METAPHYSICAL · PARANORMAL
Claudette Cleveland
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.
In any other supermarket, the woman walking down the aisle, pushing a cart between canned goods and gourmet spices, would have looked strangely out of place.
— from The ranch, 1997
Most acclaimed
The ranch
1997
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.
Beneath and Beyond
As human ambassadors for the Tall White Beings, Tashi and Althea's current assignment takes them to Mayan country in Mexico. Petra, a recent ambassador graduate from the Hidden City who lives on a famous horse-breeding ranch, is overwhelmed with the ignorance and blatant corruption that is taking over her homeland in the mountains near Mexico City; she needs Tashi and Althea's help. Althea finds her past life at the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan has come back like a karmic slap in the face. She finds herself facing her ancient adversaries in her current lifetime. With Petra, Althea meets El Diablo, a modern day Robin Hood, who is legendary to the people in the mountain villages for his good and not-so-good deeds, depending on whom you talk to. El Diablo is the third book in the Beneath and Beyond series which includes The Hidden City and The Thunderbirds. Claudette Cleveland lives near Sedona, Arizona. She was motivated to write the Beneath and Beyond series after a trip to Peru and Tibet, where some extraordinary events took place. Readers say they take away with them a feeling of hope after reading her series.
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.