Harvest and Haunt

De: Eva Belle

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

About the Autumn Cozy Paranormal Mystery Series
The Autumn Cozy Paranormal Mystery series takes place in the sleepy village of Cape Mystic, Washington, which is located on the shores of the Puget Sound. The series is a delightful mixture of cozy autumn vibes, paranormal adventures, quirky characters, a village with a haunted past, and lots of sweet treats and coffee. If you like to curl up on a rainy day with a hot drink and a good book, then this series is the perfect choice.

About Harvest and Haunt (Autumn Cozy Paranormal Mystery Book One)
In Harvest and Haunt, readers are introduced to Nova Powers, who is an antique store owner with a weakness for baked goods and coffee. Nova is also a member of a local group that explores supernatural events and haunted locations in and around Cape Mystic. Its late September and as Nova watches the leaves on the trees change to the rich golden and umber hues of the autumnal season, she and the Mystic Paranormal Society discover several odd occurrences including a vengeance-fueled murder, a haunted lighthouse and school, the hidden dark past of Cape Mystic, and a foreboding poem that hints at more trouble. Will Nova solve the deaths and unravel the supernatural history of Cape Mystic? With enough sugar and caffeine, anything is possible. Join in on the fun and the nostalgia of autumn by reading Harvest and Haunt.

Excerpt from Chapter One of Harvest and Haunt
Ichabod Crane took Katrina van Tassel’s hand and kissed it sweetly and then bowed deeply to her. The rustic quartet of fiddlers started playing the first song of the evening, and Ichabod and Katrina began their first dance as husband and wife. The wedding party cheered as pumpkin orange, black licorice, and ghostly white crepe paper streamers burst forth from party favors across the barn along with the exuberant congratulations of the wedding party and guests.

As Ichabod and Katrina danced fluidly to the Autumn wedding music, Nova blinked back tears of joy for the young couple. She had never been to a themed wedding, and most certainly not a Sleepy Hollow-themed wedding, and she loved it. The wedding was held in an old barn on her friend Maya Davies’s property, which was filled with hay bales, bundles of wheat, piles of gourds, whiskey barrels refashioned as apple bobbing barrels, antique oak tables, and rough pine benches. The walls were covered with primitive Colonial art and Autumn decorations.

The tables were piled high with wooden bowls and pewter trays of roast chicken, garlic green beans, mashed potatoes, squash soup with bacon, buttermilk biscuits with honeyed butter, and warm pretzels covered with salt and dipped in stone-ground mustard. At the end of each table were warm apple and pear ciders in copper cups with cinnamon sticks and cold harvest beers in antique ceramic steins. The jewel-toned color of Pinot wines filled elegant glasses, and champagne bubbled in fluted glassware. At the opposite end of each table, the dessert trays overflowed with authentic Dutch Colonial and modern baked goods in rich Autumn colors of black, orange, marigold yellow, smokey white, and vivid purple. Each antique porcelain dessert tray was heaped with plum tarts with a latticed top crust, steaming miniature molten chocolate cakes baked in small glass jars, pumpkin-shaped shortbread with fresh apple butter made from a local orchard, pumpkin pies spiced heavily with nutmeg, bowls of vanilla whipped cream, rich pecan pies, chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting and tiny black sugar bats, and pumpkin spice cupcakes with chocolate frosting and purple sprinkling sugar.