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The Sleeper
Query
In the mountain town of Golden, Colorado there is a folklore called The Sleeper. It is a mischievous entity that was conjured by seven magicians using seven sigils on seven stones. Once conjured it left a path of death and destruction in its wake. The magicians tried to banish it, but could only put it to sleep. Now the entity awaits another… Nichelle Rodriguez is about to graduate from Golden University and start her dream life in New York at one of the finest art schools. All she has to do is get the hell away from her family, deal with her mental illness and say goodbye to her best friend Jack who has taken a job in California. Then she begins to have visions of the seven sigils and seven stones. According to local legend, the Sleeper is calling out to Nichelle. At first, she ignores it, but after an unexpected tragedy, the call is answered and the Sleeper appears. She names it Lucy, and it gives her the ability to hurt people with a simple sketch. Nichelle draws a bully’s hand crushed by a door and moments later their fingers are broken. The power is real and so very addicting, but she can control it and Lucy, right? Navigating adulthood while dealing with change, rage and grief was never easy, but adding an entity hell bent on destruction only makes it worse when Lucy begins to take over Nichelle’s body and hurts innocent people. Now she must figure out how to get rid of Lucy before things go too far, but can she do it before the entity hurts the one she loves? The SLEEPER¸ is a New Adult story that blends the Exorcist and Final Destination with a touch of the television show Euphoria. It is an 80k word supernatural horror/suspense that delves into the themes of faith, family, friendship, pain and mental illness. Readers who enjoyed Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi, The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade, and Maeve Fly by CJ Leede will enjoy the wild and humorous story of The Sleeper.
Synopsis
In the mountain town of Golden, Colorado there is a folklore called The Sleeper. It is a mischievous entity that was conjured by seven magicians using seven sigils on seven stones in the 1800s. Once conjured, they couldn’t banish it, only trap it. Now the Sleeper awaits another. Nichelle Rodriguez is in her last year at Golden University and all she wants is to get to New York to attend one of the finest art schools, deal with her mental illness and say goodbye to her best friend Jack who is moving to California. Then she begins to have visions of the seven sigils and stones. She believes it is a hallucination, Jack believes she is being called by the Sleeper. He convinces her to go camping where the entity was first conjured. When she returns home, Nichelle answers the Sleeper’s call. It appears and promises to help her through her grief after Jack dies in an accident at the campsite. How? By giving her the ability to hurt the people that caused the accident. All she has to do is draw what she wants to happen. The next day she draws one of the bully’s hands crushed by a door. Moments later their fingers are broken. But Lucy wants more destruction, more pain. She begins to take over Nichelle’s body while she sleeps and draws the death of Nichelle’s neighbor Una, a wild party girl who suspects what Nichelle is doing to people. By the time Nichelle figures it out it is too late. Una is dead. Now Nichelle must find a way to get rid of Lucy before she kills more innocent people, but a curious cop witnesses her power and, in utter fear, ends Nichelle’s human life with a bullet. Lucy and Nichelle become one and are trapped in a cave. Filled with anger, regret, rage and guilt, they await another who will set them free.
She Who Brings Gifts
Query
In the Wolof and Swahili dialects of Africa, her name means fire. Maybe that’s why Safara keeps setting her life ablaze. You’d think a dreamwalking doctor would have an edge, but Safara hasn’t used her supernatural ability since her stint with Doctors Without Borders in Argentina. She was fired from that job too. That’s why she was working at Denver General. Until today. Safara’s not surprised. All she knows is disappointment and pain. Then her grandmother dies. She returns home for a wake, but home isn’t home anymore. A militant force patrols the town, mesmerized residents are gathering in the square, a real estate agent is buying up land, and a self-harm epidemic is claiming numerous lives. To help save the town, Safara will have to find the connection between a family secret, a black bird with a scarred left eye, her mother’s past disappearance, and a woman known only as She Who Brings Gifts. SHE WHO BRINGS GIFTS is a 90,000-word Supernatural Thriller that takes us into the past to understand the consequences it has in the present.
Synopsis
Dr. Safara Ceaser is a dream walker, always has been, but she’s also a doctor damn it and strictly adheres to empirical evidence. Yet she’s having visions again. According to her dying grandmother, they are a warning: “Hell is coming and it’s looking for you.” Safara returns home to Timnath Pines for the funeral and finds, as usual, her grandmother was right. Hell is coming in the form of a self-harm epidemic that is ravaging the town and leaving petrified corpses in its wake. Safara is grieving, but the loss of her grandmother has brought memories of the mother that abandoned her, so she jumps on the distraction and vows to find a cure. She learns that the epidemic originated from the cabin of the ever-mysterious Mason Ferris, a Marine vet with theories of a shadow woman that has come to town. Safara thinks it’s a fairytale but believes she can gather samples from the cabin and find a cure for the epidemic before Mason, and others die. Then she comes face to face with the shadow woman. It is her mother possessed by an ancestor named Camea who is feeding the souls of Timnath Pines to a demoness named Ammit. There is only one way to stop her, and all the deaths: A secret, lost to the pages of time. If she can find it, Safara can conjure Tormentors to feed off Camea’s guilt and destroy what’s left of her soul. Safara dreamwalks into Camea’s dark memories, and becomes trapped, but Safara’s mother, still alive in Camea’s mind, helps her daughter escape. Safara regroups with her family and friends to prepare for the final battle in the town square where Camea has gathered people for a mass feed. Her friends and family exorcise Ammit using spells and potions handed down from their grandmother. Then Safara invades Camea’s weakened mind and reveals the woman’s darkest secret; the child she sacrificed to gain Ammit’s favor. Camea is devoured by the Tormentors and Safara saves the town and her mother.