Voices through Time

Heeding the SignsMark Hersch enjoys a busy summer in his favorite place: with his grandparents in Hartstown, Virginia.Working, saving for college, learning to drive. Getting to know his family and himself.Then one job brings a shiver of warning.Will Mark and his Papaw recognize the danger before it's too late?A Voices through Time Story Also available in the collection Stepping Out of Reality An excerpt from The Perfect Shade of Haint Blue:Learning to Heed Those Strange Warnings Mark frowned, but a quick little thrill of excitement shot through his belly.The change of pace and scenery was doing him a world of good, especially since he was considering coming right back to Virginia for college in a couple of years.But he wouldn't mind a bit of mystery and adventure to spice things up."Did something strange happen there, Papaw? At the Hartsock place?""Well no, I can't exactly say that. It's just... I got an uneasy twinge about you going there is all."Mark's father and everyone else in the family often talked about Papaw's twinges, and hunches, and notions, and even dreams. No one ever made much of a fuss about it that Mark could tell.But they never mentioned thinking those twinges were something it was better to ignore, either.

Unearthing the Unseen Mark Hersch and Beth Azen finally get away on their first vacation together. A work trip lending itself perfectly to play. But Mark's shiver of trouble on the horizon carries a warning too strong to ignore. One Beth's shared ghosts amplify with scary intensity. Strange happenings above and below the ground draw them in, with the whole town caught in a tragic mystery. Will Beth and Mark find the answers before heartbreak from the past breaks through into their future? Book Three of the Voices Through Time Series An excerpt from Sorrows in the Earth: Trouble in the Air, and Under the Ground "Sorry to say they don't much want to look at us, either," the ghost of Mark's grandfather said. "Can't say I've traveled all that much since I passed over, not that I ever thought I could until you and Mark took up together. But I can't work out what the trouble is." He paused, and Clina's ghost jumped in sharp as a razor. "Best tell her what you been carrying on to me about, Walt. If it's so all-fired important as you say, get it out so they might can do something about it." Wisps of fear curled through Beth's belly and heart. "I don't want to worry you, now," Mark's Papaw said. "All this is so new to me I might be mistaken, hear? But I got to tell you if feels to me like Mark is caught up in all this somehow." "All this?" Beth said. "You mean the town itself? Or the way people won't look at each other? I don't understand." "Yeah, I was afraid of that. It's more like...some of the trouble is pointing toward him. Or maybe he can serve some kind of a purpose. I sure am sorry, Beth. I can't work it out any better." Beth's own words about the two of them getting a break from all the excitement of the last few months soured and curdled in her memory.