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From the author of the popular Afterlife Series. In 1937 Eloise Marshall takes a position as an assistant in the labyrinth mansion, Brumley House. Placed in her own wing, she is told to not enter the end room, but an apparition of a small boy raises questions about what happened there. She believes he is the ghost of the heiress's son but other restless spirits point her in another direction. After befriending a crime scene photographer, she realizes he is there to help his policeman brother track down a killer on the move. While the three of them try to piece together Brumley’s sordid ...

In 1968 four women were found slain in the back of buses in the small town of Haunting Pines. No witnesses, no suspects, no evidence. Five years later, Skye Guthrie is sent to report on the recent 1973 murders that mirror the last spate of gruesome killings. After befriending an enigmatic writer with a secretive past, she tries to penetrate the wall of silence and get the locals to speak with her. Confronted with unrelenting rain and fog, she is swept up by an old haunting while facing the immediate danger of an elusive killer. Worse, she bears the burden of an old tragedy, returning to the...

The Fourth in the Coma Mysteries. From the author of the popular, Afterlife Series. For the small group of Coma Patients and nurses at Castlereagh, 1969 begins with grief and uncertainty. With the loss of someone they love, it is back to the drawing board with their visits to the past and their investigations into unsolved mysteries. Starting again, Abbey Roads now has her ancestor and his friend from the 1700s at their disposal using their own primitive time machine. But the ever curious Doctor, Arthur Cromwell, has proposed they do something they have never done before; look into a ...

The Tenth in The Coma Mysteries. For Abbey Roads and her small group of time-traveling friends at Castlereagh, the spring of 1973 is hopeful, if not chaotic. The local newspaper tells of a skeleton found beneath the floorboards of a recently burned-out church, and they immediately want to investigate what happened on that fateful day in 1893. Meanwhile, one of Rupert's old flames turns up at his TV studio, and Felix has a big surprise announcement. Clara gets news that sends her head reeling, while Abbey and Cecil try to discover the purpose of a two-hundred-year-old secret buried in the ...

From the author of The Apparition. In the frigid fall of 1935, Temperance Grieve inherits a house from an aunt who departed in a hurry fifteen years prior. A grand Victorian home seems a true blessing, but as she starts to sift through the belongings of her long-lost family, she is disturbed by what she finds. Piecing together newspaper articles, photographs, and diaries, she is kept up at night, terrified by the sounds and visions that appear in the restless old house. The discovery of a devastating flood, missing women, and unexplained deaths couldn’t prepare her or her new historian ...

The Second novel of The Otherworld Series. Gods, monsters, daemons, and tragedy! Juniper Gray has finally settled into the dreary days of the winter of 1979 when chaos suddenly knocks on the door of her cottage again. Trying to find her bearings in her safely predictable life, she must wrestle with her place among the gods when the immortals seek her assistance once more. The Wheel of Fortune has been stolen from the goddess, Fortuna, and the hateful thief is on a rampage using the wheel as a weapon. Thousands of souls are suddenly dying in tragic disasters, and Ambrose and the gods of ...

The Third novel of The Otherworld Series. Gods, death, disease, plague, and immortal war! It is the beginning of spring 1980 and Juniper Gray is already starting the new decade with chaos and conflict. Her immortal friends have been called upon to heal mortals from another world after Hera let the daemons of disease escape. Meanwhile, Mars has kidnapped the evil dead from Hades' underground world and is marching his army through the plague-filled masses. The enigmatic god, Ambrose, has requested that she help them look for the wayward war god, while the god of death has shown a unique ...

In 1902 five lauded scholars from an English university, vanished. In 1935 Blythe Abney goes in search of her missing uncle. Befriending a professor that is writing a book about local history, they investigate the mysterious incident and follow the trail of the professor's last steps on that fateful summer night. While old skeletons are being dug up in the village of Castlemoore, the hauntings of the past are resurrected. Plagued by strange sightings and stories of horror, Blythe is struck by an unearthly fear, and soon regrets dredging up the ghosts of the past.

It's the summer of 1984 in Mystic and Hester Millicent is trying to get through her days working as a secretary for a big insurance firm. When her friend secretly signs her up for a month long commitment at the not yet open, Forties Land, her whole world is turned upside down. Walking through the holographic world of 1944, she and her work friend, Oliver and their new reporter friends, stumble upon an old murder mystery. Glimpses of dead women and their haunting fate is just the iceberg of what really happened. While they pour over the details of the unsolved case, Hester has to face the ...

Athena Bromley is returning to Misty River during the cold fall of 1977 to reluctantly look after her father, an aloof retired sheriff. Cleaning up the old house and its bad memories, she comes upon his voice recordings from when he worked a case of murdered girls in the fifties. Suddenly seeing the apparition of a little girl, she is frightened by the possibility of her being a harbinger of death and seeks to find out who she is. Faced with danger, and an uncertain future, she is also conflicted by her feelings for her childhood best friend, Sebastian, now a handsome crime writer who is ...

Restless ghosts beckon Maeve Carmichael in the summer of 1948. After a complex childhood of solitude and eerie apparitions, the discovery of a body in the nearby woods brings new chaos to her quiet life. A handsome detective, Aldwin Bailey, steps into her uncertain world, while her grandmother's diaries reveal Shadow Grove's sordid secrets. Tormented by fragmented visions and voices, she has to fight her fears to stop the malevolent force that is killing innocent women, and pray she doesn't somehow become a victim herself.

From the author of the popular, Afterlife Series. When one digs up old secrets, the dead become restless. Genevieve Belmont arrives at the partial ruins of Claremonde Hall on a dark rainy night in the late summer of 1931. Employed to be the attendant of the mysterious and scarred, Lord Noble McKinley, she is quickly taken under his wing and encouraged to explore the vast estate. Living in the fifteenth century servant's quarters with her charming employer and his dog, Simon, she tries to learn of the fire that put him and Claremonde into ruins. The fire in the magnificent hall kept the ...

Eleventh Book in The Afterlife Series. Reapers, Dead 80s Singers and World War Three! The old adage that one gets to rest when they are dead, never applied to Penny Lane. Ever since she died, her afterlife has been nothing but chaos sprinkled with madness! Waking up in her old medieval cottage with her unfazed dog, Rufus, she wonders what happened to her castle and old world. While facing a world war, she and her unnaturally handsome husband, Avery, and best friend and groovy archangel, Eric, have their hands full with bad guys and snooping reporters. Their engimatic leader, Roy, is doing ...

An intriguing mystery from the author of the popular, Afterlife Series. It's 1953 and Miriam Day, an unmarried thirty something librarian is about to have her life turned upside down. Having just suffered the loss of her best friend and father, Bernard, she is trying to contend with life alone. But her healing is thwarted when she is handed a letter that her father wrote upon her birth where he alludes to the possibility of being murdered. After looking through some memories, she first comes upon some old photographs of a strange group of people during the First World War. Shortly after she...

It’s 1979 and Juniper Gray was leading a normal life until it was turned completely upside down. After losing her job and finding a dismembered finger, she can’t stop the chaos that ensues. Pregnant women are vanishing in her village, young men are being found missing all of their blood, and she is seeing strange things in the woods near her cottage. Roman, a mysterious stranger, helps her and her professor uncle, Emile, search for clues. Suddenly confronted by a world of ancient mythology and tormented deities, they must face an unimaginable foe before more die at the hands of a killer...

The Fifth in the Coma Mysteries. From the author of the popular, Afterlife Series. For Abbey Roads and her small group of time-traveling friends at Castlereagh, the summer of 1970 has them sinking their teeth into some compelling old mysteries. With the handsome actor, Rupert, away making movies, Abbey tries to keep occupied while simultaneously consoling her dear friend after a tragic loss. While Abbey and the doctor, Arthur, co-write a history book, Clara and Felix suggest that they throw themselves into investigating the more recent case of a teenager that has gone missing two years ...

In 1927, Maybelle Rosewood, an orphaned maid, inherits, Wistful Pine, an abandoned 1830s house. After a violent flood destroys a lot of her new village, the consistently foggy and mysterious, Eerie Bluff, her and her dog, Horatio, start their life anew. An older woman, Aubree, and a boy, Darwin, find her and together they are able to find refuge in the hills and retreat from the destruction. She tries to revive the house which has been abandoned for thirty years, and in doing so comes across the diaries of the prior residents in an old Victorian trunk. But not all is as it would seem. ...

Penny Lane is brutally murdered on her 30th birthday. She is catapulted into a strange afterlife world, not dissimilar from the one she just came from, and is immediately sent to work as a melter, deciding the fates of murderers and ultimately whether they should be reformed, reincarnated or melted. Only few are chosen for such a position, and she must deal with the celebrity status that goes along with it. Having been reunited with her childhood dog, Rufus, and befriending the handsome, popular, head greeter, Avery, Penny enjoys the perks of the afterlife like calorie free eating and a ...

1941 during the Blitz. Daisy Chambers inadvertently finds herself retrieving bodies after a recent bombing in their village. She and Alwyn, an enigmatic out-of-towner, search the rubble for survivors while small planes and bombs threaten the summer skies. The Strathalbyn town hall is turned into a temporary morgue for those that were killed and she, along with her friend, Jimmy, and Dr. Leighton, are eager to get them identified before they are buried in mass graves. While documenting the causes of deaths, she is alarmed to find young unknown women with alarming injuries inconsistent with ...

From the author of the popular, Afterlife Series. It is late autumn, 1878 and Claude Deering, handsome widower, and photographer of the deceased, is just about to embrace his reprieve from skeletons and specters when an ominous sign ceases his calm. No sooner is he seeing visions in the night of young women being strangled, when he is called upon to help investigate the discovery of two women's bodies in an abandoned church graveyard. His childhood friend, Simeon, the policeman, and Samuel, the charming reporter, are eager to discover the killer when more bodies are found. With the help of ...