Vena: In Search of Nefertiti

Vena Morenois a bright, attractive young woman of thirty who finds herself caught betweentwo worlds: ancient Egyptand modern Los Angeles. Her leapbetween two vastly different cultures leads to an unthinkable medical crisis.What secret: of an ancient civilizationhas Vena tumbled onto? The village elders in modern-day Egyptknow but they won't tell. And Vena's dogged determination to link someartifacts to the shining Egyptian period of Queen Nefertiti leads her to thebrink of death.Vena survives-barely. The storyexplores an unthinkable medical procedure that grips the imagination. Could itreally happen? No, it must be pure fantasy. And yet-they have done it with monkeys!Dr.Raymond Moody in his book Life AfterLife (Bantam New York, 1976) described the out-of-body experience ofpeople who 'died' and returned. VENA takes the reader through thenear-death experience with vividly authentic description. Was near-deathexperience known 1o the ancients? Could this explain a period of enlightenmentfive-thousand years ago along the Nile River valley?VENAtakes you where you have never been.