EBOOK
About
1998. Summer is coming, school is almost out, and Deeks Bogart just wants to make it through one more year in his tiny Southern town. Being one of the only Black students is hard enough-being secretly gay is even harder. But when local teens start dying in brutal, supernatural ways, Deeks realizes he's not the only one hiding dangerous secrets.Whispers of Bloody Mary stalk the halls and mirrors of O'Khata Lake High. Victims share one thing in common: they were all living the same lie that Deeks is. Now, the ghost is haunting the closeted kids of O'Khata Lake, and Deeks may be next.With his goth best friend, Sheena, his cousin Riri, and an unlikely ally he can't help but fall for, Deeks must uncover the truth behind Bloody Mary before the killer in the mirror claims him too.But surviving the curse will mean confronting the one thing that terrifies him most-himself. John Luke Maxwell grew up in a very rural area of the Deep South, a place that prides itself to this day on having no cable or high-speed Internet access. His family farmhouse is near the bayous of central Mississippi. Here, John learned about ghosts, witches, and other things that go bump in the night. Despite everyone's best efforts, he is more comfortable with creatures of the night than plain ol' ordinary "good Christian folk".His writings have been described as a "slow burn", mixing romance, mystery, and the supernatural together for chills and delights of all kinds. He hopes to be a professional author and would love to travel more. One of the things on his bucket list is to become a space pirate.