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Cherie Claire
- Sep 6, 2019
- 1 min
Time to 'Give Up the Ghost'
There's a full moon on Sunday, Oct. 13, this year. What better time for the latest installment in my Viola Valentine paranormal mystery series to come out! In 2005, Hurricane Katrina uprooted Viola Valentine from her dead-end job and what she deemed a loveless marriage. Four years later, she and her husband Thibault “TB” Boudreaux are starting over on a Tennessee houseboat, she following her dream as travel writer and TB finishing school at Smoky Mountain University. But the
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Cherie Claire
- Mar 15, 2019
- 3 min
McAllen, Texas, a birding paradise
Viola travels to McAllen, Texas, in my latest novel, "Ghost Trippin,'" the fourth book in the Viola Valentine paranormal mystery series. John Valentine disappeared years before but recent developments that may explain his mystery point to the town at the bottom of Texas and continue up the coast through Padre Island and Galveston before ending in a remote area of Alabama. John Valentine is a birder, what we used to call birdwatcher before the term "birder" became cooler. McA
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Cherie Claire
- Jan 17, 2019
- 1 min
Viola heads to Texas
Valentine's Day beckons and you know what that means? The fourth book in my Viola Valentine paranormal mystery series comes out! "Ghost Trippin'" hits all online bookstores on Feb. 14, 2019! I'm so excited because it means that the story of Viola's long-absent father gets told, we learn more about her uptight sister Portia, and Aunt Mimi goes witchy woman on us. Of course, TB makes an angelic appearance and their relationship develops further, and Stinky the psychic cat's the
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