Journal, just in case
. . .
I didn’t ask to meet
ghosts. Shoot, I was fine without them in my life. Uncle Craig and Hannah were
nasty to me, but at least I knew how to handle living pains in the butt. Now I
have to figure out how to open and close a portal between the human and spirit
worlds. And I have to find and return a bunch of angry ghosts through the
gateway and lock them on their side. I don’t know why the portal chose me to do
this, a fifteen-year-old kid with no ghost busting experience. But it did. And
if I want a ghost-free night’s sleep anytime soon, I’d better figure out how to
get the job done. Because I’ve about had it with murderous ghouls and their
unpleasant agendas. “Signed Tallis
Challinor”
After the death of her parents, Tallis Challinor and her
brother Wyatt must move to the Midwest to live with
their dead mother’s sister and her family. When Aunt Sandra dies
three-and-a-half years later, Tallis and Wyatt find themselves moving yet
again, this time to New Hampshire
to live with their father’s sister, Aunt Gabbie, and her husband Noreis. Gabbie
is young, pretty and fun. Tallis remembers being a little girl and playing with
her Aunt at the family home in California,
before her parents died. So Tallis is excited to re-locate and reconnect with
Gabbie. But what should have been a happy reunion is plagued with problems when
Noreis opens a portal between the spirit and human worlds located in the
basement of the house.
Tallis is a practical kid. She doesn’t believe that ghosts
exist. But she can’t deny what she sees with her own eyes and the two ghosts
Tallis meets at Thanksgiving in the basement of her aunt’s house are definitely
not figments of her imagination, although she wishes they were. Tallis is
unwittingly drawn into the portal’s energy when one of the ghosts fixates on
her and forces her to assist in the release of three particularly nasty
spirits. As a final blow, the portal chooses Tallis as a temporary gatekeeper
and she finds herself charged with the duty of returning the very ghouls she’s
set free, plus a few of their buddies, back to the spirit realm.
As Tallis learns the secrets of the portal and begins to
understand her newly acquired power, she formulates a plan to return the
ghosts. Along the way, she receives help from many new friends who fill in the
details about the identity of the escaped spirits, providing a possible motive
for the outrageous actions of the escaped ghosts. Tallis must learn to trust
herself and others as she taps into her inner courage to get the job done and
save her town from the angry restless dead set.
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KD Pryor started
life in Missouri, where she read lots of books, even
sneaking them into baseball games to the irritation of her father. Kelley
graduated with a degree in International and Comparative Studies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After college and marriage to a great guy, she decided to
pursue a law degree at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Her oldest son was born soon after law
school, followed three years later by her daughter and a move to Kentucky. One more son, a move to Ohio and four years later, her family jumped on
the opportunity to move to India. They lived in Bangalore, now Bengaluru, for four wonderfully
chaotic years, traveling all over Asia,
Australia and Europe.
Now, settled in New
Hampshire with her family and herd of cats (only three), she can often be found
in her office, working on the next installment of “The Gatekeepers of
Em’pyrean” series, reading one of a dozen books she has started, and dreaming
of her future travel destinations.
“The Portal’s
Choice”, book one in “The Gatekeeper’s of Em’pyrean” series featuring Tallis
Challinor, was released on May 6, 2013.
“The Forgotten
Gate”, book two in the series, is scheduled for release in 2014.
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Book Excerpt:
April 29th, 2:30 in the morning
One week to go.
I feel it, the nearness of the spirits. The fact thateverything is
aligning to some sort of conclusion. I hopeI’m ready. I hope I have the power
to finish this thing. And, I hope that Gregory Millard calls soon.
The shrill ring of the phone pierced the late night silence ofthe
house, startling me out of an exhausted sleep. My body jerkedto semi-awareness
and I reached for it, knocking it to the floor inmy confusion. I reached down,
patted the floor, and finally foundthe phone as it rang for the third time.
“Yeah?” I mumbled.
“Hello, can you hear me?” shouted a voice I didn’t recognize.
I was groggy with sleep and confused as to my exact location.The voice
continued hollering at me, but I had trouble focusingon it as my sluggish brain
worked to figure out why I wasn’t inmy bed. Finally, I remembered that I’d
fallen asleep on the sofain the front room. Satisfied that I could place my
body in space, Idirected my mind to the person who was calling. A glance at
theclock on the wall said it was 2:00. In the morning.
“Who is this?” I asked, stretching my neck until I felt a loud,satisfying
crack.
“My name is …” a male voice started, then abruptly stopped.The
connection appeared to be lost.
“Hey, are you there?” I hollered back into the phone, assumingthat if
the caller had to yell to be heard, he needed me to yell backat him.
“Tallis, what’s going on down there?” my aunt, Gabbie, calledto me.
She hurried down the creaky, wooden staircase.
“Phone call,” I mumbled when she appeared in the doorway.“But I think
the connection’s broken. It wasn’t too good to startwith.”
Gabbie moved to my side and looked down at me. Theflickering fire in
the wood stove illuminated the paleness of herskin and amplified the heavy
shadows under her eyes. She lookedawful, much older than
her twenty-seven years.
“Do you think?” she began, and then swallowed. “Is it him?”
I shook my head. “I don’t know.”
The voice burst through the static. “Gregory Millard.” He wasgone
again.
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