Briefe Einer Polnischen Dame, 1840-1846 (1846)

Persistence of Vision chronicles the story of Erin Conway, a twenty-year-old UCLA graduate. She leaves the surf and eternal sunshine of her Malibu home to accept a full-ride graduate international relations fellowship at Oxford. Having been abandoned by her playboy father and essentially orphaned by the early death of her mother, Erin discovers her true heritage when she is critically injured in a terrorist nightclub bombing in London. Being forced to rely upon a father she neither knows nor wants, her noble birth and awakening of latent telepathic talents thrust her squarely into international politics and intrigue. As Erin learns to use her gifts, her growing power and forbidden love for her instructor place her life in danger and set her on a course of confrontation with the millennia-old council that governs her race–the Guardians of mankind.