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The First House

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Murphy has seen ghosts all her life. Usually, they're harmless. Strange shadows in the corner of a room. Pale figures that vanish when she looks twice. Whispers from the dead that have become little more than background noise. But the First House is… Continue reading The First House

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Going to Summertime

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Every suburban street holds secrets and ghosts, but Summerland Place holds more than most. The team from The Red Mullet Hair Salon head to Summerland Place to explore the abandoned houses there, on a prepaid, enter at own risk, explore every nook and… Continue reading Going to Summertime

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Cruel Nights

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ1/4 Description Charlie died in Nevada, 1973, after seeing Led Zeppelin live on stage and making the wrong choice on the long drive home. Corey meets him at a TAD gig seventeen years later and feels an immediate attraction. They both swear their night together will be a onetime thing, but neither can stay away.… Continue reading Cruel Nights

Long Fiction, Writing

New Release!

New Release!! Love Lies Bleeding, the sequel to Bluebells is finally here! Love Lies Bleeding is available from PS Publishing in ebook (kindle formats too), hardback and deluxe signed hardbacks. Want to dive back into the gothic world of โ€œIn the Devilโ€™s Gardenโ€? More here! New to the gothic world of โ€œIn the Devilโ€™s Gardenโ€… Continue reading New Release!

Long Fiction, research

The French Revolution

In celebration of the release of Love Lies Bleeding: In the Devilโ€™s Garden Book 2 from PS Publishing, the second in the trilogy that began with Bluebells. Love Lies Bleeding begins in the town of Laon, France during the French Revolution. For a detailed history of events that occurred during the several decades of the… Continue reading The French Revolution

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The Bewitching

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description โ€œBack then, when I was a young woman, there were still witchesโ€: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minervaโ€”stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps thatโ€™s why Minerva has become a graduate student… Continue reading The Bewitching

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Countess

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the ร†cerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empireโ€™s merchant marine, sheโ€™s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel. When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances,… Continue reading Countess

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The Haunting of Kenmore Aslyum

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description I am always there.Perhaps I always have been?Perhaps there is no end for me โ€ฆ 1910The mentally unwell are considered dangerous and a blight to be kept hidden from family and society. The recently opened Kenmore Asylum is bursting at the seams. Amidst… Continue reading The Haunting of Kenmore Aslyum

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life… Continue reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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The Leperโ€™s Garden and Other Contagions

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description These eleven tales of historical dark romance and horror will guide through the teeming streets and markets of old Hong Kong, the listless heat of French Senegal and the fog of Victorian London. Step inside penny arcades, shadow theatres and freak shows. These… Continue reading The Leperโ€™s Garden and Other Contagions