Sunday Snippet: Haunted Hideaway

Whew. It's been aweek. My washing machine saga continued, and I finally called it. Investing ina new machine, hopefully in the near future before my laundry pile growsexponentially into a mountain.

I finally finishedthe very, very long proofread and thankfully should have the final queriesanswered this weekend. I have a new holiday manuscript for copyediting and it'sabout halfway complete. Have I mentioned I love holiday stories?

Not a bad week of viewing.I got a few extra shows watched this week.

Caught the secondepisode of My Life Is Murder and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've mentionedhow much I love the characters, but Madison had such a great role in thisweek's episode.

Watched another Bestin Paradise. This episode introduced Martha and I enjoyed her run on theshow with Humphrey.

Finished the two-partepisode of Death in Paradise where Florence says goodbye for a while.Such a sad but great send off for her.

Started anotherepisode of Elementary. Should have it finished up later tonight. I'mquite enjoying this second season so far.

Caught anotherepisode of The Batman and remembered it from the first watch I did.Excellent story that dives into the symbiotic relationship between Batman andhis rogue gallery.

That's pretty muchit for the life update. Tonight's post is from Haunted Hideaway, anovella that features a ghost bringing a couple together.

Here's theminiblurb:

Harley Rand meets Ruck Tate when she moves back to hersmall hometown and leases an apartment in a historic village. Little thingshappen from the moment she moves in—items mysteriously end up in differentlocations, the doorbell rings and no one is on the other side, and randomthings go wrong in the apartment. Intrigued, Harley dives into the history ofthe buildings in the village and discovers a few fun facts and a couple ofunsettling ones … like the building is probably haunted. Harley believes inghosts but has no idea how to broach the topic with the handsome superintendent.She may not have to … Ruck has a few secrets he's not quite willing to divulge,even to the lovely new tenant.

And a preview snippet…

Ruck drummed his fingers on thesteering wheel. "Figures she's as hot as she sounded on the phone."He'd rather hoped she would be unattractive and less his type.Nope. Harley Rand hit all the tickyboxes. Sense of humor. Total confidence. A smokey voice that had a touch ofsass to it. One that also revealed more about her than she probably wanted. Yep. He could totally fall for thenew tenant in apartment three. Too bad she had about zero interest in datinganyone. Not with a bad breakup being part of the reason she decided to returnto her hometown.Ruck grunted. "The guy who lether go is an idiot." Or maybe just blind.None of Ruck's business. Exceptshe'd been open about the need for a fresh start. And her plan to avoid gettingtangled up in a relationship.Ruck understood … to a point. He'dhad five terrific years with his wife before an icy road and a reckless drivertook her life. Grief had a hold on him for the first three years after theaccident. He'd slowly emerged on the other side and while he didn't go outoften, he'd tested the waters a few times over the past twenty-four months.Pulling into the parking lot of thefoundation office, he cut the engine. "Too bad the first person to really strikemy fancy wouldn't be interested." Slipping out of the cab, he headed forthe door next to the maintenance bay to get some equipment to tend the hugeplanters by the visitor center.An eerie thought struck him. Heprobably should've warned Harley about the possibility of weird sounds at oddtimes during the day and night. Then again, she'd mentioned working there backin the day. Maybe she already had experience with the old building's quirks.Ruck snorted. "I'd bet there'sone thing she didn't have to deal with back then…" And hopefully shewouldn't have to now.But he wouldn't hold his breath.Only a matter of time if he didn't miss his guess.

I love working withan established location and adding fictional elements to the story. So muchfun!

 

That's it for thisweek.

Cheers!

Skye