Hello. I’m Juniper Palmer-Young and I see dead people! Err, that’s a lot to handle, isn’t it? Okay, let’s back up. I’m Juniper and I run Spirited Construction with my partner Jack Young. We specialize in historic home renovation and rehab, but we started out flipping houses.
My favorite part of the house flipping process would have to be taking the before pictures, assessing the potential and envisioning the new layout. I know I’m a weirdo but nothing says complete me like the morning sun illuminating a building’s decaying cobwebs and chipped stone. And don’t even get me started on spooky old exteriors. I just love it when the paint is peeling and the shutters are hanging all askew. Sure, it means that there is plenty of work to be done, but there’s nothing more satisfying than restoring a derelict old home. I guess you could say I’m a sucker for a project. I’m also a sucker for a mystery, and as it seems—for me at least—those go hand-in-hand.
So, what does a day in the life of Jack and Junie look like? Well, it usually involves a thick roll of blueprints, a couple of lattes from the Cookies & Corsets Café, and a skeleton or two in the closet. Of course, it’s not always a skeleton, sometimes it’s a fresh body and other times it’s a smarmy ghost. Okay, it’s not always a closet either. That’s just a fun saying. Sometimes it’s a trunk in the attic, a roller in the mill or there was this one time. . . you know what, never mind, I think you get the picture.
Anyway, my point is I’m not your typical house flipper and perhaps these aren’t exactly typical days. I can tell you there have been far too many of them since I moved to Jack’s hometown of Bohemian Lake. This small lakeside community is a hotbed for trouble and a magnet for paranormal activity. To say my life is normal would be a lie, but then again, I am always ripping up old flooring and tearing into one-hundred-year-old walls. There’s bound to be a ghost with a secret or two attached, and with those secrets come killers desperate to keep them locked inside.
Black Cats, Corpses and the Pumpkin Pantry is the fifth book in the “Haunted House Flippers” cozy mystery series, released May 31, 2020.
If you love the changing of the leaves, legends of lunacy, and pandemonium in the pumpkin patch, you’ll want to one-click this book today!
Jack & Juniper are back, ripping up old carpets & exposing the secrets beneath in Black Cats, Corpses & the Pumpkin Pantry, Rachael Stapleton’s fifth installment in the hilarious Bohemian Lake mystery series.
House flippers Jack & Juniper agree to fix up the Von Tassel mansion, an old Dutch farmhouse estate known as Sleepy Hollow, which happens to be hosting this year’s Haunted Pumpkin Patch festivities. They’re expecting old carpets, and warped posts, not a revolutionary war ghost.
But when some of Bohemian Lake’s local teens come across a body in the pumpkin patch, they nearly lose their heads.
Juniper thinks the headless horseman is just a silly ghost story. Until the body turns out to belong to a missing local. After that, another death occurs with a scandalous connection to the Sleepy Hollow Estate. Now rumors of the Hessian soldier once again rise up from the grave and gallop across the lips of the Bohemian locals.
It’s up to Juniper and her friends to chase down the town’s notorious killer. Will they be treated to a Halloween beheading or is this all a trick?
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Meet the author
Rachael Stapleton lives in a Second-Empire Victorian with her husband, children and pets in Canada, eh! She delights in writing about all things cozy, whether it’s a crisp autumn morning or hot chocolate by a crackling fire. Of course, she also loves the strange and unusual—murder, mayhem and wee ghosties. The fact that her house is the quintessential haunted old Victorian, resembling something out of a Scooby-doo episode could have something to do with it. To get exclusive updates on new releases, giveaways, and exclusive content, subscribe to Rachael Stapleton’s newsletter here. Follow and connect with Rachael on Facebook, her FB Group, on Amazon, or on BookBub.
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