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Laying Ghosts



The prequel to Selkie’s journey Laying Ghosts is a standalone story about the chilling events that caused her to run away to Hawaii. As this story unfolded, I was influenced by a Russian folktale, a 1700s murder ballad and the Irish concept of a ghost. For readers interested in the folklore that inspired Laying Ghosts, I’ve written a companion collection of adult tales, Leaving Birds. 
Giveaway



The novels in the Selkie Moon series are numbered in order: The First Lie, The Second Path, The Third Note, The Fourth Door.

Selkie’s next adventure will take her to Chile. 

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The First Lie
The Secrets of Selkie Moon, 
Book 1
By Virginia King

Selkie Moon is a woman on the run.

Hawaii is her refuge …

Until the past comes knocking.

Thirty three years ago, Selkie Moon lost her mother – but why?

Then young Selkie began to feel things – invisible things. So her step-mother shut her in the bathroom until they were gone.

Now in a mad dash for freedom, Selkie has reclaimed her birth name and escaped her controlling family to rebuild her life in Hawaii with the help of some quirky new friends.

But her refuge begins to unravel until she’s running from something else entirely.

A voice in a dream warns: Someone is trying to kill you. At first Selkie dismisses it as just another nightmare. Then a woman’s face appears in her bathroom mirror, a mirror once owned by an old kahuna.

Entangled in local superstition and folklore, Selkie’s visions become so strange and frightening they begin to lift the lid on long-buried secrets.

What really happened on the beach thirty three years ago?

Why did Selkie's step-mother rename her Elkie?

And why won’t her father talk about it?

As her reality crumbles around her, Selkie’s instinct is to keep running. Because if she stays and begins to trust her long-forgotten psychic twinges, she’ll be forced to question every assumption her life is built upon.

And time is running out.

Thus begins a journey of self-discovery. As Selkie uncovers one secret after another, she must summon the courage and resourcefulness to survive each one.

And beyond her feelings of shock and betrayal, there may be unexpected redemption: to embrace the gift she’s forgotten, to understand the lies surrounding her childhood, to face the truth about herself and embrace the surprising new life that is calling her . . .


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Laying GhostsThe Secrets of Selkie Moon

A strange message. A deserted beach house. A shocking incident from the past …

When a text message from a long lost friend lures Selkie Moon to Crystal Cottage, the chilling events from a house-party four years earlier wrap her in ghostly fingers and turn her life upside-down. Pick up your copy ofLaying GhostsAmazon