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Gabriel's Ghost

In 'Gabriel's Ghost,' readers are taken on a thrilling journey through the unexplained. The narrative explores themes of loss, redemption, and the human spirit's quest for answers. The protagonist's encounters with the ghostly Gabriel force them to confront their own fears and the boundaries of existence. more

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Linnea Sinclair
Linnea Sinclair

Linnea Sinclair is an American science fiction writer born in 1954. Her works are known for their rich imagination and profound thematic exploration, covering a variety of science fiction genres such as space opera, time travel, and futuristic worlds. more

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“You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.”

“My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.”

“Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.”