Ghost Mountain

Appalachian Mountain Handbook reveals the life and culture of people born and raised in the mountains of Appalachia. This includes their Language. Superstitions. Ghost Stories. Remedies.Cures. Potions. Sayings. Euphremisms. Growing Food. Fields and Streams. Games they Play. Favorite Food Recipes. Drinks they Make.

She was always his. Now she needed him more than ever. Can Ghost save her before the Russian mafia kill her? Where love and danger collide on the mountain. The connection between Ghost and Allison runs deep. Ghost never doubted his love for Allison—not even when a single night of drunken confusion cost him everything. Five years after their shattered engagement, Allison’s world is turned upside down as the Russian mafia storms her hospital. Ghost is the one who charges in to save the day, but is it enough to mend the wounds of the past? As danger looms, they must confront the heartbreak...

A child is missing. The father is desperate. Can a stranger find a way to unravel the clues? When five-year old Anna Burke goes missing in the rugged mountains of Wolf Creek Pass, can a stranger understand the clues and find her? To survive the pain and loss of her own daughter’s kidnapping and murder, Layne Youngman has closed her heart to everything but helping others find their missing children. As she begins her search, it appears nearly everyone has a secret. Rhys Burke is struggling to survive a bitter divorce. When Anna disappears while in his care, he is consumed with guilt and ...

MOUNTAIN SPRINGS COZY MYSTERY SERIES – Books 1-3 Book 1 – Missing, Presumed Unwed Book 2 – Curses, Fowled Again! Book 3 – Beasties and Butterscotch Pie Introduction Sharon Triplett’s life-change was to retreat to the majestic mountains, settle into her inherited family home with her two kids, plucky pet parakeet, Seymour, and try to recover from the tragic death of her husband, a hotshot, undercover, city detective. It was an elegant plan. It should have worked. But then, astoundingly, Seymour, began eerily communicating to her in her dead husband’s voice and Sharon’s life was...

Robert Crain’s perfect life is being torn apart... While recuperating at home from a car accident, men in ski masks break into his house and render him unconscious. When he awakens the next morning he is confronted by a nightmarish truth -- that his wife and son are gone. But it doesn’t take long before he learns he’s not dealing with ordinary kidnappers. They aren’t interested in ransom money. No, what they want is unthinkable -- to see Robert fight other strangers to the death… And if he refuses, he will never see his family again. Accompanied by his loyal German shepherd, ...

Perks of becoming a bounty hunter? You get cool weapons and handcuffs…and you get to hunt people down. The downsides? Lower life expectancy, getting your butt kicked by felons… And finding yourself trapped on a freezing mountain to spend the rest of your years. If you even live that long, that is. Sure, some people have rotten luck. Me? I get to spend Christmas on Frost Mountain… …handcuffed to an infuriating, impossibly sexy outlaw on the run. This wolf shifter claims he’s innocent, but the trail of blood in his wake says otherwise. And as long as I’m handcuffed to this big, ...

"Marley was dead to begin with...." These chillingly familiar words begin the classic Christmas tale of remorse and redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Now R. William Bennett rewinds the story and focuses the spotlight on Scrooge’s miserly business partner, Jacob T. Marley, who was allowed to return as a ghost to warn Scrooge away from his ill-fated path. Why was Marley allowed to return? And why hadn’t he been given the same chance as Ebenezer Scrooge? Or had he?

Out of control forces, haunting circumstances, natural disasters, and eerie illuminations capture the imagination of anyone who witnesses the grand splendor of mysterious activity that eerily lacks an obvious source.The Brown Mountain Lights have been a hot topic of debate since the mid 1700s when early travelers started noticing strange events and lights that appear along the ridges of the mountain quite regularly. These ghostly lights have just enough presence about them that they can be witnessed on any clear day.

Is this the beginning of a whole new life, or was it always going to be yet another false start? Gerry and his scientist colleague are back in Montworth, supported by a grant given by the young CEO of Toven Discoveries to gather a few facts before announcing the Mosasaurs' existence to the world press. Gerry is happily basking in a renewed sense of his own identity as plans are put in place to take a quick jaunt to the lower reaches of the Himalayas in an attempt to retrace Joe Bucket's footsteps and find the source of the original dinosaurs. However, life was never meant to be a straight ...

No call could ever be more magnetic or instinctive than the call of the past. Gerry is irresistibly drawn back to Lake Ness but it doesn't take long before he discovers that while battling prehistoric monsters is hazardous to his health, he's up against far more dangerous foes in both the members of his own species and his own destructive thought patterns. After the unexpected arrival of Leigh and Sam at the lake, followed by a rapid series of betrayals, Gerry finds himself fighting for his life once again. However, this time he is driven by the knowledge that if he makes it out of here ...

Two years after Beverly Holden escaped her small hometown in the Kansas foothills for an exciting new life in California, she receives a mysterious message that her younger brother has gone missing after working for the dying heiress of Mirror Manor. Pulled back to her hometown to find her brother, Beverly is offered a choice: return to California and forever abandon her family and the small town where she grew up, or stay and inherit Mirror Manor’s estate upon the heiress’ death. The decision seems easy, but Beverly can’t help but wonder what her new wealth will cost?

The Spectra of the Dark Mountain is a story that unites fantasy, dark fantasy, terror and regionalism set in northeastern Brazil, to tell the story of John Felix, an unusual and introspective man, who lives in particular conflict with reality before his eyes and his imaginary world inside his mind. The story addresses in particular, the birth of the myth of the hero, who has to descend into the darkness, to go crazy, to transform himself, to "die" and be reborn as "new man."

As gumshoes go, I was one of the best, back when it said Triplett on my badge—back when I had a badge, and a uniform to pin it on, not to mention a man’s body instead of a parakeet’s. No joke. Fortunately, though, I still have a few moves up my— Let’s move on. Seymour’s the name. I ended up in this avian form after my untimely demise, but against all odds I have been reunited in sunny Mountain Springs with my wife Sharon and our two children, Lila and Ethan. A lot of mysterious things have happened in this area over the past year, and all four of us have played a part in ...

In the early spring morning light, shortly after seven o’clock, the body looked like a pile of debris covered by brown and black leaves left over from the previous autumn. A decorated war hero with severe amnesia sustained twelve years before, Clifford Dumont has remained lost in the middle of his life until unexpected events challenge him to confront his suppressed fears and the black wall of his past. When he finds the dead body of his co-worker, Jean-Paul, at a national historical battlefield, Clifford is jarred out of his day-to-day routines. His complacency is further challenged by ...

The stories in this book are based upon actual events. During the course of her research into some of South Carolina's classic tales, Nancy Roberts heard accounts of happenings in the recent past and even the present day. They're all here: from the famous Gray Man of Pawleys Island who warns of coming storms to the ghost of the poor fellow whose small plane went down in the 1950s near Walhalla, leaving him to forever hitchhike Highway 107.

I didn’t choose my career, and two decades in the media has been far too much. Fleeing LA, I thought things would calm down. When my plane crashed, I did not expect to be plunged into fiction. But that’s what happened when I came face to face with a dragon. When the dragon disappeared, a gorgeous man started berating me. It would have been laughable if I weren’t at death’s door. Then I learned the plane crash wasn’t an accident, And people still want me dead. But who? And how did they know I survived? I don’t have time for those questions. Because the gorgeous man clearly thinks...

To be honest, it just wasn’t my lucky day. It started with the plane crash. And then I got shot in my leg. Guess what? It gets even worse. I’ve crash-landed on a magical mountain, and there’s no way off. The mountain man who shot me isn’t even human. He’s a polar bear shifter, and he hates my kind. He’d have let me die…if I hadn’t begged him to save me. Now I’m stuck in his cabin until Valentine’s Day—I mean, until my injury heals. I hate him with everything I’ve got, But this sizzling shifter’s not the lonely hermit I made him out to be. He’s got a son…and ...

There’s never a dull day in Windy Ridge. When I’m not trying to play mama to a restless and spirited teenager, I’m out in the woods trying to round up monsters. And let’s not even bring up my love life—something that’s been nonexistent for years. That is until an old flame from high school decides to step back into my life. And my heart. The only thing is… Sheriff Dean Hawke (the above-mentioned old flame) seems to be hiding his own secrets. Whenever I try to bring up his past, he deflects or ignores the subject altogether. And that’s definitely one of those things that ...

The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the 20th century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya.

As the Crow Flies by Nancy B. Brewer Some called her the Moss Creek Witch and others called her the Moss Creek Medicine Woman. Pa warned Roy about going down to that shack where the girl lived. Ma said it was just old mountain superstitions. But what happened to Roy? A Short Story by Nancy B. Brewer