Something Radiates: A Novel

"Brenda Smith infuses her thriller with elements of urban fantasy and new age wisdom, as if Deepak Chopra rewrote Twilight." - Andy Johnson, Author of Wince, Two-Time 2013 Pushcart Prize Nominee SOMETHING RADIATES, A Genre-bending Paranormal Thriller From lusty swamp romps to dream invasions and psychic battles of will, this mother’s quest for love and survival will yank you from the psychedelic fringes of nirvana to demented stalker hell and back again. Telepathic dreamer Sarah Stevens worked for fourteen years to build the courage to leave her cruel husband Dietrich Peters, and four more years to build a life for her and her two teenage sons in steamy Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Just as Sarah meets a good man she could fall in love with in a heartbeat, Dietrich barges back into her life, and Sarah is not about to put up with it. But Dietrich will not be deterred. He invades her home, her dreams, her mind, and he grows more threatening with each passing hour. Sarah fights tenaciously for her family and freedom but soon has trouble separating the emotional turmoil dredged up by Dietrich from the terrifying reality that engulfs her. Sarah must revisit her abused past, learn new psychic skills, and summon all her untapped mental and spiritual resources for the fight of her life. A new cult classic

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SOMETHING RADIATES, A Genre-bending Paranormal Thriller From lusty swamp romps to dream invasions and psychic battles of will, this mother's quest for love and survival will yank you from the psychedelic fringes of nirvana to demented stalker hell and back again. Telepathic dreamer Sarah Stevens worked for fourteen years to build the courage to leave her cruel husband Dietrich Peters, and four more years to build a life for her and her two teenage sons in steamy Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Just as Sarah meets a good man she could fall in love with in a heartbeat, Dietrich barges back into her life, and Sarah is not about to put up with it. But Dietrich will not be deterred. He invades her home, her dreams, her mind, and he grows more threatening with each passing hour. Sarah fights tenaciously for her family and freedom but soon has trouble separating the emotional turmoil dredged up by Dietrich from the terrifying reality that engulfs her. Sarah must revisit her abused past, learn new psychic skills, and summon all her untapped mental and spiritual resources for the fight of her life. A new cult classic.

About the Author

Brenda Marie Smith studied fiction in the UCLA Writers Program. Something Radiates is her first novel - she self-published it after raising the funds via the Indiegogo crowd-funding site. She has two more novels underway: The Death of Us, a true-to-life apocalyptic tale, and Reality Resonates, a sequel to Something Radiates. Brenda has lived in Austin, Texas for thirty-three years. Prior to that she was a member of The Farm (a vegan hippie commune based in Tennessee, where she studied spiritual phenomena and her sons were delivered by midwives, including the famed Ina May Gaskin). In Austin, she helped to found Soy Foods of Texas (maker of tofu salads still available today), the Austin Peace and Justice Coalition, Mockingbird Productions (a concert promotion company), and Green Earth Oil Distributors (a supplier of biodegradable motor oil). She was General Manager of the Inter-Cooperative Council (student housing co-ops near UT) for fifteen years, and does bookkeeping, business writing, and income taxes today.  Brenda and her husband, Doug Goebel, own a solar-powered home in South Austin and have more grown kids and grandkids than they can count.

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