Blurb
When
Dallas resident Callie Taylor died young, she expected to go to Heaven,
or maybe Hell. Instead, she met her fate early thanks to a creep with a
knife and a mommy complex. Now she's witnessed another murder, and
she's not about to
let this one go. She's determined to help solve it before an innocent
man goes to prison. And to answer the biggest question of all: why the
hell did she wake up in Alabama?
Excerpt
When I died, I expected to go to heaven.
Okay. Maybe hell. It’s not like I was
perfect or anything. But I was sort of hoping for heaven.
Instead, I went to Alabama.
Yeah. I know. It’s weird.
I
died in Dallas, my hometown. I was killed, actually. Murdered. I’ll
spare you the gruesome details. I don’t like to remember them myself.
Some jerk with a knife--and probably a Bad-Mommy complex. Believe me, if
I knew where he was, I’d go haunt his
ass.
At any rate, by the time death came, I was ready for it--ready to stop hurting, ready to let go. I didn’t even fight
it.
And then I woke up dead in Alabama. Talk about pissed off.
You
know, even reincarnation would have been fine with me--I could have
started over, clean slate and all that. Human, cow, bug. Whatever. But
no. I ended up haunting someplace I’d never even
been.
That’s
not the way it’s supposed to work, right? Ghosts are supposed to be the
tortured spirits of those who cannot let go of
their earthly existence. If they could be convinced to follow the light,
they’d leave behind said earthly existence and quit scaring the bejesus
out of the poor folks who run across them. That’s what all those “ghost
hunter” shows on television tell us.
Let me tell you something. The living don’t know jack about the dead.
Not this dead chick, anyway.
About the Author
Margo Bond
Collins lives
in Texas with her husband, their daughter, several spoiled cats, and a
ridiculous turtle. She teaches college-level English courses online,
though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading
urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her
free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and
other monsters. Waking Up Dead is her first published novel. Her second
novel, Legally Undead, is an urban fantasy, forthcoming in 2014 from
World Weaver
Press.
Connect with Margo
Twitter @MargoBondCollin
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