Today
Her eyes narrowed slightly as she saw something moving in the distance. Whatever it was, it appeared too fast to be a normal person, but its shape was not that of a horse and carriage. Some kind of vehicle was bumping toward the clearing, bearing the word POLICE on its side in large letters.
“How long were we gone?” the man asked, now inhabiting Chad Clark’s body.
She turned to him, and immediately she began to smile, although the smile felt unfamiliar. She was not yet used to the body that had once belonged to Catherine Chandler.
“My love,” she said, not quite recognizing her own new voice, “I do not know, but I think perhaps it is longer than we intended. Look at these clothes. Aren’t they unusual? What wondrous fibers are they made from?”
“I remember screams,” he replied, his eyes filled with wonder, “and pain, and—”
“I remember all of that too,” she said, reaching up and placing a finger against his lips to quieten him, “but it’s over now. We made it back.”
“I remember going to the shore of that river,” he continued. “I remember the man with the boat, and his face was like—”
“Not now,” she said, trying to calm him. “We must be careful. However long has passed, much has likely changed. But we have one another, and that’s all we need.” She placed her hands on the sides of his arm, as the police cruiser pulled up nearby. “And I don’t know about you,” she continued with a grin that was feeling more and more natural by the second, “but I’m very, very happy with these new bodies we have purchased. Now it’s time to get back to what we do best.”
Her grin grew, and then they both turned to watch as a police officer stepped out of the cruiser.
OTHER BOOKS
BY AMY CROSS INCLUDE
Stephen
The Farm
The Haunting of Hardstone Jail
Asylum (The Asylum Trilogy book 1)
Meds (The Asylum Trilogy book 2)
The Madness of Annie Radford (The Asylum Trilogy book 3)
The Devil, the Witch and the Whore (The Deal book 1)
Like Stones on a Crow’s Back (The Deal book 2)
The Devil’s Blade
Haunted
Devil’s Briar
The Night Girl
Last Wrong Turn
Friend From the Internet
The Haunting of Caldgrave House
The Haunting of Blackwych Grange
The Bride of Ashbyrn House
The Ghosts of Hexley Airport
The Curse of Wetherley House
The Haunting of Marshall Heights
The Ghosts of Lakeforth Hotel
The Body at Auercliff
The Soul Auction
The Border
Eli’s Town
Laura
Annie’s Room
The Priest Hole (Nykolas Freeman book 1)
Battlefield (Nykolas Freeman book 2)
Perfect Little Monsters and Other Stories
The Ghost of Longthorn Manor and Other Stories
Room 9 and Other Stories
Grave Girl
Raven Revivals (Grave Girl book 2)
The Gravest Girl of All (Grave Girl book 3)
The Library
Beautiful Familiar
Dark Season (book 1, 2 & 3)
The Hollow Church
The Vampires of Tor Cliff Asylum
Dead Souls (book 1 to 13)
Lupine Howl (books 1 to 6)
Ward Z (The Ward Z Series book 1)
Terror at Camp Everbee (The Ward Z Series book 2)
The Dog
Also by Amy Cross
No-one ever remembers what happens to them when they go into the barn at Bondalen farm. Some never come out again, and the rest… Something about them is different.
In 1979, the farm is home to three young girls. As winter fades to spring, Elizabeth, Kari and Sara each come to face the secrets of the barn, and they each emerge with their own injuries. But someone else is lurking nearby, a man who claims to be Death incarnate, and for these three girls the spring of 1979 is set to end in tragedy.
In the modern day, meanwhile, Bondalen farm has finally been sold to a new family. Dragged from London by her widowed father, Paula Ridley hates the idea of rural life. Soon, however, she starts to realize that her new home retains hints of its horrific past, while the darkness of the barn still awaits anyone who dares venture inside.
Set over the course of several decades, The Farm is a horror novel about people who live with no idea of the terror in their midst, and about a girl who finally has a chance to confront a source of great evil that has been feeding on the farm for generations.
“There are lots of demons in the sky above London. The problem is, this one came crashing down to earth.”
Ten years ago, Alice Warner was attacked and disfigured by an attacker in her own home. She remembers nothing of the attack, and she has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since. When she’s finally released, however, she starts working as a security guard at an abandoned shopping mall. And that’s when she starts to realize that something is haunting her, keeping just one step out of sight at all times…
Meanwhile, seventy years earlier, a little girl named Wendy is left orphaned after a World War 2 fighter plane crashes onto her house. Taken to a monastery, Wendy is quickly singled out by the nuns for special attention. They say she has been possessed by a demon, and that there’s only one way to save her soul. Fortunately for Wendy, however, there’s someone else who seems to know far more about the situation.
What is the shocking connection between Alice and Wendy, reaching out across the years? Does a demon really lurk in the girl’s soul? And who is Hannah, the mysterious figure who tries to help Wendy, and who seventy years later begins to make her influence felt in Alice’s life too?
Alice Isn’t Well is the first book in the Death Herself series, about a dark figure who arrives in the night, promising to help deal with the forces of evil whenever they appear.
“Welcome to the Overflow. And remember, all roads lead back to Lakehurst.”
At the edge of a ruined town, a burned-out hospital houses one final, functional ward. There, a small group of doctors and nurses tend to patients who have been consigned to the Overflow. Unloved, forgotten by the people who knew them, these are the patients who will never receive visitors. If something happens to them, no-one will ask questions.
When she starts work at Middleford Cross, Nurse Elly Blackstock thinks she’s getting a second chance. She soon discovers, however, that this particular hospital is unlike any other. In one of the beds, an old man grapples with the horrors of his past, while in another there’s a woman condemned to a life of darkness and silence. Ghosts stalk the corridors, and more ghosts are on the way. And watching over all of this is the hospital’s administrator, Nurse Kirsten Winter, a woman who is desperately searching for someone named Annie Radford…
Asylum: Meds is a dark horror novel about the lengths one woman will go to as she searches for the truth about the voices in her head.
Copyright
Copyright 2019 Amy Cross
All Rights Reserved
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events, entities and places are either products of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual people, businesses, entities or events is entirely coincidental.