Locker Rooms
Patty Lesser
iUniverse, Dec 4 2013, $16.95
ISBN: 9781491713365
In Dundas, Canada thirty-eight year old Alida wins 10 million
dollars in the lottery. After collecting
her check in nearby Toronto, Alida buys the Michael house, which is near the
home where her parents live in Dundas.
When she cleans out the fireplace, Alida finds a tunnel behind it. Stepping inside, Alida locates three rooms
filled with lockers. Opening one locker,
a voice begs her to help free them from the boite.
Stunned and frightened as the voices warn her of Shad who locked
them away, Alida escorts Barbara to her grave so that her soul can move
on. She takes two others to their final
resting site while wondering why these good people who suffered sad deaths were
locked away like sinners. As Shad tries
to kill her with a train derailment, a plane accident and a taxi’s breaks
failure, and goes after her mind through her parents; Alida believes God watches
over her. Her fourth rescue Oliver asks
to stay with her for a while. As Alida
and Oliver fall in love, her only hope to save these souls resides with
Lucifer.
Locker Rooms is a refreshing, very creative look at the afterlife through
the eyes of a courageous bi-polar (though that illness is downplayed) heroine,
those victims she rescues and a devil who makes Lucifer seem heavenly. Character-driven, readers will enjoy this leisurely-paced
good, innocent and evil thriller especially as we learn a little about those souls
Alida saves. I would like to read more
about those trapped inside the boite in perhaps a prequel short story
collection.
Harriet Klausner
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