Breakthrough on Halloween Spirit Search
Only four days until Halloween! Can you believe it? Toil and Trouble continue their search for the Halloween Spirit getting closer and closer.
Well, October’s cooler days and chilly nights have arrived with a possible skiff of snow. Yippee!
This week, Toil, Trouble, Bubble bat, Moby Fish, Aragon Spider, Octavia and the newest member of the Skeleton Squad, Chloe Cobra escaped outdoors searching every nook and cranny of the rock wall in the backyard. Trouble found a few spiders who claimed no Halloween Spirit had gotten caught in their webs. Aragon nearly lost a leg to a marauding magpie. A mouse got tangled up in Octavia’s tentacles, but the rodent didn’t know anything. Chloe met a friendly garter snake, but he claimed to have seen nothing resembling a Spirit of any kind. Returning inside they discovered ghostly imprints entering the front door and with a green iridescent poof the culprits disappeared. Consequently, Toil and Trouble have set up twenty-four hour surveillance with each skeleton taking a shift. Toil and Trouble are sure they will catch the spirit of Halloween before the strike of midnight on Halloween. They called Broomhilda to report their latest discovery and to see if she’d had any luck?
Broomhilda’s (skeleton), from Texas (thank you Jessica) search relayed she finally escaped from the spider web with a little help from Jessica and is searching full time for the Halloween Spirit.
Join us next Monday, Halloween, October 31, 2022, to see if Toil, Trouble and the Skeleton Squad, along with Boomhilda have captured their quarry. In the month of October beside their search for the Halloween Spirit, the Skeleton Squad will continue to help me with the haunted tales of Cripple Creek, Colorado on my Say What Blog. Have you ever seen a ghost? A visit to haunted places in Colorado, my own stomping ground,
Only four days days until Halloween! Bwwwaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Plus a Halloween themed book from my collection will be featured each week. You do know I write paranormal romance/mystery. Right? This week, we are talking about demons and witches! What’s Halloween without witches, spells, demons, curses and things that go bump in the night? A Witch’s Journey is this weeks feature. What happens at the Halloween festival doesn’t stay there. So hurry grab your copy and join the #fantasy #adventure! You won’t believe the battle between good and evil.
A little about A Witch’s Journey
Pepper McKay comes from a long line of powerful witches. Unfortunately, magic brings her nothing but trouble. She learned the love of wildlife rescue and rehab from her Aunt Ashling. After graduating from college, Pepper works for Salem Wildlife Sanctuary and lives from paycheck to paycheck until she inherits the McKay property in Lobster Cove. With the family land and resources, she dares to dream of starting her own wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center.
Lathen Quartz, a former Navy SEAL turned handyman maintains the enchanted McKay property for the McKay estate. But someone is trying to steal the McKay magic. Lathen offers to help Pepper achieve her life-long dream of building a wildlife center. During the long hours spent together on the project, their mutual attraction can’t be denied. But each harbors a deep, dark secret. Will they overcome their demons and give love a chance?
A sneak peek between the pages of A Witch’s Journey!
Klaren threw her coffee in his face, cup and all, then bolted out of his arms and down the stairs as a huge reddish wolf advanced snarling and leaped over the railing knocking Ben down the stairs. He hit the ground and tumbled down the path, he scrambled to get to his feet. But the wolf was too fast, one leap and animal landed on the Ben’s back, knocking him forward before he finally landed face down on the ground out cold. In a blink of an eye, the wolf was gone and witches closed in on all sides.
Pepper ran to her mother and helped her to her feet. “You ok?”
“I’m fine, just sorry I didn’t have time to get more information out of the son of a bitch. Did you see what he did? I wasn’t about to let him transport me to who knows where.” Klaren brushed at the knees of her jeans viciously.
The witches formed a circle around Ben. Wisps of fog trailed along the ground and took shape as spirits floating in the meadow. Duncan stepped forward and cast a spell ensnaring the man in vines of shimmering light.
“Don’t make the vines too tight around his neck, we need him to be able to speak,” Ravyn said in a calm lilting voice.
“Done,” Duncan replied.
Ravyn flicked her fingers, a bucket of water appeared over Ben’s head, it tipped and the liquid splashed over him.
Ben sputtered and cursed, his eyes wild.
“Mr. Bochard. It’s come to our attention that you are misusing magic for personal gain. You’ve called on dark magic to curse an innocent to do harm to your own kind. How do you plead?” Ravyn asked in a commanding tone.
“Bitch.” Ben bit out. “I only acted to get back what was mine.” He narrowed his eyes at Pepper.
She cast a blindfold on him. “Don’t want to take any chances. Not sure what he’s capable of.” Pepper said when Ravyn glared at her.
Ravyn nodded. “I’ll take that as a guilty plea, Mr. Bochard . Therefore, you are to be spellbound immediately.” She paused. “But first, Pepper do you have the candle?”
“Yes.” Pepper produced a tall, thick twisted black candle with beautifully carved moon phases on all sides.
“Step into the circle, face the full moon depiction north.” Raven closed her eyes and murmured several words. The candle ignited in a black flame flickered then faded to pure white.
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See you back here Monday, Halloween! The Skeleton Crew and Boomhilda are sure they are on the trail of the Halloween Spirit and will have something to show for all their hard work. While you’re here, check out my other paranormal romance mysteries.
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Wow! What a skeleton crew. Toil and Trouble have great reinforcements. I can’t believe it’s only four days until Halloween either! Gosh, how time flies. Have fun!!
So glad you stopped by Barbara and are enjoying Toil and Troubles adventures with the Skeleton Squad! Happy Halloween!
Whew! Good to hear Aragon escaped the clutches of a magpie, Tena! Can’t believe we’re only four days until Halloween!
Thanks for stopping by Mary! It was a close call from Aragon. We don’t have many magpies, but they sure are ornery birds. Can’t believe how fast Halloween is coming, looks like I’ll be able to greet the trick or treaters, at least early on.