Check out Waking Up Dead by the very sweet and friendly and fellow Texan, Margo Bond Collins.
When
Dallas resident Callie Taylor died young, she expected to go to Heaven, or
maybe Hell. Instead, when she met her fate early thanks to a creep with a knife
and a mommy complex, she went to Alabama. Now she's witnessed another murder,
and she's not about to let this one go. She's determined to help solve it
before an innocent man goes to prison. And to answer the biggest question of
all: why the hell did she wake up dead in Alabama?
EXCERPT:
When I died, I expected to go to
heaven.
Okay. Maybe hell. It’s not like I was
perfect or anything. But I was sort of hoping for heaven.
Instead, I went to Alabama.
Yeah. I know. It’s weird.
I died in Dallas, my hometown. I was
killed, actually. Murdered. I’ll spare you the gruesome details. I don’t like
to remember them myself. Some jerk with a knife--and probably a Bad-Mommy
complex. Believe me, if I knew where he was, I’d go haunt his ass.
At any rate, by the time death came, I
was ready for it--ready to stop hurting, ready to let go. I didn’t even fight
it.
And then I woke up dead in Alabama.
Talk about pissed off.
You know, even reincarnation would have
been fine with me--I could have started over, clean slate and all that. Human,
cow, bug. Whatever. But no. I ended up haunting someplace I’d never even been.
That’s not the way it’s supposed to
work, right? Ghosts are supposed to be the tortured spirits of those who cannot
let go of their earthly existence. If they could be convinced to follow the
light, they’d leave behind said earthly existence and quit scaring the bejesus
out of the poor folks who run across them. That’s what all those “ghost hunter”
shows on television tell us.
Let me tell you something. The living
don’t know jack about the dead.
Not this dead chick, anyway.
Buy Waking Up Dead on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Dead-ebook/dp/B00FOXWLM8/
Margo Bond Collins lives in Texas with
her husband, their daughter, several spoiled cats, and a ridiculous turtle. She
teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her
first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any
genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts,
zombies, werewolves, and other monsters. Waking Up Dead is her first published
novel. Her second novel, Legally Undead, is an urban fantasy, forthcoming in
2014 from World Weaver Press.
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