ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: Dream Casters: Light
Author: Adrienne Woods
Series: The Dream Caster
Series
Publisher: Fire Quill
Publishing
Release Date: May 2015
ISBN: 978-0-9946641-2-9
Mr. Sandman, send me a
dream, ta da da da…..Seventeen year old Chasity Blake knows the Sandman is just
a silly children’s story parents tell their children to get them to sleep. At
least she thought it was, until the day a mysterious, light golden sand appeared
in her hands during a high school prank that went horribly wrong. A sand that
has the power to send anyone it touches into a deep, sound sleep.
Fearing she had lost her
mind, Chasity soon discovers the shocking truth of her heritage- she is a Dream
Caster. Chasity was never supposed to be raised on the Domain, or what humans
call Earth and she is forced to return to her true birth place, Revera – the
world of Dreams.
However, in Revera there is
no balance between good, the Light Casters, and darkness, the Shadow Casters,
and Chasity is caught square in the middle. She soon learns that there is no
place for anyone containing both the light and the darkness within them, and
the shocking truth that if anyone in Revera ever discovered her shadow self, Chasity
would be thrown into the Oblivion – the world of Nightmares.
Dreams are always more than
they seem, and this time Chasity is going to discover just how different they
can be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adrienne Woods was born and raised
in South Africa, where she still lives with her husband and two beautiful
little girls. She always knew she was going to be a writer, but it only started
to really happen about four years ago. In her free time―if she gets any because
moms don’t really have free time―she loves to spend it with friends, whether
it’s a girls night out, or just watching a movie. She’s a very chilled person.
Her writing career started with Firebolt, book one in the Dragonian series.
There will be four books in total, including a further two to three books,
which will be stories that take place within the Dragonian series. Her other
series, Dream Casters, will be released mid 2015. She also writes in different
genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy Diaries, will be published under
a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal series by the name of the Aswang
series, which will consist of about ten novels. And if that wasn’t enough,
there is another series, Guardians of Monsters, which will be released in 2016.
EXCERPT
Crap, crap, crap,”
were the only words that left my mouth as I took each painful step. Rollins
knew just how to give ballet lessons that were straight from Nick’s pit. A
stabbing pain ran up my calf and I had to stop as it went into a spasm. It should teach me to be late for class.
If it hadn’t been for Clare Bean, yip, her surname was Bean which led to
plenty of teasing when she was little, I would’ve been on time. I would’ve had
that extra ten minutes to stretch.
We had always been friends, Clare and I, since we were crawling around
in diapers. Her house was a couple of houses down from mine and our moms were
all too happy to bring us over for play dates. But since Ass and Abs had come
into the picture, Taylor Winchester, Clare had gone all gaga and friendship
didn’t seem to mean a thing to her anymore.
At first he hadn’t been too bad. He’d always had a thing for Clare but a
month ago at his party, we were sort of trapped in the basement alone for a
couple of minutes and he’d declared his ‘undying love and affection’ to me. Me,
Chasity Blake, or just Chas as my friends call me, let me rephrase, my friends
used to call me, as I’d rejected his affection, using finger quotes. Every girl
my age knew what guys, especially the once that looked like Ty, meant when they
declared their affection to you.
Clare was my best friend, what else was I supposed to do. I’d thought
the idiot would feel like stinky feet and forget about it, but no, he thought
that I should be taught a lesson, and told Clare that I’d made a move on him.
She’d actually believed the dog.
Now for the past four weeks I’d had to endure their humiliation on a
daily basis. First it was the posters on every locker with guys names crossed
out. The entire baseball team from what it looked like, and the heading was Chasity Blake’s To Do List.
It was so lame, but coming from her, it hurt. It hurt a lot.
I thought everyone would forget about that in a week, but they didn’t
and more rumors were added on.
Then came the exploding paint in my locker. I struggled to get the red
paint out of my hair and had walked around with it for an entire week. My mom
almost had a heart attack though, acted all strange and was ready to pack up
and leave.
Today, they locked me in the girl’s bathroom. I crawled out the window,
which wasn’t easy, and that was why I was late today.
Still, I tried to ignore it, even though it came from my best friend.
Standing up to them would only cause more shit.
As I kept walking the fork in the road came nearer. One path led through
the city. Five traffic lights with many twist and turns flashed though my head.
The other road led past the lake. No traffic lights and it was a shorter route,
but my mother disliked me taking those. Still today was the perfect day to make
an exception.
I chose the lake and started to think about my crappy situation again
and the regret of telling Mom not to pick me up from ballet had really started
to bite me in the ass. Literally, it was like a tiny stabbing jolts of pain on
my bum that ached with every step I took.
The next couple of years of school would probably suck if there wasn’t
an end to Clare’s pranks soon and my father, sorry, step-father, Tim “the
military man” Swanson, wasn’t going to move just because of the social life
epidemic I was experiencing.
I never understood why Mom had married him. There wasn’t a time that I
couldn’t remember Tim not being in our lives, but she was so different from
him. She was a free spirit, loved to paint and for some reason she had a thing
about dreams. She’s always asked me, since I was little, what I dreamt about
the night before. It was creepy to people that didn’t know my mom but it didn’t
bother me much.
Tim was easy to sum up. It was always YES SIR! and NO SIR! although he
didn’t like the NO very much, and loved the HOW HIGH DO YOU WANT ME TO FREAK’N
JUMP type of thing. Our relationship never used to be like that, but the older
I got, the harder he became on me. Mom stood up for me a lot though, but I
hated that they ended up fighting over stupid things I didn’t really want to
do.
So lately my relationship with the only dad I knew was everything except
the relationship a father and daughter should have.
Other family, I don’t have them. It was always just Tim and her.
As I was pondering my lack of family, something to the left caught my
eye. It was parked right in front of the lake and my entire body felt as if
someone had pulled a plug and let all the air out. It was Ty’s pick up, and I
knew who else would be with him inside it.
When noises from Derek Benson came, I knew it wasn’t just the two of
them, but the entire freak’n football team. They sometimes came here after
practice and right now, I wished that I’d taken the other stupid road.
I watched as Clare’s figure jumped off his truck. She wasn’t as tall or
as lean as me, thanks to the Asian blood that flowed through me, but she was
not chubby either. She was medium built, not that there was anything wrong with
it.
Here we go!
“Oh look, if it isn’t the baseball team’s slut,” Clare shouted loudly
and everyone turned and laughed. If these were strangers that did this, it
would’ve been different, but they weren’t; they used to be my friends. We used
to laugh together, made jokes at the table and even pass notes around in class,
even Nichole, she used to make up the rest of our little trio, had her nose in
a teen magazine and pretended that nothing was about to happen.
I knew I should’ve just walked away, but today was different. I was
tired, I ached from head to toe, I was in my freak’n tutu still, I’d just
pulled my pants over my leotard and exchanged my ballet shoes for sneakers. I
really didn’t have the time for her little charades of insecurity.
“The baseball team! Really? Now
we know who has all the intellectual stem cells between the two of us,” I said
and carried on walking.
“And who has all the grace and beauty,” Clare chirped.
“And also a shallow mind.” I couldn’t help myself. This is what happened
when I started. It was like my mouth had its own passageway straight to my
brain and I couldn’t do anything to switched it off.
“Oh, yeah, shallow minded. At least I know what loyalty means, bitch.”
I laughed again. “Loyalty. Can you even spell it, Clare?” Instant regret
jumped through my core. Hurt rose briefly in Clare’s eyes but vanished just as
fast. She was Dyslexic and I had been helping her with words ever since we were
just tiny little things running around.
“I know how to spell slut, bitch, and skank.”
“Well, sorry to burst your bubble, sweetheart. I never did anything with
Taylor, but wait, I tried to tell you that, and you still believed the son of a
bitch.”
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