Siena starts life like every other girl ... every other girl who is massively wealthy and completely adored. She has nothing to fear until her mom is killed, and she is locked away in her family's expansive estate. But she is happy there, and she is safe ... until Luca moves next door.
Luca lives in a world that is in between. A world where good and evil cannot be denied. He is gifted ... he sees what the rest of us don’t and feels what the rest of us can’t.
As his connection to Siena grows, the world she knows begins to fade away. What begins as a prayer uttered without thought, turns her life upside down. She too is gifted, but with her, the past is brought into the present with the slightest touch. A past filled with secrets ... secrets that have haunted her family for five generations. Secrets that live in the memories of those who came long before her.
Memories that only she can reveal.
// This trilogy is a Catholic Spiritual Thriller best for mature teens and up! //
It includes the following books:
Awakening
From the outside, seventeen-year-old Siena has the perfect life. She and her two younger sisters are adored by their wealthy father and grandmother. They are removed from the world, living in a modern-day castle in the middle of their grand family estate on the majestic shores of Maine. There is nothing to fear—Siena’s father has made sure of that.
Unfortunately, he has forgotten that the greatest threats can come from within.
On the edge of their idyllic property is a dilapidated inn built long ago. Thomas, the boy Siena grew up with, is drawn to the weathered building next to the sea. He is the opposite in every way of Luca, the troubled boy who just moved to the expansive property. While Thomas tries to draw Siena closer to the inn, Luca warns her to stay away. All agree it holds far more mysteries than Siena’s family is willing to tell … ignorance provides no protection.
Awakening is the first in a new series by best-selling author Jacqueline Brown. She again invites readers into a world of intriguing characters and vivid scenes which prompt readers to suspend belief in the limits of physical reality and subtly question—is there something more?
Gifted
Siena has spent most of her life unaware of the world beyond what we can all see and touch. That changes when she’s forced to accept the world as it really is …
The world Luca knows to be true is no longer something Siena can deny, after her own so-called gifts reveal the unseen darkness that has been oppressing her family for generations. Her gifts confuse her, but she doesn’t fear them. Her new abilities terrify Luca—he understands them too well.
Will Siena’s gifts destroy her, as Luca fears? Is he strong enough to stay by her side, or are the memories of the past too much, even for him? In the second book of the Awakening Series, past darkness is discovered, present chains are released, future beauty glimpsed.
Haunted
While Siena sleeps, she dreams of a child … a child who is being hunted … a child she is convinced is her future daughter—hers and Luca’s.
Siena prays her dreams of this beautiful little girl are nothing more than horrible nightmares, but when the child begins haunting her in her waking hours, Siena realizes she cannot ignore this dream child and the secrets she wants uncovered.
Siena and Luca are used to seeing things others don’t; they are gifted. And now that Siena is eighteen, her gifts have grown stronger—at the faintest touch, the past is brought into the present.
In Haunted, the final book of the Awakening Trilogy, Siena is given the chance to free her family from the darkness overshadowing them for generations. Siena’s dream child seems to hold the answers, but helping her comes with risks—risks Siena may not be willing to take. Whatever choice she makes, her family will be altered forever!
