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Ghost Shop #2
Tread Softly
An abandoned farm. Two suicides. A missing mother and two children.
Unless reluctant psychic Sunny Kingston and her partner, retired detective Ash Haines solve this four-year-old cold case within an impossibly short deadline of two weeks, they'll owe their souls to sinister winery owner Vincente Valderos.
All leads go nowhere. Not even the metaphysical shop's resident seer, Armenta Kaslov's protection spells are working. A malevolent force is weakening Valderos, and Sunny's visions are misfiring. The stakes couldn't be higher.
Someone is practicing the black arts in Independence, Oregon, and it will take every member of the team of misfits from The House of Serenity to avoid catastrophe.
Unless reluctant psychic Sunny Kingston and her partner, retired detective Ash Haines solve this four-year-old cold case within an impossibly short deadline of two weeks, they'll owe their souls to sinister winery owner Vincente Valderos.
All leads go nowhere. Not even the metaphysical shop's resident seer, Armenta Kaslov's protection spells are working. A malevolent force is weakening Valderos, and Sunny's visions are misfiring. The stakes couldn't be higher.
Someone is practicing the black arts in Independence, Oregon, and it will take every member of the team of misfits from The House of Serenity to avoid catastrophe.
287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 9, 2022
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About the author
Heather Ames
15 books13 followersHeather Ames writes two mystery/suspense series, one with a paranormal twist, standalone suspense, romantic suspense, and short contemporary romances. When she’s not writing, she’s either thinking up new plots, traveling the world, or dreaming up new adventures.
She’s lived in five countries and seven states, hitchhiked around Europe, spent a year in a sixth-floor walk-up in Paris with a view of the Eiffel Tower, traveled by planes, trains, automobiles and ocean-going liners, and worked as a bartender in Madrid, Spain. She was also a military spouse for seven years and has two children, one born in Spain, the other in North Carolina.
During a long career in healthcare she carried pepper spray and mace in her bag for home health visits in the barrios and projects of Los
Angeles, encountered a loaded gun under a pillow and a shotgun behind a front door. She prepared reports for a medical examiner on DOAs in an ER, was in the witness box at a murder trial, and has seen more dead and/or mangled bodies than the average person. Her personal life has frequently strayed far from a sedate walk in the park, too.
As a result, her novels are filled with flawed characters who deal with challenging situations in ways that offer resolutions that aren’t always neatly cut and dried. Like real life.
She’s lived in five countries and seven states, hitchhiked around Europe, spent a year in a sixth-floor walk-up in Paris with a view of the Eiffel Tower, traveled by planes, trains, automobiles and ocean-going liners, and worked as a bartender in Madrid, Spain. She was also a military spouse for seven years and has two children, one born in Spain, the other in North Carolina.
During a long career in healthcare she carried pepper spray and mace in her bag for home health visits in the barrios and projects of Los
Angeles, encountered a loaded gun under a pillow and a shotgun behind a front door. She prepared reports for a medical examiner on DOAs in an ER, was in the witness box at a murder trial, and has seen more dead and/or mangled bodies than the average person. Her personal life has frequently strayed far from a sedate walk in the park, too.
As a result, her novels are filled with flawed characters who deal with challenging situations in ways that offer resolutions that aren’t always neatly cut and dried. Like real life.
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January 3, 2023
The second book in the Ghost Shop series, this one finds reluctant psychic Sunny Kingston and her retired-detective friend Ash Haines at an abandoned farm, investigating the scene of a murder/suicide of two prior occupants, as well as the disappearance of one of the deceased’s wife and two children. The investigation is at the behest of sinister Vincente Valderos, who has ordered Sunny and Ash to solve the puzzle of what led to the deaths, as well as discover the whereabouts of the missing family members. A full complement of bizarre characters rounds out the cast, including a statue that is apparently made of more than stone. The stakes increase chapter by chapter, since children are involved, and then a neighborhood witch enters the fray, amplifying the suspense. Ames is a skilled writer who fills her books with authentic descriptions, and she breaks the tension in this one with a few subtle injections of humor. She also knows how to tell a story, and she wraps this one up with a satisfying conclusion, all the while leaving the door open for the next book in the series.
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