Novels by Teresa Allen

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on this  page:

DreamNotes    ~    Kill    ~    Inca    ~   Guardian    ~    Cairo    ~    Brass Moonbeams    ~    Saccaton    ~    Edge    ~    Doors  ~  Islands

First Chapters:  (note:  still editing and making some revisions)

Dreams Along the Upside-Down River
And You Learn How to Kill
Inca Dove
Guardian of the Maya Tree
Ten Years Past Cairo
The Trouble with Brass
Moonbeams in Asia:  Spiritual Journey of a Middle Child
Man From Saccaton
The Desert's Edge:  A Vision Quest Novel
Islands One Summer (coming soon)

• DreamNotes:  Dreams Along the Upside Down River begins in 1870 Arizona and transitions into the 1970s.  Protagonist, Mattie Bachman, confuses dream with reality while she has a passionate interracial affair with her husband’s ex-prospecting partner.  The story explores connections between the Vietnam and Civil Wars.  A dream was the impetus for this difficult story to write.  It's a story that amazingly foreshadowed my current relationship.  See The Desert's Edge 
• Kill:  This story concerns a young woman who "downs" animals in a shelter.  She later "downs" homeless people on the streets of Phoenix.  The end of this suspenseful story details her trial and death sentence (see my law school career).  And You Learn How to Kill ties together acceptable and non-acceptable forms of killing, while a radio talk show toys with media involvement in people’s lives.  My fourth novel stems from ideals and values.  This story also amazingly foreshadowed my current relationship.  See The Desert's Edge 
• Inca:  Muriel abandons her family in posh Ahwatukee, Arizona and heads toward Tierra Del Fuego on a journey of self-discovery.  Inca Dove intertwines Aztec and Inca mysticism as Muriel faces her own mortality during this adventure.  I came up with the plot to this novel on my journey through the Yucatan in 1990, though the idea had been with me for many years.   
• Guardian:  In my second completely fictional novel, a woman curator travels to Central America to retrace her grandfather’s anthropological work and to look for clues to an ancient Maya codex.  Hillary meets a French art dealer, who is actually a thief.  He lures our protagonist from the scientific world of astro-archaeology into the frightening realms of Maya supernaturalism.  In her mind, or in truth, Hillary becomes the Guardian of the Maya Tree.  This story combines my interests in Pre-columbian culture and spirituality and ancient astronomy.  
• Cairo:  Ten Years Past Cairo, is my first totally fictional novel and third book (after stumbling through Moonbeams a few years).  Based on my travels to Europe right out of high school, this story tells of a young woman traveler who has a baby with her Egyptian lover.  She is forced to leave the child in Egypt, but ten years later she kidnaps her son from his father and escapes to Israel.
• Brass:  I wrote the essence of my first book during my stint in the US Army in 1974-1975.  Derived from that manuscript, my novel The Trouble With Brass, concerns a thirty-seven year old woman visiting Vietnam to be where her brother died twenty years earlier.  As she travels to the battle sites, Joey Wilkins recounts her own military experience during the tumultuous era of the Vietnam war.
• Saccaton:  Man from Saccaton was written prior to events that led to The Desert's Edge.  The story touches the lives of a middle class woman from Phoenix and her encounter with a Native American man living on the Gila River Indian Reservation.  Native American philosophy and mysticism are woven into the story.
• Moonbeams:  Moonbeams in Asia:  Spiritual Journey of a Middle Child is my second book, one I labored over for probably five years (off and on with other projects:  In a Word -- to be Absurd).  It concerns the four years I lived in Asia teaching at universities in China, Thailand and Kuwait.  The story opens at the Brahman Bengali wedding I attended, and continues as a journey through the spirit and religions of Asia.  As a middle child, I am driven to seek my own individuality, my own truths.  
• Edge:  The Desert's Edge:  A Vision Quest Novel is my latest novel based on my life changing experiences after moving from Phoenix to the rural desert.  This story is in part the vision quest odyssey of a divorcing woman who needs to make a life for herself.  This novel is sequenced by a book about my current job and Raising the Doberman Pincher  
• Islands:  Islands One Summer is based on my travel journals.  In novel form, I tell the story of a young woman, Mona Klasner, who recently graduated with a BS in Archaeology.  With her roommate, she travels to Celtic and Druid archaeological sites throughout the British Isles.  After a disagreement, Mona parts company with her roommate/traveling companion and heads to the archipelago outside Stockholm, Sweden to be with her boyfriend, a man 20 years her senior.  Lars Arne Larson had also traveled to Europe that summer along with his 4 children and two cousins.  The story contains travel adventure, Viking and Druid mysticism, and the tumultuous relationship between Mona and Lars. 

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(last edit:  12-22-00:  Merry 2001 Holiday Season!)