As a Mystical Author, Anita Merrick is a 3rd generation psychic, retired and living in a wooded area of Erin, NY with her husband, Timothy, and furry children—a West Highland White Terrier, Storm; a Scottish Terrier, Argyle and an old Cavalier King Charles/Westie, Whisper. She is retired from 39 years as a secretary and now serves spirit as Crystal Wind, a Psychic Intuitive, Tarot Reader and Medium and an ordained priestess in the Order of Melchizedek. She holds certification as a Tarot Master from the Tarot Certification Board of America. Prior to 1991, she performed as Nehebka, a semi-professional Oriental (belly) dancer, as well as raising, training and showing Appaloosa horses. Nowadays, her focus is on working psychic fairs and doing readings for clients over the telephone AND especially, fulfilling a long-time dream as a writer. A BITTER WIND, Time Entanglement, a first novel comes from her live-long love of Egypt, its mythology, ancient mysteries and magic (heka/Akhu) and everything about its culture then and now. This began when she started belly dancing in 1999, taking a first trip to Egypt where she performed at the Winter Palace of Luxor and on the Cruise Ship. She married her 2nd husband, July 6, 1996 and in 1997 went back to Egypt, focusing less on dancers and more on the paranormal, supernatural and metaphysical aspects of Egypt; in 2007, after a synchronistic connection with Nicki Scully's Shamanic Journeys, returned to Egypt on a trip that included Tarot classes with Mary K. Greer and writing the experiences/impressions with Normandi Ellis. Then, in 2011 (1 week after the first Revolution against Mubarak), she returned on the 4th trip to deepen understanding and intuitive expansion/development -- and there, experienced the temple of Khnum in Esna, which offered channeled information and inspiration from the spirits that further connected her to the mysteries of Egypt—and from that journey came the story that became the first of a 3-book series (still in progress) (A Bitter Wind - trilogy). To express these last years of psychic development, Egyptian mystical experiences and describe the resultant focus of her life on writing . . . "Like a portal opened into the ancient past, the spirits spoke and their stories became this the words within A Bitter Wind . . . "

“A supernatural fantasy impressive for its subtlety and Egyptian research.”
– Kirkus Reviews