After Her Death

By Laran Mithras

Dorothy sells a widower a reputedly haunted home. She yearns to be loved and cared for but is trapped in a loveless marriage. She looks to the lonely man and strives to make a connection with him before he withdraws into his equally lonely Victorian.

Randy loses his wife to a drunk driver and sets off to fulfill their retirement dream of seclusion in some dying town away from the crowd. He knows the overgrown Victorian no one wants to buy is the house for him. But he loses himself inside the house and realizes he cannot cope with the loss of his wife.

He knows both he and Dorothy could use the comfort and support each other could provide, but it is too soon after his loss, and the Victorian has other ideas. As his nightmares worsen, the house makes a move to consume him before Dorothy can intervene.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laran Mithras
• Release date: Feb 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781386929475

Laran Mithras

I write sexy stories that skate along the edge of modern relationships. I don't like cliffhangers, endless chapters, or ongoing fighting and misunderstanding until the last page of the book. So, I don't write those in my books. Many authors think they're being edgy and have an alpha-male alien who's never heard of Earth running around saying, Jesus Christ! every two pages. Ridiculous. So, yeah, I don't do that, either. No religious expletives in my books.I write from the standpoint of realism. My heroes and heroines are normal people who make the extraordinary leap to sexual and emotional fulfillment. Most of my stories are HEAs and are designed to provoke a deeper thought about where we stand with our relationships.I don't live with two dogs or cats who rule my life; I have two pet rats. Yeah, really.Comments on stories or other questions can be directed to: [e-mail]. Connect with me on Facebook: Laran Mithras. Happy reading!

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After Her Death is a work of fiction. Names, locations and incidents either are a product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

Copyright  ©  2013 - All Rights Reserved

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

~ Ephesians 6:12

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CHAPTER 1

The death of his wife could not be surmounted. He loved her too much, treasured her too much and adored her too much.

He received the life insurance payout last year. It was no consolation.

His wife had died, struck down by a drunk driver. He wasn't sure how he was able to continue living those nine months, but he knew that the struggle was on breathing and moving and trying to avoid the crushing grief that welled up in pitiful sobs that made the struggle to breathe even more difficult.

They had wanted to retire to a forgotten town where the real estate was cheap and the people few. Many people dream of big things; they dreamed of comfort and relaxation. His wife, Annette, had agreed that a dying town would give them the peace and quiet that the big city never could. So with a full bank account, he went to fulfill their dreams.

Really, I think I came here to die.

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Dorothy twirled in the spacious living room as she showed Randy the fourth house. She was a real estate agent – not a great one but a good one and she knew a few tricks. A good whirl in front of the entertainment center usually caught mens eyes.

Not that she was trying to entice him, though he was handsome, but