HEAVEN SCENT

About the Book

Gretchen, an ordinary housewife, out for a night on the town with her husband, Harley Dandrich, runs into unusual problems. The couple meets Professor Ipswitch having a drink in a local pub. The professor asks Gretchen if she would like to participate in his new invention—a new potion he assured her worked wonders on the white rats in his laboratory at the university. He believes his serum ready for further testing on humans, explaining to her that the potion would extend youth in young women—lasting well into their eighties—a youth serum he calls Resurrection.
When Gretchen reneges on his proposal, he sneaks a few drops into her glass. Not noticing any difference in taste, she drinks the wine. Later that evening, feeling a trifle woozy, she leaves the pub and crawls into the back seat of Harley’s Daimler. Hours later, she feels someone, or something, tugging at what she believes to be her bed covers but awakens to find her entire world turned topsy-turvy. Cat eyes surround her, and when she checks her own situation, she is surprised to find herself no longer a person, but a beautiful white Persian cat.
The motley array of felines who surround her claim they rescued her from a fate worse than death. Accepting her altered state, Gretchen and her new feline friends embark on a mission to determine how her transformation occurred. Now able to converse with cats, as well as understanding humanoids, as her new friends call them, she enlists their help to search for answers. Their search for an antidote to Gretchen’s metamorphosis takes them into situations and scenes she has no desire to witness, but her adventures develop within her a strong sensibility to the wisdom of the feline race.

About the Author

J. K. Maxwell started life in Rapid City, South Dakota, the second child of an English mother and an American father. A late-in-life graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso, majoring in business and education, she began writing in her spare time. Semi-retired since 1993, she teaches Creative Writing to other retired seniors, a class sponsored by the local community college, and spends her time writing novels, her favorite pastime. She lives alone with her cat— Max, her latest feline. Max, along with previous felines acquired during her lifetime, serve as role models for her cat fantasies. Her first novel, Then There’s Murder, is of an entirely different venue and investigates the effects of a rising drug culture on a sleepy village town along the Texas-Mexico border. The book can be ordered from Xlibris on the Internet, or from most bookstores.