HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST CAT 2

We all wish our cats could live forever.

But when they don’t, some of us turn to a different realm to connect with them again, the realm of the spiritual.

When I first began writing the Tenth Life cozy mystery series, I asked people if they had ever experienced a paranormal event involving a cat who had passed away. I wasn’t surprised when the response was often in the positive. Most visitations were intangible, a pressure on the bed or a flicker seen out of the corner of the eye, but a few people recounted clear sightings of cats as they had been in their prime of life. In all cases, people were absolutely convinced these incidents were real, and that their cat was purposely trying to contact them. Most visitations occurred soon after the Crossing, but in some cases, the cat spirit lingered for weeks, months, and even years.

I was also told stories of encounters with cat spirits that were strangers to the person they appeared to. What did these feral spirits want with the living? For some reason or other, had they become stuck on this plane, the way we imagine happens with human ghosts? Was there something yet left for them to do before they could cross the Rainbow Bridge and join their fellows? Unfortunately they never tell their secrets, leaving us to guess and wonder.

There have been times in my life when I have encountered cat spirits, and though it would be easy enough to pass them off as some quirky but normal event, I choose to believe that their visitations are little miracles wafting into our existence from a farther plane.

In Ghost Cat of Ocean Cove and Ghost Cat on the Midway, I introduced you to Soji, the capricious puss who haunts our hero Camelia’s cottage garden. Now, in Ghost Cat at the Mystery Hotel, not only does Soji prove her ability to travel away from her backyard gravestone, but we find she isn’t the lone spirit on the scene. The old Mystery Beach Hotel where the story takes place has its own resident ghost cat Bruce.  And Bruce isn’t the hotel’s only ghostly secret.

On May 30th, you are enthusiastically invited to come to a fictitious mystery weekend at Mystery Beach, Oregon to join the adventures as they unfold. Pre-order here.