Nine years after Percy's father disappeared at the time of the great Techno-Crash, her quiet life with her mother is shaken when she receives a birthday gift from him.
Though her mother distrusts technology, Percy loves her new electronic journal. She names it the "Pomegranate" but is frustrated by its missing password. On the advice of her friend Jessie, she seeks help from the instructor of an underground computer class.
Mr. Hayden replaces the journal's program, and it works but something is still wrong. Its guide dog, Byte is asking a lot of questions about Percy's family, and he knows things that Percy has never revealed to anyone.
When Mr. Hayden locks her in the basement of an old technology building, she uses skill and ingenuity to escape.
Then she contacts her father with the Pomegranate, and Mr. Hayden is captured.
As her family reunites, Percy realizes that they will need to live with a careful balance that supports her mother's ideals for a living planet and her father's commitment to the development of technology.
...And that is also a necessary balancing act for our own time in history.
Pomegranate is the second of Lynda's "Agent C Series" to be published as a paperback. The "C" stands for "catalyst", something that causes drastic changes and moves the plot of a story forward. Agent C is a little man who appears in each of the series' books to present a special object, the catalyst, to the main character. In Pomegranate, he appears as the deliveryman who brings Percy her gift.
About the Author: As a child growing up in cozy little town on the Missouri River of South Dakota, Lynda explored her early passion for writing and art by creating stories and poems. She even attempted one novel on theme paper and kept it carefully hidden on a high dusty shelf in her bedroom.
A resident of Arizona for many years now, she lives with her husband and their black and white cat, Topper. Two grown-up daughters have homes and families of their own in other places.
With two degrees in Elementary Ed, Lynda loved teaching in grades 1,2,3,4, and 5 of public schools for twenty-one years. Even after retirement she continued to work with students in a reading intervention program.
...And throughout her adult life she wrote, painted, and revised her stories. At last, she began to realize that she owned a desk full of ideas, problems, and children who lived only in her imagination.
Finally, Lynda decided that books without readers were a waste of her joy and inspiration!
She has now published eight of her stories as eBooks for Kindle and other electronic devices. Three of these are also available in paperback.
Lynda hopes to publish the other five in the near future.
