Dying Breath

By Jeff Coleman

A place of waiting.

The thought echoes over and over again through Jerome's mind. Waking in a barn with no memory of where he's come from, it is his only clue. But before he even has time to think, sleep bears down on him, and when he opens his eyes again, he's someone else.

A soldier one moment, a financial analyst the next. A little girl. An old man. With each life Jerome experiences, he remembers something else of his own. Flashes of a bright light. A hospital bed. A mysterious woman named Darlene.

But what does it mean? What does each life have in common? Most importantly, what can it tell Jerome about himself?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeff Coleman
• Release date: Jul 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781945997099

Jeff Coleman

My name is Jeff and I write modern fantasy.We have some things in common, you and I. Like you, I’m attracted to stories that reveal the extraordinary circumstances that hide in the shadow of ordinary life. Like you, I discovered long ago that “ordinary” is only a thin veneer, that once you've scratched the surface, you’ll unearth strange exotic worlds that have lain under our noses for eons, waiting for us to stumble on them by accident.

Book preview

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He opened his eyes to a sand-colored staircase burrowing down into the ground. It was probably over a hundred and fourteen degrees, and rapids of sweat cascaded down his face and neck. Alongside him stood Lieutenant Edwards, Captain Pruit, and six other privates whom he didn’t know. His own name was Private Williams, known to those back home as Steve, husband and father to three little girls who were all waiting for him to return safe and sound.

They’d marched into Baghdad more than a year ago. Back then, they’d all been optimistic that the Second Iraq War would be a short one. But armed opposition against coalition forces had only increased. And though they’d secured the capital, they quickly learned that toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime had been the least of their