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SLUMBER (Slumber Duology #1)
Author: Christy
Sloat
Publication Date: January 12, 2018
Publisher: CHBB
Publishing
Pages: 234
Formats: Paperback,
eBook
Description:
Not all princesses get their happily ever after...
Not all princesses get their happily ever after...
They tell me I killed my boyfriend Phillip in cold blood. I stabbed him
twenty one times. I’m only seventeen years old, and I am serving life in
Spindle Ridge Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
I don’t remember killing him, so it’s really hard to believe I’m capable
of murder. In fact I don’t remember anything before I came to Spindle Ridge,
not even my boyfriend.
I can only grasp onto my realistic dreams while the madness of the asylum
threatens to pull me under. I dream I’m a beautiful princess and there is an
evil faerie named Maleficent who is bent on my destruction. The dreams are the
closest thing I have to memories of my life, except they aren’t real.
I’m crazy. I’m not a princess.
They’re the mad illusions of an irrational teenage girl, right?
They’ve assigned me a new doctor, and she says I can trust her, and that
she’ll help me see the truth of who I really am.
When she arrived she brought a new patient, Sawyer, who is everything
Spindle Ridge isn’t: exciting, mysterious and beautiful. He promises he’s here
to rescue me. Trusting either of them frightens me.
Could it be possible that my dreams are more than just the imaginings of
a delusional girl? Could they be truth?
I woke in the middle of the night hearing screams fill the air. This was
not uncommon at all, but tonight I wasn’t expecting it. Normally when Adele’s
meds are changed, she wakes screaming that she can’t sleep. Adele’s room is
across from mine. She is roughly in her twenties and I never learned how she
ended up here. I try not to talk to the other patients. I don’t know why it is,
but I don’t fit in with these people. To them I’m the murderer and they tend to
think less of me. That’s fine. I am what they say I am. That’s why I’m here,
right?
They told me I stabbed my
boyfriend, Phillip, but I don’t remember doing it. I actually don’t remember
Phillip at all. No recollection of having been in a relationship either. I must
have killed him or else I wouldn’t be in Spindle Ridge.
Dr. Altman says that I have to believe that I did it or we will never get
anywhere. I’ll admit it’s hard to believe that these hands could stab a person
twenty times. No matter how I imagined it, it is always hard to believe.
I sat up listening hard for the screams. When they came again I noticed
they were not female, they were male. The screams were deeper and reached a
longer distance than Adele’s cries ever could. I wondered if the whole building
could hear him.
I pulled my covers up over my neck and covered my face. I just wanted to
sleep and fall back into the dream I was having. It was beautiful, and if I had
my way, I would stay there forever.
Wait!
I sat up fast. Closing my eyes, I
tried to remember the dream to the last second. It wasn’t the same dream as the
one’s prior. This dream was different! This dream was me and a boy.
I never dreamt of anyone but my parents and the evil woman. The dream’s
soft lullaby came back to me as I remembered where I was.
The smell of fresh grass came across my senses.
The sky so blue as I lay on a blanket. I rolled over and saw the face of
a boy. He was everything that Spindle Ridge wasn’t; he was beautiful. He had
long, shaggy, but not unruly, hair that touched his collar. When he smiled at
me, he looked like a boy in love. In love with me.
“Get up you lazy sack!”
I opened my eyes and was pulled back into the now. I was forced to leave
the dream behind as I was being pulled out of bed by two nurses.
I am
Southern California native, now living in New Jersey! How did that
happen? I am married and have two beautiful little girls who
love to read just like Mommy. I have had a passion for books since I was
a little girl and an imagination for just as long. I hope my books can
inspire others to read and to write too.Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads
Hello Christy, I love the cover for Slumber and can't wait to read it. Thank you
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