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At present, the site is intended as an editorial and a marketing resource for the team producing this book. It contains plot summaries. character sketches, reader comments, and info about the author. It's a stealth site, which means to the greatest possible extent, it is hidden from search engines.

When we reach the publication stage, the site will transition into an author/book promotional vehicle and become much more visible. So, without further ado:

Welcome to Altered Estates, (wt) a neo-psychedelic novel in which a scenario designer with self-induced amnesia enters a live-action manor mystery as a character in order to test his game unaware that he wrote it. Think Agatha Christie on magic mushrooms.

In a nutshell:

In his own scenario, Kris Robinson has been named sole heir to an immense fortune and estate by a British uncle he never knew existed and has recently died. After a period of soul searching about his true family origins, he journeys to England to claim his inheritance.

Upon arrival, Kris is immediately thrust into the center of an intense turmoil: Hanover Manor is a house divided and in an uproar. With the help of a precocious 14-year-old sidekick named Christopher Robin, Kris tries to unravel the mysteries of how he came to be related to the extraordinary inventor-scientist, Lord Arthur Reynold Hanover.

However, Kris and the lad soon realize that Kris's late uncle has immersed them both in a real-life, Myst-like scenario game, replete with mind-bending puzzles that must be solved, highly disparate -- and often silly -- connections that must be made, and magical devices that trigger jaw-dropping special effects -- on the level of Disney attractions -- that must be interpreted, all in order to secure Kris's bequest.

In searching for answers, Kris is guided by voices from the collective unconscious and finds, inexplicably, that he now possesses heightened mental faculties, enabling him to understand languages he does not speak, communicate telepathically with others, perform crowd pleasing orato rextemporaneouslyy, and glimpse future events about to unfold or replay scenes he previously lived.

But there's something odd, very odd indeed. Kris can no longer remember his own name.

Altered Estates, (wt) is an "altered states" manor intrigue aimed at mystery, psych sci-fi and fantasy buffs, gamers, expatriates, hippies (both ex and neo), theme-park aficionados, psychedelic fans and especially at readers who yearn for something completely different.

For starters, most of the novel is written in the second person; the protagonist undergoes a name and identity change midway through; and because the collective unconscious plays a prominent role, every person who ever lived and died is a character in the story--they just don't all have speaking parts!

The book is admittedly lengthy--but test readers say it's a fun, easy read.