Bøker av Shani Struthers

"Shani Struthers is my Queen of Horror." Not every back road takes you home It's just another day at the Mason Town Museum, where Shady Groves and Ray Bartlett work, alongside their boss Annie Hawkins. Not that the museum is ordinary, it's home to objects infused with energy, often of the destructive kind. The three regard themselves as caretakers, seeking to dispel that energy, in turn protecting the unwitting public, whose hands they could otherwise fall into. No ordinary museum, and no ordinary day either, not when Beth Wick arrives, having read about Annie and the team online. In her hand, she clutches something, half a golden heart hanging from a cheap chain. It belongs to her recently deceased sister Kim, and the other half of the heart to her brother Ethan, who's been missing for two years. When she thrusts the chain into Shady's hand, Shady - who is gifted in the art of psychometry - is immediately plunged into a nightmare world, one in which a distraught Kim demands she finds her brother, her spirit unable to rest until she does. Failure is not an option. Whilst Annie tends to the museum, Shady and Ray travel with Beth back to her hometown of Wyatt, South Dakota. There they discover a web of secrets and lies, a man called Johnny, once a teenage bully, but now the town's darling, and backroad after backroad, one in particular - the Spook Road - a myth attached to it that may just prove significant. Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul Psychic Surveys Book Nine: The Devil's Liar Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel Blakemort (Corinna's story) Thirteen (Ness's story) Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story) Jed (the story of one of Psychic Surveys most loved and mysterious characters) This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise This Haunted World Book Five: Resistance Reach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker Reach for the Dead Book Three: The Spook Road Jessamine Series: Jessamine Comraich Summer of Grace - A Standalone Mystery Thriller Christmas Ghost Stories Carfax House The Damned Season Wildacre Alice

Praise for Shani Struthers' books: ***** One of the best books in this genre. (Wildacre)***** One of the best Christmas Ghost Stories I have ever read. (Eve)***** It reminds me of the old black and white British ghost story films. (Rosamund)***** Another instant classic from Shani Struthers. (The Damned Season)***** A meloncholy masterpiece. (Carfax House)***** Shani Struthers is my Queen of Horror. (Highgate)From the author of the bestselling Psychic Surveys series comes a Christmas Ghost Story like no other!Is anyone ever who they seem? After suffering the tragic loss of her best friend, Lottie Beck is struggling. Aged eighteen, she's flunked school and spends her days lying in a darkened room, doing nothing. Finally, she is forced to get a job at Silver Birches Care Home. Once there, and after meeting the residents, particularly the feisty, no-nonsense Bobby, she settles in, appreciating how much history lies behind each person. A history she can read, in her own special way, via the touch of a hand. Alice is another resident, aged ninety-two, and mute. A woman who has always been institutionalised and is now near the end of days. It is she who intrigues Lottie the most, but whom she also fears. All she knows is something happened to make her the way she is, an event on Christmas Eve, way back, something sinister. Surely she deserves peace, but if together they aren't brave enough to confront what lurks in the darkest recesses of her mind, she'll die in anguish. It's Christmas Eve again, 2023, and as Lottie is about to find out: not all ghosts are dead. Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul Psychic Surveys Book Nine: The Devil's Liar Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel Blakemort (Corinna's story) Thirteen (Ness's story) Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story) Jed (the story of one of Psychic Surveys most loved and mysterious characters) This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise This Haunted World Book Five: Resistance Reach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker Jessamine Series: Jessamine Comraich Summer of Grace - A Standalone Mystery Thriller Christmas Ghost Stories Carfax House The Damned Season Wildacre Alice

The Devil's Liar is the ninth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that feature plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart. As a young woman, Theo was confronted by the spirit of a child who had killed other children, but decided she could be of no help, shutting down all possibility of further communication. Now older and wiser, Theo comes to regret that decision and wants to make amends, involving the Psychic Surveys team in her quest. Meanwhile, Ruby is dealing with Willow Bayliss, a child who appears to be a channel for an energy that can only be described as base. Effortlessly she opens doors to paranormal experiences beyond even Ruby's experience. Via Willow and the child spirit, Ruby and Theo are plunged into the very depths of themselves, having to examine first their own fears and motives before they can help either. They will learn there are some devils worse than others. Devils that lie and manipulate the truth and yet, for Ruby at least, are so easy to believe... Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul Psychic Surveys Book Nine: The Devil's Liar Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel Blakemort (Corinna's story) Thirteen (Ness's story) Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story) This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise Reach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker Jessamine Series: Jessamine Comraich Carfax House - A Christmas Ghost Story (standalone novella) The Damned Season - A Christmas Ghost Story (standalone novella) Summer of Grace - A Standalone Mystery Thriller

Before the myth, there was the truth. On a road trip to Baker City and the mountains of Oregon, Shady Groves, Ray Bartlett and their friends are looking forward to a few days' vacation. On the way, they make an unscheduled motel stop where Shady encounters Missy Davenport, the proprietor, an old photograph of Missy too, and her family, horror attached to it. Arriving in Baker City, they stay at the Grand Willmott before heading into the wilderness, another photograph down a gloomy corridor there, this time of ten men in animal masks, armed with pitchforks, so at odds with the hotel's luxury surroundings. Two photographs in less than 24-hours, both of which unsettle her.>Piece by piece, Shady will find there's more to the photographs than she could ever imagine. And that creatures of myth and legend, hybrids, could be responsible for a spate of missing people, including Brandi Hadley, the most recent person from Baker City and the local area to disappear without trace. Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul Psychic Surveys Book Nine: DUE AUTUMN 2020 Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel Blakemort (Corinna's story) Thirteen (Ness's story) Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story) This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise Reach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker Jessamine Series: Jessamine Comraich Carfax House - A Christmas Ghost Story (standalone novella) The Damned Season - A Christmas Ghost Story (standalone novella) Summer of Grace - A standalone psychological thriller

Comraich - Gaelic for Sanctuary - that's what this ancient fortress of a house in the Highlands of Scotland has offered its generations, a haven from the world beyond.The nesting instinct kicking in, a pregnant Jessamin decides that Comraich, which she shares with her partner Fionnlagh Maccaillin, needs refreshing. Getting to work in one of the spare bedrooms she makes a startling discovery, one that pulls her into a world of the intense and disturbing passions of others that have been here before.Jessamin has to decide.Will delving deeper into Comraich's history bring hope and peace to this troubled house or return her to a darkness she's only recently left behind?

Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys. Formerly the site of a notorious mental hospital, Ruby and her team have had to deal with spirits manifesting in people’s homes, still trapped in the cold grey walls of the asylum they once inhabited. There’ve been plenty of traumatic cases but never a mass case – until now.        The last remaining hospital block is due to be pulled down, a building teeming with spirits of the most resistant kind, the institutionalised. With the help of a newfound friend, as well as Cash and her colleagues, Ruby attempts to tackle this mammoth task. At the same time her private life is demanding attention, unravelling in ways she could never imagine. About to delve deep into madness, will she ever find her way back?

Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him everyday, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together. She thinks she will 'hear' him better if she goes somewhere quieter, away from the hustle and bustle of her hometown, Brighton. Her destination is Glenelk in the Highlands of Scotland, a region her grandfather hailed from and the subject of a much-loved painting from her childhood.Arriving in the village late at night, it is a bleak and forbidding place. However, the house she is renting - Skye Croft - is warm and welcoming. Quickly she meets the locals. Her landlord, Fionnlagh Maccaillin, is an ex-army man with obvious and not so obvious injuries. Maggie, who runs the village shop, is also an enigma, startling her with her strange 'insights'. But it is Stan she instantly connects with. Maccaillin's grandfather and a frail, old man, he is grief-stricken from the recent loss of his beloved Beth.All four are caught in the past. All four are unable to let go. Their lives entwining in mysterious ways, can they help each other to move on or will they always belong to the ghosts that haunt them?

The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light - or 'home' as Ruby calls it. Not just a job for Ruby, it's a crusade and one she wants to bring to the High Street. Psychic Surveys is born. Based in Lewes, East Sussex, Ruby and her team of freelance psychics have been kept busy of late. Specialising in domestic cases, their solid reputation is spreading - it's not just the dead that can rest in peace but the living too. All is threatened when Ruby receives a call from the irate new owner of Highdown Hall. Film star Cynthia Hart is still in residence, despite having died in 1958. Winter deepens and so does the mystery surrounding Cynthia. She insists the devil is blocking her path to the light long after Psychic Surveys have 'disproved' it. Investigating her apparently unblemished background, Ruby is pulled further and further into Cynthia's world and the darkness that now inhabits it. For the first time in her career, Ruby's deepest beliefs are challenged. Does evil truly exist? And if so, is it the most relentless force of all?

Dumped by her hotshot boyfriend and boss, Layla Lewis quits her job and heads to Trecastle in North Cornwall to house-sit for a friend-of-a-friend. Trecastle isn't new to her; it's a place where she holidayed regularly with her now-estranged mother. It's also the home of Hannah McKenzie, her childhood friend. Hannah has tempted her with a place to live and a job in the local pub. Needing time to nurse her battered heart and escape her real life for a year, Layla accepts. Hannah is a talented artist as well as a barmaid. She lives in the village center with her boyfriend Jim, a singer in a local band. They are happy together, or as happy as they can be, considering. Hannah loves Jim, but there is someone she loves more and it's pushing them to breaking point. Meanwhile, back in Brighton, Layla's fiery yet loyal friend Penny seeks revenge on her behalf, sending a forged email that could damage her ex's business prospects. Penny wonders if she has gone too far but is soon preoccupied with her own problems: the sizzle has fizzled in her marriage, and she feels neglected. After getting frisky with Dylan one night, she confesses all to her husband-and he's been like ice ever since. Over the course of a year, there is laughter and heartache as all three endeavor to reign in their tumultuous love lives-discovering you can run all you like, but if it's love you're up against, true love, good things can only happen when you stand your ground.

Welcome to the asylum…2015Their troubled past behind them, married couple, Rob and Louise, visit Venice for the first time together, looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Not just a romantic destination, it’s also the ‘most haunted city in the world’ and soon, Louise finds herself the focus of an entity she can’t quite get to grips with – a ‘veiled lady’ who stalks her.1938After marrying young Venetian doctor, Enrico Sanuto, Charlotte moves from England to Venice, full of hope for the future. Home though is not in the city; it’s on Poveglia, in the Venetian lagoon, where she is set to work in an asylum, tending to those that society shuns. As the true horror of her surroundings reveals itself, hope turns to dust.From the labyrinthine alleys of Venice to the twisting, turning corridors of Poveglia, their fates intertwine. Vengeance only waits for so long…