The One Apart
By: Justine Avery
Genre: Paranormal
Publisher: Justine Avery
Date of Publication: December 4, 2017
ASIN: B076B7RDWY
Number of pages: 568
Word Count: 109k
Cover Artist: Oishii Designs
Only one obstacle stands in his way of enjoying a normal life. He remembers—every life he's lived before.
Book Description:
Tres is about to be born... with the biggest burden any has ever had to bear. He is beginning again—as an ageless adult trapped in an infant body.
He and his teenage mother face life filled with extraordinary challenges as they strive to protect, nurture, and hide how truly different he is. But Tres alone must solve the greatest mystery of all: who is he? The answer is linked to the one question he's too afraid to ask: why am I?
In his quest, Tres discovers that all is considerably more interconnected and dynamic than he could ever imagine—and fraught with far more danger. He cannot hide from the unseen threat stalking him since his birth.
Life as he knows it—as all know it—is in peril. And Tres is the only one aware.
The
One Apart by Justine Avery – Excerpt 2
A casual knock pre-empted the
arrival of an attending nurse. Sancha heard the sounds of a metal cart rolled
in, its wheels locked in place at her bedside. She took a quick puff of air and
released it as the knuckles of her fists began to turn white.
She heard a rustling of linens,
then Maria leaning toward her from her chair on the opposite side of the bed.
Something heavy and warm was laid
against Sancha’s arm.
“Sancha...” Maria pleaded this
time. “Please.”
Sancha squirmed against the
uncomfortable pressure on her arm.
“I can’t let you live the rest of
your life,” Maria whispered, “knowing you never even saw him.”
Sancha swallowed. Her breathing
quickened. She rolled her lips between her teeth. And she opened her eyes—as
slowly as humanly possible.
The brightest pair of crystalline
blue eyes stared back at her.
They blinked tenderly, giving
away how new to blinking they actually were. Their steady gaze pierced straight
through to something rooted within Sancha.
The eyes blinked again,
temporarily cutting off the intense connection before opening again to resume
it. Sancha rested on her bed in silence, mesmerized by the novice rhythm of
blinking resembling Morse code.
Every muscle in her body relaxed.
Her mouth began to form an unthinkable smile. She couldn’t help herself.
The baby—her baby—beamed at her with his big, round eyes and flooded her
with the total contentment and perfect peace that wafts only from brand-new
life.
Justine Avery is an award-winning author of stories large and small for all. Born in the American Midwest and raised all over the world, she is inherently an explorer, duly fascinated by everything around her and excitedly noting the stories that abound all around. As an avid reader of all genres, she weaves her own stories among them all. She has a predilection for writing speculative fiction and story twists and surprises she can’t even predict herself.
Avery has either lived in or explored all 50 states of the union, over 36 countries, and all but one continent; she lost count after moving 30-some times before the age of 20. She’s intentionally jumped out of airplanes and off the highest bungee jump in New Zealand, scuba dived unintentionally with sharks, designed websites, intranets, and technical manuals, bartered with indigenous Panamanians, welded automobile frames, observed at the Bujinkan Hombu Dojo in Noba, Japan, and masterminded prosperous internet businesses—to name a few adventures. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree that life has never required, and at age 28, she sold everything she owned and quit corporate life—and her final “job”—to freelance and travel the world as she always dreamed of. And she’s never looked back.
Aside from her native English, Avery speaks a bit of Japanese and a bit more Spanish, her accent is an ever-evolving mixture of Midwestern American with notes of the Deep South and indiscriminate British vocabulary and rhythm, and she says “eh”—like the Kiwis, not the Canadians. She currently lives near Los Angeles with her husband, British film director Devon Avery, and their three adopted children: Becks, Sam, and Lia. She writes from wherever her curiosity takes her.
Avery loves to connect with fellow readers and creatives, explorers and imaginers, and cordially invites you to say “hello”—or konnichiwa.
Twitter: @Justine_Avery
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