Shadow Followers

by Kevin Lazarus

Overview

After the untimely death of his father, Jacob and his mother, Sarah, left the city to live with his Grandpa Ezra near the rural town of Carthage Falls. Living in a world completely unfamiliar to him, he begins having strange supernatural experiences. An old woman comes to him in a dream foretelling a cryptic destiny filled with haunting shadows, all the while, calling him the “Son of Thunder!”
Attempting to forget his dream, Jacob sets out to find the perfect tree for the perfect tree house, and discovers three new friends; Deek, Michael, and Michael’s older sister Carly; who quickly becomes his closest confidant. They spend their carefree summer days building their treetop hideaway, and cooling off in Teller’s pond. That is, until they discover something seriously creepy floating beneath the surface, leaving the small rural community with a mystery of alarming proportions.
Things continue to digress as the shadows from Jacob’s haunting dreams pursue him into his reality. Just as he realizes that he has no hope of escaping, a stranger appears who looks a lot like a migrant worker and rescues him, and then disappears.
A few days later, another body is discovered, with more ancient symbols carved into the skin. And Jacob along with Carly and the others feel compelled to find the strange migrant worker that saved Jacob; sensing that he is somehow connected to everything that is happening.
Local fears are elevated when Gus, the custodian, discovers a group of local teens sacrificially murdered at the high school. The sheriff enlists the assistance of Doc, an anthropologist from the nearby University, attempting to make sense of the odd symbols carved into teens' bodies. Doc reveals to him that they are dealing with an ancient cult that has resurfaced.
The Shadow Followers begin to suspect that Jacob is the one they have looking for, for so long, and one by one they abduct those who are most dear to him and Carly.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013210387
Publisher:	DreamStream Productions, Inc.
Publication date:	10/31/2009
Series:	The Shadow Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	617 KB

About the Author

Author of fantasy fiction books, supernatural thrillers and creepy tales; whose occupation behind the scenes in the entertainment industry, for better than 25 years, allowed him to work in many capacities; from Property Master, Art Director and Set Designer to Video Producer. He has produced both works of art, corporate and industrial videos. During those years he also worked as a counselor to troubled teens. His unique insight into blended families and troubled homes has helped children and families to overcome many problems.

“The experiences of my youth were, to say the least, strange and unusual. My mother was torn between two worlds – Christianity and the superstitious culture of the Deep South. It seemed to me that everywhere she went, trouble followed. Not the kind of trouble you would think of in any normal sense. There were constantly disturbing occurrences that were almost always inexplicable. It would be many years before I would realize what had happened to her during her youth—which was a unique blending of Christianity with the superstitious (Voodoo) traditions of the Deep South.

It was for me, even then, at that early age. But then she said something I didn’t expect. ‘There are things down there—things you can’t see—things that are evil.’

Many years later, after my mother divorced my father, she and my step-father moved the three of us to a small town out west. A curious little community that was less than welcoming to outsiders. And we were the outsiders. What I would learn during those years was that this small town had its own dark secrets.

The whole time we were there strange things always happened. I'd walk home at night and I'd hear footsteps and I'd turn around to see nothing but an empty sidewalk. There would be strange inexplicable noises coming from the basement in the middle of the night, footsteps in the snow that would stop as if someone had walked there and then disappeared and unwelcome visitors in our house when my mother and stepfather were away on dates.

I could go on and on, there were so many. I've started a blog to record several of them, along with some of my personal views on family and on my works of fiction.

After working 25 years behind the scenes in the entertainment industry, I've launched my career writing about one of the genres that comes easiest to me… creepy stories.”