At the time, it was early autumn here in
the United States, which meant that one of my favorite holidays was fast
approaching in October: Halloween. As it so happened, the group blog I belong
to, Austen Authors, where I’ve been a member since its inception in 2010, was
preparing to celebrate the spookiest month of the year as well. Several fellow
authors who’d written books with a supernatural twist to them—Regina Jeffers,
Mary Lydon-Simonsen, and Colette Saucier to name a few—were planning to include
excerpts of their stories throughout the month, but there were a lot of slots
to be filled. I started to think about how much fun it would be to contribute
something in honor of the upcoming holiday. Unfortunately, the supernatural
wasn’t something I’d so much as dipped my big toe into back then, but it was
something I enjoyed reading, especially if there was a love story to be told.
