The Sequel to Flores Girl, To Hell with Heroes is on the way! Warning possible spoiler!

The adventure continues...

As a typhoon bears down on Flores Island Sarah is forced to return to the states alone, broken-hearted and without her lover Richard. A tragic accident leaves her injured and hospitalized and completely defenseless. As sinister forces learn of her remarkable discovery they begin a systematic torture of her physically and mentally in an effort to learn her secrets.

Just as Sarah reaches the breaking point she begins a psychic withdrawal into her past and begins an odyssey that will take her on an incredible spiritual journey through time as she discovers just who she is and who she is capable of becoming. From her weakness will come strength for Sarah as her adventure continues and she learns of Richard's fate on Irma Flores.

Open letter to Flores Girl Fans from the Author Erik John Bertel

I have to apologize to the fans waiting for the second Flores Girl Novel: To Hell with Heroes with the expectations that the novel would be completed by year’s end—2009 that is. I am still working on the second novel, but I had a little setback that forced me to revisit the first novel. After some thought, and considerable internal debate, I decided to change the tense used in the trilogy. You remember grammatical tense from grade school; you know the old present tense versus past tense. I wrote the first novel in present tense with somewhat inconsistent and mixed results, and this incongruity was heightened during my rewrite of the second novel. The norm is past tense, and I decided to bite the bullet, and literally rewrite the entire first novel to past tense. All I can say is "Ouch!" and every sentence had to be rewritten.

There were good reasons for the present tense with clues to be had in the second novel, but I decided for reasons of readability to change all but a couple of passages in the first novel. It's a better read and the second novel will be much easier to write but what a time killer! I almost finished the rewrite of the first novel and will post it Valentine's Day weekend. Then I can turn my full attention to final rewrite of the second novel. This is not necessarily fair to the readers who want to follow the continued adventures of Sarah and Richard, but the overall result will be a much more satisfying read in the long run. Expect to see the Flores Girl sequel, To Hell with Heroes, by Spring!

Cheers, Erik John Bertel PS If you want to comment on this delay or Flores Girl in general please use the feedback form!