Paranormal Appalachia

“I thought the idea behind it was creative, and it was very well written.” – Jamie @ Amazon

Well written.” – Diana @ Goodreads

Ben Potter’s life is a shambles. As a journalist he’s hit rock bottom, writing dreck about monsters and ghouls to make ends meet after a big story blew up in his face. As a son he’s a disappointment, unwilling to follow his father, grandfather, and great grandfather into the family business. As a father, he’s mostly just not there.

Now a new assignment could change all that. All he has to do is go from London to the hills of West Virginia to investigate the strangest of stories his great grandfather told. Did a sleazy politician really raise the dead to try and win an election? And if he did, what happened to the zombies? Could they still exist? Ben needs to find out, to solve the mystery and find a way to get his life back on track.

But once he finds the answer, Ben has to face a whole new batch of problems. Does he use what he learns to put his life back on track? Or is he compelled to do the right thing, even if it leaves his life a mess?

The hardest part of a mystery is deciding what to do once you’ve solved it.

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Read excerpts from the book here and here. Read a bit about where the idea came from here.


Ben Potter is back in West Virginia, this time to stay. He’s returned for a fresh start, to try and rebuild his reputation, his career, and his life, all the while staying active in the life of his daughter an ocean away. But the content on Ben’s new website, Paranormal Appalachia, isn’t exactly going viral.

Grace Crowe’s legal practice isn’t doing much better, lurching from case to case, representing clients for too little money and too little appreciation. Then a woman walks through her door that changes everything – the second wife of Sid Grimaldi. Sid has been charged with burning down his own home decades ago with his newborn triplet daughters inside. Sid’s murder case is the talk of northern West Virginia and Grace can’t afford not to take it.

Sid doesn’t just say that he’s innocent of setting that fire, but that he knows his girls are still alive. Ben agrees to investigate and when strange characters in black suits start showing up it looks like Sid might be onto something. Will it be enough to keep him out of prison? And what’s this about astral projection?

From the author of Moore Hollow comes the continuing story of a man who can’t help seeking answers, even if he can’t quite figure out what to do with the truth.

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Read excerpts from the book here and here. Read a bit about where the idea came from here.

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