The Pendant

About the Book

The novel is fiction and tells the story of Jackie, a young female college professor who is abducted by aliens. A friendship develops and the alien returns to live with Jackie. The alien has taken on the shape of a beautiful woman. She is full of preconceived ideas about humans, none of them flattering, and confronts life among humans with a certain arrogance and cynicism, but she is won over by the charm and wit of her former abductee. The two become inseparable and experience many hairraising adventures. A more sinister purpose for the appearance of the stranger is slowly being revealed and in the end, the two of them – together – execute a daring rescue. This is a romantic adventure story that should appeal to the general public as well as to sci-fi fans. The novel has been described by a critic as: “somewhat like ‘Thelma and Louise’, with a generous helping of ‘The Million Dollar Man’, and a little dash of ‘Michael Moore’ added”.

About the Author

Bernhard von Schwerin was born in Germany and emigrated to Canada as a young man. As a hobby, he took up writing, joined a writer’s group and wrote this, his first novel, ‘The Pendant’, a science fiction story that was inspired by his own adventures. Special instruction: Please state the following on the front page of the book, the one that contains all the info such as the ISBN Number “Book cover design by Dagmar von Schwerin” Please state the following remark somewhere on that same page: “All characters and places in this publication are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.” Please put on first empty page “To Dagmar, Dina, and Monica, my daughters” Attached: Copy of the edited version of “The Pendant” Copy of the signed Approval