Böcker av Leslie Edgewater

Jenna Harris is an Air Force Meteorologist. Fleets of aircraft are dispatched based upon her data interpretations. It is important for her to perform at the top of her game, but she can’t seem to get back there. Her commanding officer is threatening a general discharge, but has decided upon a medical leave of absence to give her time to try to get her life back together.Jenna is plagued by flashbacks from the day her son drowned in Carlyle Lake. The visions are random, life-like, and paralyzing. There he is, face up in the eddy, just beyond her reach, swirling around in the water. And then he’s gone. Over and over she hears him whisper, “I’ll wait for you, Mommy!”She remembers endlessly scouring the banks. Emotions resurface as she relives overturning every rock, wading through every weed and backwater, and snorkeling what seems like every inch of the lake. What has she missed? Where is he?Feeling as if she is going mad, Jenna confides in Ivy, a long-time friend with no ties to the military. To her surprise, she is referred to a Phoenix clinic to meet the Brain Stormers. The clinic is known to everyday heroes as a place to heal spiritually and emotionally. Veterans, active duty military and first responders are able to get help fully reintegrating into the lives they lived before suffering trauma. With nothing but time on her hands, Jenna decides to make the journey. Who and what will she encounter there?There is no one like Maura anywhere else in the world, at least that Bella knows of. She can touch a person’s arm and clearly see the troubling idea that holds them back. With the help of her deceased grandmother’s thought transfer technology, Bella will substitute for Maura in clinic today.With the help of the experimental bands, Bella identifies the thought that Jenna cannot reconcile. But an unanticipated side-effect of the technology is that Jenna can also see into Bella. Their impressions forge an undeniable bond that catapults them into the adventure of a lifetime, one they will not undertake alone.Maddie is Bella’s oldest granddaughter, next in the bloodline to inherit the gift. Her telepathic abilities allow her to communicate with her grandmother and others like her. Only four years old, it is difficult for the young psychic to distinguish some of the voices she continuously hears. She has no filters and feels no fear.When the mastermind group discovers that Tanner has been talking to Maddie telepathically, they decide to help Jenna find out what happened to her son. They believe that he could actually still be alive. Their research leads them into uncharted waters.Will what began as a mission to recover a body turn into an unprecedented rescue attempt? How would their success impact beliefs about what’s happening in the invisible? Are the Brain Stormers willing to risk it all? Is the world ready to accept the truth about Tanner? Are the inhabitants of Hidden Harbor ready for what comes next?

Unexplainable things were happening to and around Bella. She couldn't talk about them with just anybody. There were only a few trusted insiders, the brain stormers, who would take her seriously. In their absence, she had no one to confide in. In the past weeks she had been unable to have a telepathic conversation with Maddie or Gran, and couldn't seem to get her energy back. Her gift was changing, and she attributed it to her journey into and out of the vortex.The closest examples to what Bella experienced were the sun miracles reported at Medjugorje, a phenomenon explained as a religious or mystical experience. What happened with Bella could be described similarly, but she wasn't praying when it happened. She was sitting in a boat underneath a bridge at sunset. Two things these experiences had in common were the extraordinary sunsets and the feeling of being transported somewhere else for a short time.It's funny how you can play with words to manipulate meaning. Bella could say that she had experienced something without admitting that she'd participated in an event. But it was splitting hairs. It was impossible to define what took place. If things were as they appeared, she took a trip. But where did she go? Did she travel in time, to the past or future? Or did she drift downstream into some remote off-chute along the Mississippi? An even bigger question was, could she ever go back?Bruce was frustrated because he felt that Bella shut him out completely. Why would she do something like that? They were a thing. There must be more to the story. Maybe she was hurt or in some kind of trouble. After careful deliberation, he contacted the brain stormers to see what they were able to intuit. It was another dead end. As a last resort, he flew to St. Louis to find out what was going on.When he arrived at her home, Bruce found evidence that she'd left in a hurry. For one thing, her packed bags were sitting by the door. Where would she go for weeks without them? There were fresh foods spoiling on the counters and in the refrigerator. She didn't do things like that. It didn't add up.Lounging by the pool and drowning her sorrows in chocolate, Bella wondered why Bruce just up and left without a word. Even though they weren't legally committed to each other, they were inseparable, best friends. They joked about being friends with benefits, but they both knew they were a matched set. She understood why he hadn't reached her in the past two days, her phone was dead. But what about the weeks prior? These past months were magic. There was no forewarning, no hint that he needed space. It wasn't like him.Returning to business as usual was difficult. As it turned out, other members of the mastermind group had been channeling a string of numbers, too. Each of the psychics had received them in different fashion, but it was the same group of numbers Bella received. When they put their heads together, and Bella recounted her experiences, things began to fall into place. It was a calling.Partnered with other members of the mastermind group, the circle of trust expanded. Their vision and mission broadened. Their destination became clear. Where it lead them wasn't on any map. What they agreed to undertake was the adventure of a lifetime, a trip into the invisible.

Staring at the clouds through the airplane window, Bella tried to imagine what her grandmother's house looked like. She visualized a small cottage with a white picket fence, a covered porch with an old rocker, and lush flower gardens. Anna Neusa was 96 when she died, and outlived her only daughter, Bella's mother. Why hadn't Mom and Grandma kept in touch over the years? What could've happened between them that separated them for life?Since they'd only met twice, Bella was surprised to be notified that she had inherited the estate. How had the law firm gotten her address? Social media probably helped. Bella was an author, and Sanders Publishing, her agency, was all over the internet. One great thing about being in the book business was that, with the right equipment, you could work from anywhere. And Bella supposed she might be in Phoenix for a while.Nothing prepared her for her arrival at Grandmother's. Bella's ideas of Anna Neusa were a mismatch to what she saw. How could a fortune teller, as she was called in family circles, live such a large life? From the start, finding out was unnerving. It challenged everything she'd been taught to believe about life, death, the seen and unseen.In league with the presence of her grandmother, Bella finally uncovered a 50-year-old secret that upended her beliefs. She was next in the psychic lineage and her gift was beginning to unfold. Suddenly, invisible phenomena, mysticism, science and metaphysics become mainstream. Entangled in a cycle of unending questions, Bella was swept up into the high tech world of iris and thumbprint authentication, hidden chambers and secret devices designed to further experiments in thought transfer.Was Grandmother actually related to Nikola Tesla? Her unpatented technologies piggybacked his ideas about energy movement. But Anna's interests were aimed at a different type of greater good, helping people identify their brain storms, the thoughts that prevented them from moving forward. Military personnel, veterans and first responders seemed to find their way to Anna's clinic. Although they had already completed all the conventional treatments, they were still unable to live fully. With the use of original inventions, multidimensional communication, and the gift, healers accompanied these everyday heroes over the final hurdles: mending spirits, renewing faith and rediscovering passion.As the scope of Bella's responsibilities unfolded, she became intimate with the patriot plight and aligned herself with Gran's mastermind group. The circle was composed of psychics and other brain stormers. The seer, the interdimensional medium, and the shaman provided unique, highly specialized insights into their patient's problems. Others, including Bella's sexy, skinny-dipping neighbor, Bruce, offered other types of awareness. Called the Michelangelo of wood, he chiseled away the layers that covered the masterpieces, a coveted talent in wood sculpting and in life redesign. As patients chipped away ideas that didn't serve them, the lives they dreamed of began to unfold.The Unfolding is book 1 in The Brain Storm Series.Other Books in The Brain Storm Series, also in production, are: Resurrected, In Medias Res: Into the Middle of Things, and Hidden Harbor.Other books by bestselling author Leslie Edgewater include All the Dark Corners.

Awakened by her growling dog, Loren Waters finds herself alone, unarmed, and in danger ... Footsteps on the porch, a shadow outside her bedroom window, and the sound of the door being opened by someone uninvited, cast Loren into a state of unspeakable terror. Trying to absorb what happens next, leaves her physically and mentally wounded. Shocked, speechless and inconsolable, Loren struggles to give Officers Carter and Zimmerman the facts behind the crime. Caught up in a broken justice system, Loren fights for her safety, privacy, and right to a normal life... Now Loren is afraid because she knows that out there, in some dark corner, her stalker is watching. Feeling unsafe, Loren lives looking over her shoulder. Why can't the police protect her? Why are people close to her reluctant to help? Disillusioned by the system, Loren considers taking justice into her own hands. A first-hand experience of victims' rights, or lack thereof, keeps Loren in the halls of domestic violence and criminal court. Feeling threatened and alone, she arms herself with knowledge, and sets out to prove the case against her stalker. As violence escalates, Officers Carter and Zimmerman discover a surprisingly complex web of deception. How will it all unravel?