Friday, May 17, 2013

What Lurks Within

Ahoy there mateys! It's been awhile since the Jar of Dirt set sail. I won't be analyzing literature today, but promoting it...

As of today, I am a published writer! A short story of mine, a novella, if you will, has been published to Amazon's Kindle store.

The title of my ghost story is What Lurks Within...


 

Sent with four other youths to a summer therapy retreat for troubled teens, Grace, a girl cursed with the ability to see and hear ghosts, finds herself at a secluded hotel. Upon her arrival, she finds that her time there will be far from the expected therapeutic experience. The doctor sent to help them is, from the very beginning, strangely cold, detached, and a mysterious stranger who doesn’t seem to belong – in more ways than one – disappears without a trace. But, from the moment Grace laid eyes upon the staring windows of the Ravenshill Hotel, she knew that something far, far worse lurked within its walls. Plagued by horrifying visions of death, Grace is forced to relive a gruesome spree of murders from the Ravenshill’s past. Used to being a forced witness to ghostly flashbacks of many a grizzly end, Grace initially attempts to writes off her unease. However, when the line between past and present begins to blur, when the Ravenshill’s haunted past begins to repeat itself, Grace stumbles upon a truth far more terrible than any she could have ever imagined. Will Grace discover what really lurks within the maddened walls of the Ravenshill, or will the revelation prove to be more than she can bear?
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I would appreciate it beyond words if any of you out there who read this blog would read my story. I would also be incredibly grateful if you would spread the word and tell any other readers you know to search the Kindle store for What Lurks Within by Courtney Dekanich!
 
Thank you all! Until our next voyage...