Awaken

By Seven Steps

Phillip Walters life is finally starting to look up. 

After years of fighting court case after court case, his little sister Maggie May's name is finally cleared. But when he arrives at the hospital, strange things start to happen. His sisters eyes are different, her nurse has disappeared, and dead bodies are starting to pile up around him.

When the hospital is plunged into darkness, Phillip must race the clock to find his baby sister, even as a killer is on the lose. 

Can Phillip stay alive long enough to save his sister from what has awakened? 

A THRILLING short story from the author of BEFORE I WAKE.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Seven Steps
• Release date: Jun 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386982555

Seven Steps

"Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me."  -Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare I am just an ordinary girl who loves extraordinary stories. By day, I work in the IT field. By night, I write diverse science fiction and contemporary sweet romance. I also write clean historical romance under the pen name Mildred B. Lewis. Feel free to check out my website and sign up for my mailing list at https://www.sevenstepsauthor.com

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Awaken

Chapter 1

Thunder shook the sky , each roar followed by a brilliant flash of lightning.

Phillip Walters hunched over the steering wheel, his body shivering from the icy air that blew through the car. His air conditioner was broken again. No matter what setting he used, the temperature was always the same, arctic. He didn’t know what was worse: the blazing hot, sticky air outside the car, or the frigid air within.

There are worse things, he thought with a grimace. The AC might not work at all.

The storm rolled and rumbled through the streets of Chicago, sending papers flying and turning the city a strange shade of tangerine. Black windshield wipers squeaked as they tossed rain away from the glass. The Rolling Stones’, Sympathy for the Devil, played softly on the streaming radio. Every so often, the ear splitting thunder intercut with the beat of the bongos and the groove of the electric guitar.

Phillip rhythmically tapped his fingers on the steering wheel. He was just coming up on his favorite part when a digitized voice interrupted the song. It was the fifth interruption in the past sixty minutes. Blowing out a breath, Phillip straightened his spine, ran his hand through his midnight black hair, and checked to see if any of the other cars were watching his impromptu drum solo. No one