Media Kit for "Incarnation"
Laura Davis Hays
Laura Davis Hays was born in Whittier, California, the only child of a theoretical physicist and librarian. When she was five, he family moved to Livermore, where her father, Don, worked at the Lawrence Radiation Lab. When a young chicken wandered into the backyard from the adjacent farm, he became the first of a series of bantam rooster pets. The backyard was a garden paradise for chickens and young girls and a mother with a green thumb. At night, Laura’s father read her adventure and fantasy stories, and taught her math. Laura began studying classical piano when she was nine, and so began her lifelong love of music.
When Laura was thirteen, her father, contracted a strange illness that was eventually diagnosed as lung cancer. After he died at age forty, Laura’s mother, Elaine, sold the house and moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where her sisters still lived on the family farm established by their Finnish immigrant parents. Marquette Michigan was a different world from California. Laura’s new friends’ parents were miners instead of scientists. On frigid winter nights, Laura followed her friends around town, suffering frostbite on the tips of her ears. In the brief summer, the kids would wade into Lake Superior and swim in water so cold it knocked their breath away. Elaine and Laura next moved to San Antonio Texas where Laura’s paternal grandparents lived. Again Laura experienced culture shock in a state that loved football and Cadillac cars. At Rice University, Laura fit in more comfortably, and graduated with a double major in mathematics and psychology. There she met her future husband, Jim, and many friends, dear to this day. Although Jim was a native, leaving Texas was easy. Both wanted to move west, and in the 70’s, passing over careers in big oil in lieu of freer self-exploration made sense. They moved to Santa Fe, and after a six month tour of Central America in a TR-4, returned and were married in a mountain meadow. Their son, Gabe, was born in 1977. Laura began writing fiction in 1985. Besides Incarnation, she’s the author of a fantasy novella, Ice, and The Atlantis Material, a trilogy-in-process. The Coat, part of the collection titled The Lighthouse, was inspired by a family memoir about her Danish ancestors. Great Grandmother Karkondina Holm and her sisters used to skate across the frozen sea to Copenhagen by starlight. Jim and Laura live in and adobe house. Jim is a builder and Laura writes whenever she can, and plays piano on Sundays at Everyday Center for Spiritual Living. They ski in the winter, and enjoy watching the spectacular sunsets from their back porch. Every few months, they travel to LA where they visit Gabe, his wife, Holly, and their two beloved granddaughters, Sadie and Gemma. |
Incarnation
In smart and elegant language, Hays deftly weaves equal parts of science, romance, adventure and fantasy into a captivating novel that invites the reader to consider the interconnectedness of the past, present, and future.
Linda Durham Founder/Director The Wonder Institute 
Publisher
Terra Nova Books |
About "Incarnation"
Incarnation is the story of a scientifically trained young woman faced with improbable psychic events. French-born Kelsey Dupuis takes a new job working in a genetic engineering lab in the high desert of New Mexico. There, the oceanic nightmares begin, soon escalating into waking visions, warnings, and finally visitations from a dark-braided, green-eyed girl named Iriel. As Kelsey seeks the truth, she learns Iriel escaped an arranged marriage in her own time, and lived to witness the destruction of her ancient homeland, helpless, despite her formidable powers, to stop it.
Incarnation is the story of one woman’s confrontation with history as she learns the meaning of a soul-twin’s life and its karmic implications. Forced to relive her deepest fears, Kelsey is able to face her entwined past and present with courage, innovation, and forgiveness in order to break the chain, free her soul-twin, and become more truly herself.
Incarnation is the story of one woman’s confrontation with history as she learns the meaning of a soul-twin’s life and its karmic implications. Forced to relive her deepest fears, Kelsey is able to face her entwined past and present with courage, innovation, and forgiveness in order to break the chain, free her soul-twin, and become more truly herself.