Blame It On The Spring Fling

By Natalie-Nicole Bates

Lena DeRapau spends her time working as a tour guide, crafting her witchy potions and powders, and indulging in a few late-night out-of-body experiences.

The last person she expects to walk into one of her out-of-body trips is Drew Jones, the man who left her more than one hundred years earlier to pursue a higher calling.

The next morning, he turns up as she is finishing Tarot readings, and accidentally breaks several bottles of Lena's Spring Fling Love Potion. Almost immediately, he begins professing his undying love for Lena.

Drew Jones is back in New Orleans for one reason – to reclaim his lost bride. Now he has to convince Lena they are meant for each other. When he accidentally cuts himself on her Spring Fling Love Potion bottles, he sees it as his opportunity to get closer to Lena.

By being her love zombie!

As they grow closer, Drew knows he must come clean about the Spring Fling Love Potion rouse, but when he does, will he lose Lena forever this time?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paperlate Press
• Release date: Jun 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393599043

Natalie-Nicole Bates

Natalie-Nicole Bates is a book reviewer and author. Her passions in life include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey to being born in Russia. She currently resides in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of 19th century post-mortem photos.    

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Natalie-Nicole Bates

Blame It On The Spring Fling

First published by Paperlate Press 2023

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

About the Author

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Chapter One

Lena DuRapau was dreaming.

She found herself walking the grounds of Greenwood Cemetery on City Park Avenue. City Park Avenue once was called Metairie Road, but the place always remained the same. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sometimes her dream walks took her through this cemetery, as well as the plethora of cemeteries in the City of the Dead.

She spent her days as a tour guide. Mostly walking tours, guiding the curious through St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery, which opened its gates in 1789. The cemetery, while intimidating to navigate alone, the past years had been taken over by walking tours. Tour companies charged thirty dollars or more to begin at Royal and Conti Streets in the French Quarter, and follow a tour guide, who showed off some of the better-known architecture of the area, including the shotgun homes and Creole townhouses.

But the appeal of the tour for most who paid their fare, were the stories of voodoo practitioners such as the famous Marie Laveau and other voodoo masters, and then to see