Remnants of Fire
By Alana Lorens
Release Date :August 15, 2023
Amazon ASIN: B0CFDKZ8BZ
ISBN-10 ? : ? 194918756X
ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-1949187564
Looking for a fresh start, Sara Woods takes a job as a news reporter in a small town. Her first assignment for the Ralston Courier is to investigate of a string of deaths, all young women, all her age. To deal with chronic back pain, she seeks help at a local healing center. She soon becomes convinced that there is something strange about the Goldstone Clinic. Its doctors and nurses are all the picture of perfect beauty and health, while their patients at first seem to improve and then mysteriously deteriorate. Dr. Rick Paulsen, a physician at the local hospital, offers to teach Sara how to access her internal power, enhancing hidden skills and revealing secrets from her past. Police officer Brendon Zale also takes an interest in Sara, watching her every move and trying to get close to her. The deeper she digs into the Goldstone, the harder it is to deny links to the paranormal. Can she figure out what is going on and who to trust before it’s too late?
Excerpt:
Later that day, the severe weather system that had been predicted all week arrived with a vengeance.
Outbursts of thunder and lightning wreaked havoc even with the surge-protected computers, causing flickering power and lost stories. The editors went to the publisher’s well-appointed office in the rear of the second floor for their staff meeting. The rest of us took the disruptions of the storm—and the editors’ absence—as an excuse to turn off all the machines and gab.
The meteorological display was energizing for most of the staff, who stared out the windows at the roiling black clouds, debating the possibility of widespread power outages, tremendous auto accidents or even destructive tornadoes. For me, the storm was hell.
Ever since I was a child, I’d been terrified of storms. When lightning and thunder rattled the house, I normally hid in a room without windows, where I couldn’t see or hear the outside, preferably under a thick set of comforters.
But there was no place to hide here, and being new, I didn’t want to appear a coward in front of my peers. I compromised by sitting at my desk, which faced away from the windows, but in hearing range of the speculators, where I could—and did—throw in the occasional comment. Dedra sat on her desk next to mine, reading over my shoulder as I leafed through notes downloaded from Internet sites on healing.
“Wait. Let me see that again,” she insisted as I passed a piece on Reiki. She skimmed it and nodded. “I saw a bunch of material on this at the clinic. It’s for real, too, because I remember a Reiki practitioner came to the P.E. class at Bowling Green once to demonstrate.”
I read from the notes, and had to agree that it was a perfectly legitimate technique, recognized in larger circles. I’d found many of the others that the Goldstone Clinic advertised were also widely accepted.
That left the possibility that I could blame my perception of the place wholly on the basis of art criticism. Not a very substantial way to form medical opinions.
Chris Brown, the Yale-educated reporter who constantly protested his independence from the culture of wealth his parents lived in, came to pull up a chair next to my desk. He was a well-built young man with conventional but undistinguished good looks. “So, tell me about the mysterious Doctor Francesca,” he said with an arch aspect.
“Why do you want to know?” I asked. A smirk struggled to escape, but I was determined to play this one straight as long as possible, to draw out the burn. I remembered how crass Brown had been the night before about poor dead Lily.
“Oh, come on. A woman in that white coat?” Chris stretched his long legs onto Dedra’s desk as he leaned back in the chair, his voice melting into fantasy. “Beautiful, educated, disciplined. What else could you ask for?”
“Disciplined?” Jim O’Neal snickered from his cluttered desk set kitty- corner from mine. “If you’re looking for a woman to give you discipline—”
“That’s not what I said.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. It sure sounded like you had some kind of a fixation going there.”
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Author Bio
Alana Lorens has been a published writer for more than forty years, while working as a pizza maker, a floral designer, a journalist and a family law attorney. Currently a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, the aging hippie loves her time in the smoky blue mountains.
She writes romance and suspense as Alana Lorens, and sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal mystery as Lyndi Alexander. One of her novellas, THAT GIRL’S THE ONE I LOVE, is set in the city of Asheville during the old Bele Chere festival. She is the author of the Pittsburgh Lady Lawyers series, which draws on her 25 years as a family law attorney in the state of Pennsylvania. One of the causes close to her heart came from those years as well–the fight against domestic violence. She volunteered for many years at women’s shelters and provided free legal services to women and children in need.
She lives with her daughter on the autism spectrum, who is the youngest of her seven children, and she is ruled by three crotchety old cats, and six kittens of various ages.
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