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When Alice Worthington's father dies, he leaves Morley Manor and all his debt to her and her younger brother. Desperate to find a way to pay the creditors, Alice performs a seance to contact the spirit of the last man to have seen the jewels rumored to be hidden within her home.

Sir Nicholas, a two-hundred-year-old roguish ghost, strikes a bargain with Alice. Find his earthly remains and bury them in consecrated ground. Only then will he reveal the location of the hidden jewels. Alice agrees not knowing when the time comes, she must decide between saving her home or saving the would of the charming ghost who haunts Morley Manor.

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Highwaymen

Nothing could shock me more than being accosted by highwaymen on our way home from a neighbor's house party.

My dear husband, Charles, looked as stunned as I when the first shouts of alarm broke the monotonous silence that had stretched between us. It had been a long and tiring evening spent under his sister's ever-present glare, and I had been thankful such an event had ended.

I never imagined my night was far from over.

After the initial shouts from our driver, the carriage sped up, rocking us side to side with each bump in the road. I dared hope we might outrun them, but after a few pistol shots, our carriage slowed its pace, coming to a stop. The door flung open with a violence that left me trembling.

Charles held tight to my hand, and I returned his grip. What did these demons want? Money? Jewels? They could have the entire carriage if they so desired, but I prayed they would bring us no harm. Every horror story or bit of gossip I'd ever been exposed to rushed through my mind with the speed of a falling star. I barely breathed for fear of another story being added to that growing list.

This time ours.

A pistol presented itself within inches of my nose, the moonlight glistening off the polished metal. I stared into the barrel, watching the man's finger twitching on the trigger, pulling it back. Oh, so slowly.

"Take what you want." Charles's deep voice boomed above my ear. "Leave my wife be, and you may have all that you wish."

A lusty laugh emerged from the darkness of the night. I failed to see our robber's face, for a handkerchief masked his features, but the stale odor of ale and onions hovered around him like a musty cloud.

"It's your lady wife I've come fer, yer lordship."

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He's a Ghost! ~ The Ghost of Morley Manor #Excerpt #PNR #HistoricalParanormal

 

When Alice Worthington’s father dies, he leaves Morley Manor and all his debt to her and her younger brother. Desperate to find a way to pay the creditors, Alice performs a séance to contact the spirit of the last man to have seen the jewels rumored to be hidden within her home.

Sir Nicholas, a two-hundred-year-old roguish ghost, strikes a bargain with Alice. Find his earthly remains and bury them in consecrated ground. Only then will he reveal the location of the hidden jewels. Alice agrees not knowing when the time comes, she must decide between saving her home or saving the soul of the charming ghost who haunts Morley Manor.

Excerpt:

As my eyelids drifted down, I heard a noise.

At first, I disregarded it. There were often noises within Morley Manor that seemed unexplainable. I usually surmised the noises came from the wind, rattling the casements, or perhaps mice scurrying about, seeking a spare bit of crumb.

But, when the noise repeated itself, I had the distinct impression that I was not alone.

Those were footsteps. Footsteps nearing my bed…

It’s nothing, I chastised myself, gripping the coverlet. The wind… merely the wind.

But this wind had a solid cadence and the second thought that pervaded my sleep fogged brain was perhaps Morley Manor had an intruder. It was possible someone might have heard of our misfortune and had come to take advantage. To steal anything of value that might remain in our destitute house.

I reached for the table beside my bed, searching blindly for anything I might obtain as a weapon. I touched the cold leather binding of a book, a porcelain miniature figurine, and a candle encased in its brass holder. I wrapped my fingers around the candlestick, gripping it tightly as I peeked over the coverlets.

My room was empty.

I pushed the coverlets aside and sat up fully to better view my chambers in the dim light of the dying fire. The heat from the blaze was gone. I noticed my breath clouding before my face. I sat there quite a while, listening with bated breath for the noises I had previously heard, but there were none.

“I must have been dreaming,” I muttered aloud.

“Was I among those dreams, my sweet?” A voice spoke loudly from my left. My heart drummed into my throat, and I jerked to face my intruder.

A man dressed in 15th century garb of shirt, doublet and hose sat stretched in the chair beside my bed with his booted feet propped on another table. He flicked idly at the tassel on his hat.

“At one time, I might have enjoyed partaking of that delectable… Good God! Can you hear me?”

He had lifted his head when I made a small gurgling sound in the back of my throat. At the sight of me staring at him, he straightened, his feet dropping through the table and onto the floor.

Through the table…

A scream tore into the night, a high-pitched, frightening sound that sent shivers coursing down my spine. I scrambled back against the headboard of my bed, gripping my candlestick and gasping for breath. As I struggled to breathe, I realized those were my chilling screams.

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When Alice Worthington’s father dies, he leaves Morley Manor and all his debt to her and her younger brother. Desperate to find a way to pay the creditors, Alice performs a séance to contact the spirit of the last man to have seen the jewels rumored to be hidden within her home.

Sir Nicholas, a two-hundred-year-old roguish ghost, strikes a bargain with Alice. Find his earthly remains and bury them in consecrated ground. Only then will he reveal the location of the hidden jewels. Alice agrees not knowing when the time comes, she must decide between saving her home or saving the soul of the charming ghost who haunts Morley Manor.

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When Alice Worthington’s father dies, he leaves Morley Manor and all his debt to her and her younger brother. Desperate to find a way to pay the creditors, Alice performs a séance to contact the spirit of the last man to have seen the jewels rumored to be hidden within her home.

Sir Nicholas, a two-hundred-year-old roguish ghost, strikes a bargain with Alice. Find his earthly remains and bury them in consecrated ground. Only then will he reveal the location of the hidden jewels. Alice agrees not knowing when the time comes, she must decide between saving her home or saving the soul of the charming ghost who haunts Morley Manor.

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This month, I am 'feline' good! Wanna know why? This month is my ten-year author anniversary! That's right! Ten years as a published author! I began my journey on July 21, 2010 with a paranormal historical romance novella called The Witch and the Wolf. It's been a wild ride ever since!

I've always wanted to write. I've been telling stories since I was a kid. My first series I wrote was an adventure series about my brother's pet turtle. I was even the illustrator for that one! I might have been about 11 or 12 years old.

The first full-length novel I wrote when I was 15. It was based on an incredible dream I'd had. It took me a week to write. Thankfully, it was during summer vacation, so I didn't have to worry about school. I wrote from day to night all week long until the story was complete. It turned into a young adult fantasy romance about a teenager who went camping with her friends and got zapped into an alternate dimension where she met some people who needed help fighting the bad guys. It was a fun story to write!

I took a creative writing class during my senior year in high school. That was informative and horrifying for a shy, young girl. I was the wallflower type. My mother had died years earlier and I had quietly withdrawn into myself. Most of my friends were either older or younger than me, so I didn't socialize much with kids in my class. When my creative writing teacher, Mr. McCormick, recommeded the entire class should read my short story assignment, I turned the brightest shade of red to match my hair! Everyone turned in their seats to stare at me with astonishment and curiosity. Sure enough, after class, several students asked to read my story. That was my first experience with people reading my stories! My teacher pulled me aside once everyone was gone and told me he thought I had incredible talent. He said I could easily turn this short story into a novel and seek publication with it.

That was the moment when I realized that being an author was an actual career. Taking Mr. McCormick's advice, I began reading books on how-to-write. I devoured them. Once I graduated high school and got a job working at Waldenbooks (I swear, the Universe has been pointing me in this direction my whole life!), I had enough money to attend writing workshops and conferences. I met other authors and absorbed their every word!

For the next several years, I wrote and wrote and wrote, submitting to editors at publishing houses and magazines. I got some nonfiction articles and poetry published and won some awards for my short stories.

In March 2010, I got 'the call' from The Wild Rose Press! In July, The Witch and the Wolf was released into the world!

Since then, I've published 18 short stories, novella and novels. I've explored several subgenres of romance including paranormal romance, gothic romance, historical romance, fantasy romance and more recently, sci-fi romance. My work has also been published in anthologies and boxed set collections. I've won awards for my writing, including an Amazon Bestseller, but I'm still working toward that elusive NY Times Bestseller list. We all have goals, right? 

Looking back at ten years, I'm pleased with the work I've accomplished.

For a look at excerpts and reviews, check out my website. 

Here are my available titles:

The Merriweather Witches

The Witch and the Wolf

The Witch and the Vampire

The Witch's Thief

The Witch's Kiss

The Cougar Shifters

Loving Boone

Claiming Cody (coming soon!)

The Pirate's Lady

Pirates: A Boys Behaving Badly Anthology

Ice Princess

Night of the Full Moon

A Wink and a Smile

A Kiss and a Promise

The best is still to come! I've signed several contracts for more stories to be published and I can't wait for you to read them! I have more paranormal romances waiting for you this fall and winter, but I have to tell you, I'm enjoying these alien romances at the moment. Next month, Stolen and Seduced will be released. It's going to be amazing!

This has been an exciting and life-changing ten years! Thank you to my readers who've accompanied me on this journey! You are precious to me! I wouldn't be here without you! 

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

To celebrate my 10-Year Anniversary, I'm giving away a $20 Amazon Gift Card!


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#BookReview ~ On the Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt #gothic #suspense #romance

On the Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

For generations, Victoria Holt has dazzled and entertained millions of readers with her spine-tingling novels of romantic suspense. On the Night of the Seventh Moon is one of her most evocative, magical, and chilling. Come take a journey into a dark and shadowy forest where nothing is as it seems…




On the night of the seventh moon, according to ancient Black Forest legend, Loke, the god of mischief, is abroad in the world. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love.

Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest—its people, its mysterious castles, its legends and lore. Especially its legends of love. Until the day she started to live one of them and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare….



My Review

This was an unusual story that surprised me. The story about Helena Trant and written in her point of view. One day after getting separated from her classmates, she finds a man walking in the misty forest of Germany. The meeting is memorable and she doesn't forget him even after she travels back to England to live with her two aunts. When she's visited by some relatives on her mother's side, they invite her back to Germany to stay with them. During a festival on the night of the seventh moon, she meets the man again. His name is Maximilian. They discover since the first night they met, they've fallen in love with each other. This is insta-love at its finest. They marry and spend a few glorious days together. Eventually, Maximilian has to go back to his father to explain their situation. Helena's relatives come to get her and the next morning she awakes to fina a doctor explaining that she's been viciously attacked and has been given treatment that's basically caused her to live in a dreamworld for a few days. Her relatives and the doctor try to convince her that she was never married, there is no Maximilian and everything that she has experienced recently has all been a dream to protect her sanity from the horrible truth.

It was an unusual story. But told very well. As the reader, even I was confused as to what was real and what wasn't. Was Maximilian real or merely a figment of Helena's imagination? The story progresses, but I don't want to give away any spoilers. She goes back to live with her aunts, trying to go on with her life. There are many twists and turns that eventually lead her back to Germany to discover the truth.

It was a gripping and suspenseful tale that left me turning the pages to discover the truth of Helena's story. The mystery of those few days haunted her for several years. I was so happy when she finally discovered the truth and everything was revealed! The story was well-written and satisfying. Although it was more mystery than romance, I enjoyed every moment of it. I recommend it to anyone who likes to read gothic romantic mysteries.


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Bride of Pendorric by Victoria Holt #BookReview

Bride of Pendorric by Victoria Holt

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Favel Farrington meets Roc Pendorric on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Capri, where she was raised and lives with her father. Roc sweeps her off her feet, taking her from her home by an emerald sea to the ancient family home of the Pendorrics, in Cornwall. His sister and her family await them with open arms, welcoming young Favel. She is the much anticipated Bride of Pendorric, a name that amuses and flatters her.

The castle is beautiful in its way, but the atmosphere is foreboding. Roc's twin nieces begin watching her carefully; even the stones in the courtyard seem to have eyes. On the walls hang portraits of two other Brides of Pendorric--one of them Roc's mother--who died both young and tragically. Favel's fear increases as Roc seems to be growing more and more distant. Has her courtship and marriage been just a deception?

Soon Favel can no longer dismiss as accidents the strange things happening to her. Someone is trying to kill her and she must confront the very real dangers that surround her.

My Review
I think this might be one of my favorite Victoria Holt novels. Bride of Pendorric is a gripping romantic suspense. Favel Farrington falls hopelessly in love with Roc Pendorric when he arrives for a visit on her Mediterranean island home. It is a compulsive and quick courtship, but Favel knows he is the one for her and they marry. Shortly after, tragedy strikes, but Roc whisks Favel away to his home in Cornwall where he introduces his new Bride of Pendorric to his family.

Meeting the family, the neighbors and the villagers would be overwhelming enough, but Favel is still coming to understand her new life as a married woman to a man who is still mostly a stranger to her. As she learns about her husband and the legends surrounding her new home, she begins to wonder if she made a mistake. Is Roc the man she fell in love with or did he have ulterior motives to marrying her?

With each page, the danger escalates as it becomes increasingly evident that Favel's life is in danger. Is it the ghost that is said to haunt the house or is it someone much more closer to her?

There is so much in this story that I don't want to give away any spoilers. The author wove the elements of this gothic mystery superbly. It had everything necessary to instill a sense of foreboding and fear within the reader. I had to turn the pages faster to find out what happened next. And by the climax, I had a list of suspects, each with a clear motive, but I was completely surprised by the ending. The book was a pleasure to read! I can see why other readers have referred to this as a timeless classic.

If you like books like Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, then you'll be sure to enjoy Bride of Pendorric.

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