Book Title: Dying to Return
Author: Trish Marie Dawson
Release Date: Summer 2013
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Presented by: As You Wish Tours
BLURB
Dying to Return is the 3rd book in the Young Adult Fantasy The Station Series.
Piper Willow's adventure in the afterlife continues as she struggles to
discover who she is and what is expected of her. Faced with decisions
that could change everything, she must weigh her desire to be with the
ones she has come to love, or satisfy her curiosity and find out what
lies beyond her world with someone new. What Piper experiences and the
choices she makes could not only alter the delicate inner workings of
the Station, but the delicate balance that Piper has managed to maintain
inside herself. In the end, will it all be worth it?
EXCERPT (Optional)
A heaviness settles over the table and Andella is no longer giggling. "Why did you do it, Piper Willow?"
"Andella!"
her father hisses. He seems embarrassed for her, but she holds my stare
across the wide table. I see nothing sinister, just simple curiosity in
her eyes.
I
reach for my blue-tinted glass and sip at the water. Gulping down air, I
try on my best smile and elbow Rush slightly when I feel his gentle
prodding at the locked gates my mind.
"I
can't answer that. I mean…" I pause, allowing myself to reflect, "I
guess I do know why. But I don't know why I thought killing myself was
the only option." With a shrug, I sip more water.
Andella
reclines slightly in her chair and nods. "Unlike my brother," she
shoots Rush a warm smile, "I have not traveled to your world, but I have
seen into it. There is much sadness there. Such a loss of potential. I
think you are different though. I think on some level, you must have
known there was something else beyond your life. Did you not?"
I
twirl the fabric napkin on my lap while considering the question
carefully. "I think I just wanted that life to be over." I feel the
tears building up in my eyes as my voice drops to just above a whisper,
"Some people call it Heaven, a better place after life. I didn't care
about Heaven or Hell, I just wanted out."
A
large hand reaches toward me and I look up through my blurred vision to
find Andulen's hand atop mine. Rush is also touching me, and though
she's clear across the table, I feel Andella's calming presence as well.
"Child.
You cannot fit your life into a square coffer. It will find a way to
spill out over the sides and explore that which surrounds it. Even once
that coffer is lidded, your life doesn't cease to exist - you carry on.
That is what you have done, Piper Willow. That is why you sit here with
us this evening, eating and drinking and breathing. Your life - it will
always struggle to stay outside that coffer. Do you understand this?"
I
nod at Andulen and smile as he squeezes my hand before releasing it. My
voice wouldn't work even if I had words appropriate to use, so I sip
from my tinted glass again.
"Now.
I have serious matters to discuss about this Earth of yours. The first
thing, a question I have had on my mind since my Son here breached the
subject to me." He pauses with his face set into a hard expression and I
gulp. "Can you explain to me what Rugby is?"
AUTHOR BIO
Trish
was born and mostly raised in San Diego, California where she lives now
with her family and pets. She's been writing short stories and poetry
since high school after an obsession with Stephen King's 'The Stand'.
After over fifteen years of crazy dreams and an overactive imagination,
Trish began her first book 'I Hope You Find Me' in December of 2011.
When Trish isn't writing, she's homeschooling her amazing daughter and
mildly autistic son, reading whatever she can get her hands on, or
enjoying the Southern California sun. As a strict Vegetarian, Trish
holds a special place in her heart for animal rights and dashes into the
backyard weekly to rescue lizards and mice from her mini-lab/cocker
spaniel mixed dog, Zoey...who is always getting into some sort of
trouble.
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