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Vena Morenois a bright, attractive young woman of thirty who finds herself caught betweentwo ancient Egyptand modern Los Angeles. Her leapbetween two vastly different cultures leads to an unthinkable medical crisis.What of an ancient civilizationhas Vena tumbled onto? The village elders in modern-day Egyptknow but they won't tell. And Vena's dogged determination to link someartifacts to the shining Egyptian period of Queen Nefertiti leads her to thebrink of death.Vena survives-barely. The storyexplores an unthinkable medical procedure that grips the imagination. Could itreally happen? No, it must be pure fantasy. And yet-they have done it with monkeys!Dr.Raymond Moody in his book Life AfterLife (Bantam New York, 1976) described the out-of-body experience ofpeople who 'died' and returned. VENA takes the reader through thenear-death experience with vividly authentic description. Was near-deathexperience known 1o the ancients? Could this explain a period of enlightenmentfive-thousand years ago along the Nile River valley?VENAtakes you where you have never been.