Book Spotlight: The Unholy by Paul Deblassie lll
Title:
The UnholyAuthor:
Paul DeBlassie IIIPublisher:
Sunstone PressPages:
200Language:
EnglishGenre:
Psychological/Paranormal
ThrillerFormat:
Paperback/Kindle
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A
young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets
of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil
Archbishop. Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, The
Unholy is
a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and
visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic
web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a
twilight realm of discovery and decision.
Book
Excerpt:
“Hush
now, child,” said a voice she recognized as that of her mother’s
closest
friend. “The man cannot harm you, mijita,
as long as you are
with us.
We
will make him think you are dead. But you must be very quiet. Ya
no
llores,”
the woman warned, raising a finger to her lips.
The
woman then carried her into a dark cave illuminated by the light
of
a single candle. The cave was frightening, with shadows of what
appeared
to
be goblins and demons dancing on the red sandstone walls. “I will
return for
you
soon. You will be safe here,” the woman said. The girl watched the
woman
walk
away, shivering as a breeze blew through the cave’s narrow
passages.
Closing
her eyes, she rocked back and forth—imagining herself safe in
her
mother’s arms—then opened her eyes to the light of the full moon
shining
through
the mouth of the cave. The shadows on the walls were just shadows
now,
no longer goblins and demons. As she slipped into a trance, images
flickered
in her mind. She saw the woman who had brought her to this place
scattering
pieces of raw meat around the open mesa where her mother had
struggled,
helped by two other women the girl could not identify.
Suddenly,
the scene shifted to a stone ledge jutting over the mesa, and
she
heard the pounding footsteps of a man running toward the women. The
girl
felt
her heart race and her breathing quicken, afraid that the bad man
would
spot
them and kill them. Then the image shifted again, and she now saw on
the
mesa
three gray wolves circling the raw meat and the man walking away from
the
granite ledge. As he left, she heard his thought: The
child is dead.
PAUL
DeBLASSIE III, PhD, is a psychologist and writer living in his native
New Mexico. A member of the Depth Psychology Alliance, the
Transpersonal Psychology Association, and the International
Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, he has
for over thirty years treated survivors of the dark side of religion.
His
latest book is the psychological/paranormal thriller, The
Unholy.
Visit
his website at www.pauldeblassieiii.com
or his blog at www.pauldeblassieiii.blogspot.com.
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