Not Quite Dead by Lyla Payne
(A Lowcountry Ghost Story)
Publication date: April 1st 2014
Genres: Mystery, New Adult, Paranormal


A broken engagement sends Graciela Harper crawling back to Heron Creek
with her tail between her legs, but finds the sleepy little town
too changed to set her life right. Not even her budding drinking problem
can obscure her Gramps’s failing health, or erase the mental picture of
her first love happily married to her childhood best friend. To top it
all off, she’s having a heck of time convincing the town’s dashing young
mayor of her unfit-for-dating status.
When the ghost of 18th
century lady pirate Anne Bonny starts insisting on a near daily
audience, Graciela has to confront something else she
never expected—being certifiably nuts at twenty-five years old.
Her
brand new “I don’t give a crap” attitude makes it easy to dismiss the
mysterious threats that seem to be tied to her search for
more information on the long dead pirate, but when her family becomes
a target, Gracie knows she needs to find out why the ghost insists
on being a constant, reeking companion.
If Graciela can put aside
her prejudice against people without a pulse, she may discover that
Anne Bonny’s problems are intricately linked with her own. The past
harbors answers could help the cantankerous spirit find closure, but she
is, after all, already dead. If Graciela doesn’t move fast, she might
find herself doing the haunting, instead of the other way around.
