Visions by Cheryl Rainfield

Kate, a teenager, has debilitating asthma which threatens her life, but also makes her an observer of life. She can’t participate in sports, can’t enjoy the outside world when the pollen count is too high, but that’s not all, cigarette smoke, perfumes and different scents also trigger an asthma attack. But severe asthma attacks also elicit second sight.

She has a contentious relationship with Jenna, her older sister, who feels ignored, unloved and jealous of her mother’s chronic attention to Kate and her asthma.

Besides being chronically ill, Kate is queer and bullied at school, but she has a joyfriend, Desi. Kate experiences the thrill and excitement of her first kiss and first relationship.

Kate’s visions warn her of people in danger. She sees her sister, Jenna, being beaten to death by her husband, Mason, and Desi’s sister, Inez, considering suicide by overdose after being viciously raped and shamed on social media.

But she can’t change the outcome of her visions; she tries warning people, but they don’t believe her.

Kate must find a way to control her visions without jeopardizing her life, save Jenna from her abusive husband and save Inez from herself. If that wasn’t hard enough, she has to save herself from Mason, who wants to eliminate her.

VISIONS by Cheryl Rainfield is a vivid, emotional, suspenseful story and also one of family, love, compassion and forgiveness.