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Exciting Book Giveaway

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Goodreads Book Giveaway

Gloria Rising by Linden Morningstar

Gloria Rising

by Linden Morningstar

Giveaway ends February 29, 2016.

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Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Starlight Prophecy by Linden Morningstar

The Starlight Prophecy

by Linden Morningstar

Giveaway ends February 29, 2016.
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Premiere Book Signing Success

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A wonderful day shared with my loving fans, friends, and family. Thank you all for your kind praise and support. The Starlight Prophecy and Gloria Rising shined on us. Enjoy!

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Gloria Rising a Psychological and Paranormal Thriller: Goodreads Giveaway Contest

ENTER Goodreads Giveaway to WIN One of two Autographed copies of Gloria Rising

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Also, through Goodreads a free and very popular book reader website, I am offering a giveaway and chance to win one of two autographed copies of Gloria Rising. Just scroll down the Escape from Madness page and click ENTER GIVEAWAY, (Begins 9/23/2015 and Ends 11/9/2015) if you are not a member of Goodreads it’s free and easy to sign up. I recommend any book lover to be a member. I want to thank my fans and friends for your support.

Premiere Book Signing

Book Signings

I am pleased to invite my family, fans, and friends to an exciting book signing event.  All in attendance will be eligible to win ONE of TWO Autographed copies of both Gloria Rising and The Starlight Prophecy in my book signing giveaway. Everyone will receive free Gloria Rising bookmarks.  Please come and enjoy the fun. I will be answering questions about my novels and writing. Look forward to sharing this once in a lifetime opportunity with you.

Gloria Rising

Where
Premier Book Signing Event
Bank of Books 748 E. Main Street
Ventura, California

When
12/19/2015
1:00 to 3: PM

The Starlight Prophecy

Where
Premier Book Signing Event
Bank of Books 748 E. Main Street
Ventura, California

When
12/19/2015
1:00 to 3: PM

Gloria Rising Preview

MANUSCRIPT POSTSCRIPT

I struggled to keep my writing hand steady. It trembled as if detached from my body. I frantically scribbled down this note after finishing Gloria’s manuscript out of fear of a terrifying premonition that I would not awaken to see the dawn. This whole experience has been as if I had awoken from a nightmare, but it wasn’t my nightmare—it was real—too real to have imagined, let alone lived through and survived. I am Dr. Adam Jaxon, and if by chance you are reading this, I am already dead.

I was a renowned and distinguished hypnotherapist and treated thousands of people in my lifetime, but Gloria B’s electrifying hypnotherapy captivated and stunned me. Unfortunately, I was reluctant to share her terrifying and heart-wrenching story for fear no one would believe the otherworldly powers that literally came to guide and help me heal her. I feared my old associates would think I had gone senile or worse mad.

Now I feel ashamed for being such a coward, for allowing myself to be controlled by the homogenized expectations of my profession and being paralyzed by irrational fears that I would be scorned and rejected, if I spoke my mind. I now feel shame and guilt that my arrogance and fear got the best of me and nearly bankrupted my morals and destroyed me.

After all Gloria and I had been through, I could not live with the thought that, in the end, I had betrayed her trust and let her down. But thanks to her endearing memory and loving spirit, I came to my senses while gazing at my image in a mirror. I flew into a rage and smashed the pathetic image with my wine glass into a million pieces; blood trickled down my wrist, but I didn’t care. I shouted, “To hell with my ego and reputation,” over and over again, until my voice grew too hoarse to scream anymore.

I yielded to my guilty conscience to write her story that I had promised her. Besides, my health was failing, and Gloria’s story was too momentous and meaningful to be forgotten and buried in my cold grave. So I feverishly wrote over the past year, and finally finished the manuscript this very night—just days before my 100th birthday.

But alas, this morning, I sensed a chilling premonition that I would not be here to celebrate it. So I left the precious manuscript, and this postscript, on my oak writing desk with a poignant note and scrupulous instructions for its publication, for my daughter to find. It would be my last fond gesture and chance to share my lifeworks with her, albeit, beyond the grave.

I know if I died tonight, I would die a happy man at peace with myself knowing Gloria’s story would finally be told—a mysterious and astonishing story that defies the timeworn precepts of modern psychology and psychiatry—where insanity, genius, the metaphysical, and the mystery of life come together to beguile and confound our contemporary understanding of the mind and its limitless powers to heal.

 Dr. Adam Jaxon