Author: virginiaking
Naked and confused. Selkie Moon can’t remember. When Selkie Moon finds herself naked on a Hawaiian beach, she has no memory of the past two weeks. Recovering at a friend’s house, she wakes to find a bizarre collection of items scattered across the floor, items she apparently gathered in her sleep: a rock, a spoon, a message scrawled in lipstick … What do they all mean? Only her subconscious knows. mean? Only her subconscious knows. A dark fairy tale journey takes Selkie around the globe, from Honolulu to Sydney to Paris. Filled with mythical clues, fear and laughter, The Second Path has…
Thirty years ago, a baby boy was kidnapped …When Selkie Moon travels to Hong Kong to discover his fate, she has high hopes of using her psychic twinges to find him and reunite him with his father. Until the tea leaves on her flight make a chilling prediction.Then in a Kowloon night-market, Selkie witnesses a child abduction – and the echoes with her quest suddenly raise the stakes.As the … suddenly raise the stakes.As the strange events escalate and reach back into Chinese folklore, Selkie is forced to confront the powerful force that’s hell-bent on stopping her.The omens are unmistakeable.Someone…
Secrets. Lies.Visions?If you think you know your origins … think again. When Selkie Moon escapes her abusive marriage and reclaims the name her dead mother gave her, she lands in Hawaii with a little red suitcase and not much else.As she rebuilds her life, her new friends amuse her with stories from the local folklore. But when a vision appears to Selkie in a kahuna’s mirror, it unleashes a … Selkie in a kahuna’s mirror, it unleashes a series of events so strange and frightening that they begin to lift the lid on long-buried secrets.What really happened on the beach…
Murder. Magic. A ghost or two.Three spooky adult tales inspired by folklore:Once deep in a forest there lived a strange and magical woman. She had no mother or father, and no-one knew how she came to live alone in the crude hut she called home. But in their dreams, the local men were haunted by her beautiful presence for she had long hair that reached to her waist, the colour of spun gold. They … waist, the colour of spun gold. They called her Gilda.The Woman with Hair of Gold, retold from a Russian folktaleIt was when I was suddenly…
A hag’s pool. A ruined abbey. A house with a skull.Join award-winning mystery author Virginia King on this SHORT TALE of true travel, when her role as an accompanying delegate at a conference turned into an investigation of some of the spookiest places in Wales.Not only did the experience give her insights into herself, but it inspired an unexpected interest in the supernatural and her Selkie … interest in the supernatural and her Selkie Moon Mystery Series.Includes a sneak peek of the series prequel Laying Ghosts.more
A mysterious parcel. An unsolved crime. A spell from beyond the grave.After returning from her last strange quest, Selkie Moon is more than ready to settle down. So when she receives a parcel from her great grandmother 35 years after her death, opening it seems like such a bad idea.But curiosity wins and the objects it contains plunge Selkie into long-buried family secrets. Suddenly an old … family secrets. Suddenly an old mystery begins to echo with the present and she’s wrapped in a spell that won’t let go: frightening visions, deadly encounters and a pull from the past that…
A strange message. A deserted beach house. A shocking incident from the past … Rina.Rina? I stare at her name. How long’s it been? Four years without a word. My best friend Marina Polivanova. Rina for short. And then she abandoned me to chase after that creep Frank. I was gutted. Still am. And I was worried about her, worried what Frank would do to her. There were a few texts, then she stopped writing altogether.Hey, babe, I text back. Long time. Welcome back. How did you guess I’ve got a free weekend? Spooky.We were always saying that: spooky. Especially…
Seeking refuge from her troubles, Selkie flees to Hawaii — only to discover in an otherworldly encounter that she’s been followed. Can she escape her past… and outrun the clock? “Magical” (Kirkus Reviews).