Deadly Dreams

By Jennifer Smith

Leah Reynolds finds herself fighting off dream demons that feel more real than like a nightmare.

Now she’s dreaming of a young girl with a butterfly tattoo on her back, running from a monster.

She wakes up screaming, sweaty, and afraid that the monster is going to catch the girl eventual-ly. And then one day, she turns on the news, and there’s the picture of the girl. And she’s been murdered.

Now Leah doesn’t know what to do. Should she tell the cop she’s seen on TV? And if she does, will the monster find out and be chasing her next?

Chase Montgomery is a seasoned homicide cop and what’s going on in his city isn’t sitting well with him. But now he’s got the mayor on his back to solve the murders, and now he’s got some nut who thinks she’s a psychic telling him she knows who the murderer is going to kill next. May-be he should use her information as bait.

Maybe it’ll draw the murderer out if he thinks the cops have a psychic working the case. But it would be a lot easier to handle if the psychic didn’t cause him to have dreams at night that have nothing to do with the case!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shh Publishing
• Release date: Oct 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310166761

Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith married Aaron, her best friend, in 2007. Their first few years of marriage were challenging in many ways; however, God helped reconcile their marriage relationship. Jennifer began sharing positive encouragement for marriage through UnveiledWife.com in March 2011. With her husband’s support and help, she has traditionally published The Unveiled Wife and self-published a thirty-day marriage devotional titled Wife After God, as well as 31 Prayers for My Husband, 31 Prayers for My Future Husband, and 31 Prayers for My Son and Daughter. Aaron and Jennifer have been working together as a team for the last decade, using their giftings to produce over ten books and help others draw closer to God through their website marriageaftergod.com. The Smiths are eager to continue working together to fulfill God’s purpose for their marriage by publishing Christian marriage books and resources and hosting a weekly Marriage After God podcast as a means to inspire others in their marriage and faith journey. They live with their five young children in central Oregon.

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Deadly Dreams

By: Jennifer Smith

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Leah Reynolds finds herself fighting off dream demons that feel more real than like a nightmare. Now she’s dreaming of a young girl with a butterfly tattoo on her back, running from a monster. She wakes up screaming, sweaty, and afraid that the monster is going to catch the girl eventually. And then one day, she turns on the news, and there’s the picture of the girl. And she’s been murdered. Now Leah doesn’t know what to do. Should she tell the cop she’s seen on TV? And if she does, will the monster find out and be chasing her next?

Chase Montgomery is a seasoned homicide cop and what’s going on in his city isn’t sitting well with him. But now he’s got the mayor on his back to solve the murders, and now he’s got some nut who thinks she’s a psychic telling him she knows who the murderer is going to kill next. Maybe he should use her information as bait. Maybe it’ll draw the murderer out if he thinks the cops have a psychic working the case. But it would be a lot easier to handle if the psychic didn’t cause him to have dreams at night that have nothing to do with the case!

Table of Contents

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Chapter One Nightmares

Chapter Two The Law

Chapter Three The Bad Guy

Chapter Four Roses

Chapter Five The Kill

Chapter Six Another Body

Chapter Seven Visions

Chapter Eight Hunting

Chapter Nine Monster

Chapter Ten Butterfly

Chapter Eleven Working Out

Chapter Twelve Hero

Chapter Thirteen Roses For My Girls

Chapter Fourteen Fantasy

Chapter Fifteen Falling In Love

Chapter Sixteen It’s Monday & Another Murder

Chapter Seventeen Fear

Chapter Eighteen It Gives Me the Willies

Chapter Nineteen Plans

Chapter Twenty Love In Bloom

Chapter Twenty-One Stalker

Chapter Twenty-Two Closer

Chapter Twenty-Three Kidnapped

Chapter Twenty-Four Frantic

Chapter Twenty-Five The Search

Chapter Twenty-Six Hostage

Chapter Twenty-Seven The Hunt

Chapter Twenty-Eight The Thunder Rolls

Chapter Twenty-Nine Home

Epilogue

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Chapter One

Nightmares

She ran for her life. The pitch black darkness closed in around her, robbing her of the air she was trying so desperately to suck into her lungs. Yet she continued to run with her hands before her, feeling her way, hoping the ground wouldn't disappear from beneath her feet, hoping there was nothing in her path. The muscles in her thighs burned, her legs were getting heavier and heavier, she could hardly lift them anymore.

Her heart pounded in her chest, it pounded in her head. The only thing she could hear was her own breathing, the pounding of her heart, and the pounding of her feet against the dry, hard ground. She had to get away, she had to keep running. The monster was chasing her. Again.

He was getting closer and closer. If she stopped now, he would have her. And then he would kill her. He would wrap his hands around her neck and squeeze the life out of her. He was strong, so strong. Her throat was sore from screaming, from trying to keep up this pace, from trying to outrun him. She didn’t have much time left, she could feel him reaching for her, could feel him closing in. And then…

Lea Reynolds sat up in bed, fists flying as she fought off an imaginary beast. She opened her eyes and frantically scanned the room. Gulping for breath, sweat pouring off of her, she struggled to come fully awake. A dream, she thought. But a very, very bad dream. She switched on the light by the bed, chasing away the shadows. She was home. She was in her own bed. There were no monsters. There was nothing chasing her. No matter how real the danger had seemed, she was safe from the monster that pursued her, but somewhere, someone else was not so lucky. The thought made her sick in the pit of her stomach.

She hated the dreams. She hated them because she knew that someone somewhere was running from a very real monster and she couldn't help them. She'd had the peculiar ability since she was very young. At around age three she'd dreamed that her uncle had gotten into a motorcycle accident. In that particular dream, her uncle had blood on his face, blood on his hands, and he was coming after her. A few days later her father's oldest brother had gotten into an accident on a motorcycle and when he came to their house after he’d gotten out of the hospital, he'd frightened her. His face was scabbed over, red and raw. His arms and his hands were also scabby and raw from where he had rolled across the pavement. That had been her first precognitive dream.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the last.

She'd spent most of her childhood and teenage years being afraid of the dreams; the dream that her grandmother would die; the dream that her cousin would be killed in an accident; the dreams of other accidents; the dreams of people she didn’t know, people she couldn't tell; people she couldn't warn.

Back then, she'd believed that she was the reason those bad things happened to people. She’d thought it was her fault, that she'd dreamed them into reality. She thought it was her fault when people were hurt and it was her fault when people died.

When she'd gotten older, she learned how to turn the dreams off. She used alcohol. She used drugs. But she'd also found she couldn’t live her life and be happy while in a drug or alcohol-induced haze all the time. So she'd gotten clean and sober, and then the dreams returned. She sought professional help, and she'd sat in a psychiatrist's office three times a week, month after month, and when that hadn’t worked, she'd gone to psychics.

And finally, there, she’d found understanding, she’d found a friend in Iris

Collins, and she’d found someone who was willing to help her. She learned how to turn the dreams off without using drugs or alcohol. She learned how to distance herself from them, and when the dreams wouldn't turn themselves off, she learned how to change the channels on them. She learned how to wake herself up when the channels wouldn’t change. She learned how to differentiate between regular nightmares and the ones that meant something.

It had been a long time since she'd had any dreams of the scary kind that she couldn't turn off, that she couldn't change the channel. Lying back down in her bed, she kept the lamp on and her eyes open. The soft light held back the monsters while Lea waited for daylight. An hour later, sunrise brought warm golden rays filtering through the windows. Taking a deep breath, Lea sighed with relief. She got out of bed, went to the bathroom, showered and dressed, and got ready for the day, all the while pondering her latest dream.

It was impossible to ignore them when she knew they most definitely. meant something. And this one definitely meant something bad. But there was nothing she could do about it now, not until she knew what might lay ahead.

She slipped her feet into her shoes and went to the garage, locked the door behind her and started her car, then made the short drive to the flower shop she owned. She enjoyed her job. Working with flowers and plants gave her peace of both spirit and mind. And peace was one of the things she'd had very little of in her life. There was something very calming about creating the arrangements, something almost therapeutic about digging in the soil. The simple tasks gave her a sense of self, a sense of belonging, and a sense of normalcy. And all she ever wanted was to be normal, to not have the dreams, and to not wake up terrified in the middle of the night.

Flipping the sign over that said she was open for business, she began setting flowerpots and potted plants out in front of the store. The sun peeked through a hole in the thunderheads and reflected off the crystals hanging in the windows. The gentle breeze that would soon be a brisk wind moved the chimes, allowing them to sing. Lea took a deep breath and