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Step Beyond the Veil
Not every story ends where you think it will. In this collection of paranormal and literary fiction, the line between the living and the dead is thinner than you’d expect — populated by ghosts who refuse to be forgotten, women who find unexpected courage, and love stories that defy every law of nature. These are quiet, character-driven tales for readers who believe some things endure, even beyond death.
Blue Spruce Hills
This is Halloween
Midwife. Halloween. A Pennsylvania hill town. A ghost with an agenda. A historian with patient eyes.
Jules Lockwood, nurse-midwife and family nurse practitioner, wants two years of loan forgiveness and a one-way ticket to Australia. Her obstacle: a town that keeps finding reasons to need her.
Eli Matthews, Blue Spruce Hills town historian, is the kind of man who came back when it mattered and stayed. He brings coffee every morning without being asked.
Agnes Bell, midwife, 1856 to 1931, has been waiting in Blue Spruce Hills since her death for the right pair of hands to pass her work to. She has found them. She is not subtle about it.
On Halloween night, when the veil between past and present is at its thinnest, everything Jules came to Blue Spruce Hills to avoid arrives at once.
This Is Halloween delivers the satisfaction of a woman choosing herself and her work on her own terms, a slow-burn romance that earns every moment, and a ghost story that will make you wish you could have known Agnes Bell.
Ghost Stories
Life Ends, Love Remains
Clara Donovan, a divorced novelist, moves into her late grandmother's Connecticut home after a failed marriage and a failed book. She wants silence and a second chance.
Benjamin Whitlock, a woodworker turned soldier for a day, killed at the Battle of Ridgefield on April 27, 1777, has haunted the local cemetery for two hundred and forty-seven years. He wants to be heard.
Eliza Hartwell, dead since 1851, has been weeping in that same cemetery for one hundred and seventy-three years. She wants her story told before it disappears entirely.
When Clara agrees to write Eliza's story- a love erased from history, a family torn apart, and a theft that has kept her weeping for nearly two centuries- she sets in motion a love story she never anticipated. One conducted entirely across the uncrossable distance between the living and the dead.