Unfinished Business: An Angela Panther Novel
by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Genre: Paranormal / Chick-Lit
Publisher: Booktrope Publishing
Book Description:
Stay at home mom Angela Panther is living the good life.
Happily married with two kids, a house in the suburbs and, a fantabulous best
friend, she's got it all. But hours after Angela's mother
dies, her ghost pops in for a visit, leaving the door to the other side wide
open. Suddenly Angela's life is jam-packed with ghosts - ghosts that need
her help. Now Angela must find a way to
balance the needs of the living along with the unfinished business of the dead,
all while keeping her mother's ghost in line.
Hilarious and bittersweet, Unfinished Business tackles the
emotional ups and downs of the relationships between mothers and daughters and
the desperate desire for that one last chance to tell someone we've lost how we
feel.
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Unbreakable Bonds An Angela Panther Novel
by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Genre: Paranormal / Chick-Lit
Publisher: Booktrope Publishing
Book Description:
A Mother's Work is Never Done...
Carolyn Aspenson's (Unfinished Business) latest
picks up the story of Angela Panther's dealings with her dead mom, Fran and the
duo's dynamic is as delightful as ever!
Angela had her psychic gift under control until a
traumatic loss shut it down. And now that Angela's daughter is in too deep with
a boy and her best friend Mel's husband is cheating, she needs her mom more
than ever.
Fran knows that when you're a mom, there's no such
thing as till death do us part and
she won't rest in peace while there's
strife in her daughter's life. Using her nifty celestial superpowers, she's
soon back in the game and helping out, regardless of her daughter's defunct
gift.
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Excerpt from Unfinished Business
Chapter One
An hour later, the four of us sat with coffee in hand, at Starbucks. Coffee made everything seem better, if only a little. Before we left the funeral home, Paul asked Comb-over to let us know when Ma’s body was cremated. I preferred not to know, but everyone handles death differently and Paul needed what he needed so I didn’t argue. Admittedly, backing away from an argument with Paul was a new thing for me. Ma’s death had really messed with my brain.
We were discussing the arrangements of her burial when I got the call. Comb-over told me they’d started, and as I nodded to Jake and my brothers, a heavy sadness filled the air.
I disconnected from the call and stayed on task. “Okay. When should we go to Chicago?”
“That’s a good question,” John, the over thinker of us siblings, said. “I’ll call the cemetery later today and find out if we can bury Mom with Grandma and Grandpa. If they won’t let us, we’ll have to figure out what else to do. I was thinking maybe we could each take a portion of her remains and do something with our kids to honor her.”
Oh, no. No, no, no. That was not going to happen. I promised Ma I’d do this for her and I’ll be damned if I didn’t do it right. Especially since she was haunting me. There was no way I would to spend the rest of my waking days with the ghost of my mother pissed off because we didn’t honor her final wish. No way.
“It’s okay,” I blurted out before Paul agreed with John. “Ma was worried about the same thing, so we called the cemetery a few weeks ago and found out that it’s fine.” I took a quick breath and hoped God wouldn’t strike me dead for lying.
“They told me that as long as we’re not getting a stone, the plots are ours to do with as we please. Except for digging up our grandparents, that is.” I checked the sky, but still no lightning. Phew.
My brothers nodded. “Okay.”
Dodged that bullet. What’s wrong with a few little lies? This was what Ma wanted and eventually I’d tell them the truth, once she was buried and we were on our way home. Or maybe next year. What’s the saying? Ask for forgiveness, not permission. That’s what I’d do, eventually.
I offered to make the memorial arrangements even though we all knew they’d have asked me to do it anyway.
I filled them in on my call to our cousin. “I already called Roxanne, who said she’d make the rounds of calls, and since the funeral home here said they would put the obituary in the Chicago papers, that’s covered. Does the weekend after next work? That gives us all time to plan accordingly.”
“I don’t see a problem with that, but I’ll have to check with Elizabeth and see what her schedule is,” John said.
Jake nodded in agreement with his eyes still glued to the screen of his iPhone.
Paul nodded too. “Let’s go through all of our pictures of Mom. I can make a video with music, and we can show it at her memorial.”
We all agreed that was a great idea and made plans to confirm the date over email by tonight. My brothers left Jake and me there to share our addiction to the warm, smooth taste of coffee. We got refills before we headed home, too.
The rest of the day I was on autopilot and truth be told I couldn’t remember much of it. One minute Jake and I were getting coffee and the next it was after ten p.m. I kissed Jake goodnight and went upstairs and checked on the kids, who were already blissfully sound asleep.
“It’s done,” I texted Mel after I settled under the covers.
“I’m sorry,” she texted back. “Do you need anything?”
“No, I’m okay. Going to bed. I’m tired.”
“K. I’m here if you need me. (HUGS).”
About the Author
Carolyn
Ridder Aspenson
is the Amazon and Barnes & Noble best selling author of Unfinished Business; An Angela Panther Novel,
Unbreakable Bonds; An Angela Panther
Novel, the novella Santa's Gift, a
Cumming Christmas Novella and The
Quick Start Weight Loss Program.
An avid fitness
buff, Carolyn writes a monthly health and fitness column for Northside Woman Magazine as well as
regular weekly news articles for various Atlanta area media outlets including
the Forsyth Herald, the Milton Herald, the Revue and News, and the Johns
Creek Herald. Her works have also been published in Countyline Magazine and various Internet publications.
A native of Indiana,
for over eighteen years Carolyn called the northwest Chicago suburbs home. She
now resides in the Atlanta area with her husband, three kids, two dogs and cat.
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