The Dream
Diaries
Evelyn
Hernandez Series, Book 2
Philip Hoy
Contemporary/Romance/Suspense/Interracial
(paranormal elements)
Evernight
Teen Publishing, Word count: 45K
Only Evelyn
doesn’t care what people at school say, or think. She couldn’t be happier. Her
bullies have been brought to justice, her parents trust her, and she has a boyfriend
who adores her. She’s even returned to drawing in her journal … but that’s when
the nightmares begin.
Evelyn
believes her violent dreams are messages from the future. Something terrible is
going to happen at her school and only she can stop it—but how, and at what
price?
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Excerpt:
“I’ll
be right back,” Karen said over her shoulder as she stepped out into the cold
night. She set the bulging bag of trash down long enough to close the door
behind her and then hefted it again in both hands and began walking awkwardly
with it down the stairs. Her sandals slapped loudly against the bottoms of her
feet and the unwelcome odor of chicken bones and baby diapers wafted upwards
with each waddling step.
At the
bottom of the stairs, she stopped and looked around self-consciously, but the
apartment complex was strangely quiet this late in the evening, with most of the
windows around her already dark and not another person in sight. She tightened
her grip on the neck of the garbage bag and started walking again. The
dumpsters were just around the back of her building at the end of the parking
lot, but in the dim light of the yellow security lamps they looked much
farther. It was colder outside than she expected and Karen regretted not
putting on a sweater before leaving the apartment.
A brick wall
surrounded the trash bins with large metal gates in the front that were kept
locked, but there was a smaller walk-in opening around the back. What
if someone was in there, she thought, or something … doing who
knows what? Rather than step a foot inside, Karen was tempted to just
heave the bag over the wall and hope the lids were up. But the thought of her
nephew’s shitty diapers strewn across the parking lot, along with the junk mail
and old homework with her name on it, stopped her, and she took a breath and
walked inside.
She was
relieved to find the lid on the nearest bin was already thrown back, which
meant she wouldn’t have to touch anything. She lifted with one hand at the top
and the other pushing from below until the weight of the bag rested on the
dumpster’s edge, then she pushed it over and let it fall with a muffled splat.
When she
turned to leave, a figure was standing in the opening, blocking her way.
“Who’s
there?” she shouted, taking a step back.
“Hey, hey,”
the figure quickly reassured, slowly moving forward and lowering his raspy
voice as he spoke. “Don’t be ascared, girl. We’re not gonna hurt you.”
“Spider?”
Karen recognized his bug-eyed, boney face, but she hadn’t seen him at school in
over a year. She heard he was locked up.
“Orale!”
he said, looking back. “See, Creeper? I told you this heina was
down.”
A second
figure stepped out of the shadows behind Spider, filling the entryway and
smiling nervously at Karen.
“Hey,
Creeper,” Karen said, smiling and suddenly walking past Spider toward him. “Why
you up so late?” she asked, as if they were old friends. “Don’t you have
homework or something?”
Most likely
confused by the friendliness of her greeting, he shuffled back a step, clearing
the doorway just as Karen hoped he would, and she bolted for the opening.
Spider was
faster and grabbed her from behind. She tried to scream, but his hand was
already covering her mouth.
The Series: Evelyn Hernandez
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