Jay, Lizzie and the Tale of the Stairs

by G J Lee

Overview

A teenage boy, Jay Webber, believes there is something ‘under’ his bed. Jay lives with his dad because his mum is in hospital. Mum has cancer. Jay tries to convince his dad that there are noises and voices coming from under his bed but his dad doesn’t believe him. The story opens with Jay telling his dad that he heard someone asking for help.
One night Jay is visited by the ghost of a little girl in what seems like another dream. She asks him to help her find her brother with his ‘special powers’.
On Dad’s insistence, Jay tells his doctor about the dreams and voices. Here we meet the villain, Dr Meen. Both Lizzie and Dr Meen have one thing in common – they are keenly aware of Jay’s ‘special powers’.
Special powers? This is a new one on Jay. Nevertheless, on insistence from ‘Lizzie’, one night Jay follows his new friend down a long forgotten flight of stairs and a strange relationship with the people who inhabit the age of our grandparents begins where the ghost of the man in Jay’s dreams tells him of his life, his changing world, stories from the first war and of his son lost in the second.
His newly discovered ‘special powers’ aid Lizzie’s dad in a quest to find his missing son. However, whilst discovering the hardships of life after the war, these powers also uncover a plot to rekindle an evil thought buried in the rubble of Nazi Germany and now threatening to rewrite history and an evil that Jay and Lizzie have no choice but to try and overcome.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011504051
Publisher:	G J Lee
Publication date:	08/25/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	471 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

G J Lee writes 'genre' fiction in the broadest sense, dealing with the fantastic, the futuristic and the supernatural. However, the author is also interested in the complex human condition when characters are faced with problems outside their 'normal' experiences. The author has had several poems and short stories published over the years and completed his first novel for kids - 'Jay, Lizzie and the Tale of the Stairs' - in 2010. The author is now half-way through his second novel, the post-apocalyptic quest 'Down by the Riverbank.' Other work-in-progress are short stories, a third novel 'The Unremarkable' and 'The Bionic Diaries,' a satirical look at the 1990's taken from the author's numerous diaries written whilst a drummer in an Indie rock band during the 'Blair decade.' G J Lee is on the lookout for the right publisher.