Shaker Town (Taryn's Camera) - Softcover

Patrick-Howard, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1514690314 ISBN 13: 9781514690314

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

After her experience in Georgia, artist Taryn Magill is ready for a break. When she's offered the job at historic Shaker Village, known colloquially as "Shaker Town," in central Kentucky, she's ecstatic. The quaint, beautifully restored site it just what she needs to unwind, regroup, and relax.

But the ghosts are restless.

At first, the images of the past that her beloved camera, Miss Dixie, picks up are exciting. Taryn is finally able to see something that many visitors and historians would kill for-the mysterious Shakers in action more than 100 years ago. The village is alive like never before. Things take a deadly turn, however, when Taryn witnesses a murder.

Evil lurks amongst the idyllic setting and it's wrapping its icy fingers around Taryn, threatening to pull her under into a world she might never escape. Can she solve one of Shaker Town's most horrifying mysteries and finally put things to rest there? Or will she succumb to the evil and madness that haunt her?

About this title

From the Author

I do onsite research for each of the books in the Taryn's Camera series. I enjoy writing stories about places I know and am familiar with, and creating imaginary plots to go along with the things my imagination creates. 

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill has always been one of my favorite places. I've been there many times over the years but my trips to the park during the writing of this book were different. I tried to looking at it with fresh eyes, the way Taryn might have seen it. My husband and I went there and spent the night and walked around after dark together. We stood by the pond and watched the water. We listened for ghosts in our room after we turned out the lights...

The story itself is all thanks to my imagination. However, certain scenes were actually inspired by the Patty Loveless video "Lonely Too Long" which was filmed at the Shaker Village in western Kentucky. 

About the Author

Rebecca Patrick-Howard's real biography isn't nearly as interesting as the one she's made up in her head so she'll leave you with that one: At the age of 3, her family sold her to a band of traveling gypsies. Forced to become a bareback rider in the circus, she spent her younger years traveling the country, living out of suitcases and selling macrame keychains on the side. At the age of 16 she became a professional yodeler but, after winning the international yodeling competition in Switzerland at 19, decided to retire at the height of her career. Now, she and her husband (an organic rutabaga farmer from Wales) live in an isolated cabin in eastern Kentucky where they play with a local mariachi band every Friday night, are involved with a murder mystery dinner theater club, and enjoy making origami owls. Visit her website at http://www.rebeccaphoward.net

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1514690314
• ISBN 13: 9781514690314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294