The Shackled

by Devon De'Ath

What happens if you die, but you can't let go?

Samantha Riley let go, but found herself sent back.
Now she is estranged from her religious family. Cast out for wayward behaviour. Cut off for holding to a near-death experience that questions the certainty of their faith.

Saddled with a new, unwanted gift to guide earthbound spirits to the light, Samantha lives a hand-to-mouth existence as she walks out a mandate she can't escape.

Meanwhile, a stranded, bereaved and departed husband will do anything to bring his wife back to the half-light.

All that would be challenge enough to resolve on its own. But something dark in the world between has noticed Samantha's activities and isn't happy...

352 pages, ebook

Published September 17, 2019

About the author

Devon De’Ath was born in the county of Kent, ‘The Garden of England.’ Raised a Roman Catholic in a small, ancient country market community famously documented as ‘the most haunted TOWN in England,’ he grew up in an atmosphere replete with spiritual, psychic, and supernatural energy. Hauntings were commonplace and you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting three spectres, to the extent that he never needed question the validity of such manifestations. As to the explanations behind them?

At the age of twenty, his earnest search for spiritual truth led the young man to leave Catholicism and become heavily involved in Charismatic Evangelicalism. After serving as a part-time youth pastor while working in the corporate world, he eventually took voluntary redundancy to study at a Bible College in the USA. Missions in the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa followed, but a growing dissatisfaction with aspects of the theology and ministerial abuse by church leadership eventually caused him to break with organised religion and pursue a Post-Evangelical existence. One open to all manner of spiritual and human experiences his ‘holy’ life would never have allowed.

After church life, De’Ath served fifteen years with the police, lectured at colleges and universities, and acted as a consultant to public safety agencies both foreign and domestic.

A writer since he first learned the alphabet, Devon De’Ath has authored works in many genres under various names, from Children’s literature to self-help books, through screenplays for video production and all manner of articles.

Reviews

[Terry McGouldrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

KEEP WITH IT

At first, I thought this was a quite confusing read. But I stuck with it and I'm glad I did. Eventually, all is explained.

[DELIA SHEPPARD · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good reads

Truly enjoyed reading, good old scary stuff. I have enjoyed reading All of this author,s books. His characters are down to earth people with every day issues. Not to unbelievable. Will continue to read his books.

[Brenda Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok book

I'm book I don't normally read this kind of book. It left alot to be desired. The story kelp jumping back and forth.

[Mimi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Couldn’t put it down

I liked the way the “lives” of each character was included, and I will tell anyone who loves a good story to pick this one up