Book 1 of Sawyer Shepherd Chronicles
Young Adult Supernatural Thriller
Date Published: 2/4/2020
Sage City, Colorado is a beautiful but struggling town. Its mining history has dried up, leaving it only with a dark local legend that may just be more history than myth. But an East Coast developer named Lucius Furr and his team, including Lennox Dupree and Elena Cordova, might just bring salvation- or awaken a long-dormant evil.
Sawyer Shepherd is on a road trip of self-discovery- and running from a tragic past. He hopes to find himself and healing from the loss of his parents while in the deadly beauty of the Colorado Rockies. He soon finds himself caught up not only in Furr’s plans for the small town, but also an ancient and epic battle between good and evil. Guided by locals Eli Romer (the 'town drunk' that knows more than he lets on) and Mandy Jane (college intern with the Parks Service), Sawyer will seek to overcome the demons of his past while also trying to survive a real-life demon that seeks only to consume.
Or is it also trying to open the door for an even greater and more powerful evil?
Excerpt:
“Need
…. The sword….it’s...down...here
...somewhere...Beast...not...the...only...threat..it is..a..carrier....may..
.God….bless..you.” The raised hand made a sort of sign of the cross, then
slammed down against the wall. With
that, Horace Goodley dissolved into dust, and both Mandy and Sawyer shrieked
again.
Sawyer
looked at the journal. “Well, I guess we
got the journal.”
“Did-
did it, I mean he...or whatever...say something about a sword?”
“Yeah,
that it was down here somewhere.” He scanned
the flashlight around and saw nothing laying on the floor. They began walking back to the front of the
cave, and Sawyer put the journal in the inside pocket of his coat. “But...yeah.
It’s not looking like it is. I
guess we should search around, you know, since we are down here.”
“Um,
are we not going to talk about what just happened?”
“Yeah. That was messed up. Totally gross.”
“I
meant the almost kiss.”
“Oh,
yeah. Totally. I knew that.”
“So
you thought the almost kiss was “totally gross?”
“Wait-
no, that was great…I mean, I wanted it to be….I just...man, there is a lot
going on right now. I need to sit
down.” Sawyer slumped down against the
wall. Mandy sat down next to him. “I wanted to kiss you, yes. But I’m glad we didn’t. Wait. See, I still want to kiss you- but I
don’t want to do it in a cave, covered in mining gear and th dust of the late
Horace Goodley, worried we might get eaten by a demon. You mentioned the fireplace and comfortable
setting- that’s where I should kiss you.
Or on a real date. Not-” he waved
around the air- “this. You deserve
better.”
About the Author
The only child of a family that lived on a ranch in the Central Texas Countryside, Chad Lehrmann learned early on to use his imagination to entertain himself. Creating stories in his head and acting them out eventually led to him entertaining the idea to write stories. He began this process in his teens, but life got in the way. After eleven years in ministry, Chad became a public school teacher in College Station, Texas. Working with teenagers (and raising two of his own), he began to read young adult fiction like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. Combined with his love of the works of Stephen King, Chad began to recall those stories and ideas from his youth, but with a new perspective. Tired of explaining to his students that if he was not a teacher, he would be a writer, but doing nothing to validate that- he penned his first novel, The Sawyer Shepherd Chronicles: Rites of Passage. It would be the culmination of characters and story beats that had been germinating in his head for over twenty years. He hopes you will join him on this journey!
Chad still teaches at College Station High School, where he is currently the Psychology, Sociology, and Debate teacher. He is married and has two teenage daughters and as a family they love vacationing in the mountains (which are a strong inspiration for the stories he writes). He also has hobbies of woodworking and collecting action figures.
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