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Opus
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This is a fiction/Horror novel about a teenage girl from Bangor, Maine, who goes away with her parents for a summer vacation and is attacked in the the woods of the resort, by an unknown demon. She later discovers that she is pregnant and is confused as to how it happened, because she remembers that she was alone in the woods the night the attack took place. Jocelyn decides to keep her child and notices that she is going through many strange changes with her body. After Opus is born, Jocelyn soon learns that her son is anything but normal. He has a growing rage inside of him that nobody seems to understand. When he gets upset or angry, he cries blood red tears. He has urges to kill and cant seem to control himself enough to stop. After he takes each life, he can not remember what he has done. Jocelyn begins to lose people around her, one by one, either due to their death or because she refuses to do anything about her out of control son, causeing them to walk out of her life. Jocelyn spends most of her time covering up her sons killings and lying for him. She begins to make exuses as to why it is, people they know seem to keep disappearing around them. Over time Jocelyn becomes so obsessed with the notion of her son being, "A good boy", that she too becomes isolated and possessed along with her son. In the end, children are just not strong enough to control their urges, and sometimes parents go too far trying to help them.

Sometimes Children are good natured...And sometimes they are just born evil. ~C.A. Almeida
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMar 30, 2009
ISBN9781469105314
Opus
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C.A. Almeida

The author lives in, Maine with her two children, Wesley and Whitley and their two Boston Terriers, "Master Duke" & "Baby Doll". Along with her writing, the author enjoys the art of photography, and someday plans to open a gallery in Maine where she can sell her prints. Cherie is a big animal lover and enjoys raising and breeding her Boston Terriers while spending quality time with her family. She is currently working on her third horror novel and putting the finishing touches to volumes 2 & 3, of her poetry book series. In the near future, she also plans to release some books of her photography as well. If you would like to view more of her writing and photography, you can do so by visiting her websites, which are listed down below. www.myspace.com/authorccalmeida http://www.facebook.com/author.ca.almeida http://www.poetry.com/user/14352462/

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