I’ve been tied up mentally with going through closets and clearing them out and it brought me into the quagmire of my career ending injury, the lawsuits and paperwork around all of that so I’m behind in commenting (Sorry the depression level is high).

Sliding in late with this, just a little more spooky stuff with Brendan and Josh.

He handed the phone to Josh before picking up his coffee. Josh tapped the screen, making the haunting cry echo in the diner. An elderly couple glanced at them from their table across the way. Josh chuckled.

Brendan narrowed his eyes. “You promised not to laugh!”

“Man, now I want to come to your place at night.” Josh bounced in his chair, and—as Brendan sputtered into his coffee—went redder than the morning sunrise. “God! I didn’t mean it like that. Why can’t I talk around you? I swear, I don’t normally blurt out inappropriate shit.”

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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