Synopsis
"I love a good ghost story and this is truly an excellent one!" Kindle Customer
An Amazon International Bestseller!The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light - or 'home' as Ruby calls it. Not just a job for Ruby, it's a crusade and one she wants to bring to the High Street. Psychic Surveys is born.
Based in Lewes, East Sussex, Ruby and her team of freelance psychics have been kept busy of late. Specialising in domestic cases, their solid reputation is spreading - it's not just the dead that can rest in peace but the living too. All is threatened when Ruby receives a call from the irate new owner of Highdown Hall. Film star Cynthia Hart is still in residence, despite having died in 1958.
Winter deepens and so does the mystery surrounding Cynthia. She insists the devil is blocking her path to the light long after Psychic Surveys have 'disproved' it. Investigating her apparently unblemished background, Ruby is pulled further and further into Cynthia's world and the darkness that now inhabits it. For the first time in her career, Ruby's deepest beliefs are challenged.
Does evil truly exist? And if so, is it the most relentless force of all?
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The Psychic Surveys Series:
Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall
Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me
Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street
Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage
Psychic Surveys Book Five: DUE SPRING 2018
Psychic Surveys Companion Novels:
Eve: A Christmas Ghost Story
Blakemort
Thirteen
* Only Eve, Blakemort and Thirteen are standalone stories. The main PSYCHIC SURVEYS books are all follow-ups! *
From the Inside Flap
"You don't know what you're dealing with," Jessica said at last, almost spitting the words out. "Know when to admit defeat, Ruby, before you yourself are defeated."
"Mum!" said Ruby, shocked by her reaction.
Since her breakdown, Jessica had been placid, withdrawn, lost inside herself - shunning the world, seeking refuge in her childhood home, hardly ever leaving it, only to visit local shops, never anything more. This angry Jessica, who had just scraped her chair back and stood before her now with eyes blazing, Ruby had never encountered before.
"Your grandmother thinks love is the ultimate force, the only force. That evil does not exist. But it does, Ruby. And I have stared into the face of it."
Ruby held her breath. Was this the moment her mother revealed just what she had seen, the moment she would learn at last the reason for her breakdown?
Leaning on the table now, her face only inches from Ruby's, Jessica continued.
"Where there is construction, there is destruction, where there is light, there is darkness, the two exist side by side, Ruby, in a strange and twisted sort of harmony. We are given freedom of choice, all of us, we can follow the light, or we can follow the dark. There are many who choose the latter, who walk so far down that path they change, become something else entirely. Not everyone, everything, can live in the light."
"Mum, what has this got to do with..."
But Ruby didn't have a chance to finish.
"Whatever it is that waits for you at Highdown Hall, who's to say it's even human? Who's to say it was ever human?"
"Mum, that's ridiculous," Ruby breathed out at last. "Of course it was human."
"Why 'of course', Ruby? Do you think you know everything that exists out there in the universe? Do you think Gran does? Have you not read all of Rosamund's papers? She hints at it too, the existence of demons. Gran is wrong. She's taught you there's nothing to fear. But you should fear, Ruby. You're as open to it as I was. There is danger at every turn and it's waiting, patiently waiting, for you to walk right into its clutches."
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