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I am so excited that SLUMBER by Christy Sloat is available now and that I get to share the news!
If you havenât yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Christy Sloat, be sure to check out all the details below.
This blitz also includes a giveaway for a finished copy of the book courtesy or Christy. and Rockstar Book Tours. So if youâd like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.
About The Book:
Title: SLUMBER (Slumber Duology #1)
Author: Christy Sloat
Pub. Date: January 12, 2018
Publisher: CHBB Publishing
Pages: 234
Formats: Paperback, eBook
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. Iâm only seventeen years old, and I am serving life in Spindle Ridge Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
I donât remember killing him, so itâs really hard to believe Iâm capable of murder. In fact I donât 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 Iâm 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 arenât real.
Iâm crazy. Iâm not a princess.
Theyâre the mad illusions of an irrational teenage girl, right?
Theyâve assigned me a new doctor, and she says I can trust her, and that sheâll help me see the truth of who I really am.
When she arrived she brought a new patient, Sawyer, who is everything Spindle Ridge isnât: exciting, mysterious and beautiful. He promises heâs 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?
Excerpt:
I woke in the middle of the night hearing screams fill the air. This was not uncommon at all, but tonight I wasnât expecting it. Normally when Adeleâs meds are changed, she wakes screaming that she canât sleep. Adeleâs 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 donât know why it is, but I donât fit in with these people. To them Iâm the murderer and they tend to think less of me. Thatâs fine. I am what they say I am. Thatâs why Iâm here, right?
They told me I stabbed my boyfriend, Phillip, but I donât remember doing it. I actually donât remember Phillip at all. No recollection of having been in a relationship either. I must have killed him or else I wouldnât be in Spindle Ridge.
Dr. Altman says that I have to believe that I did it or we will never get anywhere. Iâll admit itâs 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 Adeleâs 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 wasnât the same dream as the oneâs 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 dreamâs 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 wasnât; 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.
âGet up you lazy sack!â
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.
About Christy:
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.
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Giveaway Details:
1 winner will win a finished copy of SLUMBER US Only.
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