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Journey is a prequel to the Secrets Saga books, Hidden Secrets and Deadly Secrets. In this novella you learn some of the life history of Rose, Cortne and Aj. We also see a glimpse of the beginning of their friendship.
Rose
How do you explain to a family that you lost their dead loved one? Especially, when said family is standing right behind you? To all the patients at work, she appears to have everything going for her. Beauty and brains, should make for an easy life right. Well they would never guess the strong confident nurse they have taking care of them is abused every day at home.
Patients predicting their own death and foretelling a future she doesn’t want to believe. Does she stay or let the predicted future come to life. Why does she leave her family? Why doesn’t she tell anyone what she is when she finds out?
Cortne and Aj
What have they seen that make them accept the things that come to pass?
The Three of Them
What trials have they gone through that bind them? What have they seen that make them accept all that happens to each of them.
We take a glance back at snapshots of their lives to see if it can help us understand them any better.
Excerpt:
At nine that night, I carried the
sleeping boy to his bed and headed towards mine. It had been a long
week. I may just sleep all night and day. I crawled into my bed, and
turned the lamp off. The darkness of the room made me uncomfortable
for some reason. I dozed off anyway, at some point in the night
something woke me up.
I don’t know what. My room was
glowing red. All the curtains were closed and lights were off. Even
the door was closed. The air felt heavy, I felt threatened. My heart
raced, my breaths were labored; I had broken out in a sweat. What was
this? I spoke aloud, following my gut. “This is my house and you
are not welcome here. Leave here and leave all in this place alone.”
I said through closed eyes, afraid of what I may see in the red glow.
The heaviness slowly lifted but I didn’t open my eyes until the
next morning. Josh didn’t mention it to me and I damn sure wasn’t
going to scare him.
Later that day I took my horse out
for a ride through the woods. The sun was so damn bright my
sunglasses just weren’t helping. My eyes felt like someone had lit
a match and thrown into each of them. Hence, the ride in the woods,
it was shadier.
After about an hour of riding
straight into the depths of the forest, I turned my horse around and
began making my way out. I had ridden in these woods for most of my
childhood. I knew every inch of them. I rounded the big oak to see a
man standing there. He startled me. I almost yelled but remained
calm. “Hi, are you lost?”
“No, I’m not lost. I came to see
you."
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