For years you have seen the headlines of tabloids in the supermarket with titles such as “World Coming To An End” or “Nostradamus Says World Will End In 2000,” but is there any real truth to these accusations?  Well, the ones that said the world would end in 2000 obviously were wrong since mankind is still here, but there is some truth to the notion the world will end in 2012.  Skulls of Salvation, a novel written by Lanaia Lee goes into some pretty heavy detail about the proposed coming of time.

This topic has been on the minds of many around the world after September 11th, when terrorists attacked New York City, taking down the trade centers.  That tragedy brought forth a great attack of retaliation on any and all supporters of what had happened during 9/11.  It brought forth the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; some declaring it a holy war and some calling it armageddon.  Since 2001, the world has been swept into a worldwide economic crisis as just about every country’s economy was about to fall, and the pandemics of the swine flu (H1N1) and the bird flu swept the nations.  Then, during the past American election and how he talked, many believe that Obama who won the election in 2008, is none other than the anti-Christ himself as he promises peace among men, and wants a one world order.

Topics like this have brought up much commotion about the coming of time, and most recently the Myan calendar which ends in 2012, ironically the same year Obama will either be re-elected or voted out of office.  This Myan calendar, combined with historical and scientific evidence, is the basis of Lanaia Lee’s novel where man kind must defeat the coming of the end of time by following the ancient prophecy that the Myans set forth.

Her novel, Skulls of Salvation, is a novel of both fictional and non-fictional content combined into one epic struggle for life. Lee chose this subject for her book because it’s something that has always fascinated her.  Wondering if there was any truth to this legend, she found that in 2012 there will be a once in a lifetime planetary alignment that may cause some severe problems for mankind. What that is right now, nobody really knows; it could be as lame as Y2K was in 1999.  Raised by her grandmother, a proclaimed “black witch,” she was surrounded by the cult and paranormal which seems to be the topic of choice in her novels, and continues for Skulls of Salvation.

Lee’s personal history of enduring severe tragedy, heartbreak, and many other challenges have led to her becoming a strong human being. This combination allowed her to take a bold step and write about a very controversial topic that will leave some shaking their heads in disbelief and some running for cover.  It takes a strong writer to convey the message and withstand the naysayers that will be sure to follow once her book is released, and Lee is willing to defend her belief head on.

Skulls of Salvation has received some great reviews from many noteworthy and trustworthy sources, guaranteeing this novel a must read publication.  It also happens to be Lee’s favorite novel that she’s written to date, but she stresses you must read the first novel in the series, since this is the second volume and continues with the happenings of volume one.  And if you like the first and second volume of the series, you’ll be pleased to know that there are more novels on the way.

Currently, Skulls of Salvation is released and can be purchased through the Barnes and Noble book chain, and any online bookstore including Amazon.com.

Lanaia Lee’s Personal Story

Lanaia Lee was born in 1957 to a Navy father and a schoolteacher mother who home schooled her. In second grade, Lanaia was reading on a 4th grade level, so her parents moved her to a private school to enhance her education. When she was nine-years-old, her mother died from a massive stroke. Because Lanaia’s father was rarely home, her grandmother who was a professed black witch, gained custody.

When Lanaia was fourteen, her grandmother abandoned her and she landed in foster care where she had four different sets of foster parents within a year, because she kept running away to avoid men who attempted to molest her. At age fifteen, she went to boarding school on her dad’s GI Bill. She graduated in her junior year after which she drifted, living with various people with neither a family nor a home. At eighteen, she married and divorced having had three miscarriages. By nineteen, she began working in management for convenient stores and restaurant chains.

She remarried at age thirty, then had a stillborn daughter a year later. Five years after her loss, her husband left her for a seventeen-year-old. She filed bankruptcy, and one month later suffered a massive stroke, which, after seven months in the hospital, put her in a wheelchair.

The next two years involved intensive physical therapy, but she would never walk again. She took the step of finding work to help her rehabilitation. She found employment at vocational trades where she met her soulmate, David, also in a wheelchair from a motorcycle wreck he sustained in 1984. They married in 1992 and are still very happy. David and Lanaia lost two children due to her disease, erratic hypertension. Lanaia and her husband live independently, and she still drives.

In 2001, David dared Lanaia to write a poem. Out of curiosity, she posted it in an online poetry forum. The feedback was so positive, she kept writing. At first, she wrote just poems, then short stories and finally novels. All of her work is typed one-handed because of her disabilities. Lanaia gives credit to the grace of God, which has helped her overcome immense adversity. This inspirational and talented author holds her head high, and she claims she won’t quit until she hits the bestseller list.