Work In Process #WIP Blog Tour

I am loooong overdue following through on my tags by the brilliant Beck Anderson and Carol Oates. Cheers, ladies!

The way it works:
Provide the link back to the post by the person who nominated you. Write a little about and give the first sentences of the first three chapters of your current WIP, then nominate four other writers to do the same.

First of all, I can personally attest that the aforementioned authors extraordinaire have crafted brilliant WIPs so far, to follow the impressive lead of Carol's SHADES and EMBER series and Beck's RITA Award finalist, FIX YOU--and both WIPs will be released by Omnific Publishing in the coming months, so you have that to look forward to. Needless to say, the talent and creativity of these women are off the charts, and I am humbled in their good company. :)

Sooo...on to my WIP. Well, this is actually the manuscript that I wrote before SEVEN FOR A SECRET and have been revising since. Whereas Seven for a Secret alternates between modern-day and 1920s Chicago, my WIP straddles modern and Victorian London. It's another ghost story of sorts, but with a psychological/theological twist that keeps one guessing what might be really haunting the main character.

Here's a brief synopsis:

To find what makes her tick, Margot breaks up with her boyfriend, quits her job in Chicago, and moves to London to study. Rather than find herself, though, Margot only feels more lost—odd phenomena and an unsettling energy affect her the moment she enters her old Victorian residence, and she spirals into depression. As Margot questions her perceptions, she gradually suspects her dark emotions belong to the ghost of Charlotte instead. Who’s Charlotte? Margot doesn’t know either. But the name creeping up in her dreams and on a local gravestone could relate to the weeping grey figure standing at her bedroom window.

What haunts Margot could, of course, be tricks of the eye and mind. Coincidence. She exhausts logical explanation until belief in her sanity hinges on belief in the supernatural: somehow her soul search has caused Charlotte’s nineteenth-century unrest to disrupt her twenty-first-century peace. And perhaps it’s not the first time Margot's footsteps have tread through this old house…nor the first or last time an eternal love triangle will bind her to Charlotte.

And without further ado, the first three sentences of the first three chapters:

Though I ought not to mourn, I do.

Tick-tick tap-tap-tick

The sound woke her, but it was the red glow behind her eyelids that kept Margot from falling back asleep.

"Okay, so let's examine what we have here," Derek said, leaning over to read off Sylvie's Ouija transcript.

All right then, off to tag four more writers! With a white-gloved hand, I gently tap the following authors on their shoulders:

Morgan & Jennifer Locklear (whom I'm counting as a twofer!)Shani StruthersMary Whitney