Press Release: UFOs, Alien Abductions - A new novel, The Taking, explores the question - Are we alone?
JANUARY 2025
A girl besieged by strange events, a mysterious disappearance, UFOs, alien encounters, and coming to terms with difficult truths. These are the foundational conflicts that make The Taking (Roundfire Books, January 1, 2025, Paperback; IBSN: 978-1-80341-550-5; $16.95) by Dona Masi a chilling paranormal novel that is both suspenseful and thought-provoking. Masi skillfully crafts suspenseful scenes in which the strain and tension felt by the characters threatens to boil over, if not for the father and daughter living unaware of what is really happening to her.
All the while the author poses a fundamental question: How would it affect a person to be a victim of alien abductions? How would it affect you if someone you loved was abducted?
John and his daughter, Vera, grieve the loss of Vera’s mother, who mysteriously disappeared when Vera was a baby. As John struggles to raise his troubled daughter, he dismisses connections between his wife’s disappearance and Vera’s bizarre dreams of otherworldly creatures. But when he finds Vera unconscious, lying in a ring of scorched trees, he begins to believe that a mysterious outside force is controlling her fate and his.
The Taking is a suspenseful story depicting a loving but difficult relationship between a father and daughter, amid the strange events that underlie their everyday life in a small New England town.
Dona Masi has had a lifelong interest in UFOs and the search for other intelligent life in the universe. She has extensive knowledge of many cases of UFO sightings and alien abductions, and she has written a research article about UFO folklore. Her novel The Taking was inspired by stories and reports of UFO sightings and alien encounters.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dona Masi is a writer and editor, whose short fiction and articles are used in reading and writing assessments throughout the United States. Her articles about the arts, environment, and current affairs have appeared in Foster’s Daily Democrat and Seacoast Newspapers. She is also a playwright, and two of her plays were performed at the Provincetown Theater Company.
Masi has been a guest on many popular podcasts and radio shows, including Paranormal Perception, The Jeff Mara Podcast, Destination Unlimited Radio Show, Un-X Network, and Rep Paranormal and Friends Podcast.
With a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Vermont College, she earned her M.A. in Liberal Studies from the University of New Hampshire. The Taking is her debut novel.
The Taking
A novel by Dona Masi
Roundfire Books
Publication Date: January 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80341-550-5
Original Trade Paperback
Price: $16.95 | Pages: 264