Haunting Love Book One: House of Darkness

By J.M. Cagle

When Valerie Thompson sees yet another supernatural figure in the window of a local haunted house, a string of events follows. Though she may not know it yet, her impending actions are destined to set in motion a long-forgotten force of the afterlife, destroying lives and changing the superstitions of many residents in their community.
Valerie and her best friend, Jennifer, begin their night believing they can face their fears with a midnight ghost-hunting adventure in the haunted house, and they certainly aren’t opposed to meeting some guys at this infamous location for parties. However, the people they meet change their lives forever, both for the better and the worse as the girls begin a supernatural war that will span their entire community, ruin reputations, take lives, and bring them to the brink of disaster again and again.
Graffiti and pentagrams on the walls aren’t enough to stop the girls, though, and they pursue the otherworldly spirit that Valerie witnessed against all odds, while still taking time for a romantic rendezvous with the men they meet in the haunted house. Only time will tell if they are making their gravest mistakes in this climactic ghost-hunt that will reveal much more than any simple spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Mulle
• Release date: Jun 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310343711

J.M. Cagle

J.M. Cagle began writing stories while in high school. She went on to attend California State University, Dominguez Hills and continued her pursuing her writing interests by interning at KTLA, a Los Angeles television station. She also became a sports writer for two community newspapers. She would attend sporting events and write articles on the games. Ms. Cagle also worked part-time at internationally acclaimed The Studios at Paramount where she garnered first-hand knowledge of the intricacies of television and film production. She has since gone on to write a multitude of screenplays and theatrical productions.Ms. Cagle’s focus is now centered on the writing genres of romance, paranormal and suspense novels. She also enjoys writing in the spiritual genre as well. When she isn’t engaged in her favorite pastime of writing she takes pleasure in singing, visiting the beach, bicycling, reading, walking and spending time with her loved ones. Ms. Cagle currently resides in Michigan where she continues to speak her heart through her writing.

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Haunting Love Book One: House of Darkness

By J.M. Cagle

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Copyright 2014 J.M. Cagle

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Other Books in the Haunting Love Trilogy

Haunting Love, Book Two: Passionate Delirium

Haunting Love, Book Three: Chaotic Lust

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

About J.M. Cagle

Other Books by This Author

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Chapter One

Valerie Thompson quickly walked from the house, reflecting on what she had just witnessed. She was trying to think of anything in the world besides what she had just seen, but the image of the pale, white figure in the window of the house simply refused to leave her mind. She tried staring at and focusing her mind on the gray, cloudy skies, but her dark and eerie environment did not suppress the sense of fear she felt but instead only reinforced it, which only furthered her state of panic. She tried to focus on anything – groceries she needed to pick up, if she was going to have trouble paying the rent for her apartment this month, whatever the last movie she watched was and whether or not it was worth watching again – but no thought, no matter how menial or seemingly distracting, could get rid of her fear.

She decided to do what she always did when she witnessed the paranormal. Valerie tried to tell herself that what she saw wasn’t real. It must’ve been my mind playing tricks on me, she thought. It was probably an odd reflection of light. She knew that those explanations made no sense either, and being in denial of what she had just seen never worked because she knew what she had seen.

She’d been a witness to countless paranormal events throughout her life, and few of those she told believed her; so at a certain age she stopped telling people. It was incredibly hard for Valerie to keep these happenings to herself, but if she wanted to maintain what little bit of a good reputation she had left (she told everyone that her earlier ghost stories were merely products of her imagination and cries for attention and that her childish fantasies stopped after she was fifteen or so), she had no choice but to act as if she saw nothing, even though these events would typically eat at her mind for days at a time before some semblance of normalcy came back into her life.

What she had just seen – the pale, white figure in the window of the house that was rumored to be haunted since before she was even born – was especially frightening for the black-haired, blue-eyed, twenty-three year-old Valerie, not only