title: Sane Passage
author: McKay, Lise Y.
description: DREAMS OF TERROR ... This suspense novel, SAnE PASSAGE, is a modern, urban story about the unknown, about events that can't easily be explained by conventional scientific means. Nicole Williams and her family live on the cozy side of town. Nicole, a bright and outgoing young woman begins experiencing eerie events as frightening flashbacks; quick, searing slivers of terror, blood, and visions invade her sanity. Until now, she'd been successful at repressing her past. Dreams hide in her pillow-prophetic dreams. Nicole attempts to tell her family and friends about the bizarre events assaulting her cozy world. Then, the unthinkable happens and she's diagnosed as mentally ill. Nicky then sets out to prove that she is far from ill. In the process she not only discovers Luke, her dream mentor, but flashbacks revealing an extraordinary dark time in her life, one filled with dire secrets. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: I was born in a small farm house in the Canadian Appalachian Mountains. Although picturesque, it lacked simple modern trappings such as plumbing and electricity. I didn't know we were poor as I ran through golden fields of wheat and corn rows that seemed to reach for the sky. My imagination flourished as I waded in streams with pollywogs, gazed at the heavens decorated with magical stars and fire flies. I slept in a tiny straw bed and I often heard the wind crying in the white of winter. Fireflies in glass jars, grasshoppers in my pockets and dreams in my heart, that's where it all began. We immigrated to the United States when I was ten. I married at seventeen and raised four wonderful children. I became a citizen, obtained a Master's degree and worked as a psychotherapist until I became disabled. I often wander back to my Appalachian home to pen my novels-it's where dreams were born.