Quantum Terra: A Nick Shuman Legal Thriller

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What would you do if you woke-up one morning to find your world had changed but no one noticed but you? People who were alive were now dead and some who were dead were now alive. Landmarks and buildings that were there before were gone; or something different stood there now. Important documents, past events and other ‘history’ had changed too. You’d heard of the possibility of alternate realities, but now you may actually be in one…What would you think? What would you do? In “Quantum Terra,” the second installment of the Nick Shuman legal thriller series, the young but already world-weary attorney is tasked with defending a lawsuit that has stopped his latest client from completing a foreclosure on an expensive piece of acreage in rural Southern California. Fatima Carruthers, beautiful and enigmatic, is the official liaison for Nick Shuman’s new charge, a shadowy secret society called ‘The Foundation for the Study of Electro-Magnetic Energy.’ But they aren’t studying power lines or generators. The problem is the chunk of real estate ‘The Foundation’ is foreclosing on has some very special qualities known only to them and the property’s owner, ‘The Society of Metaphysical Acolytes,’ an equally murky outfit of questionable and ancient origins. ‘The Society’ is ‘The Foundation’s’ predecessor and now nemesis. Nick Shuman finds himself in the middle of a battle where the cudgel of quantum mechanics trumps legal maneuvers or conventional weapons---although the guns and violence are never far behind. When court records and rulings start to change or disappear along with people and past events, he starts to lose his grip on reality. Only his mysterious client and the peculiar property itself seem to hold the answers. Or do they? Shuman’s world spirals completely out of control when his opposing counsel is murdered. He is now a defendant in a media-crazed murder case. But is any of it real? As he tries to devise a way back to the world he knew, all of Nick Shuman’s assumptions about life, death and reality are turned upside down and inside out. He embarks on an existential sojourn to the core of the Universe, the center of his soul and then back again. Quantum mechanics becomes his vehicle.

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