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Ghosts and Such

My dad made the ghost. My mom painted him. :)

So if you're into ghosts...here are a couple of ghost stories.

Highland Rake, Book 3Coming November 2012Dougald MacNeill takes Lady Alana Cameron to his laird brother James's Craigly Castle when he finds her roaming the heather on the MacNeill lands. But who has sent her there and why? Her uncle, laird of the Cameron clan, and warring with the MacNeill for years, has made a marriage arrangement with another clan and now that is even at stake.Having witnessed her father's death, and even believing he had returned her home when all along he had been dead, Alana discovers she has the gift, or curse, of seeing the newly departed and sometimes those who should have long ago passed over. Her own deceased brother continues to plague her, the rake, and now another, who is very much of the flesh, Dougald MacNeill, has her thinking marrying a rake might just have its benefits. Dougald's sister, who is one fiesty ghost, has offered to help Alana keep Dougald in line if he thinks of even straying.But who sent Alana on a fool's errand in the first place to remove her from the Cameron's lands and set her squarely in Dougald's care, and who really killed her father and her brother, and what has it all to do with Alana? Will she and Dougald learn the truth before it is too late?


A GHOST OF A CHANCE AT LOVE Time travel western romance.Vinspire Romance
The past clashes with the present, and one woman finds herself fighting for her own identity in the past so that she can have a future with the man she loves--but with her ancestor's hold over her--Lisa Welsh and Jack Stanton only have a ghost of a chance at love. 
Lisa Welsh only wishes to leave a messy divorce behind for a couple of days stay in Salado, Texas, but wakes to nightmares and a cowboy in her bed, and she has no earthly idea how he got there. But the situation gets worse when she wakes in the morning and learns she’s living in 19th Century Salado. Even more worrisome is the tall dark stranger and everyone else in town believes she’s some woman named Josephine Rogers. Only she’s supposed to be dead.Jack Stanton can’t believe the clerk gave him an occupied room at the Shady Villa Inn, but worse, he was ready to ravage the woman in that bed—until he realized his mistake. Now the woman he thinks is Josephine, claims to be some other woman—and though he could never abide by Josephine’s fickle ways, this Lisa Welsh intrigues him like no other. Still, everybody in town believes her to be Josephine, and he steps in to help her find her way back home.Murder, mystery, ties to family roots in the past, embezzlement and murder in the present, and a man she can’t get off her mind no matter what century it is, Lisa has no choice. She must solve the mysteries and face the troubles in her world and Jack’s or they will never be free to share the love that binds them across the ages.  

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Ghostly LiaisonsEbook By Terry Spear
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance » Fantasy 



Emily Rundle’s curious nature causes her big problems when she moves with her family to Florida. First of all, she’s different. Really different. Then the nightmares begin. The kind she can’t escape. Somehow she has to unravel the mystery of the ghosts who plague her before it’s too late.

Michael Shipley just moved to town, too, and realizes at once Emily is trouble with a big T. If he becomes involved with her, his life will change forever. Premonitions he has that Emily’s life will be in danger forces him to make a stand to protect the girl who’s gifted with extraordinary abilities like him. They instantly bond as the two weirdest kids in school.

Both Michael and Emily have past histories, painful memories they’d rather forget. Faced with dangerous new challenges, they must overcome their past, threats at school, bullies in the flesh, and ghostly apparitions bent on a deadly game of revenge. What was once a simple matter, discover the secrets of the ghosts and appease them, becomes a race against time as Emily and Michael fight the evil that threatens to conquer them. 
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I loved reading ghost stories when I was a kid. And then later, one of my favorite was about a sexy Highland ghost--all naked. She kept wanting him to put something on. But no one else could see him, so why bother? LOL :) So see why I love ghosts???

I'm here today:
10/23 SOS Aloha 

If you'd like something hot like a jaguar or a wolf to keep you satisfied on a desert island--please comment here for a chance at Savage Hunger!

We still have a week of giveaways! 

Whoops, thought I'd posted this already. That's the problem with getting up at 4 am! I keep thinking it's so much later in the day. Got to be time for lunch. 8 am? Guess not. LOL

Have a super great Tuesday!

I'm off to work some more on Highland Rake. 87K and counting!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

Time to Wake Up, America!

 The sun rose a long time ago in Texas. Doesn't this look like the perfect sunrise for a fall day?

And I've been trying to get this picture uploaded and do a million other things. Like SAVE my mums! One is really struggling. The other is managing. I may have to just give in and buy another one for when my daughter and son-in-law arrive and pretend the mums have been doing well all along.

You won't tell on me, will you?

Also just for fun! I loved visiting Scotland and seeing so many castles while I was there, but it was really fun to see one of my Celtic bears (Dundas Clan Bear) repinned to a castle site (Dundas Castle) on Pinterest!

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Dundas CastleSouth Queensferry, Edinburgh

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Hmm, maybe Duncan MacNeill should have gotten married there! :)
 

And here's where I am with another free giveaway of Savage Hunger!
 

  
10/22 Fiction Vixen

Okay, I'm off to work on Highland Rake!!! Yes, it's growing by leaps and bounds but I still haven't ended it! :)

Happy Monday!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

They're Not Going to Make It!

My mums are fading! I thought they'd last longer than this!! I've only had them two weeks, and I have been watering! I had hoped they would last until at least my daughter and SIL visit. :)

*sigh* And then my rosebush has been in full bloom, again! It's Texas weather. Someone once said that if you don't like the weather, hang around and it will change.

It's not true. :) The heat hangs on day after day after day and week after week. And it's Oct and we're still having high 80's every day. Although, if you hang around--our high will be 69 on Friday. Brrrrr.

And then the 70's all the week after that. But that's after a LOT of hanging around to wait for the weather to change! And it's almost November!!!

Still, I had to show the fall colors...and the not so fall colors, that I have in the garden. I love these everblooming roses. They truly bloom almost all year long.



In Scotland, the saying is something to the effect: There's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes!

Of course, when the men wear these clothes...who cares about the weather???





And of course there's Dougald! He's coming. Truly! :) I'm at 85,000 on the story and still "ending" it. LOL :) 




Have a super great Sunday, whatever the weather. Oh, and how do you keep mums alive for another week???

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

No Spiders Today....!

A spider's web on a witch's hat is all that you will see that relates to spiders today! Rusty is ready for Halloween! Isn't she cute??? She's lost her witch's broom. But she really looks like she needs a cuddle. Are you ready for Halloween?
You know what happens after that? Thanksgiving, then Christmas and before we know it, New Year's, and then A HOWL FOR A HIGHLANDER! Just saying... :)

 
The sun was trying to come up in the fog!



And isn't he cute? He's taking his black standard poodle for a walk with a Count Dracula Bear.

So no spiders today!!!

But I'm going to a mystery theater with a bunch of friends. Have you ever been to one?

Can't wait!

Have a wonderful day today!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

Don't Tell Me This is a Recluse!

This is the big bad spider that was hanging on my door frame when I walked out this morning, nearly nose to nose with him. Okay, so he was more-- his back to my shoulder, and I didn't EVEN see him when I first ran out in a hurry. But when I came back, I was like OMG!!! I nearly knocked him off. He let me take pictures of him because he was cold and stiff.

But, what kind of spider is he? I really don't want to hear that he's a recluse because I was in a real rush to run off this morning, and was nearly late just taking pictures of him before I zapped him good with insect spray--but not spider spray, and when I came home, he had VANISHED. argh.

So if he's a recluse, I'm in trouble! Because now he's pissed.

Onto more cheerful news...

Every fortune teller has to have a crystal ball. This one looks about right.
I loved the fortune teller, but not her crystal ball. So I replaced it with the one from above.

But then the purple looked gauche with the color scheme of the picture. She was supposed to be wearing something colorful, but the clothes were too dark to change, so I colored them forest green. I darkened her eyes and gave her green eyeshadow to match the green she was wearing and her crystal ball. Just like magic!



A rags to riches fairy tale where a fortune telling can spell doom...

Katrina Landry is not your everyday fortune teller. She's a substitute teacher who longs to work at it full time. But when she substitutes for her cousin at her fortune telling booth at the fair, Katrina meets a man who she foresees is in danger. So what's a girl supposed to do but sneak into a by-invitation only dance and save the TX Stud's life?

Prescott Worthington hasn't had this much fun in a long time when on a whim he takes his girlfriend to the fair where Sascha the Sensation predicts he will have twins, and that his girlfriend will find someone else. But when the woman shows up at the dance with some nonsense about saving his life, he's totally irritated and totally bewitched. Maybe she can bring a little magic into his life.

She insists someone's trying to kill him and he thinks it's her boyfriend...only Prescott has no intention of giving up the woman who he's sure needs his protection. And a whole lot more.


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I've never had my fortune told, but my mother did when she was about 22 and she was told when she lived in LA that she would meet a tall, handsome, dark Oriental and marry him and live happily ever.

The woman was a phony fortune teller.

I don't believe my dad ever had his fortune told, but along that line, my dad's family had an ouiga board. They played with it at home, and the thing would move--supposedly his stepsister could really speak with the dead, and she made the board move and do all kinds of things. He wasn't superstitous, yet her messing around with the board set him on edge. He was still a kid.

So at 16, he had joined the AF and was sitting in a quoinset hut before they had to fly off on another mission, and his mother had sent him the ouiga board, of all things. He was afraid she'd sent him underwear, so he didn't want to open the package. The guys all egged him on to open it because it was a big deal to everyone, and if he got cookies or something, they wanted to share. LOL

It was the ouiga board. He hated the thing and couldn't believe his mother had sent it to him. He went to shove it under the bunk, but someone said, "No, let's play."

So he and another guy sat down to play with the ouiga board. Then another guy said it was a messenger of the devil, to get rid of it.

The guy was so adamant, Dad was a little shaken. So when he went on his next mission, he took the board with him and got in the plane, planning to toss the game into the ocean as they crossed it.

There was a hole in the floor of the plane where the last crewmember had been hit and died and they hadn't fixed the plane yet, so he put his parachute over it, and waited for the right time to throw the ouiga board out. After he did, they had their mission and on the return flight, his plane was hit. He was the only one that was injured, shrapnel cutting into his arm all the way through the muscle and hitting the bone, and cutting off his communication and oxygen lines. He was fading fast.

One of the men called up the pilot to tell them Dad had been hit. They told him to crawl up to the cockpit where they had oxygen.

They had a lull, then were fired on again, and when they finally got back to base, Dad ended up in the hospital and in recovery for six weeks. He was the only man injured out of all the crews out that day.

Had dumping the ouiga board caused his injury?

While he was recuperating, his entire crew was shot down and everyone died.

Had disposing of the ouiga board saved his life?

Or did he just have a guardian angel watching over him?

After all the so near fatal situations my dad was in, we believe he did have someone watching over him. :)

I'm here today!
10/19 A Bookworm’s Haven 

And a really fun review from Bookworm's Haven if you want to drop by and read it!

Okay, time is up. Did anyone figure out what that spider was?  Please tell me its a home garden variety spider that doesn't bite!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality!"
www.terryspear.com

Look Who's Coming to Dinner!

Look what I found when I was trying to get some trash together yesterday! They were hanging in their spiderwebs all over the place on the back patio!!!

I had to make sure I didn't walk into any of them as they hang their webs from tree to tree across the paths or doorway entrances.


And a mystery. You know that's why I have mysteries in my stories, right? I'm full of them in real life!

Okay, so I'm taking pictures of the spiders and I see acorns. Nothing unusual about them, right? Except I have no oak trees, I sit in the middle of a cornfield, and neither neighbor have oak trees. Well, I do have live oaks, but they're really little and not producing acorns yet. No squirrels about, either. So not like they could have run a mile away from some other place where someone might have oak trees with a bunch of acorns in their cheeks, to come to my back patio and drop them all over the place.

What do you all think???

Am I just making this stuff up? LOL



Today, I'm here!!!

10/18 Books-n-Kisses 



Terry, the puzzled
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

Shadow Elf is Now Available in Print!

Print version is available! I have started the second in the series, and I wanted to write more about the elves who work with magic, but I have a dilemma. They are known as the high elves, living high in the mountains with their dragon companions. Do you think The High Elf will work, or will that cause too much of a chuckle???

 The Shadow Elf

List Price: $9.99 5" x 8" (12.7 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White on White paper
200 pages ISBN-13: 978-1479234868 
ISBN-10: 1479234869
BISAC: Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary
Persephonice is given the mission of distracting the shadow elves who are bound to learn what is blocking their water source before they discover a space ship is sitting in the middle of their river. That's how all the trouble begins.

Extended Description
Persephonice is an overseer--an observer and recorder of information about inhabitants of civilized worlds. Only she's lost her lifemate and cannot be an overseer without one. She's given a second chance if she can prove she's worthy if she can survive an inhospitable planet inhabited by elves and other mythical creatures she's only read about, very little of which is known of them except that they constantly battle amongst themselves and are not civilized enough to safely observe.

The shadow elf, Dracolin, a warrior given the task of learning what is blocking their water source, doesn't expect to find the most unusual creature he's ever encountered--a red-haired, green-eyed land-bound mermaid. That's only the beginning. She understands and can speak his language, falls off cliffs without injuring herself, and swims like a mermaid--without the fishtail.

Everyone is intrigued with her--except some fear her uniqueness and want to destroy her. That is the problem with observing uncivilized worlds.

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So if you have read the first story and can think of a great short title for The High Elf, I'm all ears!!!

Have a super great hump day!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

The Savage Hunger continues!!!

Coming August 2013!

Is everyone ready to hear MAYA's story? 
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I'm talking about you meeting him for the first time! What happened??? Instant attraction? Instant turnoff?
10/16 Book Lovers Inc
Deanna's Tidbits
Oh, and yesterday was a Monday. So hopefully Tuesday will be a Tuesday...and NOT a Monday! :)  Well, it's actually starting out to be the same. Remember when I had this little issue of: you need high speed internet?
What is there about Mondays??? And Tuesdays??? Or just high speed internet issues any old day???
I'm trying to upload The Shadow Elf to print...this might take a while, days, weeks, who knows. :(
Have a super lovely Tuesday!
Terry "Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!" www.terryspear.com

Masquerade Ball, Anyone?

Next year, I'll be at a masquerade ball, so I wanted to show you my mask. :) Won't that be fun???

It's a reader event, rather than a writer event, and my very first, so I'm really excited!

I'll be donating one of my bears to the event also. Not sure which one yet. :)

And I'll be at a vampire ball. They had no shapeshifter balls that I know of. :(

I'll have to BYOSS--That stands for bring your own shape shifter. :)  

Whoops, I'm here today at Deanna's Tidbits. I'm totally discombobulated today. I blame it on allergies that are making me feel like I have a head cold! Be sure and stop by for a chance at free book!

Okay, it's Monday, and I have a million things to do today...so hope you have a delightful day! My daughter and her husband are coming in a couple of weeks to pick up some of their stuff stored here as they've moved into a house and I'm so excited for them! :) It's their first home, and their apartment was so tiny, I know they have to be thrilled to have all that space now!




Courtly Masquerade Ebook By Terry Spear
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance » Fantasy
Arabella, Duchess of Foxmoor Castle, is given a mission by her cousin, Princess Lynet--make the prince she's betrothed to give up any notion of wedding her. But Arabella faces danger at every turn when she discovers her magical talents mean others believe her to be "The One" who will fulfill the prophecy to take down the most evil wizard of all time.

Arabella shouldn't have used her magic.

She shouldn't have given into her spoiled cousin.

She shouldn't have escaped Lord Conlan.

Or stolen from the Dark One.

But she did.
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Have a great Monday!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

Wild and Crazy at Romance at Random!

7 Okay, maybe not crazy, but did you ever do stuff that you look on today and realize just how crazy doing that was?


Just for fun, drop by and share your wild and crazy experiences if you dare!!! At:
Romance at Random


Back to editing Highland Rake!!!

Have a super Sunday!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com