Claudette Cleveland
Description
My passion in life is creating. Whether it's writing or painting, I become totally absorbed in my current project. For instance, when writing, I receive a movie in my head filled with special effects including surround sound. Writing then becomes a process where I transcribe my mental movie into words. The story is all quite real for me because I put myself right into the situations that I feel I'm actually experiencing. My writing goal is to pull you in with me so that you too are hearing, smelling, feeling, tasting and seeing all that is happening as we develop a personal relationship with the characters. My traveling experiences help me to bring an authenticity to the story's setting and to share the anecdotes of wonderful people I've met. From the feedback I have gotten from you, the readers, I think I am succeeding for many have brought Althea and Tashi from the Beneath and Beyond Trilogy off the page and into your lives. You've also found a part of yourselves, an alter-ego if you will, in the character Sara of the Sara Connolly Mystery Series. I really appreciate everyone sharing their insights and feelings with myself and others, making this chapter in my life very rewarding. The covers of my books are similarly inspired ... by visions. Having a degree in art, designing the covers gives me an opportunity to bring my visions to life in another form.
Books
The gifted
Having helped recover hundreds of kidnapped people over the years, Sara Connolly now finds herself being one of the abductees. Asked to investigate a suspicious number of missing people, Sara through her psychic gifts sees that she is also to be taken to a mysterious facility where other gifted people are being held captive and were to be used as human guinea pigs.
The ranch
It is chance that makes sisters, but hearts that make friends. Sara discovers she may have a half sister that she had never heard about. Knowing it was possible since she was quite aware of her deceased father’s philandering. She felt compelled to find for certain by meeting the woman who claimed to be her sibling. However, Allison Albright, owner of a Wyoming ranch, had a more important purpose for meeting Sara Connolly than a DNA connection. Someone was trying to kill her and her grandfather and take their ranch. Sara suggests that Alli hire Andrew McMasters, who was raised on a Colorado ranch but was now a PI to find out who the culprit is. Accompanying McMasters to Wyoming, Sara uses her psychic and healing skills to help with the mayhem and solve the mystery. However it is evident that someone doesn’t want her there when she is arrested for murder.
You Again
Perky, green-eyed Sara Connolly, psychic consultant for the Chicago PD finds out life repeats life when she agrees to consult for the FBI on a high profile abduction case. She discovers some of her visions are of a similar situation, only one vision took place a hundred years before. She hopes that using her past life experience will help her guide the FBI special agent Matt Riser in recovering the present missing girl before she is murdered.
The Resort
Sara finds herself encountering again her nemesis she and her friends referred to as Ponytail. In The Resort the owners of the Riser & O’Brien Investigating Agency travel to Mexico for some much needed R & R. Sara’s healing abilities are called upon by no other than a drug cartel and the adventure begins. Her paranormal gifts are again used to help people. This time specifically a small boy. But will this be her last adventure with a notorious assassin seeking her demise?
The Haunting
When you die are you really done on Earth? Sara Connolly’s adopted daughter, Carrie has the gift of being able to talk to the dead. When women are found dead in the state insane asylum, Sara goes undercover and her daughter converses with the dead in the hopes of preventing another death. Will Amanda Black find the Light when her job on Earth is finished and her living son is safe? Maybe.
The Reunion
Clare, Lee, Sally, inseparable companions through their school days, had made a vow at fifteen to meet up with each other in ten years time. Now at twenty-five, and as young women, they remember their younger selves. Clare has blossomed into an attractive and independent woman. By nature calm, placid, outwardly cool. It takes a good deal to shake her poise. But somewhere deep within her, Clare feels the warning note telling her that when one day she falls in love, everything would be different. Lee, just beginning to make a name for herself in the artistic world. Entirely self-supporting since the death of her parents a few years previously, Lee had thrown herself heart and soul into her work. Sally is vivacious but also headstrong and selfish, and is now engaged to Mark Bainbury. The three friends reunite for Sally's engagement party, but complications arise when Clare suddenly finds herself in love with her schoolfriend's fiancé...
Never ending
Traumatized by grief and guilt after her younger brother dies during a family vacation, fifteen-year-old Shiv is sent away to an exclusive clinic that claims to "cure" people like her.
Not Forgotten
Recommended by psychic Sara Connolly for a missing person case, PI Cameron Cade searches for his new client’s sister who has been lost to her, but not forgotten for 22 years. Dark family secrets come to light during the investigation. The offender takes drastic steps to suppress the knowledge of his horrific acts against women. He will stop at nothing to keep his secrets hidden. With Cameron and Sara’s help, some very dire past situations result in some very positive outcomes when the victims join forces and become the heroes by turning a negative into a positive.
The Ceremony
A simple R&R vacation to the Cayman Islands turns into a life altering, death defying experience for Sara and Denise. They find themselves experiencing the native culture, learning first hand about Voodoo religious beliefs through its sensual dance rituals and music when they partake in a ceremony, in which the sacred stingray and its mating habits are honored by the humans emulating them.
Beneath and Beyond
Beneath and Beyond, The Hidden City An adventure story of hope and limitless possibilities A group of highly evolved beings in a Hidden City, working to save the Earth Is the legend of the tall white beings in their shiny white birds merely a myth or are they with us even today? Are there human ambassadors of the Hidden City walking among us?
