Cassandra's Curse: A Seven Fires Mystery

by Jason Willis

Eleven years after Ansel Nielson discovered the secrets of the lake the Dakota called “Place of Souls,” the spirits of Lake Wanagiyata seek another clairvoyant blessed with the ability to see the supernatural world, and they find one in honor student Becca Thompson. However, when the dead begin contacting the pragmatic teenager, Becca attempts to deny the reality of these encounters. But when Becca begins dreaming of Summer Lentz, who’d inexplicably vanished months earlier, the synchronicity of their two lives becomes apparent. Will Becca allow herself to believe the spirits contacting her…or will she fall victim to the same fate that befell Summer Lentz?


Part murder-mystery and part supernatural-thriller, the Seven Fires Chronicles takes the reader on a spiritual and temporal journey from the remote logging town of Split Rock, Minnesota to the battlefields of Vietnam, and even to the rocky shores of thirteenth-century Nova Scotia. While each novel features a modern protagonist dealing with issues affecting the present, the reader will learn along with the characters that there is an even greater mystery surrounding the pristine Lake Wanagiyata, which the Dakota called ‘Place of Souls.‘


Framed by the ancient Anishinaabe prophecies of The Seven Fires, each of the seven novels sheds more light into ancient events that are not yet done shaping the present and future.
One of the unique features of The Seven Fires Chronicles is the concept of ‘Synchronicity,’ dubbed by philosopher Carl Jung. Synchronicity basically tries to show the connection between two seemingly unrelated events. In the series, characters ranging from devout Christians to sophisticated atheists begin to realize that their lives are intricately connected, and sometimes, not even death can break those connections.


So rather than telling the story in a traditional, chronologically-ordered narrative, The Seven Fire Chronicles jump back and forth in time in order to show that Good and Evil sometimes change depending on a character’s perspective.

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First published August 9, 2011

About the author

Jason Lee Willis is the author of The Alchemist's Map, best described as 'a Bilbo Baggins character who goes on an Indiana Jones adventure in 19th century Minnesota', as well as several other self-published novels. He has also produced two nonfiction works on Christian Bible studies. As a creative writing instructor, he and his students have produced two volumes of short stories, Tales from the Haunted Valley, as a fundraiser for the writing program. As a professional storyteller (isn’t that what English teachers do?), he’s done historical lectures and video series, book talks, radio segments, podcasts, and recently submitted a short story in Rhonda Gilliland’s “foodie” anthology, Cooked to Death.

Willis grew up in South Dakota and currently lives in Minnesota, where he lives the life of a hobbit by gardening, writing, walking around barefoot, wearing vests, fishing, and going on adventures with his wife, Julie.