While still working my way through the sudden loss of my husband of 37 years I have been trying to keep myself busy. I managed to proof read and revise a book originally titled Dawg but recently self-published with the title The Value of Jade. I wrote the book about three years ago and wasn't completely happy with it, so it sat idle in a binder. With corrections, continuity issues dealt with, and revisions made I self-published the story of a struggling NH farmer whose dog finds a young woman who's been recently assaulted in a muddy corn row on his farm. The farmer takes her in and does his best to help her, including lying to a man who shows up at the farm after the storm is over looking for her. He calls on the local pastor's wife for help. Although Jade has had a difficult past James and his lab/retriever mix dog, Dawg, do their best to help her as she recovers from her injuries and tries to figure out what to do as she moves forward in her life. The pastor and his wife also step in to assist her. After James is attacked and injured by the man hunting for Jade she runs away, but the kindness and protection she's received from James and the pastor and the congregation of the church draw her back. She loves the farm, she loves Dawg, and ultimately, she's fallen in love with James and he's developed feelings for her. Together they work toward a future that will bring them both the stability, security and happiness that has been lacking in their lives. It's a gentle romance story.
I also had a new ghost story/paranormal/light horror story anthology started with a planned release date of October 2022. I had started a story called The Lilac Teddy Bear while on a short get away vacation to Cape Cod with my husband in mid-April. About two months after my emergency surgery at the very beginning of May and his sudden passing a week later on Mother's Day I managed to finish writing that story. I drew a few stories from past books such as Miss Peculiar's Ghost Stories, Volume I, 13, and Miss Peculiar's Haunting Tales, Volume III to round out the new stories written to make up the third anthology to accompany The Hanging Man and Other Stories, and Only BOO, and nothing more. A Haunting We Will Go was published at the middle of September 2021.
Both new books are available on Amazon in print format and in the Kindle store as ebooks.
Several readers have already asked when the sequel to The Value of Jade is coming out! I hadn't planned one, but am now considering it.
A quote from the beginning of A Haunting We Will Go sums up the new anthology: "Come and sit down," she said. "I've saved you the best seat in the house. I call it the uneasy chair."
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