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	Dream Pictures Carrie Lynn Lyons Dream Pictures is full of characters and character! She has created a diverse and unique group that draw you into their quest to protect an innocent child from her parents' killers.The story has plenty of thrills and action, enough to captivate and satisfy any suspense fan. The love, passion and gentle souls of the characters in Dream Pictures will grab you and stay with you long after the last page is read. I look forward to the sequel and more of their adventures!! Vickie Woolf

	Dream Pictures by Carrie Lynn Lyons Trade paperback 250 pages ISBN: 1-59426-235-7 The brutal murder of a rich Texas businessman and his wife on dark, deserted country road should have secured Weston Industries and the ensuing fortune as his. But “that brat” survived and a cold-hearted butcher is looking to tie up a few loose ends, regardless of the cost. Nothing but a nightmare stands in Carl Weston's way, that and the fact he has no clue as to his niece's whereabouts. But he will, he will, and when he finds her, there will be little her protectors can do to stop him. Solomon and Leon Cavanaugh will fight with all they have, including their lives, to protect Jamie Weston from the clutches of her evil uncle. Hidden in the depths of Cavanaugh Carnivals, Jamie is physically safe, but daily nightmares of her uncle haunt her. What Carl Weston doesn't know is, despite her age, Jamie has known about him all along and her protectors are willing to go to any lengths to protect her and those she loves from the lethal threat of her maniacal uncle, and his bloody search to claim his birthright. Well crafted, rich with character and suspense DREAM PICTURES will hold you captivated in its struggle of wills. Carrie Lynn Lyons has woven a tale fraught with life threatening battles of right against wrong, sane verses the insane, where only wit and mind can make a difference in who survives. DREAM PICTURES carries a deep cast of colorful characters set against the musical backdrop of a traveling show. Just remember all are not who they appear to be. DREAM PICTURES will hold you spell bound as you race to the next chapter and leave you begging for a sequel. Review©Calista Cates-Stanturf

Dream Pictures
by Carrie Lynn Lyons
Trade paperback
250 pages
ISBN: 1-59426-235-7

Picture the world of the carnival, the rides, food and freak show, a world apart. Enter into this place of fun and fantasies evil in the form of a man without compassion, caring only for money and bent on revenge. The carnival will be changed and so will you be by the end of this gripping novel.

Young Jaime Weston survives the violent death of her parents apparently by luck as a passing vehicle scares off the perpetrators. But was it luck or the result of her strong psychic powers, powers which send her “dream pictures” of times of danger? Will the adults learn to listen to her in time to make a difference? And will Jaime survive the malice of her parents’ assassin?

With great sensitivity Lyons makes us a part of the lives of a number of vivid characters whose journey through life has been altered due to physical disabilities. She shows us the result of the cruelties and misunderstandings the able bodied have showered on them and their heartening ability to rise above it. She reminds us that we all share the same dreams and needs even when hope has faded. Carrie Lyons uses the separate world of the carnival to show that love has no bounds, especially when awakened by a child.

Carol E. Burris
Writers and Readers Network

DREAM PICTURES is an enjoyable read. Carrie Lynn Lyons has caught the attention of the reader with clear depictions of the characters and gives insight into the carnival world. The psychic abilities of young Jacey will make a believer in this phenomenon out of any skeptic. I look forward to the next installment of the trilogy with great anticipation.

Anita Connolly

Dream Pictures moves rapidly through terror, prejudice, love and romance in this top class crime fiction. Ms Austin has achieved a remarkable standard in her novel, and is a gifted new writer. The only questions one is left with to the end are: “will the evil psychic uncle, Carl Weston, fulfil his plots to take over the family business, and who can stop him?” It all runs in the family.
Douglas Arnold:
Author of
“Secret Tide”
www.writenotes.co.uk

DREAM PICTURES, written by Carrie Lynn Lyons, is a well-written story of diverse people who find they share a special connection. It is a story of adventure, thrill, suspense, deceit, and revenge. The story takes you into the world of the unknown, where pictures in the mind become real life-threatening events. Each page takes you deeper and deeper into a place where DREAM PICTURES are real, lives are controlled by them, and death is only a thought away.
Emma Rose Nero
Author of The Path Taken

Worlds within worlds and all of them filled with wonder. Who hasn’t dreamt at one time or another of joining the circus or the carnival side show? To have every day be a holiday of wonderful, magical, frightening things? In Carrie Lyons’ Dream Pictures, young Jacey gets the chance to live everyone’s childhood dream, delivered there by a nightmare.

Jacey has as gift. Awake or asleep, she sees “dream pictures”, ones that come true. The horror of this gift: Jacey is only four and she has foreseen a threat to her own life, and the death of her parents, by the most dastardly means. Present as her parents are gunned down, Jacey’s rescue comes in the unlikely form of two carnival folk, Solomon and Leon, men disturbing, even horrifying to behold, until one sees beyond the surface. As the owner of Cavanaugh’s Oddities and Wonders, Solomon uses all of his considerable means to protect Jacey, bringing her into the carnival family and his own heart, both the rarest of occurrences.

Likewise, Jacey turns her unique abilities to the benefit of her new family, protecting and healing on so many levels, until the climatic end, where, as the saying goes, “blood will tell,” and in the most interesting way.

Lyons’ characterization is rich and full of depth, the characters alive in both their joy and pain. The story itself is enthralling and imaginative from beginning to end. In fact, the only uncomfortable element was the use of Jacey’s speech patterns to establish extreme youth, which at times became uncomfortable to read. The author made one or two attempts to establish “parental” instruction by having Solomon correct Jacey in this, but as the behavior continues on after that point, the attempt was weak and detracting. However, as this was my only complaint, I consider it minor.

Carrie Lyons has opened for the reader a world both wonderful and mysterious, one that has jointly enthralled and terrified children since nearly time—or at least carnivals—began. Filled with vivid imagery and moving insight, Dream Pictures both indulges this fantasy and gives it dimension one cannot perceive from the outside. Having allowed us to glimpse both the magic and the pain of the carnie folk, she has endeared them even more into our hearts, and done so with dignity. Masterfully done. The only thing that could make me happier would be to find out I don’t have to wait much longer for the sequel.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail is the award-nominated author of the fantasy novel, Yesterday's Dreams, an urban fantasy based on Celtic mythology, coming soon from Mundania Press. Her other works include Children of Morpheus, by Lite Circle Books, and No Longer Dreams, by Lite Circle Books, and the as-yet unpublished sequel to Yesterday's Dreams, entitled Tomorrow's Memories. She has contributed to such sites as Fictionauts.com, Sabledrake.com, and Darkwalls.com. Currently, she is working with her husband, Mike McPhail, on a military science fiction entitled Progenesis.


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