Janet McNulty - Mellow Summers 03 - An Apple a Day Keeps Murder Away (9 page)

Three days passed since Jeremy had kidnapped me for the last time.
I had finished giving my statement to the police and with the help of Calvin, all charges were dropped. Jackie and I had managed to get a couple weeks off and decided to go on a vacation. I really looked forward to it.

I hadn’t seen Rachel in all this time.
I just assumed that she had gone `back to the spirit world. Aunt Ethel left as well. We woke up to find her bags gone and a note thanking us for a lovely time. That was just like her. She always showed up without warning and then left without a good-bye. Oh well. I was relieved to have my room back.

“Ready?” asked Jackie as she put our suitcases in the trunk of her car.
We decided to take her’s since mine was now a piece of crumpled metal thanks to Aunt Ethel’s driving 

“Ready,” I answered her as I sat in the passenger seat.

Jackie closed the trunk to her car and headed for the driver’s seat. Suddenly, the door to the back seat opened and she was shoved inside. It slammed shut. A depression in the driver’s seat showed up as the door closed.

“What the
—” Jackie’s startled outburst was cut off.

“Hey, girls,” beamed Rachel as she materialized
behind the wheel. “You know, I did some thinking. After the last week, you really need a vacation, Mel.”

“Which is where we were headed,” I said.

“And I know a great place for us to go.” Rachel started the car and put it into gear. She steered the car out of the parking lot and onto the street.

“Us?”
I said.

“Yep
! A girls’ road trip,” said Rachel

“You’re not driving,” I said.

“Oh relax,” said Rachel. “I don’t drive like your aunt.

“But, where are we going?” asked Jackie.

“Oh I know this great place in New York. Wonderful place,” said Rachel. “We’re going to have a ball and rock the house.”

Rachel drove the car toward the highway.
Along the way we went past Detective Shorts. He stared at us in disbelief. All he saw was a car driving itself with Jackie and me as two helpless passengers. I waved.

The next thing I knew,
we entered the freeway heading south. Rachel turned on the radio and began singing along to it with glee. I glanced at Jackie. She and I shared a look and then buckled down. We were off on our two week vacation with a ghost.

Three Little Ghosts

Ms. McNulty began writing the Mellow Summers series last year. The third book in the series is expected to be published before the end of summer 2012.

Ms. McNulty has published other books as well which include
Illogical Nonsense
and
Legends Lost Amborese
, which was published under the pen name of Nova Rose.

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Dystopia

The eyes are always watching

Imagine living in a world where everything you do is controlled.

In the distant future the United States has been split into two regions separated by a barren wasteland; this is the country of Dystopia.
Here the individual is discouraged, freedom is an illusion, food is rationed, and everything you do is tracked by a chip implanted in your arm. This is Dana Ginary’s world.

At age seventeen, people receive their career assignments chosen for them by a government body.
Forced to work at the Waste Management Plant because she was declared too individualistic, Dana finds herself surrounded by death and brutality. Knowing her days are numbered, she looks for a way to leave the plant before she, too, becomes one of its causalities..

It is then she meets a man named George and soon finds herself caught up in a cat mouse game between the resistance and the
Dystopian government. Dana finds herself faced with an agonizing choice of whom she will betray and whom she will save: her friend George, her parents, or herself.

Learn about the first king of Tesnayr and the man who started it all.

1,000 years before the birth of Amborese is a far greater story.
The legend of Tesnayr. Before the lands of Tesnayr existed, there were five distinct kingdoms. Each proud and constantly at war with one another. But all that changed… A stranger washes upon the shores of Sym’Dul, beaten and barely alive; the only survivor of a devastating war in a land far across the sea. Nursed back to health, Tesnayr makes a new life for himself and begins to think that his past is behind him. Then the orcs arrive led by Galbrok. They quickly ravage the land. Faced with a terrible choice, Tesnayr forms his own army to stop them and quickly draws the attention of each of the five kings. Yet, Tesnayr’s past refuses to release him. Can he unite the five kingdoms before Galbrok annihilates them? Can a lone man from across the sea achieve what all believe to be impossible?

The second great legend of the lands of Tesnayr.

Amborese thought she was a peasant’s daughter until one night dark creatures murdered her parents and pursued her into the forest. Saved by a talking cat and her friend Zolo, she fled for her life only to learn that she had a bigger destiny than she once believed. Pursued across the five lands of Tesnayr by an evil wizard’s army, Amborese must overcome her doubts and unite the dragons, elves, dwarves, and the five lands themselves. But will they follow a mere girl?