BEING REAL

Facing Demons

Published August 22, 2024.

Being Real: Facing Demons picks up where Being Free: On the Inside left off and is the second book in the Being Free series.

Being Real: Facing Demons continues the story of Corey Astin, a former lawyer and present inmate, on his spiritual quest to survive prison and confront the issues that led to his incarceration.  Being Real dives deep within Corey’s psyche to discover the brutal truth, that his past has spawned self-destructive demons he must transform to make peace in his own mind.  Based on the author’s own experience, Corey faces new challenges as he gets transferred from Thomaston Prison to SMCF and The Farm.  As Corey confronts his own demons he must also learn to defend himself from those who believe he has not yet paid the price that the inmate code demands.  Strengthened by the resources and advice of his mentors, Corey battles powerful and sometimes magical adversaries, including a dangerous sorcerer.  Join Corey as he brings you on a transformative journey inside prison walls and into an alternate reality where he must choose to fight the evil that that haunts him or risk losing everything he has accomplished.

BEING FREE

On the Inside

Based in part on the author’s own spiritual journey, Being Free: On the Inside is a magical realism novel of hope and redemption.

Corey Astin is a lawyer who will spend the next six years in prison.  He knows he did wrong, and wants to make amends, but needs guidance and protection.  The nature of his crime makes him an instant target for other inmates.  As you might expect, county jail offered only a tiny preview of the harsh environment in the maximum-security state prison.  Corey arrives in shackles in the middle of the cold Maine winter, to a poorly-heated cell block, knowing only one person, Carl, from his time in jail.  Corey soon meets Dalton, a man who will become his mentor and teacher of a special way of seeing and using energy called The Choice.  Being chosen is a great honor, but Corey doesn’t know it yet.  He is just beginning to understand what kind of magical world exists within for those who can manifest it.  Told from a first-person perspective, Corey explains his experience in the prison, and his growing friendship with Dalton.  He tells the story as if you are with him, listening to his concerns, and baring his soul.  Get ready to experience the first part of a private and perilous journey into a world that few have ever known.