Reasonable Explanations

By Joannie Kay

Halloween was Realtor Amelia Cartwright's favorite time of year. She enjoyed decorating and throwing Halloween parties, but most of all she enjoyed pranks. However, this year's prank was one that would land her in prison if her U.S. Marshal husband learned what she was up to. He worked in the WITSEC program, and Tom was unaware that his pretty wife had good reason to hate the man he was protecting.

Gus Acardi was terrified of the ghostly sounds in the old house the WITSEC program assigned to him while he was waiting to testify against Mob Boss Alfonso. The Marshals thought Gus was crazy, but he knew that ghosts existed, and these ghosts were trying to make him repent before Alfonso's new soldiers found him and killed him! They made all sorts of noise at night, and Gus was losing his mind.

Marshal Tom Cartwright did his best to tolerate his adorable wife's fascination with all things Halloween, and he permitted her to turn their home and yard into the best decorated in town, and the children enjoyed Trick or Treating with them each year, but Tom would let nothing interfere with keeping Amelia safe and healthy, even if that meant giving her a sound bottom warming every so often.

Did she take this year's Halloween prank just a bit too far?

How far is too far when it comes to Halloween pranks? Maybe, if it's one that could land her in jail...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blushing
• Release date: Nov 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781627505765

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