Sylvie Danielle Matias

The Shadows of Auldham Sylvie Danielle Matias

Celina born and raised in Romania, receives a scholarship in Scotland although she is not a top student. She believes it's because her mother was murdered, a pity gift. In Scotland, hosted in the Seacliff Mansion, an old house built inside the walls of the Auldham Castle, legends speak about it as being the headquarters for St. Baldred's followers, who fought the evil forces & demons for many centuries. Celina starts to hear voices and see visions. Then she discovers that by guessing their names she is conjuring demons and with a name, they get a human body and an entrance into this world. She has to find a way to deal with demons, Morfris, her unrestrained emotions and the grief for her murdered mother. It is a dark story taking about good & evil and the choices we make. About the human struggle to be accepted and loved, and how sometimes demons are born out of grief and loneliness and are not always there to hurt us. What is the author saying about this novel: A story born in despair that was the strongest influence and best teacher of my life. This is the most powerful, emotional story I've written so far. I started working on it long time ago but after many years, when pain subsided and I found peace from the many demons that haunted me, I decided to share it with the world. There are many levels to this story: the real-physical level, the feeling-emotional level, only to dive deeper into the psychological level. The fiction of the novel was created around a true event: a girl from Romania, gets a scholarship abroad when her true nature awakens