Addicted to Love: Olympia Investigations, #1
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Acacia Sheridan is a private detective with a special gift for communicating with the supernatural. We meet Acacia when her newest client is a ghost looking for her help--to find his missing widow and stop her from making a terrible mistake. And he's not sure how much time he has left…
Sherry D. Ramsey
Sherry D. Ramsey is a speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, creativity addict and self-confessed internet geek. When she's not writing, she makes jewelry, gardens, hones her creative procrastination skills on social media, and consumes far more coffee and chocolate than is likely good for her.Her debut novel, One's Aspect to the Sun, was published by Tyche Books in late 2013 and was awarded the Book Publishers of Alberta "Book of the Year" Award for Speculative Fiction. The sequel, Dark Beneath the Moon, is due out from Tyche in 2015. Her other books include To Unimagined Shores—Collected Stories. With her partners at Third Person Press (http://www.thirdpersonpress.com), she has co-edited five anthologies of regional short fiction to date. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies in North America and beyond. Every November she disappears into the strange realm of National Novel Writing Month and emerges gasping at the end, clutching something resembling a novel.A member of the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia Writer’s Council, Sherry is also a past Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer of SF Canada, Canada's national association for Speculative Fiction Professionals.You can visit Sherry online www.sherrydramsey.com, find her on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter @sdramsey.
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Addicted to Love - Sherry D. Ramsey
Addicted to Love
An Olympia Investigations Story
by
Sherry D. Ramsey
Copyright © Sherry D. Ramsey 2015
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Sherry D. Ramsey
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Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Addicted to Love: An Olympia Investigations Story
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The first time Frank Garret sat down in the blue leather chair on the opposite side of my desk, I didn't know he was dead. My cousin Oliver didn't seem to pick up on it either, when he showed Frank in from reception. My new client wasn't looking great, mind you; he was obviously a man who'd been through some stuff. But he seemed as solid and well, alive as any other client I'd ever had.
Hell, more alive than some. And I didn't notice anything strange when we shook hands, except that his grip was cool and firm.
Oliver left us reluctantly, as usual—he hadn't quite grasped the concept of assistant
as opposed to partner
yet—and the client didn't waste any time.
I need you to find my wife,
he said, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, hands twisting a battered Jays ball cap nervously.
I thought, another divorce case, here we come, but I didn't say it. Before I could say anything, in fact, he held up a hand.
I know what you're thinking, Miss Sheridan, but it's not like that. She doesn't even know I'm looking for her. And I promise you that she hasn't run away from me.
He paused and glanced out the window, although there was not much to