A diverse group of seven people takes shelter in the abandoned confines of an old cotton plantation, with an infamous past, as a powerful hurricane sweeps over the eastern seaboard. Each person found themselves at that moment in time through many varying paths. They quickly find out the relic house’s reputation is more than just old tales as they become imprisoned within the walls by what can only be described as supernatural means.

Tempers flare after there is an unexplained death causing a fracture of the short-lived unity and alliances to start forming. Each character questions themselves and one another, unsure of who can be trusted. Everyone believes there is a murderer in their midst and no one is safe. Despite their differences, they come to find out they all have one thing in common; someone in their lives had died under suspicious circumstances.

Events take a turn for the worse as the supernatural occurrences begin to increase in frequency and severity. Hallucinations, visions, and possible premonitions afflicting each character start disintegrating their perception of what is real and what is imaginary. Each person struggles with their own sanity as their mental tether to reality starts to fray. The line between past and present becomes obscured, bleeding together into an incoherent blur.

As the body count continues to grow, the veil between them and the afterlife seems to grow thinner as the inhabitants from each side find their way into the other. With each death, the survivors continually ask themselves who is the killer within the group and what lengths they are willing to go to ensure their own survival.

From Book 1: Hundreds of years in the future, the world hangs in a precarious balance between the last three cities on Earth: the upper city, the lower city, and the fallen city. Each location serves a purpose for the continuation of the human species as they fight a scourge of vicious man-eaters that has driven humans to near extinction. The populace within the cities have a dedicated job in protecting the last oasis of human life. Ellie, a resident of the lower city, faces the challenge every immune child must make as they reach adulthood, a decision that will change the outcome of their entire existence. Their life path has only two options: training to become a street-head, a protector of the city, or the illustrious job of transforming themselves into an elite brain-dead. The latter has the most important job of all: tempting death outside the defensive walls that encompass the cities to gather the most valuable object in this post-apocalyptic future: the cure to the virus. Will Ellie pick the common choice of becoming a street-head, allowing her to stay inside the relatively safe city walls? Or will she risk everything, including almost certain death, to become a brain-dead in exchange for a priceless prize?

Lynn Taylor takes her faithful readers on a poetic journey through lifetime experiences. Some happy, some sad, a few poems reflecting spurts of overwhelming euphoria while others showcase heartache or even crippling bouts of depression. Every experience was transformative, nevertheless.

These same experiences are relatable to people from all walks of life. As all of us step through the various milestones of life, we experience personal traumas and successes that mold our malleable souls into the person we will eventually become. Take a stroll in our author's shoes as she details her own growing pains.

Follow along the poems that not only outline leaps and bounds of personal transformation, but also self help. The reader jumps into the rollercoaster with Lynn as she is pushed through the bumpy beginning of adulthood—she faces, and ultimately overcomes the hurdles that life begins to throw at us as she transitions from her childhood self into the influential person she was destined to be.

Sage is a single mother who is struggling to make ends meet and provide a fruitful life for her small family. Seemingly trapped between every curveball life launches in her direction and an underwhelming career that barely allows her to scrape by, she constantly battles the chaos within her mind in what feels like an endless internal struggle for tranquility. Every day is a fight to wear a brave face around everyone she refuses to allow into her life in a desperate attempt to shroud the depression that sits on the periphery of her consciousness.

When another disastrous pitfall arises, a kindhearted woman enters Sage’s life, turning everything upside down and challenging her mindset of isolationism. Sage begins to question who she is and what she believes in as her reservations about others, and life in general, begins to crumble. Things only get more convoluted when she searches for answers in a place she expects comradery and support, but is only met with hostility and disdain. She reaches the precipice of emotional ruin after being rejected by several religious institutions and can only lean back on her newest friendships.

Sage is forced to examine her past hardships that drove her into her current existence and if she has the willpower to shift her outlook. The longer she dwells on these deep dives of self-reflection the more she ponders her overall perseverance to find happiness and inner peace. She begins to wonder if happiness is even a possible outcome for herself. Can Sage incorporate these lessons into her daily paradigm, or will life’s everyday challenges prove insurmountable, crushing her determination, and ultimately becoming consumed by the constant barrage of modern-day life?

Heather is a 23-year-old New Yorker stuck in a bumpy rut in life. Between her overbearing boss in an unsatisfying corporate job and a sense of romantic failure after the loss of true love from self-sabotage, Heather has virtually given up on happiness. When her neighbor entices her with a new up-and-coming drug that promises vibrant, lucid dreaming, Heather thinks she has found an easy, chemical relief from her day-to-day existence.

What starts off as innocent dreaming of the perfect life quickly shifts into the realm of the supernatural. Taking ever-increasing doses of this unknown substance, Heather forces herself deeper into her dreamscape, trying to escape her woes of reality. When she becomes imprisoned within her mind, she is guided by her conscience to the realization that to successfully shed her mental chains of confinement, Heather will have to battle all the internal demons that have been created from her external trauma, including herself.

Mindscape is a story many of us can relate to. Heather realizes there is no running from life’s problems. Her neglected past even manages to worm its way into her vivid dreams and morph them into nightmares that haunted her from childhood into adulthood. Heather realizes it isn’t life that is the problem, it’s how she’s living her life.

By addressing Heather’s soul self, an amalgamation of her inner child wanting peace, tranquility, and happiness; and her adult self that is battle-scarred and believes the world has a personal vendetta against her, Heather is able to personally transform herself and her psyche. Her actions of self-help eventually begin the healing process her soul needs to accept the scars that life has dealt and although they are a part of her, they do not define her. Heather’s arduous trials in her dreams begin to shift her reality into one she’d been dreaming of.

When a horrific event takes place at a public school, several teens are left wondering...why? Why did the villain do what they did? Why did they feel the need to go to such lengths and for what? Were there red flags before the incident happened? The fallen are mourned, the survivors are healing and the killer is forever guilty. Who could it be and why did they do it?

This novel chronicles something that is a taboo concept in society today. This psychological fiction story follows each individual student as they progress through their high school career. Each character has woes in their life that would seem to throw them off balance, but only one ultimately falls off the deep end.

The mystery and suspense of this thrilling, fictional novel only ratchets up as it grows closer to the climax. The reader is left guessing until the very end—when the true enemy is revealed. Those who survive are left to sort out their emotions in the aftermath. They are forced to cross-examine themselves to try and uncover the critical signs they missed that ended in pure tragedy.