Marsha Olivia Meadows

Jessica's Perception is a fiction story based on truths of her life. set in the 1950's as she grows up in a small country community. It is here she endures ill happenings from an elder Uncle and a father with a heavy hand and rough ways.Growing up on 'The Other Side of The Track' she has to acquire inner strengths of mind power to close out the bantering and chiding of children in her schools. There are also lessons to be learnt of life as she perceives them to be. Not knowing if all events were meant to be received as such, young Jessica grows through these hardships with the aid of her self acquired 'Shroud of Protection' wrapped tightly about her being.Can her dark shroud continue to protect her from the ill ways about her? Will she some day find someone who truly loves her for who she is and not what they want her to do for them? Maybe the day will come when someone will materialise who will show her the world is not saturated with those of beguiling ways.A Knight in white armour, to take her from all is the dream of a small romantic mind. Is there truly such a dream?

Far out in the Canadian prairie provinces, a young boy and his parents are ice fishing when their auger stalls in the lake's frozen surface. They are able get clear but suddenly realize things are much more frightening than they seem under the dark, cold lake...They quickly discover an airplane frozen under the water. The local law enforcement gets involved, and the plane is unearthed. The family witnesses the bodies of the plane's passengers, who had long since perished, a sight that causes young Jason to fall completely silent. Jason finds a red box in the debris from the crash and takes it home, burying it among his childhood treasures. And this is only the beginning.As the secrets behind the plane crash and its implications are revealed, you'll delve deeper and deeper into this dark, twisted thriller from the mind of Marsha Olivia Meadows. And as you follow Jason, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the military's mysterious Shielding Humanity Against Deadly Enemies (SHADE) division, you'll begin to piece together the haunting and classified truths behind Dark Cold Ice...

The final installment of the trilogy of Jessica, Jessica's Attainment is an inspiring tale of self-discovery and growth.Jessica, her husband, Allen, and their son, Mason, have temporarily moved in with yet another relative, Allen's uncle Luke, until they can find a new home. Jessica has come to realize that despite her romantic notions, her husband is far from the knight in shining armor that she believed he was. Her shroud of darkness is her only defense against his cruel treatment, but she feels she has to stay, to make things work. It is only fair to Mason, who needs to have both a mother and a father.However, concerns for both her and Mason's health, as well as a sudden change in the family's financial dynamic that lasts for years and years, start to erode her patience with Allen and his unkind ways. After two perspective-changing conversations, Jessica decides to let the shroud fall away.Without it, can she rely on her own strength to get through her life with Allen?

Jessica has finally moved far away from her abusive home and the bullies who tormented her in high school. Now, after graduation, Jessica is hoping for a happy ending-and in college, she believes she's found the man who will give her the love and caring she's always dreamed of.But when her fantasy of a "knight in shining armor" becomes reality, Jessica quickly learns that life isn't like the fairy tales. When her "knight" begins to reveal he's a much different person than she first met, Jessica struggles to keep faith in him, hoping to save the sad and damaged soul she sees hidden deep inside.This second novel in Marsha Olivia Meadows's young adult trilogy, Jessica Awakens continues the story of Jessica's struggling emergence into womanhood, as she faces new brutal life lessons and works to leave behind her dark and difficult past once and for all, in exchange for a brighter future. While setting aside the childish perceptions that have always driven her, Jessica learns the power of her own inner strength-and never strays too far from her true self, despite all that she has been through.