Depth of Deception by Alexander Galant

The year is 1982, and a beautiful young woman, dressed in Edwardian clothing, is found floating unconscious in the North Atlantic with a 1912 boarding pass to the RMS Titanic.

Over in England, Callum Toughill, an insurance investigator, is assigned the case of a missing brooch that was stolen during a horrific, unsolved murder in 1909 Glasgow. He is chosen because it was his own grandfather who had botched the original investigation. Despite the painful family memory and likelihood that all evidence will be long gone, Callum dives in. As he begins to uncover the tangled truth that the missing brooch may have ended up on the ill-fated RMS Titanic, someone is one step ahead, trying to stop him.

Miraculously the mysterious young woman, nicknamed ‘Myra’ because of the inscription on her locket, survives and awakes in a Manhattan hospital with no memory of who she is. Myra’s vague recollections are from the gilded age of 1912 and she is lost in the alien, harsh world of 1982. A respected and wealthy Titanic survivor named Edward Hoffman assists in exposing her as a fake, but the plan backfires and stirs up more details in Myra’s memory which include the fact that Edward may be her son. Is it a bizarre case of time-travel or an elaborate hoax?

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On April 15, 2012 – the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic – a portion of the net proceeds from that day’s purchase of DEPTH OF DECEPTION, will go to the Titanic Heritage Trust to honour the memory of those who lost their lives 100 years ago. The Titanic Heritage Trust is a registered charitable organization dedicated to preserving the memory and artifacts from Titanic.

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Alexander Galant is a Canadian, residing in Toronto. He was the historical for the novel DRACULA THE UN-DEAD, which was on the New York Times Best Sellers list in October 2009. Alexander also co-wrote the screenplay adaptation that was optioned briefly by Jan de Bont and adapted the novel into a dramatic stage reading for the Toronto book launch of Dracula the Un-Dead, which brought out the highest turnout for any event on the book tour.

Alexander has also written and directed several short films including The “Jigsaw Puzzle”, which won the Festival Buzz Award (most talked-about film) in the New York Independent Film Festival; “First Light”, Winner Bronze Remi Award for Fantasy Horror at the WorldFest Houston, USA, Special Commendation Award at the Festival of Fantastic Films, UK, and Best Technical Achievement from the International Festival of Cinema and Technology; “The Missing Piece”, Winner Silver Remi Award for Suspense Thriller at the WorldFest Houston, USA; and co-wrote and directed “Star Wars: Blasted Behavior”, a finalist in the Atom Films/LucasFilm Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge (George Lucas was one of the judges), which also won the Best Foreign Sci-Fi Film Award at the New York International Film Festival and continues to make the festival circuit this year.