Gillian McDaniel has wealth, owns a successful advertising agency and a mansion in La Jolla, California -- everything except a love life. And now she's received devastating news: she's been diagnosed with a fatal form of ALS and will be dead within six months.
While watching a daytime talk show featuring a channeler who mentions 'mind diving' one's consciousness into the body of someone in past, Gillian feels a flicker of hope, despite the outlandish concept. She is desperate and willing to try anything, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, if nothing more than to keep her mind off her fate.
Gillian learns that the channeler, Audrey Maher, owns a store filled with new age items in Sedona, Arizona. She meets with the reluctant woman, but manages to convince her to help Gillian journey to the past using an 18th century battersea box as a guide to the beautiful young girl depicted on the tiny box.
Unfortunately, an internet search reveals that the young girl and her lover are destined to be executed for the murder of the girl's husband, an earl. Gillian decides to go ahead with the mind dive despite the dire news. She tells Audrey that dying a quick death by hanging at Tyburn Tree would be preferable to dying a slow debilitating death in this time.
But there's a chance that she might also be able to save a man's life, as well as her own. Gillian is betting on the latter, because time is running out for both of them.
"I don't trust your people."
"I'm not asking you to trust them. I'm asking you to trust me."
◇Highest Rank: #2 in Journey, #8 in StrongFemaleLead, #11 in Adventure, #24 in Dystopian◇
Sydney Donovan.
An 18 year old soldier in training.
From Galdon, Eastern Region.
Trouble in her homeland forces her to leave home and venture west. Can she survive long enough to clear her name and return home? Or will she die in the strange land she's been driven into?
Casey Graham.
A 20 year old hunter.
From LeHorn, Western Region.
Hungry to avenge the death of a loved one, he follows the only lead he has. But, it requires him to join forces with the enemy. Will he be able to put his reservations down long enough to find justice? Or will he ultimately fail?
Neither was expecting the turn of events that would lead them across the treacherous mountains that separated their homes.
Shadows Peak.
When life, death, and justice hang in the balance, will they be able to survive the battles ahead?
Read "Shadows Peak" to find out.
*1st Place in Action/Adventure (The Albina Awards)
*1st Place in General Fiction (The Tattoo Awards)
*1st Place in Action/Adventure (The Rose Awards 2017)
*1st Place in Action/Adventure (World of Champions Awards 2018)
*2nd Place in General Fiction (The Polaroid Awards Winter 2017/2018)
First published: Oct. 2, 2017
Cover made by me.