Ghoulies and Ghosties and things that go bump in the night

Over the last few weeks my new releases have centred on ghosts. The books are all for early teenage and possibly 9 to 12 year olds.

The first book is
Spirit Stealer: Ghosts in the Library
In 1908, Fader, a street urchin, takes shelter in the newly opened library to escape the cold winter. Months pass and the book characters emerge as playful phantoms in the nighttime library – all except for the green Spirit Stealer. This evil phantom steals the spirits of children who are accidentally locked in the library at night. Fader has to dodge the Spirit Stealer or his spirit will be taken.
A century later, Tyler is trapped by accident and tries to help a wraith called Amelia who still has half her spirit. Will they succeed in getting rid of the Spirit Stealer? If they do what will happen to the girl with half a spirit?

Available in ebook from Amazon and various other online outlets
Available in paperback from Copy Press, Nelson


The next two are books one and two of a series and both are set in New Zealand:


Fury's Ghost
Fury's family leave the city for a six month visit to rural New Zealand. They stay in an old house belonging to her mother's family, but who is the ghostly figure in a hidden attic room and why is Fury the only one who can see her? She learns the ghost is the spirit of the original owner who has been trapped in the room for one hundred years.
Fury promises to help the spirit lady to end her earthly existence. Problems arise when Fury delves into the past to find the answers she needs.
Available in ebook from Amazon and various other online outlets
Available in paperback from Copy Press, Nelson

Fury's Island
On holiday in Nelson, New Zealand, Fury meets Eion who offers to teach her to paddle board. Immediately attracted to him, she agrees. After basic instruction, he takes her out to Skull Island, a creepy looking rock some distance from the beach. No one has ever discovered a way up to the caves which look like eyes, but Fury finds a secret entrance and convinces Eion they should investigate. Their excitement rises as they discover tunnels and caves hidden beneath the ground, but neither is prepared for the arrival of ghostly pirates bringing their treasure chests to bury in one of the underground caves.
Available in ebook from Amazon and various other online outlets
Available in paperback from Copy Press, Nelson

As a special celebration of these releases
Ghost Bus: Mystery of the Phantom Bus
is available free for an unlimited time.
Jack's family has a new home, a converted bus depot. The original owners of the depot disappeared and the ghost of their last bus appears to take Jack and his sister on a journey to several different places to solve the mystery.
Available in ebook from Amazon
However some readers in some countries may find they are unable to download free from Amazon and if this is the case I suggest downloading from Prolific Works.

New Print Books for Juvenile Fantasy

Spirit Stealer and Reva's Quest are now available in print and ebook. 

Spirit Stealer
The nighttime library is a different world where phantoms tease Fader, the street urchin who sleeps in the warm building.
The green phantom is different. He steals the spirits of children who are locked in the library at night. The spirit stealer's attack on Fader leaves the boy with half a spirit, trapping him in the library.
Half a century later Amelia joins Fader when she is locked in by mistake. Fader tries toprotect her from the spirit stealer but he fails with disastrous consequences.
Time moves on and a century after the library opened Tyler tries to rescue those trapped by the spirit stealer.
Will his attempt succeed?


Reva's Quest
Reva and her garden gnome arrive in Fey to fight the evil, Malice. She is joined by three quest companions, and

they travel across the land to Malice’s lair.
Only Reva can rid the world of Malice, but their journey brings danger, and she wonders if she will survive. Malice’s evil has invaded many of the animals and these beasts try to stop them reaching their goal.

One of the companions begins to act strangely, and Reva must consider the possibility of a traitor in their midst.

For other fantasy books suitable for 9yrs plus, Young Adult, or Adult or Adult Romance, please visit Sue Perkins, Author 

Bumped Back in Time - The Wickware Sagas

September 13, 2014, marks the 200^th anniversary of the Battle of Fort McHenry and the writing of what would eventually become the United States’ national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. 

But once again, historians have left out some important information.  Sammy (Samantha) Brown, a 7^th grader in Miss Wickware’s history class, played a key role in the whole process.  Without her, Mr. Key may have never been on the boat that gave him a bird’s eye view of the whole battle which prompted the famous poet to….maybe you just have to read the story yourself.

Bumped Back In Time Book 4 of The Wickware Sagas.  Take a look at

https://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146&Itemid=82

http://www.amazon.com/Bumped-Back-Wickware-Sagas-ebook/dp/B00FGDS9MM

http://www.amazon.com/Penny-Estelle/e/B006S62XBY

Excerpt

A full moon lit up the bedroom.  Sammy lay on the feather mattress in the dark, staring at the ceiling.  The window was wide open, a breeze stirring the curtains, though it did nothing to take away the mugginess of the night air.  The nightgown Sarah had given Sammy was drenched with sweat and it stuck to her like a second skin.

She got up and walked to the balcony.  Dr. Beanes had been right about his wife.  Sarah had sat Sammy down and got her a bowl of left over wild turkey and boiled sweet potatoes, which she inhaled.

The older woman tisked her tongue and her head shook in sympathy, distressed at the poor girl’s story.  “Your mother must be worried beyond belief,” Sarah said.

“Oh, I’m sure she’s freaking out all over the place,” Sammy snorted.  “And like she’ll ever buy this story!”

“I don’t understand.  You write stories to sell to your freakish mother?”

Sammy had to chuckle at that one. “No.  She’s just going to kill me.”

Outraged, the woman came to her feet.  “She will do no such thing.  William will make sure that you are safe!”

Staring into the night, Sammy smiled at the memory.  She had assured Sarah it was only a saying, but the woman did not seem convinced.

The sound of horses, riding up to the Beanes’ home, brought Sammy out of her reverie.  At least ten men, all in red coats, jumped off their horses and headed toward the house.            

                         

A serving girl tapped on Sammy’s door before opening it.  “Please ma’am, Mistress Beanes would like you to come to her room, quickly.”  She turned to lead the way without waiting for a reply, Sammy, hurrying to catch up.

The scene that greeted Sammy when the bedroom opened had the hairs on the back of her neck, not only standing straight out at attention, but screaming “run…hide…wake up!”  Goose bumps broke out on her sweaty body.

Dr. Beanes was sitting on a chair putting on his shoes while Sarah was wringing her hands and pale as the snow-white nightgown she was wearing.

Before Sammy could utter a word a BANG BANG BANG came from the door downstairs and that’s when all hell broke loose!

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Thanks to everybody for stopping by to take a look.  Bumped Back in Time is the fourth story in the Wickware Sagas.  There are five all together.

Billy Cooper’s Awesome Nightmare

Ride of a Lifetime

Flash to the Past

Bumped Back in Time

Riches to Rags

These are all short, time travel adventures involving seventh graders in Miss Wickware’s history class.  They must draw a name from a box and do an oral report.  SOMEHOW, they end up back in time to get up close and personal with their drawn subject!

I also have a printed version of the Wickware Sagas.  This can be found at

http://www.amazon.com/The-Wickware-Sagas-Penny-Estelle/dp/1499179502

 Due to the 200^th anniversary of The Star Spangled Banner, MuseItUp is offering Bumped Back in Time for 99 cents for the first two weeks in September.  Check it out at

https://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146&Itemid=82