After a casual touch of the hand from Benjamin Raven—a new
teenage stranger in town—unusual things begin to happen to Lucy Higgins. She
can’t explain them, but when she starts having extremely realistic and lucid
dreams about Benjamin, she can't help but question her sanity. In the dreams,
Benjamin tells her of a special power that they share, a power called the
Immortal Light that derives from Zharem, an ancient city of gold, now lost. He
tells her that she has a purpose in his world and that she must use the power
of the Immortal Light to get him home. Thinking she’s going mad, Lucy dismisses
the dreams as her imagination gone wild, and it’s easy enough to do until the
dream world begins to encroach on reality. Immortal Light Wide Awake is an
adventure of discovery and the horrifying dangers of an ancient evil force
trying to stop fate. If Lucy can trust herself, she just might discover that
the world of the Immortal Light is right under feet and part of it just might
want her dead.
John D. Sperry was born in Bellflower, California in 1979, but relocated with his family in 1985 to the small town of Roseburg, Oregon, the place John called home until he left on a two-year LDS mission to Italy in 1998.
In 2001, John married the love of his life, Sarah, and in the midst of going to school and teaching, the couple had five children: Arwen, Eleanor, John Jr. (Jack), Alice, and Caramina.
John has a B.A. in English and a M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning from the University of Oregon. He is currently a 7th Grade Language Arts and Social Studies teacher in Springfield, Oregon where he lives with his family.