Book Title: Sliding Beneath the Surface (Book 1)
The St. Augustine Trilogy
Author: Doug Dillon
Release Date: August 24,
2011
Print Length: 166 Pages
Genre: YA Paranormal
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS
In old St. Augustine, Florida,
fifteen-year-old Jeff Golden’s recurring dream of being stabbed in the chest
and bleeding all over his bed is driving him crazy. It’s causing him to lose
sleep and giving him severe headaches. When his psychically gifted friend Carla
and an ornery Native American shaman named Lobo try to help, Jeff is inundated
with terrifying paranormal experiences.
Reaching out of Florida’s distant
past, something increasingly entangles Jeff in tentacles of danger that
threaten his sanity and eventually his life. But the harder he tries to
understand, the deeper he gets. When comprehension finally dawns though, time
has almost run out. Lobo does his best to prepare Jeff for what he must face in
order to survive but it may be too little and too late.
It’s at
this point that both Jeff and Carla find themselves swept headlong into an
alternative reality from which they may never return. If they don’t quickly and
fully adapt to this situation, all hope is lost. From Lobo they know how it
might be possible to change what is happening but the question is, can they?
Repeatedly, Lobo has told both teens, “You create your own reality whether in
this world or in another.” If acted upon properly, that advice just might save
their lives and end suffering on an even wider scale.
BLURB
A new resident of America's oldest
and most haunted city, St. Augustine, Florida, fifteen-year-old Jeff Golden
suddenly finds himself up to his eyeballs in frightening paranormal
experiences. At the end of his rope in trying to figure out what is happening
to him, Jeff decides to rely on his friend Carla Rodriguez, and Lobo, an old
Native American shaman, for help.
Despite this guidance, things get
even worse. Jeff's spine tingling encounters increase in number and intensity
at an alarming rate, scaring him even more. Eventually, he makes the startling
discovery that unresolved circumstances involving a bloody event directly out
of Florida's distant past threatens his sanity and possibly his life.
Finally, overwhelmed by forces he
cannot understand or control, Jeff's world shifts from frightening to downright
terrifying. In desperation, and on Lobo's advice, he leaps headlong into the
unknown in order to save himself. What Jeff discovers though is that he has
entered a level of reality he is completely unprepared to handle while
unwittingly dragging Carla with him.
Like all the books in THE ST.
AUGUSTINE TRILOGY, the premise for Sliding Beneath the Surface is simply this:
You create your own reality.
EXCERPT ONE
With a final laugh, Carla coughed, caught her breath, and
said, “That alarm system is Lobo‘s way of scaring off unwanted visitors without
actually having to use real dogs. So, are you finally ready to meet him?”
“Anything to get away from you letting me get attacked by
wild dogs,” I said, trying to sound serious, even though I realized I probably
had looked pretty silly.
“Oh poor baby,” Carla said with one of her sly, sexy smiles.
God she looks so good when she smiles. I mean she looks good
all the time, but her smiles are something else, like a flash of warm sunshine.
Ruining the moment, the screech of a power saw sliced the air for a short time
and stopped. It sounded like it came from the small, unpainted building. I
remembered hearing that saw noise from Carla‘s back yard.
“He‘s in his workshop,” she said. “Not good. He doesn‘t like
being interrupted when he‘s concentrating on his carvings. He might even be a
little grumpier than usual, so try not to be offended.”
“Great, can‘t wait.” I groaned, massaging my left temple
with the tips of my fingers when Carla turned away. “Sounds like so much
freakin‘ fun.” The idea of facing some bad tempered old man was not really how
I wanted to end my day, you know? Bad dream or no bad dream. By then though, we
were approaching Mr. Lobo‘s beat-up truck. To the left of the truck, light
shown between the blinds of the two large windows in the workshop, but I
couldn‘t really see anything inside.
“Being sarcastic isn‘t going to make things any better,”
Carla said. “We‘re not here to have fun, we‘re here to get you some help, OK?”
She sounded like a mother taking her child to see the doctor for the first
time.
“Yes, momma,” I kidded, using a squeaky child‘s voice, “I
promise I‘ll be good.”
Carla rolled her eyes, shook her head and punched me in the
arm. “You are absolutely hopeless sometimes.” When I say punch, I mean punch!
For a small person, she packs a wallop.
AUTHOR BIO
A former award winning educator, Doug writes about things
paranormal and historical. His interest in the paranormal comes from personal
experiences as detailed in the nonfiction adult book he and wife wrote titled,
An Explosion of Being: An American Family's Journey into the Psychic. Out of those
events and extensive historical research, he then created Sliding Beneath the
Surface for young adults, Book I of the
St. Augustine Trilogy. Doug set his trilogy in the oldest and most haunted
city in the United States, St. Augustine, Florida. Books II and III of the
trilogy are on the way.
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Website http://dougdillon.com
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