THE
UNHOLY
By
Paul
DeBlassie III
BLURB:
A
young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets
of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil
Archbishop. Set in the mystic
land
of
Aztlan,
The
Unholy
is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and
visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic
web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a
twilight realm of discovery and decision.
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Excerpt
Lightning
streaked across a midnight dark sky, making the neck hairs of a
five-year-old girl crouched beneath a cluster of twenty-foot pines in
the Turquoise Mountains of Aztlan stand on end. The long wavy strands
of her auburn mane floated outward with the static charge. It felt as
though the world was about to end.
Seconds
later, lightning struck a lone tree nearby and a crash of thunder
shook the ground. Her body rocked back and forth, trembling with
terror. She lost her footing, sandstone crumbling beneath her feet,
and then regained it; still, she did not feel safe. There appeared to
be reddish eyes watching from behind scrub oaks and mountain pines,
scanning her every movement and watching her quick breaths. Then
everything became silent.
The
girl leaned against the trunk of the nearest tree. The night air
wrapped its frigid arms tightly around her, and she wondered if she
would freeze to death or, even worse, stay there through the night
and by morning be nothing but the blood and bones left by hungry
animals. Her breaths became quicker and were so shallow that no air
seemed to reach her lungs. The dusty earth gave up quick bursts of
sand from gusts of northerly winds that blew so fiercely into her
nostrils that she coughed but tried to stifle the sounds because she
didn’t want to be noticed.
AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
Paul
DeBlassie III, Ph.D., is a psychologist and writer living in
Albuquerque who has treated survivors of the dark side of religion
for more than 30 years. His professional consultation practice —
SoulCare — is devoted to the tending of the soul. Dr. DeBlassie
writes fiction with a healing emphasis. He has been deeply influenced
by the mestizo myth of Aztlan, its surreal beauty and natural magic.
He is a member of the Depth Psychology Alliance, the Transpersonal
Psychology Association and the International Association for
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
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