ERROR of UNDERSTANDING

by Stella McMillan

Overview

Paula, while on vacation from her home in Los Angeles, is preparing to celebrate her birthday at a luncheon on the Gold Coast in Australia. Her husband is aboard an aircraft, which is flying into Coolangatta Airport on a flight from Melbourne, and he plans to meet her at the rendezvous. The date is 10 September, 1999, However, a traumatic event occurs to alter their carefully-constructed plans. Instead, Paula finds herself in Victorian Victoria, on the banks of the mighty Murray River where the paddle-steamers are plying their trade while the time-frame is one hundred and thirty-two years earlier in Australian history. There, Paula encounters Louisa, Sylvia and Elizabeth, along with Charles Lyndhurst. Oblivious to her own predicament, Paula follows closely the dramas that affect the lives of these people in the State of Victoria in 1867. Queen Victoria is the reigning monarch and she sends her second son on a visit to the far-flung colonies of her empire. With the arrival of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, on the first Royal Tour of the country, the citizens of Melbourne prepare to celebrate in style. As the Royal Tour progresses, the lives of Louisa and Charles are thrown into turmoil. Sylvia is left to ponder her future as her world collapses around her. Elizabeth watches the events that are unfolding within her family and, alarmingly, she witnesses history repeating itself before her eyes. With the arranged marriage between Louisa and Charles taking place, against the wishes of both parties, Elizabeth does not hold out much hope for a happy future for the couple. When the spirited, young Louisa meets the charming, devil-may-care Phillip Carstairs within weeks of her marriage to Charles, she falls in love with him. Their clandestine meetings are many and the plans that they make together have disastrous results for Louisa. At the same time, Charles is continuing his decade-long love affair with Sylvia while he demands total obedience from Louisa, who defies him every step of the way. In her twentieth-century world, Paula watches in fascination while wondering why this whole scenario appears very familiar to her. After all, she has a busy life of her own in the USA and she knows little about Australian history. As the new millennium is about to dawn in her real world, she knows that she should be focusing on her present life and her current family. Instead, she drifts in an out-of-body reality where the nurse, Gerard, appears. The nurse is guarded in the information that he releases to Paula when she questions him on what has occurred to bring her to this place and why she is all alone in the hospital setting. The familiarity of the scenes that are taking place with the Victorian Victorians are resonating with Paula as she fights for life in a hospital on the Gold Coast in a time-frame that is far removed from Victorian Victoria, and Melbourne in particular. Still, Paula stands watching, being but the silent observer to all that occurs in the lives of these people. It all seems oh-so-familiar!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780957881358
Publisher:	Beverly June Bree
Publication date:	06/13/2014
Series:	Error / Era of Understanding - First Trilogy , #1
Pages:	590
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

ERROR of UNDERSTANDING is the first book in the seven-book Stella McMillan Series. The Series consists of two trilogies, as well as a final seventh book, which was published in 2014.
ERROR of UNDERSTANDING is a second edition, with the first edition being published in 2010.
First trilogy: ERA/ERROR of UNDERSTANDING Book One: ERROR of UNDERSTANDING
Book Two: ERROR PERPETUATED
Book Three: ERA of UNDERSTANDING
The first trilogy is mainly historical fiction, with the main character, Paula, drifting between realities as she regresses to an earlier time in Australian history commencing in 1867. She follows the lives of the people who are interacting with one another there.
After being involved in a car accident in 1999, Paula becomes the silent observer to these earlier events while she is visiting Australia from the USA.
Second trilogy: ERA/ERROR of DISCERNMENT
Book One: AWAKENING TO AWARENESS
Book Two: ERROR PROFOUND
Book Three: ERA of DISCERNMENT
The second trilogy bring Paula's focus back to the reality of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and covers her earlier life in America. In the first book of the second trilogy, she re-lives her time at a Las Vegas casino where she was in charge of a blackjack table in 1989.
From there - in the last two books of the second trilogy - she returns to the present time as she resumes her current life after this traumatic event, which almost claimed her life. An out-of-body experience sent her searching for answers to questions regarding the after-life and reincarnation. Attempting to make sense of the whole episode and the past-life story, which she had witnessed, she begins to write a novel in the fifth and sixth books of the Series.
Her spiritual journey continues on into the seventh book of the Series: SUSPENSION - Between Two Realms -
Here, she has many in-depth discussions with her Spirit Guide who brings great enlightenment to her. Her Guide is Gerard, the nurse, who was with her while she was drifting between realities after the accident.
At the same time, her husband is trying desperately to keep her grounded in his reality of twenty-first century Las Vegas.
Gerard releases a set of Discourse to Paula. These Discourses reveal much, especially regarding spiritual enlightenment and possible future events. Paula includes Gerard's Discourses in her novel, much to her husband's dismay. He wants his 'old' Paula back. The 'new' Paula frustrates him as he tries to contend with this new woman in his life.