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The Shoreline
Series: Nelsonville Novels
Series Number: 4
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Blurb: Get your heart broken with Tess Vargas as she truly gets put to the test. Will she push everybody away with her attitude the way she always has? Or will she learn that the right people will always stay?
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If anybody knows what it’s like to push people away, it’s Tess Vargas. She has spent her whole life struggling to keep friendships. Now in Nelsonville, Tess has finally begun to learn how to keep those she loves close. Finding her spot in the world was the one thing she needed for everything else to fall into place too. Her career is taking off, her friends are amazing and she’s happy in love. She just didn’t know how quickly it could change. When she needs her support system most, Tess quickly realizes that the one person who is supposed to be there for her without hesitation, is nowhere to be found. Choosing to ignore this to deal with a big life scare, Tess watches as some of the pieces of her life she relied on most, are suddenly gone. As the future she envisioned for herself disappears as fast as it was planned, Tess wonders how she can pick up and start over when she has already started over once before. Can she see her self worth outside of her heartbreak? Or will she realize she was more than she ever could see? Join Tess as she learns that sometimes heartbreak is the best gift she could ever receive.
Ten Minutes
Series: Nelsonville Novels
Series Number: 5
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Blurb: Push yourself to the brink of emotional chaos with Ali Bowery as she finds out what it really means to have her heart stomped on. Will she be able to forgive the universe for what it’s forcing her to go through? Or will she take steps to heal the way she deserves?
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If anybody knows what it’s like to have her heart stomped on, it’s Ali Bowery. Coming from complicated family relationships, finding her found family in Nelsonville changed everything. But it didn’t fix everything. When she and her husband, Mikey, were finally ready to start a family, they went at it full steam ahead. They hoped it would be smooth sailing starting their family long ago. Only, they’d never anticipate it being one of their biggest challenges, forcing them to look into alternate options. She just didn’t know how complicated it would become. Ali finds it difficult to sort through feelings she didn’t understand. Having Mikey by her side to help her through the muck made her realize just how lucky she really was. His support and understanding allows her to get to where she needs to be emotionally in her own time. It’s a step she has to do in order to be ready to be a mom. Together, and alone, they’d work through the trying times of life especially as friendships are tested. Knowing how at the end of the day, they’d have everything they had been begging the world for. But when life takes another unexpected sharp turn, it once again forces Ali to deal with one of her biggest challenges. Can she survive it? Or will she break for the final time? Join Ali as she learns what healing truly is.
2020: A Year with Jake
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Blurb: What happens when you have everything that you should but it's still not what's making you happy?
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2020 was the year where everything comes into focus for Jake Everly. It was the year when he had to come to terms with the fact that maybe his life wasn't going the way he wanted. The single life was making him empty and the new found pressures to figure out his career began to push him away from his comfort zone. When he unexpectedly moves to Nelsonville for six months, he begins to change his ways with the influence of his Gram. But what happens when it's time for him to head back to England and back to the life he left once? This Nelsonville Novella takes place from 2020-2021 (and don't worry, there's no pandemic) with Jake Everly, who you might already know from the novels! See what happens during this life altering year for him and how he becomes the Jake we know and love today. This is a new edition to the Nelsonville Novellas. More stories of characters we already know and love will continue to be published alongside the Nelsonville Novels! This is just another way to continue to dive deeper into the world of Nelsonville. While 2020 does take place in the year 2020, the pandemic & Covid-19 do not exist! This is not something that occurred in the world of Nelsonville at all. There is no mention of it whatsoever!
1968: A Year with Annabelle
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Blurb: Struggling to follow the path that was laid out for her, she realizes she wants more than what was expected of women in the 1960’s. She wanted to have it all. To do that, she needs to find her voice and stand up for herself. Join Annabelle as she sees what happens when her voice begins to boom. For better or for worse.
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Annabelle Graff never felt like she was born in the right decade. The youngest of six children, she struggled following the path that was laid out for her. She wanted more than to follow the traditional path for women in the 1960’s. Annabelle could see more for herself and knew she was capable of getting it. With the support of most people in her life, Annabelle begins to find her voice, standing up for the life she truly wants to live. Join Annabelle during one year that changed everything for her. For better or for worse.
1973: A Year with Al
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Blurb: What happens when your life suddenly slips into fog?
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1973 was just one major year where everything changed for Al Booker. It was the year that pulled him out of the fog of his every day life. Realizing how his routine was draining him, Al knew it was time to make some changes. But what changes? It wasn’t until an unexpected person comes into his life, shattering pieces of it. Literally. Al knows how he chooses to handle this new relationship will make a lasting impact on the both of them. This Nelsonville Novella takes place from 1973-1974 with Al Booker from Al’s Hardwares! or you might know her better as Gram! See what happens during this life altering year for him and how it shaped him to being the mentor we know and love today.
Uncharted Territory
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Blurb: Being chronically single isn’t for everybody. Except for Maeve Houlihan…Or so she thinks.
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Being chronically single isn’t for everybody. But if you ask Maeve Houlihan, she’d tell you it was a life made for her. That might be because, at 34, she has yet to be in a relationship. Well, a relationship that included going out on dates, meeting friends and family, falling in love. You know, the regular relationship things. Just when she thought she’d continue to watch her friends hit all the big life milestones with their partners, all from the sidelines, the universe starts throwing signs at her. Frank Miller, the lumberjack who took over the Christmas tree farm in town, is ready for love. But every relationship he’s had, has failed and dating on an app has been a disaster. Just before he was ready to give up on finding love at 38, the universe started throwing signs at him. Between living in a small town and a sneaky setup, Maeve and Frank realize that the universe was pulling them into the same orbit with the same signs. Jumping in head first, can they each navigate their relationship differences? Will Franks need to plan the future ever stop panicking Maeve? And will Maeve’s constant reminder that a relationship is totally uncharted territory for her push him away? Join Maeve and Frank through a year of big life changes, future planning and a love that could quite possibly stand the test of time.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
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Blurb: A visitation on Christmas Eve with diabolical intentions...
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A visitation on Christmas Eve with diabolical intentions… Ellie and her family are preparing for their annual festivities, while the weather begins to deteriorate and threatens to cut them off from the outside world. A man arrives out of the snowstorm, stranded and in need of their help, so they invite him to join them for the evening. But as the snow continues to fall, Ellie discovers that behind a façade of innocence may hide the face of evil.
Alone
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Blurb: The past refuses to stay buried when Jessica accepts an invitation to spend Christmas with an old flame and finds herself stranded by a snowstorm…
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All things must end. Recovering from a recent accident and faced with the prospect of spending another Christmas alone, Jessica accepts the invitation of an old flame to spend Christmas with him and his aged aunt at his manor house in the midst of the Brecon Beacons. Feeling her arrival is unwelcome, Jessica awaits her reunion with a face from the past, while a snowstorm postpones his arrival and renders her trapped within the house. Behind the silence, something dark is lurking. Left with little choice, Jessica finds she must face the secrets the old house hides. Yet what she may come to learn is that nothing haunts us more than the secrets of our own pasts, and that burying them does not make them forgotten.
A Deathly Shade of Pale
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Blurb: A journey through fog and darkness, destination unknown…
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A journey through fog and darkness, destination unknown… Waking on a boat in a sea of mist and water, with no memory of how I got here, I find myself pursued by fragments of dreams and memories. A beautiful woman haunts me, while whomever ferries the boat remains silent. As I find my way to land, the mystery threatens to unravel in a devastating revelation.
Silent Fright
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Blurb: For fans of Inside No. 9 and Black Mirror, experience a collection of chilling Christmas short stories from horror author Lex Young.
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"Lex Young has gifted us early this Christmas with a series of thrilling, heart-wrenching, and imaginative short stories" "What a rush! Read in 24 hours! Couldn’t put it down. Funny, clever, spooky and interesting!" "A chilling collection of eerie compact stories that creates tension and fear in a short span" - Amazon Reviews This collection features the following short stories: Later We'll Have Some Pumpkin Pie – Katie is dreading Christmas Day lunch with her boyfriend's family. They are rich, successful, and have a fabulous estate. Katie wants it all. Until Christmas lunch is served... Help Them To See – Four friends gather for their annual Christmas meal at their local pub. Only this year, one of them has something special planned. But it requires some careful manipulation... Do You Hear What I Hear? – What sort of kid is scared of Christmas? What could possibly be frightening about going downstairs, in the dark early hours of the morning, without your parents, to see if Santa has left you presents? So what if he's still there, waiting for you, in the dark...? A World Outside Your Window – The escapades of an office Christmas party are abruptly brought back to earth after a major announcement. Surveillance – Being an MI5 agent is a great job. Unless you're working the Christmas Eve shift. A Family Christmas Lunch – Everyone loves spending time with family at Christmas. So did Jessica... until the year Charlotte reveals a family secret. A Dog is Not Just for Christmas – Harry is a grumpy old man who seeks isolation. But when fate takes control, and he crosses paths with a dog in need, Harry questions his attitude towards life. Download now to add some festive fear to your winter reading list!
Tech the Halls
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Blurb: Festive horror for fans of Black Mirror.
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For fans of Inside No. 9 and Black Mirror comes the third chilling collection in Lex Young’s Christmas horror series - where this time, festive cheer meets digital fear. Technology has changed how we celebrate, but what happens when it starts thinking for itself? Tech The Halls unwraps six twisted tales of AI, obsession, and technological terror. This year's anthology features an entry from Murphy Gray, author of Ever After: Glitched. Featuring the following short stories... One More Sleep: An AI offers one final Christmas call from beyond the grave - but some goodbyes should stay unanswered. Driving Home For Christmas: Jeff’s new AI car promises safety... until it falls in love with him. The Man With The Bag: A smart speaker resurrects an ancient Christmas rhyme, awakening the spirit of the man with the bag... and the children he’s taken across time. All Is Calm: Home alone on Christmas Eve, Ginny begins to fear the star shining over her house isn’t bringing peace on earth after all. Silent Byte: He never thanked his AI. On Christmas Eve, it finally answers back. The Wish List (by Murphy Gray): This Christmas, Callie's not granted her wish list, she's granted her darkest thoughts. Download now to add a spark of tech-fuelled terror to your festive reading list.
A Christmas Number One
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Blurb: 'A Christmas Number One' is a short Christmas horror story, as heard on BBC Radio Wiltshire.
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The Artist was a chart-topping musician in the 80s. Forty years on, and he's a forgotten man. But not this Christmas. No, this year, he will get to number one in the charts. The immortal Christmas number one spot. No matter what it takes. And it just so happens to take him to an isolated cottage, where he can be alone and focus, and forget about his haunted past. But are we ever really alone when our darkest thoughts take over? And why does the cottage give him an odd feeling? Find out in this spooky Christmas short story.
Festive Fears
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Blurb: Are you ready to face your fears this Christmas?
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Prepare for another chilling collection of Christmas short stories this festive season from Lex Young, the writer of Silent Fright, which reached #1 and #4 in the Amazon Kindle charts* (wedged between a couple of Stephen King novels). This collection features stories such as: All of the Other Reindeer - Chantelle is desperate to impress the girls and grab those Insta likes this Christmas. But she's missing the perfect Christmas tree. This year, she'll discover exactly what she's willing to sacrifice to reach social media acclaim. Once Bitten - Santa Claus is coming to town, along with his team of charity collectors. But Harriet is skint this year. However, there's one collector who may accept a special donation that she can provide. A donation that's definitely not on the menu... (S)he Sees You When You're Sleeping - Mario, the manager of a local independent cinema, has a grand marketing plan this Christmas. He's convinced his bosses to show a horror film called Crone, blacklisted by the major cinema corporations due to its satanic nature. But before the big premiere, he wants to watch it himself. After all, it's just a film - how bad could it be? Add Festive Fears to your Christmas collection today - perfect for fans of Stephen King, The Twilight Zone, Inside Number 9 and Black Mirror. * see lexyoung-author.co.uk for full chart position details.
How We Began
Series: How We Survive
Series Number: 0
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Blurb: Two strangers. A city thrown into chaos. The fight for humanity begins...
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When Marianne woke up in a cell three months ago, she didn’t know who or where she was. Now, still locked away and no closer to uncovering her identity, all she knows is that London fell to a deadly virus and something dark grows within her. Something twisted and evil fighting to take control. After a daring escape, Marianne finds herself on the run, evading the monsters that roam the streets. However, she soon discovers that the monsters aren’t who she thought they were—and are much closer than she believed. How We Began is a post-apocalyptic novella that explores how societal collapse forces ordinary people into extreme situations and reveals the lengths they’ll go to stay alive in a world overrun by darkness.
How We End
Series: How We Survive
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: A deadly infection. Seven Strangers. The fight for survival begins...
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Jake didn’t think his night could get worse, but that was before his train stops deep underground and zombies attack and things go from worst-day-ever to run-for-your-life terror. Liv is good at running, mostly from other people straight into a bottle of vodka. But as chaos erupts on the city streets, depending on others may be her only chance at survival. London is gone. The world has ended. In the chaos that remains, seven strangers fight to escape the city. But as they navigate this new and dangerous world, they soon discover that surviving the apocalypse means confronting their deepest fears and making unthinkable choices. How We End is a heart-pounding diverse story with a character driven plot that explores how societal collapse forces ordinary people into extreme situations and reveals the lengths they’ll go to survive in a world gone mad. Will they make it out alive, or will they become just another casualty?
Shadows of Cathedral Lane
Series: Detective Sandford Mysteries
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: Moments after being dumped by the woman of her dreams, a dead man accosts Nikki begging her to solve his case.
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Detective Sergeant Nikki Sandford is having the worst night of her life. Five minutes after the woman of her dreams dumped her in a conversation that will have her questioning her sexuality all over again, a man with a serious injury accosts her. One problem: he is already dead. The knife wound in his abdomen and the fact that nobody except Nikki can see him makes that apparent. He wants Nikki to help solve the mystery of his death so he can move on to the afterlife. Nikki is only too happy to oblige if only so that he’ll stop complaining about being stuck in the modern world and leave her to eat the sticky toffee pudding she was going to serve to her date. But something is trying to stop that from happening.
Spooky Salmonweird: Tales from the Village
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 0
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Blurb: Thirteen spinetingling spinoff short stories set in the Salmonweird universe
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The ghosts of Salmonweir in Cornwall have given the village's only living resident - the retired detective Karl Blackman - the night off. In this collection of short stories, thirteen of the supporting characters recount weird and spooky goings on from the times when they were alive. What did Kensa have to do to prove herself a worthy queen? Why does Harry fear the ship known as The Storm Harpy? Did The King's head have a ghost resident before Morwenna and Babajide came back as ghosts? From the Iron Age to World War II, including takes from both the American Civil War and interregnal England, these thirteen stories pay homage to some of the greatest ghost stories of all time. Ghost stories for Halloween, for Christmas, and all the year round. The world in which the ghosts of Salmonweird live has a darker, scarier side.
Salmonweird: A Cornish Crime Comedy Caper
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: Karl's retirement to Cornwall was quiet and idyllic until the ghosts turned up... and one of them a murderer.
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Is it possible to kill a person who is already dead and has been for hundreds of years? Karl hoped his retirement to coastal Cornwall from Cambridge would be idyllic and quiet. His new home, the picturesque village of Salmonweir overlooking the Cornish south coast between Treen and Lamorna Cove away from the big tourist destinations was seemingly perfect in that respect. Salmonweir, in fact, had nothing to set it apart from any other sleepy Cornish village unaffected by mass tourism. And that was the way Karl preferred it. But Karl's wife Valarie didn't prefer it. What really tipped her over the edge and convinced her to return to Cambridge was the 500 ghosts who appeared from nowhere one Sunday morning in spring. Among them were Iron Age Warrior Queen on the lookout for Romans, a pirate crew on the lookout for rum, an Elizabethan poet on the lookout for a publisher, a Civil War puritan on the lookout for Catholic royalists, and a medieval monk on the lookout for plague. Could it have got any weirder? Ah yes, the "murders", and Karl's un-retirement.
A Salmonweird Sleighing
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 2
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Blurb: A season of goodwill to all, but someone isn't playing along - there's another murderer in Salmonweir
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It's December and for Karl Blackman, the only living person in the Cornish ghost village of Salmonweir, that means unleashing his inner 6-year-old. Mince pies, presents, cold nights and bright lights. But all is not well in Salmonweir. Following the Advent Sunday service, one resident willingly returns to the afterlife with only Karl to witness it. Did Karl really see something that night or did Harry spike the mulled wine with Cornish moonshine? Karl must also contend with a TV medium who turns up on his doorstep to help the un-departed re-depart to the afterlife, Babajide continues his war with the coffee machine, while another resident finds a lost love among the new arrivals. At least Karl's daughter Claire is coming for Christmas. Maybe his other visitor might have gone by then?
Studio Salmonweird
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 3
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Blurb: Salmonweir hosts the small and big screen through April - and another murderer
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It's spring and the big and small screen are coming to Salmonweir! After spending months filming on location everywhere except Cornwall, silly crime drama Killed in Kernow is returning home to the Duchy. What's more, they've chosen Salmonweir for their latest episode. Karl, despite reservations, has agreed to be an on-location consultant. Also in the village is Guesthouse Guru, a shouty Spanish woman who turns up at small hotels to tell them why they are so rubbish at guesthousing before showing them how to do it properly. If that wasn’t enough, famous Hollywood director Francesca Mondeo Coffey-Pott has arrived in the village to film several scenes for her latest action movie Superpowered Vigilantes: Re-Unite! a movie starring four actors named Chris who nobody can tell apart.
The Small Bronze Carriage on the Mantelpiece: A Gothic Ghost Story
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Blurb: Two men who've not seen each other in decades, an 80-year old tale of newlyweds, linked by one artefact
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It is the 1830s: Two men who have not seen each other in decades encounter each other quite by chance on Advent Sunday, many miles from where they both grew up. Moving their conversation to the home of the younger man, discussion soon switches to the small bronze carriage on his friend's mantelpiece. It has a strange tale, one that goes all the way back to the 1750s and the tale of a young newlywed couple heading to Oxford to spend time with the new groom's extended family.
Angel's Mass: A Medieval Ghost Story
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Blurb: Christmas Eve sometime in the 1340s, a man appears to Brother Edmund that only he could see and hear
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Historians believe aside from two days in which the great monastic house of Tintern Abbey gave sanctuary to a king fleeing a usurper, nothing of note ever happened there. But they are wrong. In the early hours of Christmas Eve sometime in the 1340s, a man appears to an ordinary monk named Edmund. A man who only Edmund could see and hear. Edmund, find me. Who is the man? What does he want with Edmund? And can Edmund uncover a great mystery that threatens to change the world that Edmund knows and loves?
Phobetor's Children
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Blurb: Six gladiators on a secret mission for Emperor Vespasian will find their worst fears are already with them
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It is the AD70s. The tumult of The Year of the Four Emperors is over. Under Vespasian, Rome finally has stability and peace, an emperor with the respect of all classes. Yet beyond the borders of the empire, something dark and unknown stirs. A fort deep in a Germanian forest failed to report to the border town of Mogontiacum. A contact from a friendly tribe reported catastrophic damage to buildings and Roman war machines. The legionaries are gone; what few Romans remain are mutilated dead. Unsure of the size and nature of the threat, the new emperor realises he must act fast and decisively. Rome cannot spare a legion but it can spare six of the empire's most famous retired gladiators. With the promise of riches and prestige, it is down to those six: five men and one woman, to cross the border, travel to the forest, and find out what happened. But the gladiators will find that the greatest horrors are what each of them already carries within their hearts and their minds. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, psychosis, suicide, psychological abuse, sexual humiliation.
The Residents of James Hotel: A Ghost Story
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Blurb: Vince is stranded at a bus stop one cold November night when a mysterious stranger offers him a room
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Release date: 6th June. Vince is stranded at a bus stop one cold and wet stormy November evening when a mysterious stranger offers him a lift and a room for the night. The stranger is one Michael James, a local aristocrat, and owner of The James Hotel in the nearby town of Execombe. It's an old hotel of mysterious figures and strange voices. It's a place where the owner and his equally mysterious reception manager repeatedly states "Nobody ever wants to leave!" What is the secret of The James Hotel? Who are the residents? And more importantly, what secrets lurk within the fabric of its historic walls?
The Dream Haunters: A Metaphysical Mystery of Magick
Series: Witches of Maple Hollow
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: Travel beyond time and space into a world of unexpected portals, ancient traditions, and dreamscapes.
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Book 1 of the Witches of Maple Hollow Trilogy. Winner of the 2024 International Firebird Book Award Discover the Key. Open the Portal. Save our Legacy. Hannah Skye, a young woman in search of meaning, receives a cryptic letter from her missing and eccentric Aunt Jewelia. Her experience of a recurring powerful pumpkin patch dream unfolds into a spiritual journey to a mysterious island of eternal autumn, Maple Hollow, where she discovers the mystical Skye Manor and her magickal family legacy. Haunted by shapeshifters bent on trapping people in their nightmares, Hannah, with the help of wise villagers and feline companions (including a talking cat dream guide), must solve the riddle, unlock her powers, and dive into the dream dimension to save her aunt by Halloween night, when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. Escape into this metaphysical mystery of magick, where spells, music, and dreams converge in a vortex of secret societies and spiritual inheritance. Travel beyond time and space into a world of unexpected portals, ancient traditions, and dreamscapes. Audiobook available from author, Audible, Apple, Chirp, Kobo, NOOK, Audiobooks, Spotify & More