My name is Carrie McFarland. If it wasn’t for my Gift, no one in Aronsville, Indiana would ever have noticed a 16-year-old Negro girl like me. Not with the gangsters, the bootleggers, and the Ku Klux Klan burning crosses all over town. It’s 1920 and the start of a brand-new decade. But my Gift remains as mysterious to me now as it was when I was a little girl. I don’t know how or why it happens, but I can see into the future. Sometimes my visions come in dreams. Other times I get a buzzing in my ear just before something important is going to happen.

Sister Marie, the old woman I live with, says I get visions because I am a Seer. Well, she ought to know. She’s the hoodoo woman in town and knows absolutely everything about such matters. The old woman is sharp as a tack, but there’s no denying she’s getting up in years. I don’t know how much longer she’ll be able to prepare all the spells and potions she makes for the Negroes here in Aronsville. That’s why she’s training me to be her assistant, maybe even take over her hoodoo practice one day.

Sister Marie is so well known that she even has white clients. That is how I got to meet Mrs. Mason, whose husband is one of the richest men in town. Mrs. Mason is not at all what you’d expect, though. She practices Spiritualism, which is a type of religion where you hold seances and talk to the Dead.

Sister Marie tells me I should stay out of other people’s business, keep my head down and stick to my work. But I want to know what goes on at Mrs. Mason’s seances. After all, I’ve been visited by a few ghosts myself.

Can I help it if I see things? It’s not like I asked for this Gift. The visions just come. And when they do, I’ve got to speak my mind, even if it gets me in trouble.

Is it my fault that I know when someone is about to die?

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Death at a Séance is the first book in the NEW “Carrie McFarland Psychic” mystery series, released December 1, 2019.

Carrie McFarland’s psychic gifts land her in trouble wherever she goes.

The year is 1920. Corruption, bootleggers and the Klan are part of everyday life in Aronsville, Indiana. As an African American teenager, Carrie McFarland knows she must watch her step carefully. She’s already in hot water for putting a Love Hex under the pillow of the wealthy white man who seduced and abandoned her.

Carrie hopes she’s put the past behind her when she lands a job cleaning house for an eccentric Spiritualist. But when she foresees the death of a guest at her boss’s weekly séance, Carrie finds herself accused of murder. Intent on keeping her community from being torched by the KKK in retaliation for the slaying, Carrie enlists the help of two friends—a handsome young reverend and a notorious bootlegger. To uncover the truth, she will have to search for answers in the dark and dangerous world of spiritual frauds, gangsters and con men.

There’s a vicious killer loose in Aronsville. Will Carrie’s psychic powers save her from becoming the next victim?

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About the author
Carolyn Marie Wilkins is a jazz pianist, practicing Reiki Master, a Psychic Medium and an initiated Priestess of Yemaya, the African goddess of compassion, motherhood and the ocean.

Her other novels Mojo For Murder and Melody For Murder feature the crime-fighting exploits of Bertie Bigelow, a forty-something choir director and amateur sleuth living on the South Side of Chicago. Carolyn’s nonfiction work includes Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success; They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her, and Tips For Singers: Performing, Auditioning, Rehearsing.

When she is not writing or performing, Carolyn maintains a private practice in healing and mediumship. Her New Age Talk Show, Carolyn’s Psychic Playroom, can be seen monthly on Cambridge Community Television. Carolyn’s online class Magical Communication: How To Talk To Your Ancestors is available on Udemy.com.

To find out more, visit carolynwilkins.com.

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