Dream Student (Dreams
#1)
by J.J. DiBenedetto
Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Categories: Mystery/Thriller
Publisher: Self/Indie
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Heat Level: Sensual
Word Count: 94,000
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Description
What would you
do if you could see other people’s dreams? If you could watch their hidden fantasies
and uncover their deepest, darkest secrets…without them ever knowing?
Sara Barnes is about to find out. She thought that all
she had to worry about was final exams, Christmas shopping and deciding whether
she likes the cute freshman in the next dorm who’s got a crush on her.
But when she starts seeing dreams that aren’t hers, she
learns more than she ever wanted to know about her friends, her classmates…and
a strange, terrifying man whose dreams could get Sara killed.
Dream Student is the thrilling first installment of the Dreams series.
About the Author
J.J. (James) DiBenedetto was born in Yonkers, New York.
He attended Case Western Reserve university,
He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with his
beautiful wife and their cat (who has thoroughly trained them both). When he's
not writing, James works in the direct marketing field, enjoys the opera,
photography and the New York Giants, among other interests.
The ‘Dreams’ series is James’ first published work.
Connect with J.J. DiBenedetto
Email: jamesd@elevendayempire.com
Website: http://www.writingdreams.net
Excerpt #1
Sara rarely remembers her dreams.
She has no idea that she’s had more or less this same dream two or three
nights a week since the beginning of the semester. She’s sitting there in the lecture hall, and
if she were ever able to remember this dream she’d recognize it as the same
seat she actually sits in every Tuesday and Thursday at nine-thirty in the
morning. She’d recognize Dr. Wallabeck,
too, and in the dream he’s wearing one of those dreadful patterned ties he
always wears; he’s peering over his awful wire-rimmed glasses exactly the way
he does in real life. Every detail of
the lecture hall is captured by Sara’s subconscious with almost perfect
accuracy, including her fellow students.
Two rows in front of her is the tall redheaded girl whose name she can
never recall and who nods off in the middle of almost every class; in her row
and six seats to her left is Adam Walker, who lives directly above her in the
dorm, with his huge thermos full of almost-but-not-quite-undrinkable dining
hall coffee. In the dream Sara looks
around and sees them and all the other faces she sees in class twice a week,
and they’re all just as puzzled in the dream as they usually are in class.
Sara is the only person in the whole room who’s not. If she could remember the dream, she’d
understand why: Dr. Wallabeck isn’t lecturing about angular momentum or torque
or any of the other mystifying topics that make up Physics 121. Not now.
Instead, the good doctor is talking about amino acids and protein
structures, a topic that Sara just last week aced a quiz on in her Introductory
Biochemistry course. It doesn’t seem the
slightest bit odd to Sara that her physics professor is lecturing about
biochemistry instead of physics…
***
Brian’s never properly met Sara, never actually spoken to her. He’s seen her quite often, though. In the dining hall, walking back from class,
in the student union or the bookstore, in any one of a dozen other places on
campus. Even, once, at a party, where
he’d just about worked up the nerve to approach her before she disappeared for
the night. But he doesn’t really know
her; he doesn’t know anything about her that isn’t revealed in the student
directory.
He’s dreaming about her anyway.
Not only about her; Sara is just one character in this dream. She’s there in a cheerleader outfit a size
too tight, watching Brian, admiring him, cheering for him, shouting for him as
he stands there on the basketball court about to hit the game-winning
shot. Sara’s there, admiring and
watching and cheering and shouting right alongside every other woman on campus
that Brian is attracted to. All admiring
and watching and cheering and shouting.
But for some reason Sara’s outfit is just a little tighter than anyone
else’s; her voice is the tiniest bit louder than any of the others…
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