Restless Spirits
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Looking back on it, Ernie wasn’t sure what haunted him more: the memory of what he’d experienced or the fact that no one had believed him. And he wondered if Jonathan – good-natured, grinning Jonathan who wrote the most sincere, yet unbelievably bland essays about his family’s trips to Disneyworld and how much he loved his girlfriend – had been forced to go through what he had. The answer came immediately. Of course he had. Nothing else could explain why the boy had done what he’d done.
The intercom interrupted his reverie. “Attention, Mrs. Redguard!” The secretary’s normally strident voice was high-pitched with strain, just a decibel away from a scream. “Mrs. Redguard! Mrs.… Oh, everyone just leave the building! Now!”
This ends chapter one of The Soulless. The Soulless is available in the Amazon Kindle store.
About the Author
Maybe it's because of my Halloween birthday, but I've always been attracted to scary stories. On the other hand, I love romances as well. Once I discovered that these two genres existed side-by-side in urban fantasy novels, I was in heaven! Urban fantasy is like chocolate and peanut butter: a perfect, to-die-for combination that I can never get enough of.
I've been writing since childhood, but earned my bachelor's degree in psychology and my master's in English literature. When I'm not writing, I'm a straight-laced English teacher at a two-year college in Detroit. I've been married to Mr. Right for over twenty-five years. I also have three teenaged children: a boy and two girls, all of whom have threatened to never speak to me again if I turn them into characters and put them into my books.
More supernatural suspense by Michelle Scott – Straight to Hell
The devil never forgets a deal.
I, Lilith Straight, was the woman you always wanted to be. I was married to someone better looking than your husband, we lived in that house you always wanted. Within a year, however, all of that changed. My marriage dissolved, my house burned down, and my job hardly paid the bills. So when I was hit by a car and died, I thought my life couldn’t get any worse. Boy, was I wrong.
Hell was not the place I imagined. It was worse. During my brief stay, I learned some disturbing truths about my family. Most worryingly my ancestor’s deal with the devil promising him every female descendent as a succubus.
So these were my options: Life on earth as a soul-sucking seductress. Or death and pass the succubus baton to my sweet little daughter. There was no choice. Welcome to hell on earth, Lilith. Mother, teacher, wanton she-demon.
Straight to Hell is published by Carina UK (the digital imprint of Harlequin), and is available wherever e-books are sold.