Mortality: Part Four

by Cege Smith

The time for the final medical trial has arrived. Laney is given her objective, which she must accomplish in the time allowed or she forfeits her cure forever. With her enhanced mental and physical abilities from her advanced treatment protocol, Laney is confident of her success.Right away, Laney encounters barriers to her mission that cause her to question how far she’s strayed from her moral compass. With her life and future on the line, can she really do what needs to be done to win her cure? In this predefined game, the odds are stacked against her. She’s about to find out that even if she wins her cure, she can also do so by giving up something else. ********************************** The Mortality Serial is a paranormal suspense serial novel that unfolds over 4 installments. Parts One through Three are available now!

39 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 17, 2014

About the author

Everyone loves a good origin tale. Cege's started when she was eight years old. She snuck out of bed late one night and into the living room to watch TV. Flipping through stations with the volume turned down low, she came across a rerun of a movie called The Exorcist. She was terrified yet mesmerized.

Cege wasn't unfamiliar with the idea of the battle between good and evil. She attended Catholic school in a small town in rural Wisconsin, and at the time knew the 'age appropriate' stories from the Bible. Nothing in those stories prepared her for the visual onslaught of watching the battle between the priests and the demon for the soul of the young Linda Blair. Cege was deeply disturbed by the movie, but nonetheless a seed was planted that night. That seed grew into a rampant fascination with all things supernatural.

Sleepovers turned into B-rated horror film marathons. Her library card was used to bring home piles of books about ghosts and vampires. She still isn't quite sure who she loved first, Stephen King or Freddy Krueger. By the time she was twelve, Cege took a turn at penning her own spooky tales. That love of things that go bump in the night and scare you to death has only grown stronger throughout the years.

The paranormal and supernatural take center stage in all of Cege's stories. Over the years, she has crafted her own origin stories about vampires (the Bloodtruth series), zombies (the Twisted Souls series), and ghosts, angels, and demons (the Shadows series). She's also taken on the folklore around the Fountain of Youth (the Immortal End series beginning with Ageless). There is something for every reader of the paranormal in Cege's books.