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Troubled
Spirits
Teri
Lee
Genre: YA Paranormal
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Date of Publication: August 21,
2014
ISBN: 1612964028
ASIN: B00NJ523TE
Number of pages: 220
Word Count: 64,000
Book Description:
Annie Waters hates birthdays. At
least she hates her birthdays. Because every year her mother told the story of
her grandmother's ghostly appearance in the delivery room. But the worst
birthday was her sixteenth--the day she killed her dad.
Forced to move to Shady Cove,
Maine, Annie is drawn deep into the world of the supernatural by her new
friend, Harmony. Now, tormented by an angry spirit, Annie has only nine days to
unravel the secrets of the Caldwell School or join the spirit world herself
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Excerpt:
Annie ran
her finger along the edges of the worn brown
cover. It was divided into four sections. In the
top left corner
were lines swirled together. Annie brushed her
fingers across
the raised lines. “Wind,” she whispered. Then, she
slid her
fingers over to the next corner, touching the
raised flames, and
whispered, “Fire.” She continued, moving her hand
to the
bottom right corner, resting her fingers briefly
next symbol.
“Earth.” And finally, she moved to the final
corner. “Water.”
The pages beneath the cover began to glow and
Annie
pulled her hand away. When the glow faded, she
once again
reached for the book. Her hand trembled as she
opened it. The
handwriting on the yellowed pages was clean and
crisp as if it
had been penned that very day. She read it out
loud. “Book of
Spells.”
“Wow,” Drew said. “How did you do that?”
“I don’t know.” Annie looked up at the picture of
Melinda.
The sadness was gone from her eyes and, for a
second, Annie
was certain the beautiful witch nodded at her. She
looked over
at Drew.
“Did you see that?” Drew asked.
Annie nodded and turned the page. To preserve
fruit was
written at the top, followed by a list: cattail
root, rosemary and
salt, and then written below it were five
lines:
Fruit from the earth
Warmed by the sun,
Fed by the rain
Keep your flesh whole
For the lips of the man
The next page was titled To repel biting
insects, followed once
again by a list and lines. Annie shivered when she
saw the next
spell – to punish one’s enemies. She quickly
turned to the next
page.
Suddenly the pages of the book began to flip on
their own
power. When the pages finally stopped, and she
read the words:
To banish an evil spirit. She sank into the
chair and buried her
face in her hands.
Drew dropped down on one knee and rested his hand on
the
edge of her chair. “What’s the matter, Annie?”
Annie drew a shaky breath and let the events of
the past
days tumble out. She told him everything. And not
just the
ghost stuff. She told him about Harmony and Logan,
and Mike
and Callie, and feeling like a fifth wheel. She
watched his face as
she spoke, waiting for him to laugh. But he just
listened, never
taking his eyes off her, and with the exception of
the occasional
nod of understanding, he didn’t move. She had his
undivided
attention.
When she finished, she took a shaky breath and
wiped away
the single tear that trailed down her cheek. “You
probably think
I’m crazy, don’t you?”
“I think you’ve upset a dangerous spirit.”
Annie breathed a sigh of relief. Drew believed
her.
“It’s no accident that Melinda opened the book to
this page,”
Drew said. “We need to copy this spell down.”
“I didn’t bring anything to write with,” Annie
said. Before
she’d finished speaking, a piece of parchment, a
quill pen and a
bottle of ink appeared on the table.
Annie jumped out of her chair and backed away from
the
table until she reached the wall at the other side
of the room.
“Where did that come from?” she cried.
Drew took a few steps toward her with his hand
held out.
“It’s Melinda. She’s just trying to help you.”
Annie looked from Drew to the portrait.
“But—but—the
paper—the pen--they just appeared—out of nowhere!”
Drew stayed where he was, still reaching out to
her. “You
don’t have to write the spell down, Annie. Not if
you don’t want
to. We can just leave right now.”
Annie shook her head. “No.” She took a deep breath
and
stepped forward. “I need to do this.” Her legs
shook as she
returned to the chair and tentatively reached for
the pen. It was
smooth and solid. She dipped it into the ink and
brought it to
the parchment, leaving a trail of black drops on
the paper as she
silently copied the spell from the book. She
didn’t dare read the
words aloud.
Annie glanced out the window. The sun was sinking
below
the tops of the trees. Long shadows reached across
the clearing.
Drew followed her gaze, then checked the ink to be
sure it
was dry. He folded the parchment and tucked it
into the pocket
of his jeans. “It’s going to be dark soon,” he
said and headed
toward the door.
As Annie followed him across the room, the leaves
that had
scattered across the floor earlier suddenly
swirled up into a
miniature wind funnel and moved past her and out
the door,
leaving the floor once again clean and neat. At
the doorway she
turned back to the portrait. “Thank you, Melinda,”
she
whispered. Then she shut the door and walked with
Drew
along the stone path.
When they reached the little gate, Drew pushed it
open and
stepped aside. Even after she passed through, he
stood there
still holding the gate open, looking down at her.
“I’m glad we
did this today,” he said.
Annie glanced down at her feet, then back up at
him. “Me,
too.”
He closed the gate behind them. “I’d like to help
you with
this ghost business.” He stepped closer to her.
“If you’ll let me.”
Annie barely managed to nod. The world spun around
her,
then faded away as she lost herself in his deep
brown eyes. And
in that moment, all that mattered to her was Drew.
She lifted her face to him as he leaned closer,
his eyes locked
with hers. But instead of kissing her, he brushed
the back of his
hand against her face and whispered, “Promise you
won’t do
anything without me.”
Annie’s skin tingled beneath his fingers. “I
promise,” she
said.
And then the spell was broken as Drew stepped
away. “Well,
we better getting going,” he said and started across
the field.
About
the Author:
Teri Lee is the author of Troubled
Spirits, a YA paranormal novel. Growing up in Maine, Teri spent hours exploring
in the woods with her friends dreaming up places like ‘Land of the Lost’,
‘Trouble Hill’, and ‘Paradise’. If she wasn’t in the woods, you’d find her lost
in a book. And today not much has changed. She’s still dreaming up imaginary
places, getting lost in a book, and sometimes lost in the woods. When she’s not
writing you’ll find her saving lives and rescuing splinters in the ER.
Blog: www.Terileeliving.com
Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/terilee
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/author.TeriLee
Website: http://www.teri-lee-author.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeriLee_author
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Jodie Pierce
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