I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

A tragic accident strips sixteen-year-old Emily Underman of her three best friends. Depression consumes her as life becomes the endless gray place of feeling nothing. Until her little brother goes missing, jerking her out of her emotional coma. That’s when her friends appear. Haunting her, driving her to madness. Trying to tell her something. Making her question the motives of the lead detective on her brother’s case. Doubt the nice man next door. And making it hard for her to resist the only person who understands her—the detective’s son, Todd. Guilt forces her to trust the spirits of her ghostly friends who lead her closer and closer to the kidnapper—and redemption.

Best Friends Forever

Cole wishes he were dead. He feels like he is dying anyway. His lungs hurt so much he throws up sometimes after he coughs. Which makes the other pain, the pain down there, make itself known. He welcomes the ache in his lungs, mostly. So he doesn't have to feel what's been done to him inside.


Soaked in sweat, body limp, Cole has lost the will to fight or even fear the Boogeyman.


When he returns, Cole hopes he has come for him. To take him away to wherever the boys go that he doesn't want anymore. Cole thinks of his sister the way she used to be. Can even see her wavering there in front of him. Reaches out his hand to touch her.


"Emmy." His reaching fingers slide through her and it takes him a moment to realize he imagined her. He cries, softly, not caring that the Boogeyman's feet are close, pausing by his cage. Not caring the light is burning into his brain. He is sure it is over for him and he is glad.


Chapter 32: Dying