An Unexpected Journey
The Story of Alexander Kingston
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After a surprise betrayal from his high school sweetheart and a brutal fist fight with his father, Alex's beloved mother sends him hitch-hiking down a deserted country road in Central Oregon with nothing but an old suitcase and an envelope full of her cookie jar savings.
Car after car goes by until finally a couple of country cousins named Holly and Jolene stop to give him a ride. Not having a clue where he wants to go, Alex tags along with the girls to Reno, Nevada where they are planning on starting a new, exciting life.
Within a few days, they all have casino jobs and things are falling into place for the happy trio until tragedy strikes and their little adventure takes them on a totally different path of which Alex isn't sure he is prepared to handle. He has to step up quickly and be a man in more ways than he ever imagined just three short weeks before.
Alex makes it through the first challenge only to face another challenge he has been struggling with since his earliest memories. His terrifying childhood nightmares return to haunt his dreams and when it nearly destroys his newly found happiness, he turns to the only man who can help him.
The man they call The Amazing Marco, stage hypnotist extraordinaire, is enlisted to hypnotize Alex to see if that can stop the nightmares. Instead, under hypnosis, Alex leaps back in time to a place in Mexico City in the year 1874 where the actual events took place. What happens next takes Alex on an unexpected journey of which he never would have believed.
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Alexander Kingston, a handsome young bartender in Reno, Nevada, wakes up in the middle of the night with a lump on his head and a killer headache. His wife is gone, and the bedside lamp is lying broken on the floor. To his horror, he discovers that his recurring nightmare escalated into real-life violence that nearly killed his wife while he was sleeping.
Alex seeks help from his friend, Marco, a theatrical stage hypnotist, to see if hypnosis might help him stop the terrifying dreams. Imagine their surprise when deep in the hypnotic trance, Alex jumps back in time to a previous lifetime in Mexico in the year 1874, where the events he saw in his dreams took place.
About the Author
Alaina Rae, a spiritual seeker and hopeless romantic, believes that souls journey together through time in search of enlightenment. Their never-ending love, yet heartbreaking drama, is the inspiration behind her new series, Remembering.
Alaina lives in Bend, Oregon, where she is close to her family and a vibrant spiritual community where her own search for truth and enlightenment never ends.