Haunting Crush

Haunting Crush
Author: Gordon Christie (author)
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1901
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1487433808

Kai Nez is pathetic. At least that's what his mother tells him after blaming him for his father’s death from a diabetic coma. He's the poor part native, part white gay guy the bullies picked on in their small-town high school, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. The crush he has on the football quarterback—homecoming king Conner Mitchell—will always be that, a crush. And he's fine with it. Until Conner corners Kai at his graduation party and gives Kai something to fantasize about, then disappears. Years later, Kai is bar tending at a local restaurant. He's happy where he's at and he's good at his job. Then Conner Mitchell shows up at the restaurant and bulldozes back into Kai’s life. At the same time, weird things start happening in the duplex he shares with his best friend. Haunted house things. Conner Mitchell lives the good life, born into wealth, perfect student, perfect athlete and dating the perfect girl. But perfection is over-rated and short lived. After college and landing a lucrative job as a pharmaceutical rep, he breaks up with his girlfriend, moves back to the small town he grew up in, and finds Kai again. The brief moment they shared at his graduation party has always haunted him. And now Kai is dealing with a different kind of haunting and needs his help. Kai is skeptical and fearful of both ghosts and Conner's intentions. Conner isn't going to let this chance pass him by. It's time to show Kai who he really is and prove to Kai he's not pathetic. He's perfect.

Haunting

Haunting
Author: Jay Fulmer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479713104

Haunting DC is a political activist ghost story, exploring the origins of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the origins of the soul. The journey begins when would-be political activist Garrett Wagner wakes up dead only to discover confusion in the afterlife, which requires the aid of his guide, Deidre Valerian. Garrett, still yearning for purpose decides to continue his activism by haunting corrupt politicians in Washington DC. Deidre agrees to assist Garrett as it aids her current research into the problem of the growing number of directionless souls. On their journey they recruit a long deceased watercraft salesman, a team of Roller Derby girls and an urban legend famous for haunting the Aldebaron Bed and Breakfast. Garrett’s group goes on a crusade continuing the Global Justice Movement’s agenda from beyond the grave. The antagonist Charles Bellmore is a demonologist employed by U.S. Senator John Kassel. Garrett’s campaign threatens to topple the Senator’s policies as well as his pocketbook and Bellmore is charged with ending these hauntings. His nefarious allegiance to the Brotherhood of Baphomet and the demon Glasya Labolas grants him the opportunity to attack Garrett’s group. Bellmore sensing the possibility to possess even greater occult power sells his own soul for the chance. Haunting DC is an open question about the traditional explanations of the afterlife and spiritual motivation. The present day faltering religious, moral and ideological authority plays out through the characters in amazement and amusement as they discover the origins of their own motivations.

Ghostly Matters

Ghostly Matters
Author: Avery F. Gordon
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2008-02-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1452913862

“Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz “The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International “Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book.” —Charles Lemert Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations. Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Janice Radway is professor of literature at Duke University.

Vintage

Vintage
Author: Steve Berman
Publisher: Lethe Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2008
Genre: Gay teenagers
ISBN: 1590210530

A lonely seventeen-year-old who has dreamed of meeting a different and special boy desperately seeks help from his friend Trace, a Goth girl, to free him from the clutches of a handsome ghost he has met on a rural New Jersey highway.

Crush

Crush
Author: Andrea N. Richesin
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1459205405

Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection. Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.

Crosstown Crush

Crosstown Crush
Author: Cara McKenna
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698408640

The first in a new series from the “wicked-hot”* author of Hard Time and Give It All explores the fantasies of a daring married couple—and those of a stranger invited to play along in their scandalous little games… When he’s working, Mike Heyer is all business—every inch the alpha male, with the hard, capable body to back up his persona. But at home he can be a different man entirely, harboring appetites only his wife gets to glimpse... When Samira first learned of her husband’s fantasies, she was reluctant, even alarmed. But after witnessing the way they set him on fire, she yielded, and happily indulged. As their games have intensified, so has the rush. And now so has the risk—they’re poised to take Mike’s indecent desires to the next level, by opening their bed to a sexy, brazen stranger. A man seeming custom-made to grant every last one of Mike and Samira’s sinful wishes. Welcoming someone new into their lives was always a dangerous proposition, but the couple imagined if anything was at stake, it was their privacy…not their hearts. *New York Times Bestselling Author Jaci Burton

The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
Author: Paige McKenzie
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1447287096

The Haunting of Sunshine Girl is the first in a frighteningly good new series based on the popular YouTube sensation The Haunting of Sunshine Girl Network, created by Paige McKenzie. In that place where you're more asleep than awake any more, I hear something else. A phrase uttered in a child's voice, no more than a whisper: Night Night. Something freaky's going on with Sunshine's new house . . . there's the chill that wraps itself around her bones, the giggling she can hear in the dead of night, and then the strange shadows that lurk in her photographs. But the more weird stuff that happens, the less her mum believes her. Sunshine's always had a quirky affiliation with the past, but this time, history is getting much too close for comfort . . . If there is something, or someone, haunting her house, what do they want? And what will they do if Sunshine can't help them? As things become more frightening and dangerous, and the giggles she hears turn to sobs and screams, Sunshine has no choice but to accept what she is, face the test before her and save her mother from a fate worse than death.

Historic Haunted America

Historic Haunted America
Author: Michael Norman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2007-09-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780765319708

A coast-to-coast tour of places that eyewitnesses claim have been, and may still be, haunted, from the former Peoria State Hospital in Illinois to San Diego's historic Whaley House Museum.

Haunting Highland House

Haunting Highland House
Author: Kathryn Hills
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509210873

She’s looking to escape her man troubles. Instead, she finds the man of her dreams. There’s only one problem – he’s dead. Living in a haunted house and uncovering a gateway in time were not in the job description when Samantha Merrill agreed to be the property manager of Highland House. Old photos of the reclusive master of the manor captivate her, yet she’s terrified when he appears out of nowhere. How can Robert Pennington be making love to her by the parlor fireplace when he died over a century ago? Robert Pennington is a powerful industrialist charged with caring for an ailing father, a meddling mother, and two wayward siblings. Weary of his burdens, he longs for change. Is he ready for a woman from the future? His disciplined world turns upside down when the mysterious Samantha Merrill crashes his sister’s birthday ball. He is wildly attracted to this intriguing beauty, but is it magic or mischief motivating her? When Sam vanishes before his eyes, he knows only one thing for certain. He wants her back.

Haunting Sunshine

Haunting Sunshine
Author: Jack Powell
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1561642207

Spectral visions, footsteps in the attic, thumps in the night. Who hasn't witnessed or heard such things and not thought of ghosts? Join your guide, author Jack Powell, on a wild ride from Pensacola to Jacksonville and down to Key West, touring Florida's places and history through some of its best ghost stories. Powell has woven together a creepy collection of tales. Explore the darker side of the Sunshine State. What horrible fate awalted the pirates lover in Pensacola? Care to check out the last crop Edgar Watson planted on his farm in the Everglades? When will the ghost leave baby Carlys room?