The Biker Ghost Meets His Match: Gambling Ghosts, #4

By Jo-Ann Carson

How could a dead guy be so sexy?
When Charlene Walker, a tattoo artist with a sweet tooth for bad boys, starts a boycott of the haunted teahouse in a small, west coast town, no one alive or dead is safe. One way or another, she intends to stop the haunting of her brother. 
Biker ghost, Rufus has no idea what he's up against. Her saucy personality makes him feel alive, not to mention her provocative tattoos and every inch of her body hidden beneath. Pulled into her web, he finds himself confessing to more than the ace up his sleeve that got him killed, and he struggles with feelings he never imagined having.
Adding to their epic heat is the mischievous charm of a resident pirate ghost and the twisted intentions of a human trafficker from Charlie's past.
What happens when you mix an ink slinger with attitude, a cheating gambler, a playful pirate and an evil creep? Another Gambling Ghost story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jo-Ann Carson
• Release date: Nov 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9780994955661

Jo-Ann Carson

Jo-Ann Carson ~ paranormal mystery and romance ~ Reports of Jo-Ann Carson’s death on a Gulf Island are greatly exaggerated or, at the very least, premature. An award-winning fiction and non-fiction author, blogger and podcaster Jo-Ann loves to tinker with words. Her latest two series the Ghost & Abby Mysteries and the Gambling Ghosts feature eccentric characters, such as a Viking ghost with existential issues, a broken-hearted Highlander and a Casanova-man-witch. At the center of each tale is a strong woman trying to make sense of life and love.  A firm believer in the magic of our everyday lives, Jo-Ann loves watching sunrises and walking the beaches near her home in the Pacific Northwest. You can find her at her author website: http://www.jo-anncarson.com/. Blog/ Twitter/ Author FB/ Pod FB/ Pinterest/ Instagram / BookBub Page

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The Biker Ghost Meets His Match

Jo-Ann Carson

Copyright © 2018 by Jo-Ann Carson Terpstra

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Contents

Introduction

Opening Quote

1. 1 - The Queen of Spades

2. 2 - The Joker

3. 3 - Dead Reckoning

4. 4 - A Haunting

5. 5 -The Death Card

6. 6- The Hanged Man

7. 7- Beyond Life & Death

8. 8- The Second Card

9. 9 – The Third Card

10. 10- The Scourge of the Night

11 - Be Careful What You Ask For

11. 12 - A Royal Flush

Acknowledgments

A Note from Jo-Ann

Other Books by Jo-Ann Carson

About the Author

Introduction

The Biker Ghost Meets his Match

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When Charlene Walker, a badass, tattoo artist with a sweet tooth for bad boys and living on the wild side, starts a boycott of the haunted teahouse in Sunset Cove no one alive or dead is safe. One way or another, she intends to stop the haunting of her brother.

Biker ghost, Rufus has no idea what he’s up against. Her saucy personality makes him feel alive, not to mention her provocative tattoos and every inch of her sexy body hidden beneath them. Pulled into her web he finds himself confessing to more than an ace up his sleeve.

Adding to their epic heat is the mischievous charm of a resident pirate ghost and the twisted intentions of a human trafficker from Charlie’s past.

What happens when you mix an ink slinger with attitude, a cheating gambler, a playful pirate and an evil creep? Another Gambling Ghost story, guaranteed to make you laugh, scare you silly and touch your heart with love.

Opening Quote

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

~ Dalai Lama XIV

1 - The Queen of Spades

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play. ~ Chris Moneymaker

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With a stack of posters in one hand and a roll of duct tape in the other, Charlie Walker stood in front of the haunted teahouse admiring her work. At two foot intervals, all along the greying, cedar fence she had stuck Boycott the Teahouse, Ghosts are Evil! posters. She couldn’t box the ears of the ghost who haunted her brother, so she figured this was the next best thing. If the teahouse lost customers, Azalea, the woman who owned it would suffer and she being a medium would take her brother Rufus, the guilty ghost in question, to task, or at least that’s what Charlie imagined. A domino effect to knock out a ghost. She shook her head at the thought. A week ago, she didn’t believe in spirits, but when she saw how traumatized her brig brother Mad Dog had become, she had decided to take action, even if it meant she had to battle with the dead, or undead, or whatever this Rufus character was. The feud between him and her brother had to be stopped. She took a deep breath of the salty west coast air and blew it out slowly. The artist in her felt proud of the powerful design of her posters--ghosts never looked so evil--but the reasonable woman inside her frowned. In what universe did she think she could take on a biker ghost?

It was easy to feel confident standing in the midway sun outside the house famous for all things supernatural, knowing Rufus and his odd collection of friends wouldn’t be around until the night settled in. But the score had to be settled, one way or another, and if she were the only one in the family with the moxie to do it, so be it. Charlie had never been one to back down to anyone in her life and no slimy haired, pea brained biker boy was going to change that. Even if he was dead.

Besides, she didn’t really believe in ghosts. What she believed is that people believed in them, and that fear created a fantasy beast.

Her new sister in law, Darlene, had called her the week before complaining their home in Sunset Cove was being haunted by a vicious biker with a hole in the middle of his forehead. She said the guy, dressed in leathers, came by every night, threw the pots in her kitchen onto the floor and made horrible groaning sounds as if he ate chili that had been left out in the sun for three days. It was killing their honeymoon mood, big time, and she was ready to leave Mad Dog if he didn’t do something about it. Since he refused to talk about the ghost, or their beyond the grave feud, she called Charlie for help. Charlie had mentioned at the wedding, after a bottle or two of wine, that she would always be there for her. Her big mouth had got her into this.

The timing of Darlene’s call couldn’t have been more perfect. Having just broken up with her boyfriend who turned out to be the sleaziest scum of the earth, bar none, a road trip appealed to Charlie. He was into some serious shit and it was time to for her to get out of Dodge.

Charlie liked helping people out when she could. Everyone knew that. How hard could fixing a feud be?