You’d think stopping Armageddon would buy a girl a bit of R&R with her freshly resurrected boyfriend. But things go south again when celebrity soul wrangler, Melisande Blythe, is abducted and dragged to Europe.
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A Shiver of Shadows
A Shiver of Shadows
Hell Gate Book Two
by Hunter J. Skye
Published 24 May 2021
The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Page Count: 336
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You’d think stopping Armageddon would buy a girl a bit of R&R with her freshly resurrected boyfriend. But things go south again when celebrity soul wrangler, Melisande Blythe, is abducted and dragged to Europe.
There’s more to the darkness hiding in the reclusive, mountaintop country of Andorra than just garden variety evil. There’s something dangerously wrong with her beautiful immortal hosts too.
Gifted with flesh again by the Grace of God, three-hundred-year-old former ghost, Colonel William Grayford, will move heaven and earth to find his beloved. But Europe’s most wicked monsters stand in his way. Something more painful than death awaits Mel, if Grayford can’t find her in time.
The world’s been living on fifteen thousand years of borrowed time and it’s just run out.
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Excerpt
I turned as the winking white flowers next to me whispered a celestial secret. I tried to understand their jasmine gibberish, but it coiled through my mind like vines instead of words. I turned back to Prim, and my mouth fell open.
A roiling nebula of colors spread out from Prim’s back in the shape of two giant wings. I stumbled away from the pressing gravity of the rainbow feathers as they stretched and sparked in the dim light.
“Stay close,” Prim ordered, but when she turned to me, her hazel eyes were gone. Yawning orifices of blackness blinked at me. I nodded numbly. She turned back to the mummified man, and I was glad to feel the weight of those twin voids slip from me.
Slowly, Prim lowered to one knee and a blanket of silence fell across the room. The muffling suspension of sound rolled out through the doors and over the plaza. Everything in its path must have slowed to a stop because it sounded as if every soul in the marketplace had turned to listen.
“When evening comes,” the tinny reverberating sound of Prim’s voice shook the very cells in my body, “on the day next.” A sunset blazed across her wings only to be eaten by a depthless blue veil sprinkled with stars. “Old enemies will walk the Bishop’s Way.” Prim paused as the merciless night sky spread to the farthest tips of every feather and the stone bridge at the entrance to the Thieves Market sketched itself onto the vaporous feathers. She fanned her wings, and they ran red with blood. Three bandaged figures appeared on the amorphous wings—two on her left side and one on her right. It was a portrait of the mummified men standing before us minus the bandaged man who’d guided us through the market. “One will bargain. One will lie. One will die.” Her empty eyes scanned the three gauzy figures in front of us and the one to my side. Her wings folded inward. Their swathed faces oozed with hidden emotion. Sound returned to the market outside as the paralyzing experience released them. I could move again too.
“One will die? One will die! One will die!” They whispered to themselves and then shouted to each other in a scraping song of exultation.
A Glimmer of Ghosts
A Glimmer of Ghosts
Hell Gate Book One
by Hunter J. Skye
Published 19 February 2020
The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Page Count: 222
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One night of filming in the wrong cemetery changes everything for a celebrity ghost-hunter with a half dead brain. When Melisande Blythe discovers that a secret society of wraiths wants her killed or worse, Mel will have to do the one thing she promised she would never do… trust a ghost.
But does the corporeal spirit of her dreams really want her heart or does he want her newfound ability to enslave souls? With Hell on the horizon, Mel is running out of time. She has to stop the fiery invasion or face the darkness warring in her soul.
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Excerpt
My mind rolled on the shore of dreams. Each wave of REM stage that washed toward me threatened to sweep me away. I fought the tide as spirits spiraled past us. Where were they going? I reached into an icy current and caught another hand rough with the burdens of his former life. He closed the memory of his calloused fingers over mine.
“What’s wrong?” I asked the ghost. He fixed me with the deep-sea eyes of a faded mariner. His uniform came into view, and I heard the wet clang of a ship bell ringing.
“She’s here.” His voice trembled. “My apologies, Miss. There is no time. You must run!”
About the Author
Paranormal romance and urban fantasy author, Hunter J. Skye, was born with a rare nightmare disorder, and raised in a haunted Victorian home. Those two factors predestined her to write ghost stories. A Glimmer of Ghosts, the dark and steamy start to The Hell Gate Series won 5 RWA awards. Book 2, A Shiver of Shadows, released in May, 2021. Look for book 3: A Rapture of Wraiths, Spring 2022.
One thing about the story:
Many of the spirits appearing in A Glimmer of Ghosts are based on actual ghost stories from the Olde Towne district of Portsmouth, Virginia. Once a year, these stories are told on the city’s annual Halloween Ghost Walk. These apparitions are well known to the residents of Olde Towne, Portsmouth and the city considers them ambassadors of a sort. One such ghost, Colonel William Crawford, founded the town three hundred years ago and is the inspiration for Grayford- Melisande’s haunting lover.
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Great excerpts, the books sound like perfect books for me! Thanks for sharing them with me and good luck with your books, Hunter!
Picking excerpts is a tricky thing. Thank you for the feedback!
This sounds like an excellent read. Nice cover.