Caught Between Worlds is a coming-of-age novel for all ages.

You’ll enter portals to the interwoven worlds of Tom, his late mother Annie, Mikhail, his shamanistic sister Mariam, and Alexander. Explore their minds and hearts, and yours, to navigate danger, intuition, love, magic, trust, time travel, and a thundering epic battle. Boys become men as they follow Alexander’s legendary route to Gaugamela. Wise women guide and protect them. 

This shape-shifting thriller slings you into rituals of courage, and life-saving cooperation between cultures – modern and ancient – as the three brave teenagers scheme to free Tom’s wounded father, John, a U.S. ‘businessman’, from terrorists in Iraq. Caught between worlds at war, with time running out, new friends must rely on every ally, including The Teacher, for the wisdom to quell all doubts to save the last of Tom’s family. Ursa, a Samoyed they rescued in the Baghdad souk, does more than lead Tom and Mikhail to John at Lake Dokan.

Therese Tappouni’s original cinematic vision also links Annie’s historic research in plant medicine rituals from tribes of the U.S. southwest to visionary healers like Mariam in northern Iraq. Her latest novel deciphers timeless mysteries of history, faith, family, flying, death, grief and beyond. She scripts super-stories that are spellbinding, literate and mystical. 

Whether you’re seven, seventeen or seventy-seven, definitely buy at least one copy now. And tell everyone! 

Reading this vision quest begins a life-changing relationship between you and the profound truths that a great novelist reveals about destiny, a soul’s journey and love’s healing powers. One of this novelist’s enduring gifts is to make the invisible love of family visible. 

It’s the quintessential story of understanding I’ve searched for all my life. 

Part of the proceeds from each sale benefits DonorsChoose.org, a top-rated charity since 2005 providing educational support to underfunded U.S. schools.  

LanceWare8.com Former English Professor, University of Nice, France; taught at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; & George Brown College, Toronto. Trauma Recovery Trainer; Author: upcoming book of proven stress & trauma recovery via emotional intelligence techniques.