The HBS Author's Spotlight SHOWCASES Vered Ehsani's New Book: A Spider Comes Calling.
Fantasy and Mystery Author Vered Ehsani is the author of the Ghost Post Mysteries, Dragon & Myth and the Society for Paranormals series.
A Spider Comes Calling
Society for Paranormals - Volume 6
Author: Vered Ehsani
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Life after death just got deadlier. Mrs. Beatrice Timmons (aka Miss Knight) is thoroughly unimpressed by the troop of monkeys that have invaded her kitchen. Of course, that’s only the beginning of the influx of undesirable critters. When a giant spider appears in the garden, Mrs. Timmons knows there’s trouble brewing and it’s not served with tea. A choice must be made: agree to an unholy alliance or endanger an unborn child? To confound matters further, her husband disapproves of the whole venture. And that’s before Mrs. Timmons vanishes into the Underworld to pay an unsolicited visit to the God of Death. While it’s all for a good cause, the consequences could be dire. “I really enjoyed it.” A Spider Comes Calling is the sixth case in “Society for Paranormals”, where African myth meets Victorian manners. If you adore “Pride & Prejudice”, appreciate British humor, enjoy paranormal mysteries, or would love to experience adventure in colonial Africa, start your supernatural safari now.
Excerpt from A Spider Comes Calling
When one is accustomed, as I am, to death, dismemberment and other inconveniences, one develops a certain equanimity with which most circumstances can be tolerated.
There are of course always exceptions.
This, I feared, was one. What with zombified plague patients, a pack of brain-devouring Kerit and two firefly vampires rampaging through the burning town of Nairobi, not to mention the departure of my best friend Cilla, I’d had a hectic time over the previous several weeks. After all the hullabaloo, I’d certainly earned a reprieve from anything more stimulating than a stroll through the garden.
Alas, the moment I awoke, I knew that was not to be.
“What a bother,” I muttered upon opening my eyes into absolute darkness. “I’ve been kidnapped again. Who is it this time?” I pondered the possibilities which sadly were more numerous than they ought to be. “Nameless?” I called out, wondering where the pesky dwarf was hiding, if he was indeed the culprit.
It was a logical assumption. After all, he’d previously asserted that I would prove useful to his ambitions. What Nameless lacked in height, he more than compensated with a psychotic determination to eradicate all non-humanoid paranormals from the face of the planet, or at least from the lands of the British Empire which amounted to the same thing or thereabouts.
As I lay in the strange surroundings, I quickly determined that Nameless couldn’t be involved on this occasion, as he was far too fond of tying up his victims and torturing them with incessant chatter. Wherever I was, it was intensely quiet and dark. Even my yellow werewolf eyes with their enhanced night vision were of no assistance to me. Only in one location had I ever experienced such a depth of nothingness: the world of Mrs. Cricket.
Author Genre: Historical Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers
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Author Description: I’ve been a writer since I could hold pen to paper, which is a lot longer than I care to admit. As in: since I was seven. Yes, that long ago.
My first story was about a naughty unicorn. I wrote it out by hand (this was way before the computer got personal) and illustrated every page with candy-coloured pencil crayons. It was the first and last time I did my own cover art.
I always hesitate when people ask me where I’m from. There’s no one-word answer to that. Born in South Africa and raised in Canada, I’ve lived in Kenya since mid-2000 with my husband, our two children and an assortment of animals with varying degrees of wildness.
When I’m not writing, running a radio show or daydreaming about African ghosts and myths, I pretend to work as an environmental consultant. Don’t you just hate it when work gets in the way?!
Author's Book List
Revenge of the Mantis
- Society for Paranormals Book 3All is proceeding as it should for Beatrice Knight. That is, until the African Lightning God lands in her barn and announces that Mrs. Knight’s arch nemesis is about to pay an unsolicited visit. This time, the giant Praying Mantis Koki won’t be so easily dissuaded from exacting revenge against the intrepid paranormal investigator. Mrs. Knight must now answer one critical question: what, or whom, is she prepared to sacrifice in order to defeat the Mantis? As if that isn’t heart-wrenching enough, Mr. Timmons boldly presents a possibility too terrible to consider, yet too tempting to refuse. Now, if only she could survive long enough to make a decision…
Case 3 in “Society for Paranormals”: A series concerning dead husbands, African legends and the search for a perfect spot of tea. For those readers who adore “Pride & Prejudice” and who would appreciate a supernatural safari through colonial Kenya.
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The Automaton's Wife
- Society for Paranormals Book 2Beatrice Knight has enough to contend with: a zebra is dead on her lawn, her horse is possessed and a gentleman has arrived with the temerity to propose to her. To top it off, her dead husband Gideon has absconded with an automaton, threatening to return for his wife. The wife in question however soon has other issues, for a killer has moved into town with a nasty habit of carving up the victims. As luck should dictate, who should be the next target but Mrs Knight herself?
Case 2 in “Society for Paranormals”: A series concerning dead husbands, African legends and the search for a perfect spot of tea. For those readers who adore “Pride & Prejudice” and would love to experience “The Parasol Protectorate” set in colonial Kenya.
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Dragon's War
- Dragon & Myth Book 2How do you stop a war you started? And should you, if your future depends on winning at all costs? These are the thoughts that plague Myth as she paces the fortress where she is being kept a prisoner ‘for her own protection.’ Meanwhile, Dragon is in hiding, hunted by the albino assassin and the city’s very systems that he once ran. As his backup reserves are depleted and the clock ticks down to the launch of a global virus, Myth must escape to save Dragon and together stop the war that they launched. But time is running out and the albino is watching.
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Dragon's Mind
- Dragon & Myth Book 1Ten years ago, an artificial brain was installed into a computer system. To most people, it is a non-living entity operating in the background of their lives. Only a girl named Myth knows better: his name is Dragon and he is very much alive. After ten bodiless years, Dragon has a dream that will change everything and will put his mind and Myth’s life in mortal danger. There are powerful forces that don’t want the truth revealed and they’re coming for Dragon. But where do you run to when you’re already everywhere?
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Fatal Secrets
- Ghost Post Mysteries Book 2Just when Axe Cooper thinks he’s safe, guess again. His memory is fading and unless he wants to lose his mind, he has to figure out why he buried an old friend in a swamp. And let’s not forget the ghost-eating Deathmark that’s developed an unhealthy interest in Axe and his friends. Being dead is no protection from the secret that is about to crawl back into his life. But he’s not the only one with something to hide and some secrets are deadlier than others.
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Lethal Takeout
- Ghost Post Mysteries Book 1When Axe Cooper is murdered while picking up Chinese takeout, he’s pretty irritated about the loss of a good dinner, not to mention being dead. Not prepared to move on just yet, Axe decides to stick around and haunt his best friend Lily Chan while trying to figure out why anyone would kill a janitor. In the meantime, Axe is hired by The Ghost Post to track down recently deceased writers. As he learns more about his new phantom friends, Axe realises that his murder is not an isolated event and that if he doesn’t learn to fly like Superman, Lily could be next.
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Where Shadows Dance
- Ghosts & Shadows Book 2Ash was looking forward to a summer of camping with friends and time travelling. Then his Great Aunt fades away (literally), his near-death nightmare gets even weirder and he keeps falling into someone else’s dreams. On top of that, his house is attacked and he gets trapped in the past while trying to help a new friend who isn’t too friendly. Juna isn’t having a great time of it either: having escaped from her parole officer, she barely survives falling out of a plane and getting sucked into a bizarre tornado that keeps appearing in the most unlikely situations. While Ash and Juna try to get out of the past and back home, events and dreams keep pointing them to the place where it all starts and ends, where shadows dance and time bends. If they can get there, they may be able to stop an implacable enemy from destroying their future. Of course, getting there means surviving first…
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Diary of a Part Time Ghost
- Ghosts & Shadows Book 1Fifteen-year old Ash wants nothing more than to be a normal kid and avoid trouble. And then his birthday gift transforms him into a ghost and zaps him back in time to the beginning of the American Revolution. If he thought that was bad, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. Armed only with an ancient history book and the quirky advice of an annoying mentor, Ash must rescue his ancestor from one danger after another, including an implacable enemy who controls the very shadows. What starts out as a brief experiment in time travel rapidly changes into a race for his very survival, and Ash is running out of time. Humorous and action-packed, Diary of a Part-Time Ghost will hold readers in its grip from the first sentence to the last.
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