Threshold

by Laney Smith

It is said that when one door closes, another one opens. In the Kingsley house, however, the doors close...a lot. Unfortunately, there are also doors that are opened. Especially after Tyson Kingsley finds an old journal that belonged to a voodoo priestess, Addie Lafrachet, from two hundred years ago. Through the entries, Tyson learns that the man who originally owned the home, John Dawson, was a disturbed man that enjoyed torturing and murdering others. The journal paints a horrific picture, including a rape that led to the birth of fraternal twins - one girl and one boy. John orders the death of the baby girl, not knowing about the baby boy. When the baby boy is left on a doorstep, bloodlines become confused and it is up to Tyson to unravel the mystery to find John and Addie's descendants and a box of ashes to finally set the spirits of Rain Hill Mansion free. With one mystery entangling another, Tyson, himself, could become trapped in the threshold between two worlds.

324 pages, Paperback

Published October 31, 2015

About the author

Laney Smith, the mother of two sons, is an American author who was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and raised in Texas. In her teen years, she and her family (including two younger brothers) moved to Colorado. Laney has also lived in Mississippi and currently resides in Southern California. Since a writing career seemed to persistently tug on her shirt tails, Laney eventually decided to try her hand at the art, writing news articles for a local newspaper. After numerous front page features, a new passion was born and the storyteller decided to try her hand at fiction. Her debut work, Lock Creek: One Year’s Time is still one of her most popular, frequently read works, proving that she managed to escape the “first is the worst” curse. In fact, Smith’s Lock Creek series won a “books-to-screen” contest and is currently being adapted for a television series, with other potential “books-to-screen” projects looming on the horizon. At the time of this publication, Laney currently has eight novels to her credit, as well as short stories in two anthology projects (no longer in print). She also released one novel under another pen name. Looking back, Smith’s only regret is that she did not start writing, sooner. When she is not submerging herself in her fictitious worlds, conjuring up riveting stories, Laney enjoys spending time with her family. Whether she is in the mountains, hanging out at tide pools, watching a sporting event, or enjoying some form of art, the writer’s mind is always dreaming up the next page-turning tale. Having accomplished so much in such a short time (Lock Creek: One Year’s Time, her first work, was published July 2014), Laney Smith has found her passion and her calling. The author, with her feet firmly planted, guarantees her readers that she is here to stay.

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Reviews

[Alex Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laney Smith is best known as a Romance Novelist. When I found myself, (ME!), enjoying a romance novel, I knew she was talented. But when I learned that she was crossing over to the dark side, in the writing of ‘Threshold’, I wasn’t sure how this was going to work. I just finished reading ‘Threshold’ at almost midnight, (yikes-the ‘witching hour’!) To my surprise, it worked just fine. It is now official; Laney Smith is as evil an author as they come. She put the protagonist, Tyson Kingsley, (and me), through hell and back just to put us there again! I thought my ‘family’ was twisted, sheeesh! Insanity reigns throughout. The twists and turns this one takes are like riding a roller coaster without a seat belt. It makes you want to get in there and help good defeat evil. Plan on sleeping with the light on!