Midlife Psychic by Carolyn Arnold – a Review

Description:
Hot flashes in my forties? Expected. Waking up psychic? Not in my wildest dreams.

My name is Erin Stone. I’m forty-three with a daughter away at college and a successful career as a communications officer with the 911 dispatch center for the Toronto Police Service. My life had just returned to new normal after my divorce and everything was going along smoothly. Then BOOM! Turns out the universe had other plans for me.

I dreamed of a plane crash—only it wasn’t just a dream. The crash happened in real life. Eighty-three dead. A vision, plain and simple. Not exactly. My family certainly wouldn’t understand. And me…psychic? I’d dabbled in new-age spirituality in the past but never plunged into the deep end. Now I’m in over my head.

Why was I given this vision, and does it hold clues as to what caused the crash? My best friend Trish is convinced it does, and a handsome stranger with the National Transportation Safety Board is willing to partner with me to solve the mystery. But if I’m going to embrace the vision as telling of newfound psychic abilities, I will need to keep my paranormal gift a secret from my daughter, brother, and aunt. Little good that might do them though.

Someone out there has their own secrets and is willing to go to great lengths to protect them. Now the very gift I was given has put the lives of my loved ones at risk. Will my psychic abilities be strong enough to save them?

Review:

Midlife Psychic by Carolyn Arnold is a standalone Paranormal Women’s Fiction novel. We meet our heroine Erin Stone at the start when she is in the middle of a nightmare. Her nightmare is a plane that is spiraling out of control, with everyone on the plane sensing death, and Erin feels like she is on the plane looking at others around her. When she wakes up, the dream shook her, as it felt so realistic; she shakes it off, as she needs to hurry to work. Erin is a 43 years old divorcee, with a daughter now away at college, and she works for the Toronto 911 Police Dispatch for a number of years.

While at work, she sees the TV talking about a plane crash, with 83 people dead, and Erin realizes this was the dream she had, which went down at the same time of her dream. She doesn’t know what to think, as at her age, why would she have a vision, but when then later, she sees another vision about a young girl kidnapped; which she sends the police department an anonymous clue where to find the child safe. Erin is beside herself, and scared. The only person she can talk to is her friend Trish, who is very open to spiritual things, but she knows her family would frown on this, so she needs to keep this a secret. She meets David, who works for the National Transportation Safety Board, and in a short time, he believes that Erin does see visions, and they begin to work together to find out the truth about the plane crash, and why she is seeing faces of some who died.

What follows is an exciting, intriguing story with Erin and David finding clues that the plane crash was sabotage, and Erin will need to learn how to use her psychic paranormal gift. Things get dangerous and nerve wracking when threats are made to her family, which escalates the pressure, as they are getting too close. I really liked Erin and David together, as this is a slow burn romance. But depending if this is going to become a series, perhaps that is in the future, if Arnold continues this.

Midlife Psychic was very well written by Carolyn Arnold, especially since this was a different kind of read that we have come to expect from her. I did like the paranormal story line, especially the tense, wild climax. I hope we get to see more of Erin Stone.

Reviewed by Barb

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