Kim's Musings

I'm a guest author at www.ashleyladd.blogspot.com Thursday, January 31st. Please join us! Our (4 other authors and myself) anthology, One Touch Beyond (see cover) will be released at www.cerridwenpress.com February 21st. Kim Cox

Fourth sample chapter from Enchanted Holidays - New Years - Ghosts of Auld Lang Syne by Maureen McMahon Chapter One What house more stately hath there been Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay? --- George Herbert "Man" I hadn't expected the house to be so imposing. When Holly Purcell, my friend since childhood, asked me to accompany her to the remote New Hampshire property her grandmother had willed her, I'd expected a quaint little holiday cottage. What loomed before us, as my little blue car slid up the icy drive between twin rows of gnarled, naked willows, was something much more impressive—and much more sinister. Gripped by unkempt tangles of dormant vines and shrubbery and oblivious to the encroaching forest, the house thrust a multi-peaked roof, complete with stately turret, into a gray, wintry sky. Its windows observed our approach with dull disinterest. I couldn't help but shudder. "God! You didn't tell me it was so ol...

Third sample chapter from Enchanted Holidays - New Years - Curse of Osiris by Elaine Hopper Chapter One The turn of the new millennium ~ the real new millennium "If you want to live, you'll come with me now." Zane Ryan's penetrating golden gaze intensified on Alexis Hart as he thrust his hand out to her. Alexis Hart had tried every trick, every remedy she could find to erase the infidel standing in front of her from her heart. As easily as he'd breezed into her life, like a desert sandstorm, he'd stormed out. And for what? Money! Ha! The American rat didn't deserve her love. Furious with her weak heart, she spat on the floor. She never believed him when he said she was too young to marry, to take to his homeland, the birthplace of her biological parents. In her adoptive family's clan, she was already an old maid four years ago. She was an anachronism now. Oh, she could have, should have married. Her adoptive father had fielded many offers for her hand...