by SUE FINEMAN
Leonard said Lisa Marie could give him something Kayla couldn’t. A baby. But the bimbo had a surprise coming if she thought he’d support her and the baby. He didn’t make much singing off and on in the clubs, and he wouldn’t help around the apartment. Shoot, he wouldn’t even pick up after himself. He was a sorry excuse for a husband on his best days.
She found a towel in the cabinet, dried off, and pulled on a cotton bra and panties. As she was running the hair dryer, she heard something behind her and turned to find a man with sandy hair and blue eyes standing there staring at her. His wide shoulders filled the doorway, blocking out the sunshine. Too stunned to move, Kayla stood staring at him. Where did he come from?
“What in the hell are you doing in here?”
I hope you enjoyed this excerpt of The Ghost Upstairs. If you’d like to read the book in its entirety, it’s coming to Kindle and Nook soon.
Author’s Note
I hope you enjoyed reading The Ghost in the Basement.
When I was a little girl, my grandparents lived in a big old house in Columbus, Ohio. The ceilings were tall, the kitchen a nightmare of early 1900 design, and when the wind blew, cold air seemed to blow right through the house.
The Christmas I was three, with the entire Palmer family gathered for the holiday, I met my great-grandmother. She was ninety-something and nearly deaf. She was the oldest person I’d ever known. She sat in a rocking chair in a bedroom upstairs in her long black dress and little white cap with the ties hanging on either side of her face. The adults in the family trudged up and down the steep stairs to bring her things and check on her, but she didn’t come downstairs. Her name was Charity.
The houses on Livingston Avenue in Columbus were replaced years ago with a freeway, but I still picture the house as it was in the 1940’s. But that old house didn’t have a hidden staircase, a body in the basement, or Charity’s treasures tucked away.
The four sequels to The Ghost in the Basement feature Hannah and Donovan’s kids – Billy, Andy, Charlie, and Ginny. I hope you enjoy reading them all.
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THE KANE GHOSTS SERIES
The Ghost in the Basement
When Hannah Taylor inherits her grandfather’s home, the attorney tells her there are strings attached. She must share the house with Police Detective Donovan Kane and his family for a year, and if she doesn’t stay, Donovan gets the house. He’s sure Hannah won’t stay the full year and he’ll end up with the house, but she’s not about to give him her home.
In a letter to Donovan, Grandpa said to “find the diaries, open the house, and send the wandering spirits on their way,” but nobody expects the old diaries to lead them to a secret staircase, a body buried in the basement, friendly ghosts, and a love that will last a lifetime.
The Ghosts Upstairs
Billy Kane, a teacher in a private academy, inherits his grandfather’s mansion in River Valley, but he doesn’t expect to find three ghosts there. His mother and grandmother made his childhood a living hell, and he wants their ghosts gone, but his grandmother’s ghost won’t let his mother’s ghost leave.
His grandmother’s heir, Kayla Blanton, is crazy about Billy, but she knows she can’t have him. He’s a teacher in a school that has a morals clause, and her last job was in a topless club. Billy wants a wife who can give him children, and she can’t. But love finds a way.
The Ghost at the Farm
A gypsy fortune teller convinces architect Andy Kane his dreams are of a past life, that of the man who was murdered and buried in his family’s basement in 1918. He must resolve the issues of the past life or his life will end the same way, but how can he do that from this life?
After he rescues Julianne Tandry from an abusive man in a bar, Andy’s mind isn’t just on his dreams, but he can’t move forward with a relationship until he figures out what issues need to be resolved. Julie, a real estate agent, helps Andy find a farm to buy, where things get really strange. But she loves Andy, and despite his past life visions, she’s not willing to give him up.
The Ghosts in the Attic
Someone tracks down Charlie Kane and tells him his daughter is in the hospital, a kid he didn’t know he had. He’s been with a lot of women, so who is the child’s mother, and why didn’t she tell him about the adorable little girl with the big bump on her head and his gray eyes?
Alexandra Porcini’s father hates Charlie’s father, the former police detective who put him in jail many years ago, but Alex has always loved Charlie. When she sees him with their little girl, she knows she has to explain and hopes he can forgive her for choosing her family over him seven years ago. She wants to build a future with Charlie and their spirited psychic daughter.
The Ghosts in the Audience
Police Detective Ginny Kane asks psychic entertainer Steffen Marchand, on tour in River Valley, to help her find a missing friend. She’s excited by him, yet frustrated with the way he can plant thoughts in her mind. She doesn’t need a man in her life anyway.
When someone shoots Steffen in the shoulder, Ginny can’t leave him alone to fend for himself, and he can’t drive home to Chicago until he heals and she finds the shooter. She takes him home with her to recuperate. After the shooting, his psychic abilities are gone, and he can’t pull up a vision of the shooter’s face. Psychic or not, Steffen finds himself falling hard for Ginny. She doesn’t want to love him; she knows he’s not the kind of man who stays.
Books by Sue Fineman
The Martinson Ranch Series
The Mitchell Money
Ginger’s Grief
Maggie’s Man
The Gregory Series
On the Run
On the Lam
On the Hunt
On the Edge
The Donatelli Series
Nick’s Journey
Maxine
Blind Love
The Inheritance
The Inn at Dead Man’s Point
The Kane Ghosts Series
The Ghost in the Basement
The Ghost Upstairs
The Ghost at the Farm
The Ghost in the Attic
The Ghost in the Audience
Single Title
Gran’s Guilt
Bio Sheet
Sue Fineman
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Sue Fineman is a grumpy old lady who lives with her husband in a small town in Washington state. She writes romance, romantic suspense, women’s fiction and light paranormal romance novels. Although she doesn’t write comedy, there’s a little humor in everything she writes.