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    On Forbidden Ground
    On Forbidden Ground
    On Forbidden Ground
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    On Forbidden Ground

    By TJ Perkins

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    Melissa had moved away from the old farmhouse on Wakefield Road month after trapping the evil spirit of William in a crystal and burying it. Now, years later, it seems that her fate with the old house is not yet over. After inheriting the property under mysterious conditions, she goes back to where it all began and discovers a new kind of horror - one that has grown stronger and begun to take control of the outside world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTJ Perkins
    Release dateMar 15, 2015
    ISBN9781311437686
    On Forbidden Ground
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    TJ Perkins

    TJ Perkins is a gifted and well-respected author in the mystery/suspense, Fantasy & New Age genres. A former member of the Maryland Writer’s Association and Sisters In Crime, her short stories for young readers have appeared in the Ohio State 6th Grade Proficiency Test Preparation Book, Kid’s Highway Magazine, and Webzine ‘New Works Review,’ just to name a few. She’s placed five times in the CNW/FFWA chapter book competition. Her short story of light horror for tweens, The Midnight Watch, was published Oct 2007 by Demon Minds Magazine, as well as innumerable short stories in many anthologies.Finished works of her young reader’s chapter books are entitled: The Fire and the Falcon (which won two chapter book awards), Wound Too Tight, Mystery of the Attic, and On Forbidden Ground. Published books in the Kim & Kelly Mystery Series include: Fantasies Are Murder, The Secret in Phantom Forest, Trade Secret, Image in the Tapestry (which won a chapter book award) and In the Grand Scheme of Things (all with GumShoe Press 2006). The Shadow Legacy series was published by Silver Leaf Books and picture book Four Little Withes was published by Schiffer Books and won the 2016 COVR Visionary Art Award.You can find TJ at many Cons on the East Coast as well as FarieCon and the MD Renaissance Festival.

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      On Forbidden Ground - TJ Perkins

      On

      Forbidden

      Ground

      By: TJ Perkins

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      On Forbidden Ground

      TJ Perkins

      Copyright TJ Perkins 2006

      Published by GumShoe Press at Smashwords

      ISBN 0-9777538-7-5

      (previously ISBN 1-4137-5001-X)

      Published by GumShoe Press

      www.authorsden.com/tjperkins

      More Mysteries by TJ Perkins

      FANTASIES ARE MURDER

      THE SECRET IN PHANTOM FOREST

      TRADE SECRET

      IMAGE IN THE TAPESTRY

      WOUND TOO TIGHT

      MYSTERY OF THE ATTIC

      To my dearest friend, Lynn. Thanks for all your love, support, and belief in my writing. Rest in peace, I’ll miss you.

      A hideous face protruded from the dirt ceiling directly in front of me. Eyes barely in their sockets; teeth as well as lips and half the face rotted away, it stretched down lower, like a snake from a tree limb, hovering just inches from my face.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 – The Mysterious Letter

      Chapter 2 – Unanswered Questions

      Chapter 3 – The Missing Lawyer

      Chapter 4 – A Piece to the Puzzle

      Chapter 5 – An Unexpected Visitor

      Chapter 6 – The Old House

      Chapter 7 – A Grave Mistake

      Chapter 8 – The Sink Hole

      Chapter 9 – On Forbidden Ground

      Chapter 10 – Trapped

      Chapter 11 – The Confrontation

      Chapter 12 – A Near Miss

      Chapter 13 - An Alternate Route

      Chapter 14 – The Rise of the Crystal

      Chapter 15 – A Worthwhile Demise

      Chapter 16 – An Uncertain Rescue

      Chapter 17 – Fate of the Old House

      Chapter 1

      The Mysterious Letter

      "Give me something more mysterious…you know…really scary. This zombie thing will never scare the kids, my boss Mr. McDermond complained while shaking his head and slapping my drawing with the back of his fingers. It’s gotta be gut grabbing Melissa; something that will be a real attention getter for this Halloween’s advertising campaign.

      And you really don’t think a walking zombie will scare the kids? I asked in a flat tone, just to be sure of where he was going with his ranting, and remembering a situation that I got myself into back when I was thirteen; my thoughts on this past experience now interrupted by Mr. McDermond’s grumpy, loud voice.

      I don’t see how. Besides, this looks too nice, too much like he’s smiling and coming over for dinner. He paused and looked at my work once more, this time at arms length, squinting his eyes and turning it first from one side and then to the other. After a moment of silence, he let out a sigh and handed the drawing back to me. Yeah, too nice…hmmm, make it scary.

      Okay, if that’s what you want. I hesitated for a moment and glanced at the drawing I had come up with for Mr. McDermond’s advertising campaign for a box of Ghoulies Cereal. It was a picture of a walking zombie, arms loaded with boxes of Ghoulies cereal; smiling and stuffing his face with handfuls of the stuff, while making his way back to his crypt. I thought it was rather ingenious and did all I could to make the character kid-friendly. "Are you sure I should make him really scary?" I asked, taking care not to offend my boss and owner of the company where I worked.

      Sure. Why not? With the way kids are today, how could a walking zombie possibly scare anybody? He smirked and rocked back in his big leather office chair, as he put a foot up on his cherry wood desk.

      I turned away and headed slowly for the door. You have no idea, I mumbled to myself, scowling. I hated it when he shot down my work. I’d spent weeks coming up with an idea for him, another month designing the cereal box, and within five minutes he kills my idea and sends me back to the drawing board. The life of an artist in the advertising business was tough. All my art teachers told me it wasn’t going to be easy, even my old teacher Mrs. Moore said she became an art teacher after being trampled on too many times in the field, and I tried to keep all of that in mind as I stormed back to my station. The life of an artist, huh! I try so hard for him and he always finds a way to rub both success and failure in my face at the same time. I don’t know how I ever became his lead designer!

      He shot down your idea. Tia said, leaning over the divider of our workspaces. Apparently she heard my heavy footsteps of frustration, and felt she should pay me a visit.

      Once again - go figure! I opened my eyes wide and released a deep breath, and then flopped the drawing down on my desk. He said it wasn’t scary enough. I imitated my boss by sporting a cocky grin and crossing my eyes, which made Tia giggle.

      You know you’re his girl, Melissa. Don’t let him get to you. Tia was always a good friend and right now her sincere charm and easy-going attitude was just what I needed to calm me down.

      I know, I finally mumbled, looking down at my desk and organizing pencils, charcoal pieces and paint brushes in a small narrow flowerpot. He said that a walking zombie wouldn’t scare kids of today. He has no idea what scary is.

      And you do? Tia came around the divider and stood next to my desk, looking at me with her arms crossed as she waited for a response.

      I looked into her dark brown eyes then ran my fingers over my drawing again. W-well, I, umm… I stammered, avoiding my co-worker’s hard gaze and mocking grin. You know, everybody has their own opinion of what scary really is.

      "And what’s your idea?" Tia said as she pressed the issue. For some reason it really bothered me that I was on the verge of telling her about my childhood experience, the very thing that still haunted my dreams at night, and the thing that I would never be able to forget – the walking in the attic and

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