“Morning Star” Catapults Reader into a World of Occult, Scholastic and Biblical Mysteries
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, April 8, 2009 — On a New Year’s Eve, a young English woman has an odd, inexplicable bright-light experience while standing on the veranda of her flat in Santa Monica, Calif. What she doesn’t know is that she’s not the only one to fall prey to this strange phenomenon, which catapults two roommates, two police officers and two college professors into a collision course of occult events that will change them forever in LeRoy Miller’s supernatural new mystery novel, “Morning Star” (published by AuthorHouse).
In the wake of the New Year’s festivities, two crime scene investigators find the remains of a disastrous fire on an 18th Street flat, which leaves six badly-burnt corpses with seemingly no witnesses. The investigators finds that the residents of an entire two blocks of 18th Street surrendered that very night at the very same hour to an uncharacteristic need to fall into a deep sleep.
Eva Martin and David Carrington, two seasoned crime scene investigators, turn up more and more mysterious pieces of information as they pursue the case of the New Year’s Eve fire, most noticeably the possible link between the six victims of the fire and six perpetrators of a loathsome crime that occurred on Christmas Eve of the same year. On that Christmas, six men attacked and committed horrendous acts towards an Indian student, Sheldon Weckenden, and his Anglo girlfriend, Kathryn Morrison; a crime that has yet to be solved.
Meanwhile, power drainages occur sporadically across the Earth, puzzling local constituents and leaders, along with a multitude of occult messages that come and go for no apparent reason. Two Santa Monica College professors, Stewart Mallory and Pilar Montalban, wander innocently into the developing web of questions when their lives are threatened by a professional assassin. But one of these professors has a history of collecting enemies, ever since he started generating a lot of attention for his religious beliefs which are grounded upon the linguistic origins of biblical lore.
What begins as a series of perplexing, separate enigmas soon results in a vague period of darkness which overcomes the planet when the sun and its invaluable source of light disappear for a time. These uncanny, chilling events will only deepen further and become more entrenched in prophecies from the occult to the devoutly Catholic until the astonishing climax of “Morning Star.”
“‘Morning Star’ is much more than a reader’s infrequent adventure,” writes Miller. “It is designed to tax the imagination as well as to entertain. Its multiple plots will keep the reader guessing to the very end.”
LeRoy Miller has dedicated the better part of his life to developing short stories for high school and college students while teaching what he enjoys most: the study of foreign languages.
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