I invited author Carole Ann Moleti to share her new release with my readers. Take it away!
Thanks, Nancy! The Unfinished Business Series began like most of my
projects—when I was not even thinking of writing a story. While opening up a
summer cottage, pulling dust covers off furniture and vacuuming up flies, I had
the sudden inspiration to write a story about a woman who finds a trunk of old
clothes and learns sad truths about the person who they once belonged to. This series
combines my love of the beach and boats with a fascination about paranormal
activities, and how past life experiences influence our fears, fantasies, and
choices.
The story line presented itself in another moment of inspiration—with a
focus on the widows walk, a key feature of Victorian architecture, the spot on
the roof where sailors' wives would go to watch for their husbands' returning.
In Book One, Breakwater Beach, we
meet Liz--and Elisabeth--as well as the other characters as the dual timelines
evolve. Book Two, The Widow's Walk,
is primarily Mike's story, though he shares the spotlight with his very
troubled new wife. In Book Three, Storm
Watch, all the plotlines converge in a tumultuous conclusion.
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book blurb
The Blurb-The Widow's Walk: Book Two in the
Unfinished Business Series
Mike and Liz Keeny are newlyweds, new parents, and the proprietors of
the Barrett Inn, an 1875 Victorian on Cape Cod, which just happens to be
haunted. By their own ghosts. The Inn had become an annex of Purgatory, putting
Mike, Liz, and their infant son in danger. Selling the historic seaside bed and
breakfast was the only answer, one that Liz and her own tortured specter
refused to consider. Were they doomed to follow the same path that led to
disaster in their previous lives? Was getting out, getting away, enough?
Book 1: Breakwater Beach
What if you got a second chance?
Book 2: The Widow's Walk
Was getting out, getting away, enough?
Book 3: Storm Watch
The Category Five Hurricane bearing down on
Cape Cod
appears to be headed directly
for them--or has it been spawned from inside
them?
Look,
for now, we’ll just stay where we are–together. If Liz and Mike are united,
then Jared and Elisabeth aren’t going to be able to get in between us.” He
brushed the tears off her cheeks.
She
stared at him intently, fear, maybe desperation in her eyes. “We can only talk
to each other about this. Others might use any information against us.”
“Who
would do that, Liz?’
Her
demeanor hardened. She sat up, raised her chin. “My son. Your daughter.
Sandra.”
“You’re
paranoid. The kids have no inkling about ghosts. All Sandra has are theories.
She doesn’t know about your incident–or my illness. And I’m not going to tell
her.” Guilt twanged in his gut. Sandra had come up with all the ghostly
interpretations on her own, right?
Liz
jumped up. “She knows about my injury. Maybe not how it happened, but when Mae
went in there to get my things, she figured out it was for me. She reads minds,
or manipulates people into blabbing what they know.”
Mike
lowered his voice to a whisper. “It doesn’t take much for Mae to spill
information. I think you’re giving Sandra too much credit.” Yet, she did ask
him about the ghosts as soon as he sat down.
“You
can joke all you want, Mike, but this is serious. We can’t let anyone else in.”
“I
won’t say a word about anything ghostly to anyone. As long as things stay under
control.”
Liz
studied him.
Mike
squirmed. “I think I’m going to take a nap.” He settled back on the sofa.
She
tucked the blanket around him and kissed him on the cheek. “I’ll go help Mae
with dinner.”
She
didn’t believe him. He didn’t trust her. This was never going to work.
More About the Author
Carole Ann Moleti lives and works as a nurse-midwife in New
York City, thus explaining her fascination with all things paranormal, urban
fantasy, and space opera. Her nonfiction focuses on health care, politics, and
women’s issues, which has been keeping her pretty busy since November 2016.
The three book Unfinished Business Series: A Cape Cod
Paranormal Romance is set near the beautiful beaches Brewster, Massachusetts.
She also has several short stories in several of the Ten Tales anthologies, as well as Hell's Kitties and Hell's
Heart.
Excerpts of Carole’s
memoirs, Someday I’m Going to Write a
Book: Diary of an Urban Missionary and Karma, Kickbacks and Kids range from
the sweet and inspirational in This Path
and A Quilt of Holidays to the edgy
and irreverent Not Your Mother’s Books:
On Being a Woman and On Being a
Mother. She also has a piece in the acclaimed Shifts Anthology. But her first love is writing science fiction and
fantasy since walking through walls is easier than running into them. Connect
with her here:
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