Miss Preston's Predicament: Hesitant Mediums, #1.5

By Belinda Kroll

It was a truth universally ignored, most principally by the dowager Dame Hartwell, that ghosts and gatherings did not mix.
Approximately 5,500 words or 22 printed pages.

For fans of Charlie N. Holmberg, Olivia Atwater, Tilly Wallace, and C. J. Archer!

 

In this short story, the fashionable and eccentric dowager Dame Hartwell has lured the reclusive Miss Tessa Preston to attend her drawing room séance. If Dame Hartwell can't convince Miss Preston, her former protégé, to return as her medium-in-residence, she doesn't know how she will protect her son and his new fiancé from the brewing storm of malcontent spirits surrounding them.

 

"Miss Preston's Predicament" is a short story between novels by Belinda Kroll. This story can be read as a standalone... but it includes characters and references events from her full-length historical fantasy novel, Haunting Miss Trentwood, the first book in the Hesitant Mediums series.

 

Read this story for a fun, light read featuring historical (gaslamp) fantasy, Victorian comedy of manners, and plucky feminine ghost hunter a la Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bright Bird Press
• Release date: Oct 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9780983078692

Belinda Kroll

Belinda Kroll writes award-winning cozy Victorian fantasy and fiction, featuring mild romance and comedy-of-manners ridiculous fun. She is a user experience design professional, hobbyist photographer, and lindy hopper. She is obsessed with eyeglasses, Korean dramas, home renovation and cooking shows, and petting every dog that allows her to do so. She lives with her family in Ohio.

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Miss Preston's Predicament

A Hesitant Mediums Story

Belinda Kroll

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Contents

Copyright

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Author Note

1.Marylebone, London

2.And so it begins

3.Preparations afoot

4.Madam Sylvia

5.Back to Business

6.A Negotiation

Message from the Author

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Titles by Belinda Kroll

Haunting Miss Trentwood

Miss Preston's Predicament

A Spirited Engagement

The Last April

About the Author

This is a work of historical fantasy, and therefore a work of fiction. The appearance or mention of certain historical figures may be inevitable. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental or historically-inspired. Eerie happenings during Victorian séances are to be expected, do try not to be too alarmed.

MISS PRESTON’S PREDICAMENT

A Hesitant Mediums short story

Copyright 2021 by Binaebi Akah Calkins

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ISBN 978-0-9830786-9-2 (e)

ISBN 978-1-7369213-2-6 (a)

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Author Note

A Hesitant Mediums Story

Miss Preston’s Predicament is a short story between novels. This story is a standalone referencing characters and events from the historical fantasy romance novel, HAUNTING MISS TRENTWOOD, the first in the Hesitant Mediums series. 

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Marylebone, London

June 1887

It was a truth universally ignored, most principally by the dowager Dame Hartwell, that ghosts and gatherings did not mix. 

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