Things are still going sideway here but I did get some good news. The stent in my leg is still holding (but it will eventually fail and I’ll have to have the leg revascularized). I haven’t gotten to go out on any paranormal investigations lately because of the issues with the leg.

However my characters Brendan and Josh from These Haunted Hills got in all kinds of paranormal investigations which I tried to keep true (ish) to how it really goes….well we tend to hope it doesn’t go as it goes in the murder hotel. It’s a good book for the spooky time of year.

Brendan had to admit that more of the heaviness disappeared when Josh pulled the truck away from the Crooked Pines Lodge. He twisted on the seat, watching the building slowly swallowed by the woods. “I’m so glad I hired you as a guide. I would never have found this place on my own in spite of reading a bit online. Even if I had, I don’t know if I’d have been brave enough to go in.”

“I’m not so sure. You did well.”

“Yeah, I didn’t piss myself when things went sideways, so I’m counting my restraint as a win,” Brendan said dryly.

Blurb: Young wildlife conservation professor, Joshua Zimmerman, adores foxes, steampunk, and paranormal investigation. As a geek of the first order, Josh is a collector of nerdy memorabilia and tattoos, and he’s an avid steampunk cosplayer. When his favorite author hires him for some ghost hunting for his new project, Josh can hardly believe his luck.

As an author of the wildly successful urban fantasy series, The Green Tablet, Brendan Halloran should have it all. And he did until his young son, Connor, died of cancer. Heartbroken and drowning in grief, Brendan stops writing, stops living his life. His marriage has disintegrated, leaving Brendan trapped in the moment Connor died.

When Brendan rents a cabin in Ohio’s Hocking Hills, it’s ostensibly to research his next book, an adult paranormal tale. Brendan hires a local professor who is an expert on the paranormal, thinking if he does pull out of his tail spin and makes good on his plan to write a new book, he might as well do it right. And the perfect place to investigate could be the remains of an old hotel constructed to suit the serial killer who built it.

Brendan finds himself swept away, completely unprepared for the joy and enthusiasm Josh brings to everything he does. Step by step, Brendan reenters life. His head might not be convinced he’s ready to love again, but his heart disagrees. Unfortunately for him, the ghost is every bit as vicious as the killer was in life, and he and Joshua have a target on their backs.

Buy Link https://www.amazon.com/These-Haunted-Hills-Jana-Denardo/dp/1648907407

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