That Thing You Do
Whispering Bay # 1
By: Maria Geraci
Releasing April 28th, 2015
TKA Distribution
That Thing you Do
Whispering Bay Romance
Allie Grant doesn’t believe in second chances. She does, however, believe in the power of a permanent paycheck. So when a tipster reports that the soon-to-be demolished senior center in her hometown is haunted, Allie hightails it to Whispering Bay to get the scoop that could secure her dream job at Florida! magazine. What she finds, though, is far scarier than any ghost. Cue her ex-boyfriend, sexy construction foreman Tom Donalan.
When Tom catches Allie poking around his construction site, he quickly realizes his former high school flame is just as feisty as ever. And, heaven help him, her irresistible, mile-high legs still take his breath away. But Tom isn’t about to delay the building’s demolition because of a silly ghost story.
With neither of the stubborn exes backing down from their opposing positions, sparks fly. And, underneath the surface, the fire of their old attraction burns as hot as ever. When strange things start happening with increasing frequency around town, even a tough skeptic like Tom is tested. The question is, can Allie and Tom stop fighting long enough to get to the bottom of Whispering Bay’s ghost problem—and the more important matter of mending their broken hearts?
Allie
Grant aimed her flashlight at the padlocked door to the
Margaret Handy Senior Center. On the surface, the abandoned building
appeared like any other ranch style structure built in the
nineteen-fifties. Lots of brick, lots of windows, lots of
deterioration. But this wasn’t just any crumbling building.
According to her anonymous source, this building was haunted.
Unfortunately,
it was also locked up tighter than the Spanx she’d worn on her last
date. Which was so long ago that Allie could barely recall the
details, the only memorable part of the evening being when she took
off those Spanx. Alone. Right before crawling into bed with a
Snickers bar and the worn out copy of Anne of Green Gables
Buela had given Allie on her seventh birthday.
Allie
stifled a yawn. She wouldn’t mind being in bed right now. It was
nearly midnight and she’d been up since the crack of dawn. But she
was a journalist in need of a story and a haunted building (as hokey
as that sounded) was a potential goldmine in magazine advertising
revenue. It was also the kind of story that could get a freelancer
like herself a cover byline, but better yet, it was the sort of story
that could land her a permanent job at Florida! magazine.
She
raised her flashlight above the door illuminating a huge NO
TRESPASSING sign. The way Allie saw it, she had two options.
The
first involved going to her brother Zeke’s house, getting a decent
night’s sleep, then waking up bright and early to seek out The
Person In Charge. She’d make an impassioned (yet logical) plea on
why she had to spend time inside the building, and The Person In
Charge would comply, because, really, why wouldn’t they?
Under
normal circumstances, that’s exactly what she’d do. She simply
couldn’t help herself. Buela taught her early that good girls
finish first. A thought that had remained stuck in her head the way
her Cuban grandmother’s lumpy cheese grits used to stick to Allie’s
ribs on a cold January morning. Although she’d been gone over
twelve years now, Allie could still hear Buela’s voice telling her
what to do. But right now that voice was being drowned out by yet
another sign stating that the building was scheduled for demolition
at nine a.m. tomorrow, giving Allie basically zip time to contact The
Person In Charge.
Bringing
her to option number two.
An
option Buela would definitely not have approved of. Not to mention
Zeke, who also happened to be Whispering Bay’s current
chief-of-police. Nope. Allie was beyond certain Zeke wouldn’t take
too kindly to his baby sister committing a B&E.
But
was it really a crime to break into a deserted building scheduled for
demolition in less than nine hours?
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