An excerpt from the YA tale
By Elyse Salpeter
My arms heaved with effort as I pushed Danny higher on the swing. His shrieks of delight egged me on until he was so high he seemed to be soaring to the sky. My mother would have killed me had she seen this.

A clicking noise caused me to turn my head and I saw a man taking pictures. I could have sworn he was taking them of Danny and me. I turned to him, ignoring Danny’s complaints that I had stopped pushing and frowned.
The man took his eye from behind the lens and smiled. “You got a cute brother there.” He had an Arabic accent just like the guy from the magazine stand in the mall, and was hard to understand.
“Thanks,” I mumbled.
The man turned and started taking photos of the park, concentrating on a flock of sparrows. A bunch of them were pecking at flecks of food on the ground near our swing set.
The man glanced up at me again, smiling. “Big birdwatcher.”
That smile gave me the creeps. What a weirdo.
Danny jumped off the swing mid-flight and landed in the sand. I took his hand and pulled him to another part of the park, away from the photographer and his camera. I could hear the clicking of the shutter as we walked away and I tried hard not to imagine that he was really taking photos of us and not the birds.
Flying to the Light is about a young deaf boy who knows about the afterlife and now people are after him for the answer. It is up to his 17-year-old brother to keep him safe.
Flying to the Light
Seventeen year old Michael Anderson and his deaf kid brother, Danny, find themselves in mortal danger after their parents are kidnapped.
Michael discovers Danny has a special gift—he knows what happens after a person dies—and now others want to know too. The brothers must outwit and outrun Samuel Herrington, a lethal biophysicist, the FBI, and even fellow Americans in a harrowing cross-country chase, because whoever gets to Danny first will have the power to rule the world.
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Elyse Salpeter
is an author who loves mixing the real with the fantastic in her books. She likes nothing better than taking different scenarios and creating worlds where things just aren’t what they appear to be.
Her six-book supernatural thriller series, The Hunt for Xanadu, The Quest of the Empty Tomb, The Call of Mount Sumeru, The Haunting of Cragg Hill House, The Search For Starlight and The Journey Back are about a brilliant and fearless young woman named Kelsey Porter, whose life is steeped in Buddhist spiritual mysteries and she is constantly discovering the world around her is not what she believed it to be.
Her paranormal suspense series, Flying to the Light and Flying to the Fire, are about a young deaf boy who knows what happens to you when you die and now people are after him for the answers.
Her horror novel, The Mannequins, is about a film crew that enters an abandoned mansion and disappears, while her horror collection, Ricket Row, is filled with little creepy tales, guaranteed to keep you up at night.
Her sci-fi collection called Titanium Flow is rife with alien worlds, genetic testing, trans-galaxy romance, and robots!
And lastly, her dark fantasy series, The World of Karov and The Ruby Amulet are about twins, power and magic all interweaved with the theme of good vs. evil.
When she’s not writing, she’s training for triathlons and eating shock food in her Gastronaut Club. Please come on over and learn more about her at:
- her BestSelling Reads author page
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