Season of Owls

By Celia McKinley

SEASON OF OWLS: DREADFUL DESIRES #1

An erotic horror series revolving around supernatural monsters, from depraved tentacles and perverted plants to haunted dummies and the living dead.

Isabel's never believed in ghosts, though the screech of a desert owl still sends a shiver down her spine. Her boyfriend's dragged her to a haunted hotel this Halloween to hunt the spirit of an infamous outlaw, and what should have been a relaxing weekend turns into an illicit encounter with ghostly watchers, bodiless hands and a monstrous entity who wants the beautiful girl for himself...

Includes a sneak preview of "The Midnight Wind" and "The Conquering Worm."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Celia McKinley
• Release date: May 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005851903

Celia McKinley

Celia McKinley is an evocative writer of erotica and romantic fiction centered around themes of forceful seductions, sexual awakenings, and dark supernatural desire. Explicit but never crude, taboo but never degrading, her stories of sensual abandon and surrender strive to celebrate the irresistible allure of the forbidden and the beauty of sexual fantasy.

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Season of Owls

Dreadful Desires #1

Copyright 2021 Celia McKinley

Published by Celia McKinley at Smashwords

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All depicted characters are 18 years or older. This book contains explicit, taboo sex scenes that some readers may find offensive.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Fools Rush In

Chapter 2: Ghost Hunt

Chapter 3: Watching Me

Chapter 4: Tricks and Treats

Chapter 5: Helping Hands

Chapter 6: Smiling Calhoun

Chapter 7: Taking Flight

Epilogue

Sneak Preview: Ghost Country

Teaser Chapter

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Chapter 1: Fools Rush In

Come face your fears at Garrity Hotel! Officially founded in 1877 by William Garrity, the hotel originally housed a brothel where the infamous serial killer Sebastian Smiling Calhoun was said to have killed thirteen people. Garrity Hotel only remained open for a week before disturbing stories of strange noises and sinister apparitions forced its closure. The building remained abandoned and untouched for more than a hundred years until its grand reopening this Halloween weekend! Test your courage and see what horrors await you in one of 48 refurbished rooms! Just fifteen minutes from Santa Fe, online check-in available.

You're the one who believes in ghosts, Isabel said as she dug through the open suitcase and draped her weekend clothes flat across the bed. I'm just along for the ride.

She made a face at her boyfriend and glanced around the white drapes and gilded green wallpaper adorning the old hotel room, the dark mahogany four-post bed that filled one shadowy corner. Apart from the steady electric glow of the faux hurricane lamps, the two of them might really have stepped back in time to the Wild West, right down to the grainy sepia photos in their ornate frames. She didn't find the thought comforting.

Mason, on the other hand, bounced constantly from foot to foot as though he might literally jump for joy at any moment. He hadn't even noticed the side-eye she'd given him.

They say it used to be a bordello, he rambled giddily, "until one of the outlaws who frequented the place here lost his mind and went on a killing spree. Thirteen bodies in as