Maple Hill Chronicles

Marianne Singleton has defeated both her horrible ex and the ghosts in her house. Her prospects for a job are promising, and her love life is back on track. Life is good. But she's still seeing ghosts. When she picks up a hitchhiking ghost who won't leave her alone, she has her hands full. To make matters worse, her new boyfriend starts missing dates, and that may be more than her bruised heart can stand. Ruari Allen is at a crossroad in life. His job is thankless, and he longs to start his own woodworking business. Marianne makes his heart sing, but, having broken someone's heart in the past, he's afraid of hurting her. When he starts seeing colored haloes and smoke around people, he worries about his sanity. Especially since he's also started dreaming of a mysterious red-headed woman who claims to have known his dead grandfather. Relationships are hard enough without supernatural forces getting in the way. If Marianne and Ruari's relationship is to stand a chance, they'll need to take drastic steps. Will a desperate journey to Scotland bring them together, or forever cast them apart?

Wake your ghostly allies, All Hallow's Eve is coming... Marianne, a fledgling clairvoyant, embarks on a road trip with Sarah, her mentor in all things ghostly, to protect Canopus County from supernatural danger. As Marianne struggles to learn magic, the trip becomes more perilous. Needing to prove to herself she can stand on her own two feet, Marianne refuses to bail out and go home. Frustrated by her stubbornness, Marianne's boyfriend Ruari cools his heels at home in Maple Hill. When his fiercely independent sister, Erin, asks for his help out of the blue, something is really wrong. A trauma from Erin's childhood might just hold the key to Marianne's dangerous journey. As the clock ticks toward a showdown in the Maple Hill Cemetery on Halloween night, Marianne will have to learn magic and convince some rowdy ghosts to help her or doom Canopus County to suffer from an ancient, malignant hunger. Illustrated by Andrew P. Slaughter of Pilcher Illustrate.

A cozy ghost story, fourth in a series, set in the haunted Hudson Valley of New York State. What's going on at the Avery Theater in Maple Hill? After an exhausting battle in the cemetery on Halloween, Marianne, Ruari and his sister Erin, need some serious down time. A community production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow seems like just the harmless diversion they need to regain a sense of normalcy. Ruari finds a lifeline building sets for the play, but it has just as many pitfalls, even as his sister interferes with his domestic life. But someone with a sick sense of humor is playing dangerous pranks on the cast. To protect the actors Marianne has to expose the culprit whether they're living--or dead. Marianne's mentor, Sarah was only a phone call away before Halloween, but now she's ghosting her just when Marianne needs her help protecting the production. Marianne's knack for history and Ruari's handyman skills may be the only thing standing between the theater and disaster.