Lottie's Unexpected Literary Adventure

By Kari Kilgore

Great things often come in unusual packages

 

A stormy Atlanta morning at the airport.

 

Watching delays and cancelations stack up.

 

The definition of miserable for most travelers.

 

But Lottie finds the good whenever she looks for it.

 

Then an odd discovery sets off a citywide adventure.

 

Will Lottie solve the puzzle before it's too late?

 

An excerpt from Lottie's Unexpected Literary Adventure:

A Most Unusual Find

Lottie smiled and hummed to herself as she picked up the phone. A quick text message to the  office—who surely knew better than she did how bad the weather was today—and she moved her suitcase so she could prop her feet up and get comfortable.

She knew the lounge membership was so she could settle in and work, like so many people around her were doing right now. But she could hardly create technical documentation for equipment she hadn't even seen yet.

Time for a nice, long read.

She reached under the chair where she'd stashed her pocketbook and bumped a cool, sharp edge instead. Frowning, Lottie leaned over until she could grab the whole thing in her hand.

"Huh," she said under her breath. "Now who on earth left something like this here?"

A book, an honest-to-goodness printed book, unlike the electronic one she'd been planning to dig into. An old one, too, heavy and thick, a hardcover with a black dust jacket.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spiral Publishing, Ltd
• Release date: Jul 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393256168

Kari Kilgore

Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction. Kari’s first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018. Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019. Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she’s happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about. Kari’s novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.

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Lottie’s Unexpected Literary Adventure

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May you find your ultimate treasure

Lottie’s Unexpected Literary Adventure

Kari Kilgore

Spiral Publishing, Ltd.

Lottie’s Unexpected Literary Adventure

Lottie McKierney always figured paradise had to be defined in contrast to its bleakest opposite.

As far as she was concerned, the best place in all the world wouldn’t be much if she couldn’t see what the worst alternative was.

She didn’t have any problem with that little personal rule on a hot, sticky Wednesday morning in Atlanta’s Hartsfield airport, surrounded by what seemed like a million grumpy folks who’d had flights delayed or canceled because of thunderstorms all across the country.

With at least a three-hour layover—assuming her flight on to St. Louis made it out at all—she’d been pleased as punch to walk away from the mass of teeming insanity and pull out her brand new membership to the Delta lounge for the first time.

Now, settling herself down in a cushy blue high-backed chair in the corner, surrounded by people working or in quiet conversation, glass of icy cold Coca-Cola bubbling away on the cutest little red end table beside her, Lottie could comfortably say she’d found her own tiny piece