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When you find a new book by chance, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes, when I read a story, I go away with a deeper understanding and another piece of the puzzle for my own life. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, I am thrilled to the core. That’s exactly what I experienced the other night as I finished the metaphysical fiction — Changing Planes, by award winning author Laurie J. Brenner.

I was very thankful that when the book came from Amazon, that it was a little book, a novella, if you will, because frankly, I just don’t have the time to read 1000 page novels. I love them, but I get lost after the first few pages. Not so with Changing Planes. When I opened it up and started reading, I couldn’t put it down.

Even though I write for a living, I don’t have the words to describe the richness this little story provided me. It gave me such an insight into my own life and my own need of

This book should be read by millions. Don’t be left out — this is going to be a big hit, I can tell, I have a sense about these things — and it would translate very well into a movie, especially with all the special effects that they can do nowadays. If you can get through it without crying, then your heart has turned into a rock, this book may well be what the doctor ordered to turn it to flesh once again.

Madison Reeves, a young, ambitious VP of a high-end department store, is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. She doesn’t know it as she heads for the airport on a Caribbean vacation, yet something nags at her, deep in the recesses of her mind.

The moment Madison reaches the airport terminal, odd things begin to happen to her but she quiets her unrest and her rumbling intuition, blaming it on being overstressed and overworked.

Things get odder and odder and rapidly escalate into events that are out of this world until Madison can no longer deny that she has left ordinary far behind.

When she leaves the plane after it lands, she suddenly realizes that she has not arrived at her intended destination. Instead, she is greeted by her long deceased grandfather at the airplane’s gate.

Madison is on a journey that most souls don’t get to remember or tell as she has found herself in the world between worlds — that place between the living and the dead.

What happens to you as you read this story, is something just short of a miracle as you begin to see yourself in Madison and experience what she experiences. By the time you reach the end (which you don’t want to happen), you are shocked clear out of your senses. You experience an ending that comes out of left field and truly takes you by surprise. It is here that you realize that all things are possible, not only for Madison, but for you as well.

In each page of Changing Planes, it was if there were a mirror looking back at me, reflecting back to me the image of myself in its pages. I found healing in between the pages of this wonderful little book.

But there’s much more to the book than that. Laurie J. Brenner is a true storyteller of old, taking you on a journey right out of this world, and bringing you back safely home, changed in the process.

I was surprised to feel sad when the story reached it’s end. I didn’t want it to end, and for the first time in a long time, I wished the story was longer. From what I understand, this is Laurie Brenner’s first fiction novella, and I can’t wait to read what she writes next. A wonderful storyteller, with an authentic voice, something that is rare these days, Changing Planes is a delightful and easy read for anyone from 20 to 80.

Read the first three chapters for free of this engaging metaphysical fiction. Visit www.ChangingPlanes.net now! Written by Jenny Long