Summer Haunts

By Lettie Flores

A dark secret lies in the hills of Summer Falls. It's been buried for far too long, and now that secret wants out.

Abigail's only mission in life is to help the dead. She's seen and helped ghosts for as long as she can remember, following mysteries beyond any one's imagination. But when a mysterious ghost leads her to a new town, a town that doesn't look quite as it seems, Abigail begins to wonder if she's finally gone too far.

 

Jay is unlike anyone he knows. He's been haunted by a past that no one could ever understand. When he finally feels like his life is settling down, a new mystery beckons him for freedom. Someone needs his help, and only the kind of help that he can give. Is he willing to expose his past to help someone in dire need, or will he keep himself hidden, boiling under the surface?

 

When Abigail and Jay collide, this mystery turns from dangerous to deadly. And they're both swept into a secret that neither could ever have imagined.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BLACKHEARTED STORY STUDIO
• Release date: Jan 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393108665

Lettie Flores

Lettie Flores is the author of The Golden Romance billionaire book series.  She lives in sunny California in the glittering Monterey Bay with her family, dogs, and collection of romantic novels.  She's a recovering technical writer turned storyteller and has earned the James Phelan short story award along with multiple scholarships for her writing.

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Forward

I write this book at the end of 2020. It has been one hell of a year, and am so grateful for it. I have learned so many things as I have been facing this here. I mean, not only how we had the pandemic in so many other things that were needed in that just happened, but I really feel like as it has changed me in so many ways.

When this year started I wasn't totally sure how was going to face it and I was also unsure as to I know what kind of challenges I was going to try to rise to.

And I read this book actually on the last day of the year, which is December 31, 2020. And it's really funny because I had spent most of this month trying to edit previous books and so I literally started this book this day and it has been one hell of a whirlwind but it has definitely taught me a lot.

What I had started this book I didn't know that I was going to be writing about demons again, or romance and I seem to have done both. The book started off with what I thought was going to be a beach romance, but instead I ended up with a horror, that turned into a romance and possibly more like a supernatural book.

So at the beginning of this year I had enrolled in a book a month challenge by Dean Wesley Smith. And the challenge was that we were supposed to write a book every month and publish it on by his self-publishing. Now I knew that this child wasn't going to be easy but I thought that it was straightforward enough that I could get through it. And it's so funny because it literally has taken 12 months for me to really realize the process of writing. And although I have failed technically regarding this challenge, I feel like it was not a failure.

Meet first and foremost I have written the most in this year than I have done in mind her lifetime. I have probably written so much more in this year than I have in my other 30 years. It which is arming that is saying something, because I wasn't sure if I was a writer and now I can definitely see them writer and actually I'm even considering like what I am next? Am I about coach? Am I an editor and artist?

And I would say yes to all of those – but for sure the foundation was to start with writing.

And I wouldn't have had that foundation if I hadn't stepped into this challenge. So what I thought was going to be success in this challenge was writing a book and publishing a book every year. And some of those books they didn't work out because I hadn't shown up in the right way and ahead of really reloading my perfectionism too much and therefore I didn't deliver. Now could I have delivered?

Without a doubt.

Now that I know more myself another no more my writing I am so much more confident in what it can do and I'm sure that if I did this challenge again I am pretty confident that I would meet every single month and that I would have some quality work at the end because now I know what it takes to write. And not just what it takes to write, but what it takes to write with my own writing process.

So this challenge really demand my comfort zone because I didn't think that I was really going to build finish it, but I was also looking forward to what the results were going to be.

So within the challenge, I have at least 12 drafts books, and a couple of books that were published – and much more than that the confidence of knowing that I know how to go from here. And more than that, I really feel like I've learned about myself and I learned about how I work as a writer and the comp is that have them myself which has really resonated and passed into my own book coaching. And that has been really great in itself because I've come to understand that yes I am on a path that I enjoy and that I like.

So, all in all – I have learned so much more about dictation, about writing and editing – and these are all things that I had done before, especially with someone who has an English degree. But one of the things I was lacking was confidence. And this writing challenge has shown me just how simple writing can be but also how difficult it is within your mind. That was for sure the most difficult thing nothing else compared to that. There wasn't plot issues, or editing issues, everything stemmed from mental obstacles. And it's so great to know that I'm on the other side of that.

Because I look back now and although it took me 12 months and it wasn't a total success, but I feel in my heart that if I hadn't done this challenge then it would've taken me another four years to get to where I am right now. And I got to where I am within a year. I have gone through bumps and hurdles I have gone through in confidence issues I have gone through just straight up pain when you're trying to write and you don't know what to write, and have come on the other side. So in other words, what I want to say is that we really don't understand the writing process until we go through the writing process which is so much more different than I thought. And I really enjoyed the writing process I think it's so much fun to dive into words and to try to understand where stories are coming from on and to simply just get lost in them and that has been a true joy during this year. Because of 20/20, I was able to focus on writing so much more than I would have if I had had to do up a full-time job. And throughout this whole year I have not held