Tour Stop: Stepping Off A Cliff by Doug Dillon @Doug__Dillon

Title:  Stepping Off A CliffAuthor:  Doug Dillon
The St. Augustine Trilogy: Book II Length:  321 Pages
Genre: YA ParanormalReleased:  Nov. 29, 2013Amazon | Goodreads
BLURB
An otherworldly, evil and dangerous force infests America’s oldest and most haunted city, St. Augustine, Florida. Everyone living there, or visiting, is at risk in ways too horrible to imagine.
Standing between this invader and the people of St. Augustine are teenagers Jeff and Carla, the mysterious Native American shaman, Lobo, and Lyle, the homeless guy.
In their quest to save themselves and all the inhabitants of this ancient Florida city, Jeff and Carla uncover lost parts of St. Augustine history, push past the limits of space and time, and come face-to-face with what they come to realize are the true walking dead.

EXCERPT
Just as we were about to walk onto Lobo’s front porch, Edgar dive-bombed my head again. This time though, he was able to yank a clump of my hair with his only claw.

“Get out of here, crazy bird!” I yelled as he flew off a short distance. Finally, Lobo opened the door and I quickly escaped right behind him into the hallway that runs the length of his house.

While balancing the pizzas in one hand, I shut the door with the other just as Edgar returned trying to harass me some more. I saw a blurred version of him outside on the porch, flying past all that stained glass.

Stained glass. I tell you what, Lobo’s door contains more of it than wood. Carla says it’s an authentic work by Louis Comfort Tiffany, old and valuable. I never thought of a door, even one with stained glass, as being a work of art, but that just tells you what I know about such things. Before she mentioned the guy’s name, I had never heard of Tiffany.

Anyway, after watching Edgar’s fuzzy image finally disappear, I froze, my gaze locked onto one particular part of the door’s central scene. It seemed to sort of leap out at me—like it was brand new or something. Of course, it wasn’t. I had gone in and out of the same door countless times looking at that same item as well as the others there, but just then, it took on a whole different meaning.

You see, set in a bunch of mostly glass ovals is a picture showing a wolf at night, sitting on top of a cliff, howling at a full moon with the Orion constellation above him. A cliff! As soon as I saw it, Lobo’s words slammed back into my mind from the talk we just had—about the danger Carla and I might be in and how what we might be facing, would for us, be “like stepping off a cliff.
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About the AuthorA former award-winning educator, Doug writes about things paranormal and historical. His interest in the paranormal comes from personal experiences as detailed in the nonfiction adult book he and wife wrote titled, AN EXPLOSION OF BEING: AN AMERICAN FAMILY'S JOURNEY INTO THE PSYCHIC. Out of those events and extensive historical research, he created SLIDING BENEATH THE SURFACE for young adults, Book I of the St. Augustine Trilogy. Doug set his trilogy in the oldest and most haunted city in the United States, St. Augustine, Florida not only for those reasons, but also because it's his favorite place to visit. Books II and III of the trilogy are on the way.
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