Late as usual. I wanted to wait until I came back from the Mothman Festival (which was fun) but then a storm hit and I lost power until now.
In spired by Mothman have a snippet from my novel These Haunted Hills.
“if you wanted to see even more haunted places in southeast Ohio, we could go there and Jackson, or even down to Point Pleasant in West Virginia and meet the Mothman.”
Brendan fetched the wine from the kitchen. He uncorked it. “I’ve always wanted to go there because it’s a fun legend, but I never had the time.”
“There’s a little museum in town dedicated to him and the Silver Bridge collapse. I’m sure you know the association. They’ve even made one of the igloos at the TNT plant where the explosives were stored public because so many people tried sneaking onto the military complex. It’s not necessarily the one Scarberry and her friends were at when they saw the Mothman, but you can get the idea of it.”
“Is it scary?” Brendan poured the wine then joined Josh at the table. “Honestly, not to me, other than sometimes you run into truly strange people out there. They’re scarier than monsters.”
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.
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Jana Denardo 