Title: Hereafter
Series: Hauntings
at Inner Harbor #1
Author: Joya
Fields
Genre: Paranormal
Romance, Contemporary Romance
Publisher:
Decadent
Format:
Ebook
Length: 132
pages
Purchase: Decadent
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Book Description:
When by-the-numbers
accountant Rob Morrison, a skeptic of all things paranormal, moves into a new
apartment and discovers it is haunted by the corporeal ghost of a beautiful
woman, he must hastily reconsider his beliefs and revisit his painful past.
With no memory of her time
on earth, Angie Barsotti doesn’t understand why she’s compelled to visit the
same apartment every night as a ghost caught between two worlds. If she’s to
have a chance to move on, she needs to find the missing pieces of her life and
death through the man who lives there…if only he’d believe in her.
Together they struggle to
find the truth about her death and stumble upon a very pleasurable way to time
travel, hopeful they can prevent her death. But someone doesn’t want them to
discover the truth. And if she’s human again, will she have any memories of her
time as a ghost…and more importantly, will she remember the man who helped her
find her way?
I love the mix of genres in this story and I have never seen time travel done in such a way. I found myself really feeling for this unusual couple. Overall it is a very sweet story and the ending will make you cheer.
5 Start from me.
Excerpt:
Angel’s body tingled. Her skin rippled
with electricity, and she recognized the signs that she’d be transported soon.
Yes.
Finally. She closed her eyes,
wishing she could rush the transition from her world to his. Cool air prickled
her skin and she stood in the man’s dark apartment. With moonlight shining
through the sheers, she could make out his form on the sofa.
He jumped up and faced her.
She wanted to speak, but she couldn’t.
“The electricity went off again,” he
said.
She frowned.
He stepped closer. “Ghosts don’t exist.”
No. He couldn’t banish her again. She
needed something in this world. The lights flickered, sizzled,
and then went off again.
and then went off again.
Please
don’t tell me to go away; it makes me go away. She might not have a voice in this world, but she
could at least think it. She would not go, not when potential answers waited in
this place.
The man stepped closer. “What are you
doing? Angie, why do you keep coming here?”
Don’t
tell me to leave…don’t tell me to leave. Pictures flew into her mind. People smiling and laughing. A tree in the
corner with white lights and boxes under it….
He’d called her Angie.
“You know me?” Her words came out a
whisper, but at least they finally came out. Tears tracked down her cheeks. The
electricity flickered on, and then, stayed off. The air stopped sizzling. She
blinked to adjust her eyes to the darkness again.
“Christ, this can’t be happening.” He
moved his fingers over something in his hand and then pocketed it.
She closed the distance between them and
grasped his upper arms, pleading him with her eyes because her voice had left
her again.
“Yes, I know you.” He glanced away and
looked out the window, let out a huff of breath, and then gazed at her. “Your
name is Angie Barsotti and you used to live here.”
No wonder the place felt so familiar. Her
spirits lifted. He could help her find out who she was, help her find out what
was going on.
“And,” he dragged a hand through his
hair. “You died and I don’t believe in ghosts.”
Cold air, cold as ice tore through her,
ripping her from the apartment.
Joya Fields has had over 100
stories and articles published in local and national magazines. Her debut
novel, a romantic suspense, is a NJRW GOLDEN LEAF WINNER FOR BEST FIRST BOOK OF
2012 and is nominated for RT Book Reviews 2012 Indie Press/Self-Published
Contemporary Romance award.
Over the years, Joya has taught arts and
crafts, worked in public relations, owned a daycare center, helped her children
raise prize-winning 4-H livestock, competed in three marathons, and even spent
a year as a Baltimore Colts cheerleader. Joya loves spending time with her high
school sweetheart/husband of over twenty years, two very supportive children,
and a pug who follows her everywhere.
I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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