Haunting At Spook Light Inn

Haunting At Spook Light Inn

By Alicia Dean

Camille left Miami for Devil's Promenade. Her visit to this small town in rural Oklahoma is a quest. She searches for a legendary light, one with haunting effects sparkling in the sky without explanation, or predictability. This phenomenon appears only to some, and over the span of time the story has grown. It has become an epic tale. What is it? Camille plans a brief investigation, resulting in a sensational write up disproving any paranormal activity, followed by a quick mailing of her book to her impatiently waiting editor. At least, that's her plan. That is until her curiosity leads her straight into an extrasensory mystery.

Camille had left home in a hurry. She knew little about the Spook Light Inn at the time she made a hasty reservation and prepaid for her stay. She's determined no one will discover her own hidden, personal reason for running away from home with the sudden excuse to write this story now. She intends to bury that pain deep, in a dark and secret place within. No one will know about it, except the ones who caused it. 

When she gets out of the car and looks at the unique and intriguing inn it's a chilling feeling, something quite unsettling that passes through her. She can't identify a specific cause for her hesitation, and she has no idea as she crosses the threshold that this will be a life altering assignment.

As Camille checks in she meets the unusual staff members who keep the Inn running. She also meets an apparition visible and sensed only by her. Camille wants to deny her senses and refuse to believe, and yet the ghostly woman is too persistent to be ignored. Camille senses that she's being driven toward an ominous conclusion.

There are few other guests, and yet when Camille wanders the rambling inn there are parts of it strictly forbidden to walk or visit. The owner of the inn, Declan Rush is surprisingly inhospitable and reclusive, and alluring. There is an attraction there. His personality mystifies Camille and so does the Haunting At Spook Light Inn.

Award winning author, Alicia Dean writes in a variety of genres, among them, paranormal, suspense, and romance. She loves creating spine-chilling stories that keep readers on the edge of their seats, and she sure does that well. Haunting At Spook Light Inn is part of A World of Gothic which is a Gothic Mystery Romance Series. It was Alicia Dean's vision to invite authors from around the world to share a Gothic mystery novella set in their own country. Find out more about the author at her website aliciadean.com, and tune into YouTube's A Novel Talk with Alicia Dean to hear directly from Alicia Dean.

This Is How I Lied

This Is How I Lied

By Heather Gudenkauf

Maggie Kennedy-O'Keefe is ready to take a break from her unmarked police patrol duties. She's eight months pregnant, but not interested in going on full leave quite yet. She's assigned a cold case to take a new look at with today's investigative tools, to find the person in their town who brutally killed a teenage girl. Maggie is familiar with the case. Her father had been the police chief until he retired, and he'd spent many years dedicated to working on this mystery. But that's not all. Maggie is familiar with the murder because Eve Knox, the murdered girl was her best friend. Fifteen year old Maggie had been the one to find her body.

This mysterious thriller will keep you guessing from beginning to the very end. Intriguing suspects are revealed and each of their intertwining stories include twists none of them knew about each other. Passions, ambitions, and regrets surface in everyone as Maggie moves forward through clues and evidence. In a new light, motives and secrets surface and there are discoveries. Is it true that people don't change, or does time change everything? Who is it that has got away with murder? And what everyone reveals when they confess that This Is How I Lied will lead to the most difficult decision of Maggie's life.

Maggie does not want to return to this agonizing time of her life, and yet she is somehow drawn to find this killer and close this case for her friend, in her memory. But it's the memories that now torture Maggie. She is determined to follow through and put all this to final rest, regardless of how close danger falls to her own family, and to herself.

Author Heather Gudenkauf has a true talent at suspenseful writing. The story weaves back and forth between Maggie's active investigation days, and the teenagers' lives. The reader is fully engaged in the evidence, the intense characters, and the terrifying choice Maggie is forced into.

Heather Gudenkauf is an Edgar Award nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She has spent her career after graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in elementary education working with students of all ages. She continues to work in education as a Title I reading coordinator. She lives in Iowa with her family and a very spoiled German Shorthaired Pointer named Lolo. She enjoys spending free time with her family, reading, and hiking. 

Find out more from Heather Gudenkauf when she appears on The Investigators Book Group in a live chat at 11:00 am on August 26^th. Join The Investigators Book Group on Facebook and ask the author your own questions, or you can view the recorded event afterwards.