The Thirteen Secrets

Bethany Grace Callahan is about to start a new life. She is young, enthusiastic, talented...and haunted by her family's secret past. Following her eldest sister's tragic suicide, Beth decides that she must escape the confines of her dysfunctional family if she is to realize her dreams. But her dreams turn to nightmares when she moves into her grandmother's old brownstone in Brooklyn. When she sees and hears...and dreams things she cannot explain, Beth is plagued by fears that she is going insane as her sister had before her. In fact, there had always been whispers that insanity ran in the family....or was it something more? As Beth uncovers the awesome and terrifying truths, she becomes bound to a compelling prophecy of biblical proportions. Not easily swayed by matters of the Church, Beth finds the premise hard to believe...until she is witness to her own miracle.

                                   

 

"Suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope." Romans 5:3-4

 

                                     

This book is dedicated to my sister's memory and to my daughter's life, and to those wondrous acts great sorrow and great joy can inspire. -BD

 

 

Beyond this vale of tears,

There is a life above

Unmeasured by the light of years

And all that life is love.

                   The Issues of Life and Death

                                 James Montgomery

 

                                               

 

 

In the morning,

Having seen the things that I have wished for,

Having been beyond the open door,

I awaken; ghosts around my bed.

Without warning,

They come to me in moments still.

Capture me and steal my will,

Leaving phantom memories in my head.

In the daylight,

I shrug off the night's long travels,

As a shroud, the dark unravels,

Right before my eyes and I can plainly see,

         Look back into the night...

         There the answer lies before you...

Shining brightly, bearing true,

I beold the dawning of my destiny.

         I am screaming...

I am wide awake.

         I am dreaming...

I am yours to take.

 

 

                                       

 

                                    Prologue

 

...Cathy came to me in a dream, my beautiful, crazy sister, her golden hair flowing like windspirited clouds, her laughing eyes sparkling like the farthest stars. She told me that she was safe. She told me that she loved me. Then the gray haze of morning slowly stole her away from me again...

 

And so it begins...