 This "Horror Lite" novel tells the story of Sydney, a petite red-headed computer whiz with a “checkered past” who decides to say goodbye to her twelve-year-old Toyota and buy a new car. She meets a handsome gas station attendant, Tommy Ross, and—against her better judgment—agrees to travel fifty miles up into the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina with him, to buy a car left to him by his deceased grandmother.
The car, a Volvo with 700 miles on the odometer, is . . . strangely . . . mesmerizing . . . and lulls Sydney into a somewhat intoxicated state. She follows Tommy upstairs to his grandmother’s bedroom, where she is horrified to discover just how the old woman died! But even more shocking is the truth she finds out about Tommy . . . Meanwhile, researchers at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta discover a computer virus that is fatally infecting computer users all over the country! What they do not know is that other computer buffs are suddenly discovering that they have strange new powers! All are beset by frightening nightmares of a wizened old creature they come to call “The Gray Man.” It is he who beckons them to the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and reveals his fate for them ... and for the world! |
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Order from Amazon.com or any major retail book seller. Paperback 220 pages $15.95  |
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Other books by Norah S. Bernard for adolescents and up: |
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Clive & Brie
By Norah S. Bernard Clive is an 11-year-old internet entrepreneur who comes up with a plan to “scam” the “spammers” and beat them at their own game. Brie is his 13-year-old sister, who finds real danger when she accepts an invitation to the school dance from a handsome older high school boy with a shady reputation. Their dad finds an heirloom pistol in the attic and mistakenly tries to clean it ... with disastrous consequences! And Mom gets the lead in a local musical theater production with a surprising turn of events! |
Paperback 176 pages $12.95 |
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Sinners & Social Workers
By Norah S. Bernard
This is the story of eight individuals whose lives ... and deaths ... overlap, as they meet again on the "other side." There, each is given a choice of fates, guided by a variety of characters: priests and rabbis, angels and saints -- and cajoled by the devil himself! |
Paperback 232 pages $15.95 |