Devastated by an error which caused an infant’s death, Lilly becomes deathly ill and collapses from loss of blood. She wakes up from emergency surgery with mental telepathic powers. When an extraterrestrial ship crash-lands near her home, she investigates and happens upon a survivor who needs her help. Motivated by guilt-ridden feelings over the baby, she rescues him, catapulting herself into a war between two alien armies. Now the renegade soldiers are on her trail and have marked her for death.
Barbara lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she works full time as a respiratory therapist. When she’s not working with her patients, she’s enjoying a fright flick or working on horror and science fiction tales. Her short stories have appeared in numerous small press magazines. She’s published Night to Dawn magazine since 2004. Other books by Barbara include Twilight Healer and City of Brotherly Death. She’s also coauthored Alien Worlds and Starship Invasions with Tom Johnson. She enjoys bringing her medical background to the printed page, and then blending it with supernatural horror. She maintains a presence on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and The Writers Coffeehouse forum. Look for the photos with the Mylar balloons, and you’ll find her. To contact her, e-mail her at barbaracuster@hotmail.com. Visit her at: www.bloodredshadow.com www.facebook.com/barbara.custer www.linkedin.com/pub/barbara-custer/1...
I think this book could have used an editor and been better than it was. The story was okay at best. It got really repetitive about a third of the way in. I understand that the events described in the first section deeply affected the heroine, but you don't need to hammer it in every other chapter. Also, there are inconsistencies in the storytelling. For some reason, the heroine, with no combat training, and her husband, also with no combat training, are able to defeat an alien that took out a handful of military-trained soldiers easy. Just little things like that... more to come later.