The
Plots:
“Wild, Wild Ghost” by:
Margo Bond Collins
With
everyone she loves in the grave, Ruby specializes in the dead.
“Comes an Outlaw” by
Keta Diablo
An
outlaw returns to his childhood home to find his parents and brother dead, and
the lovely widow in grave danger.
“Long a Ghost, and Far Away” by Andrea Downing
Ghosts
are restless souls, and Lizzie Adams is one of them. How many lives will she
get to find the perfect love?
“A Ghostly Wager” by
Blaire Edens
Even
skeptical detectives need a little otherworldly help.
“How the Ghost Was Won”
by Erin Hayes
There
are ghost stories. And there are ghost legends.
“McKee’s Ghost” by
Anita Philmar
The ghost living in his house might have saved him from an unhappy
marriage and brought him the girl of his dreams, but when his ex-fiancée
returns the same spirit turns his life upside down.
Now, has he lost all hope of a happy future because of a ruthless
ghost?
“A Ride Through Time”
by Charlene Raddon
Ghosts.
Murder. Love. All P.S.I. Agent Burke Jameson wanted was to find out if Eagle
Gulch, Colorado had genuine ghosts. He found far more than he expected,
including a horse ride that could change his life forever.
“The Ghost and the
Bridegroom” by Patti Sherry-Crews
She’s
sent west to solve a case. What she finds will change for life forever.
About the Authors:
Margo Bond Collins:
Margo is addicted to coffee and SF/F
television, especially Supernatural (maybe because of those Winchesters). She
writes paranormal and contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and paranormal
mystery. She lives in Texas with her daughter and several spoiled pets.
Although she teaches college-level English courses online, writing fiction is
her first love.
She enjoys reading urban fantasy and
paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming
about heroes, vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and the women who love (and
sometimes fight) them.
Keta Diablo:
Keta’s a bestselling Amazon author who
writes in several genres, including western romance, historical romance,
paranormal romance and the occasional gay romance. Her books have received
numerous Top Pick, Book of the Month and Recommended Read reviews.
Andrea Downing:
Native New Yorker Andrea Downing divides
her time between the canyons of city streets and the wide-open spaces of
Wyoming. Her background in publishing and English Language teaching has
transferred into fiction writing, and her love of horses, ranches, and rodeo is
reflected in award-winning historical and contemporary western romances.
Blaire Edens:
Ms. Edens lives in the mountains of
North Carolina. She loves iced tea with mint, hand-stitched quilts, and yarn
stores. As the award-winning author of Wild About Rachel, The Witch of Roan
Mountain, and The Fairy Bargain, when she’s not busy plotting, she’s knitting,
running or listening to the Blues.
Erin
Hayes:
Sci-fi junkie, video game nerd, and wannabe
manga artist Erin Hayes writes a lot of things. Sometimes she writes books. She
works as an advertising copywriter during the day, and is a New York Times and
USA Today Bestselling author by night. She has lived in New Zealand, Texas,
Alabama, and now San Francisco with her husband, cat, and a growing collection
of geek paraphernalia.
You can reach her at mailto:erinhayesbooks@gmail.com and she’ll be happy to chat. Especially if you want to
debate Star Wars.
Anita Philmar:
Ms. Philmar likes to create stories that
push the limit. A writer by day and a dreamer by night she wants her readers to
see the world in a new way.
Influenced by old movies, she likes to
develop places where anything can happen and where special moments come to life
in a great read.
Naughty or Nice?
Read her books and decide.
Charlene Raddon:
Ms. Raddon’s
first serious attempt at writing fiction came in 1980 when a vivid dream drove
her to drag out a typewriter and begin writing. Her genre is historical wester
romance. Kensington Books originally published five of her no Charlene Raddon’s
first serious attempt at writing fiction came in 1980 when a vivid dream drove
her to drag out a typewriter and begin writing. Her genre is historical wester
romance. Kensington Books originally published five of her novels. These were
later released as eBooks by Tirgearr Publishing. Currently, they are
self-published with new covers designed by the author.
Patti Sherry-Crews:
Patti lives in Evanston, Il. When she is
not playing with cowboys and knights in shining armor, she writes contemporary
women’s fiction.
Review:
I
bought this anthology because I’ve been hosting these authors on my blog. So it
really hurts to only give them three roses for their hard work. Unfortunately,
this set is self-published, and they really should have pooled their money and
hired a good editor. The thing I hate most about indie-published books is a
lack of editing. It is the bane of the indie publishing world. And the reason I
rarely read historical romance is the presence of anomalies. They drive me
crazy. For instance, I can see a Chicago cop saying “I got this” in 2016.
Somehow, a farmer saying that in the late 1800s pulls me out of the story with steam
coming out of my ears. Grrr! Yet in one of the time-travel stories when a man
goes back to the 1880’s from 2016, he lapses into the vernacular of the times almost
as soon as he dismounts from the horse who took him there. Fortunately, in the
other time-travel story, the woman who finds herself back in time uses her
normal 2016 language, confounding the man who believes she’s the ghost of his
deceased wife. And then there’s the glitch in the line-up with one story giving
away the ending of the next. But that may be fixed by the time you read this,
as I plan to speak with the authors about it.
The two stories that stand out as being both clean
and accurate are the ones written by Ms. Diablo and Ms. Collins.
If I were reviewing these stories individually, I’d give Wild, Wild West and Comes an Outlaw each five roses.
Despite
the editing problems and anomalies, the stories were fast-paced, the characters
were likable and engaging, and I read all 760 pages in less than two weeks
while working on other things and attending a writers’ conference over the
weekend. Yes, I pretty much burned through it. So if you don’t mind a guy in
the 1880s saying “I got this,” or editing glitches, you’ll probably enjoy it.
Author Websites:
Margo Bond Collins:
Website: http://www.MargoBondCollins.net
Keta Diablo: http://www.ketadiabloauthor.com
Andrea Downing:
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Downing/e/B008MQ0NXS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Anita Philmar
Blaire Edens:
Website: www.blaireedens.com
Erin Hayes:
Website: www.erinhayesbooks.com
Charlene Raddon:
Website: http://charleneraddon.com
Patti Sherry-Crews:
Warnings: None
Length: 760 Pages
Digital Price: $0.99
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