The
Shift
Fiona
Dodwell
Genre: Horror/Psychological
Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing
ASIN: B00CQ59LKM
Number of pages: 230 pages
Formats available: Ebook and paperback
Book
Description:
Michael White is a man desperate to escape his past.
After tragedy costs him his job and marriage, he finds himself abandoned in a
world of depression, loneliness and unemployment – until a new start working at
a luxurious care home is offered.
But Hill Wood House isn't like any other care home.
What are the shadowy figures that follow Michael? What do they want? And beyond
the paranormal, who is stalking Michael? Who is entering his home at night and
leaving disturbing messages across his walls?
Can anyone ever really escape their past? Michael is
about to go on a dark journey to uncover the truth behind what is haunting him
– a truth that will wreak death and destruction to those Michael cares about.
Author
Biography
Fiona grew up in Buckinghamshire in the UK. She has
had a passion for the written word since she was a child, and found herself a
regular visitor of local book stores and libraries from a young age. Growing
up, Fiona became a big fan of the supernatural and horror genre – in both film
and literature. She devoured Susan Hill, Dean Koontz and Stephen King novels with
relish, and soon realised she wanted to create dark fictional worlds of her
own.
Fiona has studied a variety of subjects in recent
years, from Theology and Psychology, to Film Studies and Drama. Her passion for
writing, though, is what she focuses on now. In 2011, she released her debut
horror novel, The Banishing, and then went on to publish Obsessed and The
Shift. These novels were published with Double Dragon Publishing and Damnation
Books.
Fiona also enjoys writing articles and has written
for Paranormal Underground Magazine, Pinched Literary Magazine, Supernatural
Magazine and also runs her own website, which contains various selections of
her articles, interviews and reviews.
In September of 2015, Fiona signed a contract with
Media Bitch Literary Agency where she is now represented. She has recently
finished several short stories and is working on her new novel, The Risen,
which she hopes to release in 2016.
Fiona currently lives with her husband, Matthew, and
her unruly ginger cat, Oscar.
Twitter: angel_devil982
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/fionadodwellauthor
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Excerpt
from The Shift
He leaned forward, pressing his face close to her
mouth and listened, waiting for breath that would not come. Her skin was a
pallid colour, void of the pink that used to tint it, and her lips were blue,
an impossible blue. He gaped as he stood upright, looking down at her body
while resisting the urge to vomit. It was the most terrible thing he’d seen in
his entire life. He lifted her wrist into the air and her hand fell limply
forward. He felt for a pulse and found none; it was useless, the confirmation
of a fact he already knew.
She
was dead.
The
stale air in the room suddenly became too thick, too hot, and he struggled to
find his own breath. He gagged, then lurched over to the bedroom window and
pushed it open, allowing the cool night air to swiftly enter. He breathed
deeply, the air cold and sharp as it hit his lungs. The moon hanging above him
in the navy sky was wide and looming, sending darkened shadows across the lawn
below. Everything looked different, somehow; everything seemed marked.
He
turned back, reluctantly, his eyes falling on the corpse lying in front of him.
In life, she had been beautiful, despite her problems. In life, she had been
wonderful. Now death had claimed her and the mask of that eternal sleep was
already sliding into place. Soon she would be stiff with rigor mortis, her
slender skin toughened under the blanket of death. Soon she would be taken
away, zipped inside a body bag, a label attached to her toe or wrist. She was
gone. He fell to the floor, the weight of the reality sitting firmly on his
shoulders as he wept bitterly. He would never forget this day for the rest of
his life.
It would change everything.
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