Riona and Nate team together to investigate potentially haunted houses and are continually reminded of what they already know: everybody lies. Even ghosts
Ever driven by a house you just know is haunted? Or driven by a perfectly ordinary suburban house and wondered what stories those sturdy, vinyl-sided walls could tell you? Maybe you’ve moved into a new space that feels creepier at night than it did during the day. Maybe you’ve felt someone staring at you while you’re in the kitchen. In the living room. In the shower.
My two favorite types of shows revolve around crime and the supernatural. When something blends the history of a place with tales of spirits, my poor heart goes into overdrive. There just aren’t enough books and tv shows with the right blend to keep up with my appetite, so I developed my own concoction. The recipe is a simple mixture of: mystery, ghosts, the history-rich South, college football, romance, and tortured heroes.
Nathan Guterman: Charlotte blue blueblood, psychic, blind. Riona O’Dell: fourth generation member of the thin blue line, ex-cop with PTSD, college football fanatic. Their partnership is one not even Riona’s clairvoyant Great-Aunt Siobhan could have predicted.
Brought together to stop a twisted serial killer, they should run, not walk, from each other at the horrific end of the case. Neither can let go. Neither can admit why. With real estate agents and home sellers scrambling to comply with the recently passed Amityville Act, Nate and Riona pool their talents to investigate potentially haunted houses. Nate speaks to the resident spirits while Riona uses her investigative skills to get to the truth behind the haunting. Nate’s rule number one: ghosts lie. Riona’s supplement to rule one: the living lie, too. During what was supposed to be a routine house investigation, they discover trapped spirits and a mystery that could bind the partners together once and for all or split them apart forever.
I love ghost stories. I love learning about the history of a place and touring old homes. I enjoy crime stories. Delving into a place’s dark history. I also love romance. Letters of Smoke combines my three favorites and has been a true pleasure to write.
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