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Thank you so much for inviting me into your space! Now, I’ll tell you a bit about mine.

The view inside my writing space:

Here’s the thing you have to know about my writing space. I live in a round house (geodesic dome, actually,) and my writing space is the loft of my house. It looks out over the rest of the public areas of my place, and is open to—well, everything.

I have a dog, and a husband, and both of them can get quite loud when they want to, so I needed to set things up so they did not disturb me. So, I made certain that I was able to shut myself off, with earphones and a huge computer screen.

And, it works quite well, for the most part.

Before the pandemic started, I got up every morning at 5 AM, so that I really had the house to myself for a few hours. But since the pandemic, I found that is one of my habits that slid away, so now the earphones really help me keep the rest of the world at bay. (Meaning loud dogs and husbands.)

The view outside my writing space:

I have no windows upstairs, so I have to actually go outside to see the outside. That works quite well for me, though, because I’m trying to make sure that I get up and move around every hour on the hour. (Apparently sitting is as bad as smoking. Sigh.)

So, I either go out my front door, or my back door. (To be honest, I prefer my back door, because my writing clothes are usually pyjamas) In the summer I can throw the ball for the dog, or do a little gardening. (It’s not as nice out there in the winter. Trust me.) Then, I can head back inside, and work in the world I’ve invented.

I like it. A lot.

Marie Jenner just wants a Vegas holiday.

When psychic Crystal Demoines tells James Lavall that his uncle’s spirit is trapped in Las Vegas, Marie is thrilled. All she’ll have to do is help Jimmy “anything for a buck” Lavall move on to the next plane of existence, and then she and James can have the holiday of her dreams.

But she never dreamed that a lieutenant of the drug kingpin from Edmonton would be staying at the same hotel as her and James, and that James would become his new best friend. Or that she’d have to find Jimmy’s girlfriend Rita—who disappeared the same night Jimmy died—before he would finally move on. Or that the most powerful man in the hotel would be looking for Rita too. To find the money she stole.

And Marie never dreamed that she’d be planning a Vegas wedding in the middle of it all. But she is.

Looks like her dream vacation is about to become a nightmare.

Enjoy an Excerpt

WE DROPPED THE rental car off with the valet and got the keys for our room on the sixth floor.

“Can you remember what room your uncle died in?” I asked as we waited in a small crowd at the bank of elevators. A couple of people glanced at us, looking fairly aghast, and I wished I hadn’t said anything.

“Room 214,” James replied. “According to Crystal.”

The crowd around us backed away, and I guessed that people didn’t want to hear about someone dying here. Even though it was the truth.

The elevator opened and two men walked out. They pushed past us like we weren’t even there, and I glared, trying to think of a truly cutting remark to make. But I stopped, because there was something familiar about one of the guys. At least I thought there was.

Seeing people out of context sometimes made it very hard to connect the dots, memory-wise, but I was certain I’d seen him somewhere before. Not recently, but when I opened my mouth to ask James if he recognized him, he gently placed his hand on my arm like he could read my mind.

“Not now,” he said.

So I shut my mouth and watched the men walk past. They were dressed in suits, and I blinked when I realized I could see the outline of a gun under the armpit of one of them.

Who the heck were they?

About the Author: E.C. Bell is the author of the award winning paranormal Marie Jenner Mystery series. She lives in Alberta, Canada, and when she’s not writing, she’s scouting out new locations for her upcoming novels or renovating her round house where she lives with her husband and their two rescue dogs. That’s right. Her house is round.

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Marie Jenner Mystery series books, in order:

Seeing the Light
Drowning in Amber
Stalking the Dead
Dying on Second
Hearing Voices
Haunting the Haunted
Tying the Knot

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