The Green Ray of the Sun

Ryland Taggart-college freshman, lesbian, and Star Trek aficionado-just wanted the free trip to Italy, courtesy of her dangerously impractical botany professor. But when their research on a Tuscan farm finds an inexplicable disease killing off the crops, Ryland gets something she absolutely didn't want: nightly dreams starring the ghost of the 19th-century Tuscan bandit-king, Domenico Tiburzi, pleading with her to save the land. "You must follow the green ray," he implores. When she is given an 1883 edition of Jules Verne's The Green Ray, accompanied by a photo of a mysterious, unnamed woman, Ryland takes up Tiburzi's challenge. She embarks on a cross-European odyssey to uncover a tragic love story buried since the last days of World War II, and in the process, find out how the farm's destiny is entwined with her own. This is the first prose/music production from The Pork Chop Express (www.theporkchopexpress.com). Included at no extra charge with this book is a full original music soundtrack. Instructions on how to download the album are located at the very end of the book.