The Last Death of Angfil: A Soul Travelers Story: Uncollected Anthology: Unexpected Histories

By Kari Kilgore

A Particularly Wicked Ghost

Maude Morgan enjoys life in the tough mining town of Virginia City, Nevada. Surrounded by long loyal friends and allies.
But two desperate men on the run bring a fierce specter of Maude's past that threatens to destroy everything.
Can she manage to protect herself and all she holds dear?

Or will the past put an end to her future?

 

Part of Unexpected Histories, an Uncollected Anthology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spiral Publishing, Ltd
• Release date: Jul 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201871383

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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The Last Death of Angfil

A Particularly Wicked Ghost

Maude Morgan enjoys life in the tough mining town of Virginia City, Nevada. Surrounded by long loyal friends and allies.

But two desperate men on the run bring a fierce specter of Maude’s past that threatens to destroy everything.

Can she manage to protect herself and all she holds dear?

Or will the past put an end to her future?

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Part of Unexpected Histories, an Uncollected Anthology.

For every powerful person who lends a helping hand

Simply because they can

THE LAST DEATH OF ANGFIL

KARI KILGORE

SPIRAL PUBLISHING, LTD.

CHAPTER 1

Maude Morgan loved autumn in Virginia City more than any other time. The worst of the hot Nevada days were past, the deepest cold of winter still distant. The constant, maddening wind dropped to the lowest it would be all year. An occasional rain relieved her skin from ever-present dryness, if only for a few moments.

Even the high mountains supplying the gold and silver fuel that drove Virginia City got in on the act, in their own way. The silvery green sagebrush that dotted the harsh desert bloomed yellow and orange. Maude smiled every time she caught the spicy, bitter scent on the newly gentle breeze.

Nothing compared to the rainy, constantly overcast months of her youth in Cornwall, England, to be sure. Or to the fiery oak, maple, and chestnut leaves now changing far to the east of this wild, vast continent. But autumn in the desert was a change to be enjoyed.

In all her lifetimes, Maude had learned to seek out and treasure change above all else.

The so-far endless riches of the nearby Comstock Lode in 1872 gave Maude both the means and the method to change her surroundings to suit her, aside from the weather. Her favorite ground floor room for meeting guests, clients, and allies alike shone