thematically very different since it involved Caitlyn Morrys at a local university who became entrenched with a campus murder. It was not until I actually took the training course with Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omni Center that the past lives theme became a reality in the story that I was writing. I felt that the first iteration of the murder mystery was “missing” an important element, and that element was the underlying theme of past life regression. So, to answer this question very specifically, I had to deal with myself and my own acceptance of past lives in order to finally generate/create the book as it is now: Past Lives Denied.
- What do you find most rewarding about the writing process?
I have written many academic textbooks since I taught as a Professor at a university for 22 years. The experience of writing a fictional novel is extremely different and I found it much more rewarding, since I could be as creative as I wanted to be. I could take the book and the storyline in any number of directions, and I enjoyed thinking about the many possible outcomes for my story and characters.
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