Eerie
by
C.M. McCoy
Release
Date: 15 Dec
2015
Omnific
Publishing with distribution through Simon & Schuster
Summary:
Being a ParaScience freshman is a
nightmare come true
Hailey’s dreams have always been, well...vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid. When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year old beast is an equally terrifying creature who’s fallen “madly” in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety—a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she studies the science of the supernatural and must learn to live with a roommate from Hell, survive a tunneling earworm, extract a carnivorous splinter, evade the campus poltergeists, and hope the only creature who can save her from an evil immortal doesn’t decide to kill her himself.
Hailey’s dreams have always been, well...vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid. When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year old beast is an equally terrifying creature who’s fallen “madly” in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety—a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she studies the science of the supernatural and must learn to live with a roommate from Hell, survive a tunneling earworm, extract a carnivorous splinter, evade the campus poltergeists, and hope the only creature who can save her from an evil immortal doesn’t decide to kill her himself.
About C.M. McCoy: C.M. McCoy is an Irish dancer and former Air
Force officer living in the Great White North. Though B.S.'d in Chemical
Engineering and German, she’s far happier writing stories involving Alaska and
a body bag (with an awkward kiss in the mix.) While working emergency dispatch
for Alaska State Troopers, she learned to speak in 10-codes, which she still
does...but only to annoy her family.
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Nowhere to Hide
“Judge
of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hailey plunked her head on the desk
and groaned. Why, why…why couldn’t she just tell Asher that she wanted
out, that she was afraid—afraid of the others, afraid of dying, and even afraid
of…of him. After all, he was planning to kill her. Only temporarily, but still.
She
couldn’t believe she was even considering it, but she had no choice. If Asher
didn’t kill her, one of the others would.
Permanently.
And
Asher protected her. He cared about her. He loved her, right? Asher—an
emotionless creature. Hailey wasn’t sure if he was even capable of love.
Oh,
this made absolutely no sense. Kill her to save her? Was that love?
Freshman
year at her dream college was turning into nightmare, and as she rolled her
forehead on the desk, the library’s impossibly large ceiling clock echoed a
thump with her heart. She simply had to pull on her big girl pants and tell
Asher she was done.
That’s
all.
She
squeezed her eyes shut as a swarm of butterflies took flight in her stomach.
Lately,
she felt an awful lot like Jekyll and Hyde: logical, rational ParaScience
student by day—emotional monstrosity at night. Come to think of it, this was
more like The Phantom of the Opera, and she was the naïve student who
didn’t realize the secret and strange angel she’d come to know was actually a
homicidal maniac…
“I’m
not a maniac.”
Hailey
jumped up. She didn’t mean to say that out loud.
Asher
slid behind her, putting his lips next to her ear. “But I suppose I am
homicidal,” he whispered, his breath on her skin sending goose bumps down her
arms and legs.
She
leaned into him and sighed.
So
much for steadfast resolve.
Wrapping
his arms around her waist, he pulled her closer.
“How
did you know I was here?” she whispered.
“You
were dreaming, Hailey,” he murmured. “I’ll always find you when you’re
dreaming.”
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