A New Orleans Haunting: #1 in the Suzy's Adventure Series (NOW COMPLETED!) (Paranormal Fantasy & Erotica)

By Dorian Mayfair

Warning: This book contains explicit graphic language, sexual content, paranormal elements, and a tattooed Gothic girl dressed in black with an attitude.

Author's note: This is the first title in the "Suzy's Adventures"- series, but each story can be read (and enjoyed) separately.

Summary:
In this first story in the series, Suzy arrives in New Orleans on a hot summer night and checks into a quaint hotel. Wearing a recent tattoo on her wrist, she plans to take it easy, just dip into the city’s nightlife and then have a good night’s sleep.

But fate has different plans, and Suzy’s stay ends up more strange – and much more pleasant – than she expected.

Because Suzy’s tattoo will lead her onto a dangerous path that will change her life – and that of many others...

An excerpt from the story:

“She started to rise, then narrowed her eyes and looked around the room. Something was out of place, as if a shadow in the corner of her eye had shifted, but she couldn’t tell what it was.”

The door to the bathroom stood open, just as she’d left it, so she could see the whole room from where she was. There was no one there except for her.

She could make out the bolt on the door to the corridor, still in place. This was weird. Even stranger was that she felt entirely calm, even though she knew she should be worried.

There’s nothing there, you idiot, Suzy told herself, then gasped when she heard a clink from the tray of bottles on the chest of drawers...”

Product details:
Category: Paranormal Fantasy & Erotica
Format: Kindle eBook
Length: ~10000 words

About the author:
Dorian Mayfair is a writer based in Oxford, UK, where he lives in a small house on the border of the ancient town and its surrounding hills.

At daytime, he studies the mysteries of literature; at night, he haunts Oxford’s dim streets and alleys in search of inspiration and adventure. He usually doesn’t have to look for long.

Also by Dorian Mayfair:

“Moonlight Meetings”: Bundle One (Suzy’s Adventures Series), includes the
following titles:

“A New Orleans Haunting” #1

“Strangers in the Woods” #2

“Midnight in Brooklyn” #3

“Midnight Meetings”: Bundle Two (Suzy’s Adventures Series), includes the following titles:

“Manhattan Rendezvous” #4

“Out of Ashes, Into Fires” #5

“Long Day, Endless Night” #6

A paranormal/erotic historical novelette:
“The Secret Mistress”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dorian Mayfair
• Release date: May 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301381142

Dorian Mayfair

Dorian Mayfair is a writer based in Oxford, UK, where he lives in a small house on the border of the ancient town and its surrounding hills. At daytime, he studies the mysteries of literature; at night, he walks Oxford's dim streets and alleys in search of inspiration and adventure. He usually doesn't have to look for very long. When he isn't writing, he eats dark chocolate, drinks red wine, and reads novels to the soundtrack of the wind. He can be contacted at [e-mail]

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A New Orleans Haunting

Dorian Mayfair

© Copyright 2013 Dorian Mayfair

Smashwords Edition

First published October 2011

This version February 2013

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This eBook uses some actual locations and family names, however all events are fictionalized and all persons appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people, living, dead or invisible, is entirely coincidental.

A New Orleans Haunting

Prologue

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From behind a tall window deep in the French Quarter, a man watched the sun set over New Orleans. Slowly, the last glimmer of daylight gave way to a warm darkness that fell over the rooftops and cloaked the city in shadow. With the night came music, spilling onto the sidewalks from doorways and alleys. It was getting late. Soon, the streets would be packed with people seeking out bars and clubs, hunting for adventure and pleasure. Across the street was a hotel, its windows filled with guests preparing themselves for an evening of decadent distractions.

The man by the window had no such plans. He was on a mission, and he was nervous.

In his dark velvet coat and white crisp shirt, he matched the room’s wallpaper, although while his clothes were clean and expensive, the room was shabby and riddled with patches of mould. Once, the room had been a study; now it was a forgotten space on the top floor of a restaurant. Dense cobwebs filled the dark corners and hung heavy between the beams in the ceiling. Between two empty and dusty bookshelves was an old writing desk covered with grit.

The room was a perfect hideaway. Days of cleaning wouldn’t make it much nicer, but the view over the bus station below was just what he needed. Earlier that day, he’d watched the interstate coaches arrive with its cargo of tourists and expectations. His object of interest had arrived on one.

A contact had called to let Misha know that the woman had been one of the passengers. Another call had informed Misha when she arrived. He had friends everywhere; following the woman’s every step would have been easy, but laws older than the town itself forbid him. Only once the woman had kept sane through the first nights, they would contact her. She had to prove herself, then take the first step. Those were the rules.

This time, though, he was more nervous than he’d ever been before. Reports spoke of old laws failing and traditions going off the rails. If the ritual broke down altogether, he didn’t dare to think about the possible