You’re invited to step into a world...
of shifting time and returning characters.
What is the way out of the Labyrinth?
Playing on themes of time and forgiveness, this debut novel takes us through uncertainty and torment to grace. Riveting, mesmerizing, and exceptional, this novel ends like no other.
Meet the Author
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
This is Anais Nin’s famous quote. That day came for me and what emerged was a first sentence: “The labyrinth, narrow in its paths, contained a spaciousness in its stones.” Words voiced inside me and I wrote daily to flush out their story. Something new was afoot, and it took me by surprise. I spent research time in the Black Forest, learning about the character’s world. My early readers like the forest setting (I’m so pleased!) and they like the characters as much as I do.
The series is Lost in the Labyrinth. The Black Forest is Book One. Book Two’s working title is “If We Go.” The excerpts you receive when you sign up give you an introduction to the story.
Trish Manthey writes fiction that plays with time. Her debut novel, Lost in the Labyrinth: The Black Forest features duo timelines through characters who live in a Black Forest village in the 1300s and a fictional village, Wyndham, not far from Dorset in the early 1990s. In each timeline, both heroines and the antagonist have the opportunity to forgive a parent’s death and move onward. A historical mystical figure, Meister Eckhart, emerges as Asha’s ally and guide in the Wyndham timeline. A bird of spirit, Citril, supports Nadja in the medieval narrative.
Traversing time takes its toll and in between chapter writing Trish plays Chopin and Bach to further beauty in her life. Trish is passionate about dogs and wishes for a new one to come soon and help her with the second book in The Lost in the Labyrinth series.
In earlier years, Trish managed a homeless family shelter in Norfolk, VA., writing successful grants at local, state, and federal levels, and private foundations. She conducted research and wrote drafts for the Old Dominion University State of the Region Reports in 2002 (Public Social Services) and 2003 (Private Social Services). Trish holds a BS in American History from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Social Work from Norfolk State University. Trish resides in Boulder, Colorado.
An Introduction to the Labyrinth
Characters set in the Black Forest, Medieval Germany are woven together again in a small coastal British village, Wyndham, in the 1990’s. Wyndham’s old stone labyrinth forms a time portal, where two young women, Nadja and Asha, find each other. We follow both timelines as differing landscapes of wrong-doing unfold. Are ancient wounds, both given and received, offered a chance to heal? Will different decisions be made, changing outcomes? A Spirit guide choosing the form of a small yellow bird flits between, and Meister Eckhart emerges as himself.
"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
– Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart (1260 – c1329) was a Dominican preacher, theologian and a towering spirit of his time. His teachings embrace a non-dualistic spiritual approach to understanding the world, time, and God.
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