Seven Turns: A Ghost Story - A Love Story

by Kim Beall

Overview

Washed-up author Callaghan McCarthy has 99 problems, and believing in ghosts isn't one of them. The ghosts of Woodley, USA find this amusing, but they need her help with a problem of their own.

When she checks into Vale House, a bed and breakfast the internet claims is haunted, she hopes to find inspiration for a sequel to her once-popular ghost story. She quickly finds more inspiration than she bargained for, but any evil haunting Vale House does not emanate from its ghosts. As Cally comes to know and love the eccentric denizens of the run-down Southern town, she realizes she has wandered into the midst of a host of secrets nobody will talk about in front of people who are Not From Around Here.

While a disembodied internet entity, the ghost of a teenage Taino pirate, and a mysterious gentleman who is not quite human, himself, try to help her cope with her new reality, she begins to understand that saving Vale House and saving herself are one and the same.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733996488
Publisher:	Krystalrose Press
Publication date:	12/01/2020
Series:	Woodley, USA , #1
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.68(d)

Table of Contents

In Which a Ghost is Pleased to Introduce the Story

1 - Fly By Night

2 - News and Coffee

3 - The Inevitable Question

4 - Vale House

5 - The Rose Room

6 - A Talk With George

7 - Two Cold Beers

8 - CreepyPasta: It's What's For Dinner

9 - Evening Storm

10 - A Chat With Emerald

11 - Walking in Woodley

12 - Coffee and Books

13 - The Captain's Story

14 - Just an Accident

15 - Other Duties As Assigned

16 - All Hands Meeting

17 - Boo

18 - More Duties As Assigned

19 - Lunch With Bethany

20 - How Sofie Died

21 - An Argument With Emerald

22 - Nell's Childhood Friends

23 - Moochers and Freeloaders

24 - Not A Date

25 - Doc

26 - Blackthorn

27 - Paranormal Investigators

28 - Other Investigations

29 - Aftermath

30 - Joan Returns

31 - Twilight Arrives

32 - Seven Forks

33 - Old Friends

34 - Over The Fence

35 - Nell and Melissa

36 - Gourmet Pizza

37 - The White Council

38 - Ben's Story

39 - The White Lady

40 - In the Shuffling Madness

41 - Stay Down

42 - Riding the Storm Out

43 - Two and a Half Minutes

44 - Our Nell

45 - Somebody's Calling

Editorial Reviews

Nathaniel BarSmart 5.0 out of 5 stars

Seven Turns isn't just a story. It's an introduction to a whole new world to explore...

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2018

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The things I loved... the book starts off strong. The main character, Cally, gets to where to where she needs to be by the second chapter. The ending grips you and refuses to let you stop turning pages. There are a whole lot of likable characters and the book ends cleanly with the plot completed but still leaving a whole world, and it's people, left to learn about. You get to the end of this story but you still want to learn more...

There were points where I wanted to force Cally to look at the things she turned away from and there were times I wishes she would open up and trust some of the people around her, but I also see her as a character with a lot of flaws that she is only now learning how to fix... she's not a super woman with all the answers. She isn't fearless and unbreakable... she's been broken and she's, perhaps, been using the wrong tools to fix herself.

Which, again, makes the reader want to know how she grows in the next story of her life.

I will be buying the next story and I hope it is a good long series.

(Note: This review is from the first edition of this book.)

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