Haunt
My Heart
by Lisa
Medley
Genre:
Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Big
Cedar
Date of
Publication: January 5, 2015
Word Count: 68K
Cover Artist:
Sweet ‘n Spicy Designs
Book
Description:
A Civil War
soldier dies to save his men. Can he find true love to live again?
Sarah Knight has
a job she’s good at, a quirky BFF, and a boyfriend who’s bad for her. When
Sarah unearths a Civil War artifact on a ghost hunt at Chatham Manor, she
brings home more than a souvenir.
Lieutenant James
“Tanner” Dawson fought for the Union, working as a supernatural liaison for his
Major General in a secret Masonic offset called the Brothers of Peril. When
he’s hexed by a witch, he learns the only way to save his men is to die
himself. But death is not the end. Awakening 150 years later, he knows if he
wants to be corporeal again, he has to find true love to break the hex—a task
no easier in 21st century than it was in the 19th.
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Excerpt
After 150 years hexed to a ring, Tanner is reawakened.
Tanner woke screaming.
Anger, not fear, set him
off. The question was what had awakened him in the first place? And after all
this time. At least it had seemed like a long time. Being dead made it hard to
keep track. He’d counted sunrises for months after he’d died, but even that
became too taxing after a while. And when he’d finally been crushed into the
ground and damned to the darkness, he’d lost all hope.
His life energy had begun
to wane immediately upon his death and his semi-corporeal form—his ghost
self—had dissipated a few days after his men removed his body from the
battlefield. Not that it would have mattered anyway. No one could see him. He’d
tried to make contact as the soldiers crossed by him: screaming, begging,
anything to get their attention. To tell them he wasn’t dead. Not really. When
he noticed the soldiers could also pass through
him without so much as a shiver, he’d given up.
Despair filled him as he
realized Sylvia had achieved exactly what she’d promised. He was a stupid man.
Maybe he could have loved her. Maybe…
God, what a witch.
No. It would never have
worked. He’d have been damned either way. At least he’d saved soldiers’ lives,
his own good men, with his decision at Chatham. He’d done the right thing, even
if it had cost his life.
He surveyed the room as
best he could from his prison.
Clearly he’d traveled from
the grounds where he’d lingered for…decades? He wished he knew. Pent-up
frustration filled him. Tanner could see energy emanating from something, just
out of his reach. A glow—the signature of a living soul. An entity he hadn’t
seen for a very long time. The aura, bright and strong, almost reached his prison cell, but not quite.
So close.
Something had sparked him
to life. But what?
He startled when a face
appeared before him. A non-human face. The face of some creature filled the
mirrored prism of his cell.
What fresh hell was this?
The next thing he knew he
was falling, falling, falling. The clatter when he landed nearly deafened him.
His stomach roiled as if he’d leaped from a great height.
“Bitly. Stop it.”
A voice? A female voice?
Sylvia? Could she still be
in possession of him?
Dear God.
“Bad kitty.”
His stomach lurched again
as he was returned to his previous perch; the view was exactly the same, except
the face that stared into his for the briefest moment was different. A woman’s
face.
A woman most assuredly not
Sylvia.
Relief flooded him. Of
course Sylvia was long dead.
Of course.
And she wouldn’t have
followed him into the afterlife. She’d never loved him that much. Not enough to
spend eternity with him. Only enough to damn his soul for it.
About
the Author
Lisa has always
enjoyed reading about monsters, and now she writes about them, because monsters
need love too.
She adores
beasties of all sorts, fictional as well as real, and has a farm full of them
in her southwest Missouri home, including: one child, one husband, two dogs,
two cats, a dozen hens, thousands of Italian bees and a guinea pig.
She may or may
not keep a complete zombie apocalypse bug-out bag in her trunk at all times,
including a machete. Just. In. Case.
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