Grace Rising

Book excerpt: Grace Willow is on the brink of suicide. She is widowed, raising a young son, struggling with mental illness and a prescription drug addiction. Her desperate world is turned upside down after an encounter with a mysterious stranger claiming to be a family member, who also happens to be dead, gives her a gift that changes her forever. Grace discovers the family secret that leads her into a world she cannot possibly imagine where her greatest nightmares become reality. A world where terrifying and deadly creatures are real. When her hometown, the picturesque southern town of Chattanooga, Tennessee is threatened to be taken over by vampires, Grace unwittingly discovers she the only person in the world who can fight them. She grapples with her mental illness and how to keep safe the new family that has come into her life who knows her secret. A secret that dates back a thousand years. She must fight to survive while secretly wishing she was dead. Her problems become much larger than her mental illness. In her frantic battle to save others she must find the hero inside herself.