Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Entry - this eBook is a sample of the first 3,000-5,000 words; it is not the full book. The ABNA contest is operated on Amazon.com only. Visit this entry on Amazon.com to leave customer feedback. To vote for the Grand Prize winner starting July 8, visit www.amazon.com/ABNA. Lions and tigers and...ghosts? Ashling Cleary yearns to escape her financially-strapped storybook park and its host of haunting memories, but when her plans to sell StoryWorld raise the actual ghost of its founder--her grandfather, Lou--Ashling finds herself stuck between a spirit and a hard place. This unfriendly ghost is determined to keep StoryWorld in the family, and he knows exactly how to obtain Ashling's cooperation--by promising her information from the afterlife about her late boyfriend, Jamie. Not only does Lou fail to keep his promise, he starts harming the people Ashling loves. He's hardly the caring philanthropist of Cleary family legend, and Ashling has to figure out what's going on before someone gets seriously hurt. But before she gets the chance to chase away her ghost, she must survive a showdown with a still-living threat. The paranormal cozy mystery Haunted Ever After explores the themes of family loyalty, moving on from the past, and summoning the courage to love again after loss.
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Entry - this eBook is a sample of the first 3,000-5,000 words; it is not the full book. The ABNA contest is operated on Amazon.com only. Visit this entry on Amazon.com to leave customer feedback. To vote for the Grand Prize winner starting July 8, visit www.amazon.com/ABNA. Lions and tigers and...ghosts? Ashling Cleary yearns to escape her financially-strapped storybook park and its host of haunting memories, but when her plans to sell StoryWorld raise the actual ghost of its founder--her grandfather, Lou--Ashling finds herself stuck between a spirit and a hard place. This unfriendly ghost is determined to keep StoryWorld in the family, and he knows exactly how to obtain Ashling's cooperation--by promising her information from the afterlife about her late boyfriend, Jamie. Not only does Lou fail to keep his promise, he starts harming the people Ashling loves. He's hardly the caring philanthropist of Cleary family legend, and Ashling has to figure out what's going on before someone gets seriously hurt. But before she gets the chance to chase away her ghost, she must survive a showdown with a still-living threat. The paranormal cozy mystery Haunted Ever After explores the themes of family loyalty, moving on from the past, and summoning the courage to love again after loss.