The Lost Souls Series | No 1 | No 2 - 2027 | No 3 - TBD |

REBOOT

Every Soul on board with a secret one-way ticket.

As a vicious crime family closes in, Agent Bill Alastor has a plan to save the love of his life. It will only take 87 people to lose theirs.


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A Vanished flight, 89 lost souls, and one desperate escape plan collide with relentless international detectives, an Irish crime family and a soulless killer in a global thriller where the past always finds a way back.

Reboot is filled with unforgettable characters and unexpected romance and friendships that point to a pathway through the icy loneliness our world can bring.  It speaks of the power we can only find in each other and in those transformational relationships that unexpectedly walk into our lives. 

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Anna Simone has placed herself in the crosshairs of a powerful crime family.

She witnessed a senseless murder by the family kingpin, and summoning her fighter pilot instincts and reserve, is hell bent on doing the right thing and turning states evidence. 

FBI agent Bill Alastor is assigned to keep Anna alive before the trial. When the federal safe house set up to hide and protect her is breached, Bill realizes that witness protection is no match against the global reach of those that hunt for Anna.  As his love for her grows, he concludes that only he can save her.

He develops an unimaginable and implausible plan to hide her, actually both of them– a plan striking and conspicuous enough to reach around the globe and convince the world she is gone. He takes a profile algorithm he built for the Bureau and finds the people he needs to execute the plan. He recruits two young men expert in the art of counterfeit information on the run from their past. He recruits a disgraced pilot with no way to begin again, a brilliant scientist broken by corporate greed and personal loss, and a teacher, whose life was shattered by false accusations. The compensation for joining this team of brilliant misfits, a new life along with Bill and Anna.  Through massive social media manipulation, the team finds and prepares 81 additional souls, all similarly out of options and all looking to reboot their lives. They will become the manifest on Flight 168, a flight to virtually nowhere.

It will bring them peace, for a moment. 

We are currently working on books two and three in the series we are calling The Lost Souls Series.

Eighty Nine lost souls with eighty nine stories to tell.
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Every soul on board is carrying something.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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Ernest Bernarducci

This is Ernie’s first novel released. Upon receiving his PhD in Chemistry from Rutgers University, Ernest Bernarducci spent 40 years traveling the world, developing consumer products for four major US consumer product companies that are sold on every continent. (You have one of his products in your home workshop). Now he dedicates all his time to chasing grandchildren and the illusive, unforgettable story. He lives with his wife of 45 years in Rutherford, New Jersey. Everything he does, everything he is, is dedicated to her.

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Martha I. Finney

Martha I. Finney is a USA Today bestselling author and thought leadership development partner for CEOs & CHROs. She has been Guiding C-Suite Leaders to their Authority Years for decades. Martha is an Author/Co-Author of 30 Books on Leadership, Workplace Culture & Personal Development.

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