Welcome to my stop on the Maiden’s Peak blog tour! If you are looking for a good mystery with a hint of the paranormal, you will want to read on! I have an excerpt for you, and a chance to win a copy of the book!
Maiden’s Peak
Expected Publication Date: May 7th, 2019
Genre: Murder Mystery/ Paranormal
Publisher: Between the Lines Publishing
Victor Shelton ran from his family’s legacy of prophetic dreams at seventeen but finds at twenty-eight that he is unable to run from the nightmares that plague him. Haunted by images of his own death each night he follows the fleeting memory of the town limit’s sign in his nightmare to a quaint Colorado town.
Beckoned to a forbidding mountain peak with a past riddled by ghost stories and legends, Victor must figure out who is friend or foe. Can he unravel the secrets of the enigmatic citizens of Carver’s Corner and solve his own murder before it happens?
Perhaps the answers are in the siren song of whatever is calling him to the caves under Maiden’s Peak. The song in the darkness urges him on, but whether it is to his death or to his salvation, Victor can’t say. All he knows is that once before he had not heeded the call of his dreams and someone had died. He can’t let that happen again.
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Excerpt
A solitary scrap of paper was swept from the cold pavement by the updraft. The gust of wind lifted my hair and ghosted a frigid breath across my neck, causing the hairs there to stand on end. I’d come to this small town chasing a dream, but not the kind that beckons a person to great things. No, the dream that had brought me here is the kind that leaves you huddled in a corner, quietly sobbing.
Two months had passed since the nightmares began, and I hadn’t had a decent night’s sleep since. Even as I thought about it, flashes of the nightmare came to the front of my mind, and I quickly veered my thoughts away to keep the images at bay.
Somehow, I thought coming here to Carver’s Corner would make it better. This place was featured in the nightly horror show that my dreams had become. Being here didn’t make the dream come into clarity or logically fall into place. I had never been to this town and probably would not have missed its presence in my life if I hadn’t been beckoned here by the insistent dreams.
My grandmother insisted that we had some cunning folk in our family tree. Cunning folk, in case you’ve been blessed with ignorance, is another name for wise men and women who heal and help others through both natural and magical means.
That might not seem so bad, but at seventeen, I rebelled with every fiber of my being. I wanted so much to be like everyone else. I tried so hard to pretend that I wasn’t plagued most nights by dreams that were seemingly not my own.
Sometimes the dreams came true; sometimes they merely taunted me. The embarrassment of misinterpreting a dream was something one truly had to experience before you could appreciate it. The looks on people’s faces when they had deemed you unbalanced was something you never got used to. The straw that finally broke the proverbial camel’s back came at a party in my junior year of high school. For weeks, I had dreamed of a fire at that party. It was the only reason—other than my then-crush, of course—that I had gone. As it turned out, I’d read the signs wrong, and the dream was more my anxiety than anything else. Needless to say, Betsy Stevens didn’t appreciate me ruining her party by screaming about a fire that never came to be.
A couple weeks after the incident, I left and went to live with my dad, who was on the East Coast—far away from talks of cunning folk and prophetic dreams. The move had worked in many ways. My dreams even stopped for a time, but as with all good things, it did not last.
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About the Author
Kristy has been making up her own stories for entertainment for most of her life. Eleven years back she decided that perhaps others would want to walk through the worlds she has created. With over 10+ books in both urban fantasy and cozy mystery, Kristy has allowed readers to venture into realms where magic lives and murder mingles with humor. She currently lives with her family in the Southeastern United States where she helps other authors when she is not writing her own novels as a freelance writer and editor with eleven years of experience. With many projects in the works, there are sure to be more worlds for courageous adventurers to delve into.
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My Review
10 stars
Victor Shelton comes from a family with prophetic dreams but he is not about to fall into that life. He runs from his gift/curse for ten years. But recently he has been seeing his own death and decides to follow the call of his dreams. He finds himself in a Carver’s Corner Colorado and Maiden’s Peak, a mountain full of mystery and superstition from the locals.
Victor has tried to run from his visions, especially when he saw the death of a little girl. But he keeps seeing a sign outside the town of Carver’s Corner and finds himself drawn there. Victor learns of the disappearance of a woman and a local man that are thought to have run off together. He also starts having strange hints about a man called Thorn.
This is a great mystery with a paranormal twist and oh so much more. I liked Victor and felt for him having such a tough gift/curse. Thorn was a great addition to the story. Between the two of them I couldn’t put the book down if I tried.
This is the first book I have read of Kristy Carter but it definitely won’t be my last. This is a great read and one I recommend checking out. This is one that I will be adding to my shelves. I can’t wait to read her other books.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. I voluntarily chose to read and post an honest review.
Blog Tour Schedule
May 6th
The Magic of Wor(l)ds (Interview)
Pages and Paw Prints (Excerpt)
May 7th
The Bookworm Drinketh (Review)
I Love Books and Stuff (Excerpt)
May 8th
Dash Fan Book Reviews (Excerpt)
May 9th
May 10th
J Bronder Book Reviews (Review)
Banshee Irish Horror Blog (Excerpt)
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