Visions of Anna — Richard Engling

Anna believed she'd come to know the spirits that inhabited these arid lands. Was it delusion? Mental illness? Or had she actually known something about what awaited her on the other side of death? 

VISIONS OF ANNA is a story of love that survives beyond the grave. Novelist Matthew Harken journeys to discover what drove his dearest friend to suicide. He confronts otherworldly spirits and reconnects with the past, starting with his and Anna's exciting rise as young writers in Paris. 

Anna believed her life-long psychic pain arose from sexual abuse as a child. With shaman Tony Cappelli, Matthew performs a ceremony to free Anna's soul of parasitic spirits. In the depths of the ritual, the serpent-demon that poisoned Anna's life appears. 

VISIONS OF ANNA is a literary novel with elements of contemporary American magic realism. It explores themes similar to those in the books of such authors as Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Carlos Castaneda, John Crowley, Hermann Hesse, Tony Hillerman, Robert M. Pirsig, Lily Tuck, and Alice Walker.