Book Title: Dying to Return
Author: Trish Marie Dawson
Release Date: Summer 2013
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Presented by: As You Wish Tours
BLURB
Dying to Return is the 3rd book
in the Young Adult Fantasy The Station
Series. Piper Willow's adventure in the afterlife continues as she
struggles to discover who she is and what is expected of her. Faced with
decisions that could change everything, she must weigh her desire to be with
the ones she has come to love, or satisfy her curiosity and find out what lies
beyond her world with someone new. What Piper experiences and the choices she
makes could not only alter the delicate inner workings of the Station, but the
delicate balance that Piper has managed to maintain inside herself. In the end,
will it all be worth it?
EXCERPT
A heaviness settles over the table and Andella
is no longer giggling. "Why did you do it, Piper Willow?"
"Andella!" her father hisses. He
seems embarrassed for her, but she holds my stare across the wide table. I see
nothing sinister, just simple curiosity in her eyes.
I reach for my blue-tinted glass and sip at
the water. Gulping down air, I try on my best smile and elbow Rush slightly
when I feel his gentle prodding at the locked gates my mind.
"I can't answer that. I mean…" I
pause, allowing myself to reflect, "I guess I do know why. But I don't
know why I thought killing myself was the only option." With a shrug, I
sip more water.
Andella reclines slightly in her chair and
nods. "Unlike my brother," she shoots Rush a warm smile, "I have
not traveled to your world, but I have seen into it. There is much sadness
there. Such a loss of potential. I think you are different though. I think on
some level, you must have known there was something else beyond your life. Did
you not?"
I twirl the fabric napkin on my lap while
considering the question carefully. "I think I just wanted that life to be
over." I feel the tears building up in my eyes as my voice drops to just
above a whisper, "Some people call it Heaven, a better place after life. I
didn't care about Heaven or Hell, I just wanted out."
A large hand reaches toward me and I look
up through my blurred vision to find Andulen's hand atop mine. Rush is also
touching me, and though she's clear across the table, I feel Andella's calming
presence as well.
"Child. You cannot fit your life into
a square coffer. It will find a way to spill out over the sides and explore
that which surrounds it. Even once that coffer is lidded, your life doesn't
cease to exist - you carry on. That is what you have done, Piper Willow. That
is why you sit here with us this evening, eating and drinking and breathing.
Your life - it will always struggle to stay outside that coffer. Do you
understand this?"
I nod at Andulen and smile as he squeezes
my hand before releasing it. My voice wouldn't work even if I had words appropriate
to use, so I sip from my tinted glass again.
"Now. I have serious matters to
discuss about this Earth of yours. The first thing, a question I have had on my
mind since my Son here breached the subject to me." He pauses with his
face set into a hard expression and I gulp. "Can you explain to me what
Rugby is?"
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