Tiptoe Through Time: A Halloween Story and Uncanny Romance

by H.M. Jones

Tanya doesn't know why she let her friend Hannah talk her into going on a ghost tour-she doesn't like ghosts and she hates getting scared. Tanya's ready to call it a night when Hannah bails, until she receives an intriguing text message from her friend saying a tall, handsome blond man, Mr. M, will be escorting her on the tour, instead. So when Tanya, standing just outside of a room in which a strange woman is summoning spirits, is scared out of her skin by a light touch on her shoulder, she is relieved to be greeted by a tall, blonde man named Milo. Milo is quirky, to put it mildly. He speaks in an old-world accent and plays the part of colonial gentleman almost too well. He asks Tanya to accompany him on a tour of his romantic home and town, and she is too swept up by his charm to refuse. Tanya is immediately wooed by Milo's engaging spirit and romantic home, but things don't feel quite right. The town of Port Gamble, she finds, is more than it seems. And her tour guide is either a modern gentleman or something else altogether. When two worlds meet on All Hallows' Eve, a haunting love is formed, one that obeys no bounds.

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

H.M. Jones is the B.R.A.G Medallion author of Monochrome, to be re-released by Feminine Collective in Aug. 2016. She is also responsible for the Attempting to Define poetry quartet and has contributed a short story to Master’s of Time: A Sci-Fi and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology, entitled "The Light Storm of 2015." A bestseller only in her mind, Jones pays the electric bill by teaching English and research courses at Northwest Indian College. Jones is also the moderator for Elite Indie Reads, a review website for Indie and Self published books.

Besides buying enough second-hand books to fill a library, Jones loves to spend time helping her preschoolers grow into thinking, feeling citizens of this world, run, weave, pull with the Port Gamble S’Klallam Canoe Family and attempt to deserve her handsome husband, who is helping pay the other bills until his wife becomes the next big thing.

Reviews

[📚Brandy🪼 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Characters: Tanya and Milo

This was bittersweet, and it made me a little sad at the end.

Tanya goes to a haunted house and meets Milo, he shows her around the house and the small town he lives in. Milo was a gentleman.

Like I said I thought this was a sweet short story, but it was also sad at the end. I definitely wanted more.

[Patricia Lynne · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite kinds of ghost story is the modern day person somehow being able to go back in time and spend time with someone from an earlier period who is dead. There's just something star crossed about those stories that I love. They have such a bittersweet ending that stick with me. This story was just that kind for me and I loved it. It was a love story that didn't revolve around physical intimacy. Just two people getting to know each other. So sweet. When I hit the end, I was sad because I wanted to know if Tanya went back the next year. In my head, she totally did.