Dear Reader…
I’m so excited that you’ve selected
Blood on the Chesapeake for your
reading list, especially when you have so many great choices. But I’m
confident, whichever way your literary interests flow, you’ll find something in
the novel to enjoy and savor. In Blood on
the Chesapeake, you’ll find a little of everything or to quote one of the
early reviews, “Within a web woven of threads from a
number of genres—a bit of romance, a lot of mystery, and a good deal of old-fashioned
ghost whispering—[Overbeck’s] written a pretty solid social commentary.” And
this reviewer didn’t even mention the breathtakingly beautiful scenery of the
Eastern Shore and stunning scenes of sailing on the Chesapeake Bay captured in
the pages of the book.
Have
you ever visited a place, been so captivated by everything about the area and
learned about the history and culture there, you thought you might’ve just
found your perfect place? And what if, seeing all this anew, you learned
something, stumbled upon something? What if here, in a quaint, scenic resort
town nestled along miles and miles of undulating Eastern shoreline, where life
is peaceful and yards are fenced with white pickets, what if something
happened? Something so horrific and vile, it was buried deep in the town’s
memory, an ugly secret festering beneath the surface for more than thirty
years? And what if your discovery threatens to shatter everything in your new
life, the dream job you’d always wanted, great new friends and a new love—who
might just be the one? And what if
you’d made this discovery, uncovered this awful secret because of a ghost?
That’s
the situation Darrell Henshaw finds himself in. After transplanting himself
from his childhood home in Michigan to the beautiful, quiet shore town in
Maryland for a new job teaching high school history and coaching football and
basketball. Within a few weeks he meets and falls for a stunning town beauty
with flowing red hair and sparkling emerald eyes. Only, one of the first
visitors to his new office is a ghost, the spirit of a teen murdered in the
school some thirty years earlier. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, Darrell is a sensitive. He sees ghosts. It’s not
something he wants. Or wants to tell anyone.
I
hope, by now, you get it.
If your
literary tastes run toward mystery or ghost whispering or romance or beach
reads, by the time you close the last page of Blood on the Chesapeake, I think you will likely come away
satisfied. I look forward to hearing your candid response to this first novel
in The Haunted Shore Mysteries series. Thanks for reading. Peace.
Randy Overbeck
Order the book here: https://www.authorrandyoverbeck.com/books