Katie Edgecomb is questioning everything she thought she knew.
Welcome to one of the October 7th stops on the blog tour for Tranquil Heights by Megan Speece with Bewitching Book Tours. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, author guest posts, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.
Please note that this post contains affiliate links, which means there is no additional cost to you if you shop using my links, but I will earn a small percentage in commission. A program-specific disclaimer is at the bottom of this post.
About the Book
Tranquil Heights
by Megan Speece
Publishing 15 October 2021
Cover Artist: Megan Speece
Genre: Genre: Paranormal Suspense
Page Count: 131
Add it to your Goodreads TBR!
Katie Edgecomb is questioning everything she thought she knew.
She thought the family curse was fake, just a scary story her mom told her to keep her from misbehaving. The first-born daughters in each of the last three generations lost their lives on their twenty-fifth birthdays, a series of tragic accidents sending shock waves of grief through multiple generations.
It isn’t until Katie is faced with the real-time impacts of the curse that she starts to believe it may be more than a story and she sets out to discover the origins of the family’s fabled curse. Her only clue lies in an exclusive girls’ preparatory academy in Washington that was once an asylum. There, she must face heart-break, ugly truths, and events so terrifying that they threaten to sever her very ties to reality.
She has no choice.
Katie is pregnant, and she won’t let her child become another life claimed by the curse.
Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK | Google | Apple | Kobo | B&N | Signed Copies
Excerpt
Despite Wilhelmina’s suspicions, Tranquil Heights’ Christmas Eve dinner went on without a hiccup or disruption from its three merry mistresses. She watched as the patients wandered out of the dining room, off to their individual rooms or the common room for the rest of the evening, and the tight knot in her stomach relaxed by millimeters.
She conducted her nightly checks of the medical wings, ensuring that everything was locked up and inaccessible to the wandering rogue patient. Though many of the patients were like Beatrice, Alice, and Natalie—women who didn’t conform to the standards of the society outside the walls of Tranquil Heights—some of them needed proper care for legitimate mental health conditions. It wouldn’t do for the medical equipment or medications to be easily accessible to those who might use them to hurt themselves.
Wilhelmina tugged on the doors of the locked medication cabinets and paused when she heard a faint hissing sound from down the hallway. She strained her ears, waiting for the sound to happen again. This time, she heard a slight squeak, as though the toe of a shoe had caught on the gleaming tile floors. It wasn’t uncommon for patients to be up past ten p.m., but they rarely fretted about making noise, and Wilhelmina got the distinct feeling that whoever was making the noise intended to sneak.
Wilhelmina moved into the hallway cautiously, a cool sweat breaking out across her body. There was a flickering light coming from under the door at the end of the hall. Wilhelmina’s shoulders sagged, and she let out a shaky breath as she shook her head at her own silliness. The door at the end of the hallway was the service entrance to the common room where patients could use the television set, listen to the radio, or play games. Wilhelmina wiped her clammy hands on her skirt as she walked down the hallway, intent to check on the person in the common room.
Three sets of eyes greeted her when she opened the door. One set, the color of a dark honey in the sun, belonged to Beatrice. Another, a medium brown flecked with green like newly growing flower beds, belonged to Alice. The last pair, a blue so pale and bright it looked like ice, is what stopped Wilhelmina in her tracks. It was almost painful for Wilhelmina to tear her gaze away from Natalie’s.
Beatrice, Alice, and Natalie were sitting in a close circle, hands held palm up, three candles flickering on a plate on the floor between them. The air in the room seemed thick, like a summer day when the humidity was high and it felt as though you were pushing through a weighty curtain with every move. Wilhelmina didn’t understand why, but cold tendrils of fear gripped her heart, and she struggled to swallow past the scream that lodged itself in her throat.
About the Author
Megan is a thriller author, horror buff, and dog person. She is currently writing books and helping authors navigate self publishing. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband and two dogs, and can be found spending her weekends at the beach, exploring everything Washington has to offer, or settling in with a good horror movie.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | Amazon | Goodreads
Giveaway Alert!
Enter to win: Print copy of Tranquil Heights
a Rafflecopter giveawayOctober 1 Jazzy Book Reviews http://bookreviewsbyjasmine.blogspot.com
October 4 Sapphyria’s Books https://saphsbooks.blogspot.com
October 5 JB’s Bookworms with Brandy Mulder https://jbbookworms.blogspot.com
October 6 Bewitching Book Tours https://bewitchingbooktours.tumblr.com
October 7 Westveil Publishing https://www.westveilpublishing.com
October 8 Serena Synn https://serenasynn.blogspot.com
October 11 Raji’s Reviews https://rajivsreviews.com
October 12 Booklover-Sue https://booklover-sue.blogspot.com
October 13 Gail’s Gory Details https://gailsgorydetails.blogspot.com
October 14 Midnight Musings with Bertena https://www.midnightmusingswithbertena.blogspot.com
October 15 Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read http://mommasaystoreadornottoread.blogspot.com
October 18 The Book Junkie Reads https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blogspot.com
October 19 Supernatural Central http://supernaturalcentral.blogspot.com
October 20 Lisa’s World of Books http://www.lisasworldofbooks.net
October 21 Booklikes http://roxannerhoads.booklikes.com
October 22 A Bewitching Guide to Halloween https://www.abewitchingguidetohalloween.com
October 25 Fang-tastic Books http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com
October 26 The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom http://creativelygreen.blogspot.com
October 27 Roxanne’s Realm http://www.roxannerhoads.com
October 28 The Pimpettes FB https://www.facebook.com/bookpimpettes
October 29 Paranormalists https://paranormalists.blogspot.com
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
