Ashes to Ashes

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Ashes to Ashes – A Dust to Diamonds Novel: Book One

 

The Seize has steeped the Earth in ash and imprisoned the souls of all mankind in the Deep, leaving a colorless world behind, where the boundaries between good and evil, love and hate, freedom and captivity are as blurred. For Deuce, a self-proclaimed piece of shit and loner, being a recluse in an empty world is not all it's cracked up to be. Against all that he believes about himself and a barrage of self-loathing, he becomes the reluctant leader of five exiled survivors. Like him, they are mentally and physically scarred, and have no idea how to play nicely with others. Plunged into a horrific world, where the best they can do is choose between nightmares, they fall victim to prisons, man-eating cornfields, and transporters that turn their bodies inside out, flinging them through time and space. Attacked by Vacants, Trolls, Gargoyles, and Suffering Demons, nothing compares to being pawns in a perpetual war between two Eternals. To save the souls of mankind, the Banished must drop the masks they are hiding behind and decide if there is a difference between being human and being humane. Their biggest challenge? To conquer the demons within, not the demons that chase.   

About the author

Sheley Rayne

AdSheley Rayne was a quirky teen who rummaged through condemned buildings, collected rusty things, and occupied herself among tombstones. Once upon a time, she was a diagnostic technician in the field of fusion and pulse-power technology. (Machines who mothered CERN) An author, screenplay writer, and artist bent towards the macabre, she turned in her scientific hard hat for novels and pencils. Sheley teaches high-school robotics, technology, and criminal forensics. This might be why she writes YA horror novels about controversial machines, set in altered realities, where gargoyles, darklings, fallen angels, and demons wreak havoc against human souls. Scarred by life and healed by death, her characters face life-threatening challenges against monsters, science, and faith, but worse, they face impossible odds against themselves. She likens her characters to curiosity cabinets, each filled with shadows of wonder, gifts and talents, light and darkness, and good and evil. No matter their outward battles, it’s the ones they face internally that are the most important. Themes of transformation, redemption, and change are reflected throughout her Dust to Diamonds Novels.