Beyond (Beyond)
Release date: November 25th 2013
Summary from Goodreads:
Sixteen-year-old Raven desperately wants to fit in, but after using a Ouija Board, her already overwhelming hallucinations take a turn for the worse. A ghostly figure named Sam begins to haunt Raven and seems eager to kill her.
She’s saved by a reclusive biker named Damian who goes to the same school and appears to have an interest in her. Raven can’t help but feel drawn to him. Determined to uncover Damian’s connection to the ghost, Raven sets out to discover his secret and the reason Sam started haunting her. However, there’s more at stake than just her reputation. Raven’s choice between unveiling Damian’s true intentions, and living a normal life will put everyone she cares about at risk. To save them, she'll have to go beyond.
Lives are ruined.
Hearts are shattered.
Death lurks at every corner.
Sixteen-year-old Raven desperately wants to fit in, but after using a Ouija Board, her already overwhelming hallucinations take a turn for the worse. A ghostly figure named Sam begins to haunt Raven and seems eager to kill her.
She’s saved by a reclusive biker named Damian who goes to the same school and appears to have an interest in her. Raven can’t help but feel drawn to him. Determined to uncover Damian’s connection to the ghost, Raven sets out to discover his secret and the reason Sam started haunting her. However, there’s more at stake than just her reputation. Raven’s choice between unveiling Damian’s true intentions, and living a normal life will put everyone she cares about at risk. To save them, she'll have to go beyond.
Lives are ruined.
Hearts are shattered.
Death lurks at every corner.
Excerpt:
The car drives fast.
My fingers move across the window in an attempt to draw on it, but
the air inside isn’t humid enough. I look outside and watch the
willows and poplars flash by like they were never there. Large
meadows surround the road, separated by ditches. I think there are
cows standing in the grass, but I’m not sure, as the car is going
too fast. There isn’t a house nearby. This place feels abandoned,
like I’m in the middle of nowhere.
In my head a voice
constantly chants, “You
are Raven Stone.”
Repeatedly, things
are whispered into my ears. I don’t understand any of it, but it
feels trustworthy. With my hands I go over a device on top of my head
which presses against my ears.
“Don’t touch
that!” yells the woman in the front seat. My mom. Her voice sounds
hushed because of the device that’s clamping my head, but I can
tell by her tone she’s serious.
I look at my mom and
follow the sweat that drips from her cheeks onto her mouth and her
teeth biting her lip. Sometimes the steering wheel is jerked from one
side to the other, while the car seems to accelerate.
Indifferent, I look
out the other window across my seat. Next to us is another car. In
the back is a boy that looks at me with remarkable, hazelnut eyes.
All of the sudden
the car next to ours flings about aimlessly. It drives from right to
left and smashes into a car coming from the other side. The noise is
deafening. With my eyes wide open I see the boy tumble around inside
the car, as the vehicle makes a cartwheel across the road.
“You are Raven
Stone.”
***
I’m jerked out of
my sleep, clammy from all the sweat. Sighing, I rub my face. I’m
worn down because of the nightmare. Even though I’ve had this
nightmare so many times, I still get chilled to the bone.
Why do I keep
having this same bad dream? It all seems so real.
I sit on the edge of
my bed to calm myself. I have this dream at least three times a week.
It always feels so realistic. My mom used to come to me whenever she
heard me screaming when I just had the nightmare. She always found it
hard to comfort me, so she just brought me a warm cup of milk.
I blink a few times
to take in my surroundings and to assure myself I’m in my room.
Every time I have to tell myself I’m not in that car. I’m just
home, in my bed. I’m not in that car, and I’m not witnessing the
death of the young boy.
Then my cabinet
moves.
Stunned, I look at
the piece of furniture. Did that just happen, or was it another
fantasy? I’ve just woken up, so it’s not strange to see things
that aren’t real. Right? All of a sudden something appears from
behind the cabinet. Black smog is coming through the walls. A black
ghost seeps like water through the wall, and then the cabinet and
reveals its true form. A human. And he’s staring at me with the
same wretched smile as he did yesterday when he moved the Ouija
board.
This has to be
another illusion.
Sam flies to my
door, and something invisible latches onto him. He wriggles in
mid-air, unable to move forward. I watch in horror as the smoky
shadow turns about in his invisible prison.
Another entity
drifts through the wall.
This one is much
faster and blue, and moves with flexibility through my room. He looks
human. This is unbelievable, unimaginable and insane.
I can’t comprehend
what’s happening. The blue ghost follows the black ghost, who’s
still wriggling around. Then he breaks loose from his invisible
prison, and his arms go toward the door. The blue entity comes closer
and looks as though he’s pursuing the black one.
I watch as Sam flees
through my door, just before the blue ghost captures him. Sam’s
gone. The blue ghost is too late.
The blue entity
turns around to look at me.
His body is
transparent, accompanied by smoke. His face is unrecognizable, but he
has human traits. My desk and the paintings on the wall are visible
right through him. Motionless and with my teeth clenched, I stare
back at him.
I can’t believe
what I’m seeing. This
has to be another ridiculous hallucination.
He stands frozen in
my room. Even his eyes are translucent, but they’re there, because
they have a lighter color than the rest of his body. It’s as if
he’s wearing clothes, but only the soft outlines are visible. His
body looks like it consists of a million little stars that glisten as
he moves. He reminds me of a reflection of the cosmos.
This ghost isn’t
like the others. This one seems more like a real human and less like
a horrifying shade. He glows, just like the others, but I sense
something that can be trusted in his aura. His body radiates warmth
and power, and it doesn’t strike me with fear. What
is he?
Then the mysterious
stranger leaves just as quick as he came.
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About the
Author
I am a writer
and reader of YA Paranormal Romance novels and aspire to be a well known
author. I love reading the same genre, as well as Dystopian and an occasional
fantasy book. In my spare time, when I'm not reading books, I like to play
games such as RPG's.
I have a bachelor in Digital Communication and enjoy pretty much anything that
has to do with technology :)
BEYOND will be published on November 25th 2013. I'm currently available for
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