Ancient North American civilizations explored in novel from Utah author

"The Mounds Anomaly” by Phyllis Gunderson takes a look at evidence of ancient civilizations in North America.

“The Mounds Anomaly” correlates with the TV series “America Unearthed,” which reexamines evidence of these ancient societies.

The novel is the third from Gunderson, who poses additional questions and answers to the mysteries about these ancient civilizations, including:

·      Were 20,000 artifacts from prehistoric civilizations found in the Michigan mounds?
·      Does a cave in Illinois contain tombs from ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome, Phoenicia, and Israel?
·      Are there hundreds of rock carvings that depict scenes from the Old and New Testaments?
·      How do Catholics, Mormons, and the Smithsonian Institute connect to the puzzle?

“The Mounds Anomaly” offers fact-based fiction with controversial ideas tucked into an adventure. When the heroine, Matt Howard, finds a gold coin engraved with a cryptic symbol, her life unravels. She should have put the coin in a shoebox under her bed, but Matt can’t leave it alone. The symbol guides her to the Michigan Mounds, which lead to a Smithsonian cover-up. With her teaching job in jeopardy and her ten-year-old adopted daughter in tow, Matt finds herself on a hazardous hunt to uncover forbidden history.

"The Mounds Anomaly" is available for $5.99 on Amazon.

About the author  

     Phyllis Gunderson’s interests are unsolved mysteries and offbeat archaeology. Her novels are set in the real world. Opportunities to study abroad have taken her to India, Thailand, Cambodia, Belize, Egypt, and China. Provo, Utah is her home, where eight grown children and thirty-six grandchildren keep her heart happy. Her other published books include “The Jaguar Prophecies,” “The Lights of Mahonri Moriancumer,” and “Wrinkled Missionaries.”