Reaching Out: A San Jenaro Urban Folktale

San Jenaro Novels

by Filamena Young, Olivia Hill

Molly does good work. She grew up seeing ghosts and experiencing crippling empathy. So she does the good work of easing spirits and soothing broken families. But the good work doesn't come easy, not in a dangerous, monster-filled city like San Jenaro.

When her friends in the cemetery start going missing, and her clients soon follow, it's up to Molly to find the missing spirits.

Will the strange punk rock boy ghost she met at a bus stop help her, distract her, or make matters worse? Will her radical witch ex-girlfriend accept her as she is, or abandon her for not practicing the same sorts of craft? Will her familial ghosts, both literal and figurative drag her down or remind her of why she does what she does? And most of all, will Molly find the strength to keep doing the good work, or will she be punished for Reaching Out?

Included in this book is the free novella #iHunt: Some Guy, by Olivia Hill. Follow frustrated millennial monster hunter Lana as she takes out a terrifying serial killer as a favor for Molly. Then her day really goes bad.

Genres: Urban Fantasy

195 pages, Paperback

Published February 6, 2019

About the author

I’ve spent the last ten years writing freelance fiction, non fiction, and game design as well as independently publishing my own game work. Now that I have the time, I’ve returned to my first love, fiction.

​I live and teach English as a second language during the day in rural Japan, birthplace of all things Mecha. (Giant Robots.) I’m raising three clever future mech pilots, though hopefully more Gundam Build Fighters than Gundam Universal Century 😉

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Reviews

[C.T.]

Currently one of my favorite novels. It's beautifully written and means a lot to me. I absolutely adore Molly! I couldn't recommend it more.

[V]

Good story

I quite enjoyed this book and finished it quickly. I prefer when a book has a main character that isn't an asshole or extremely unlikeable, and I found I quite liked most of the characters in this book. Especially the Butcher, maybe a little too much.

[Richard]

Set in the same world, and city, as Olivia Hill's iHunt series. Here we follow a live spiritualist, Molly, and her dead Punk sidekick Miles, as she sets out to basically help the dead. Obviously things go a bit off plan, but that is part of the fun.

Lana, from the iHunt series, makes a small cameo - and she gets a short story, offshoot of Molly's, at the end as well.

Enjoyable light read.