Veiled Passages

Mary closed her eyes in pleasure as the caffeinated beverage slipped down her throat. She'd been trying to cut back, but today she really felt like she needed one."Excuse me, but that stuff will kill you."The man's voice came from right beside her. Mary jumped, looked over to where the voice was coming from and jumped again. "Oh My Goodness You're naked," Mary said, sliding a stool over to get away from the ghost sitting next to her.The ghost looked casually down at his fleshy and very naked body and nodded, "So it would seem I am," he said. Mary reached across the bar, grabbed a folded linen napkin and slid it towards him. "Well, at least cover yourself," she said. "This is a public place.""No one has ever noticed me before," he said. "I've sat here at this bar in my altogether for about ten years.""Ten years? What happened ten years ago?""I was murdered in my hotel room," he said with a shrug. "Don't know how they got to me, but it must have been them.""Who is them?" Mary asked.A famous mystery writer drowns in a hotel bathtub... an accident or foul play? His ghost thinks it was murder. His mystery writer colleagues want to help Mary solve the case. Gary Copper is still on the loose and gunning for both Bradley and Mary. And, in between all of the murder and mayhem, Mary and Bradley are trying desperately to finally walk up the aisle. Will they ever become husband and wife?

Terri Reid is the author of the Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mysteries. An indie author, Reid uploaded her first book ＂Loose Ends - A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery＂ in August 2010. By the end of 2012, ＂Loose Ends＂ had sold over 125,000 copies and, has consistently ranked as one of the Top Ten books in Amazon’s ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Horror/Ghosts section and in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section. She has nine other books in the Mary O’Reilly Series and has enjoyed Top Rated and Hot New Release status for many of them in the Women Sleuths and Paranormal Romance category through Amazon US. Her books have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and are also now also available in print and audio versions. Reid has been quoted in a number of books about the self-publishing industry including ＂Let’s Get Digital＂ by David Gaughran and ＂Interviews with Indie Authors: Top Tips from Successful Self-Published Authors＂ by Claire and Tim Ridgway. She was also honored to have some of her works included in A. J. Abbiati’s book ＂The NORTAV Method for Writers - The Secrets to Constructing Prose Like the Pros.＂ She has also had the distinct privilege of guest blogging for Joe Konrath. Reid is from Northwest Illinois, near the town of Freeport, the home of her fictional characters. Her background is in marketing and public relations. She is married, is the mother of seven children and the grandmother of eleven. Her constant writing companions are Riley, a Bernese Mountain Dog-Golden Retriever mix; Hans, a German Shepard mix; and McDuff, a Siamese cat.