On the Gulf Coast, Things Don’t Just Go Bump in the NightThey Terrorize You and Sometimes You Disappear!The paranormal investigators at Gulf Coast Paranormal thought they knew what they were doing. Midas, Sierra, Sara, Mike and Peter had over twenty years’ experience investigating supernatural activity on the Gulf Coast. But when they meet Cassidy, a young artist with a strange gift, they realize … strange gift, they realize there’s more to learn. And time is running out for Cassidy.
When Gulf Coast Paranormal begins investigating the ghosts of Kali Oka Road, they find an entity far scarier than a few ghosts. Add in the deserted Oak Grove Plantation, and you have a recipe for a night of terror.
Ready to go ghost hunting? You’ll enjoy this supernatural suspense novel. It’s the first in the Gulf Coast Paranormal series.
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This is not a perfect book, but man did I have fun reading it. The story opens with two high school kids parking on Kali Oka Road to make out. Instead, they end up having a fight. The girl jumps out of the car and the boy threatens to leave her. Then something terrible and seemingly supernatural happens and the girl’s wrist is suddenly dropped near her boyfriend followed quickly by her severed head. Panicking, as anyone would, the boy actually does the right thing—he races to the police with his story and ends up in psychiatric observation. No sign of the girl (or her severed body parts) are discovered and the young man spends the rest of his life under suspicion of having murdered her. But we know he didn’t—and he wants answers to what happened and the supernatural things he saw the night she died.
Enter Cassidy, a wealthy young woman who is haunted by the disappearance of her sister, and who is occasionally driven to paint her visions. This time when she paints a mansion in her dreams, she starts to experience what happened to a woman nearly two centuries ago. Her vision drives her to seek out a semi-professional group of ghost hunters calling themselves Gulf Coast Paranormal who are actually already looking into the mansion—which was on the road where the young girl was murdered in the first chapter.
Everyone in this story, the high school sweethearts, Cassidy and her ex-boyfriend, the two co-owners of Gulf Coast Paranormal, and most importantly, the ghosts on Kali Oka Road are having major relationship problems. I predicted this would be the key to solving the supernatural mystery but you’ll have to read the book to find out if I was right. What we definitely get is a supernatural problem that pulled me right in and kept me happy for every page of the novel. As I said in my opening statement, the story isn’t perfect. Everything isn’t tied together with a nice little bow and that means that I didn’t learn enough about a couple elements of the mystery, but I loved what M. L. Bullock gave me. The characters were fantastic and believable and the tensions their personalities generated really boosted the story. In addition, the supernatural elements really worked for me. And there are enough threads—plot lines not tied to the primary mystery—to have me eager to dive into the next novel.
This is going to be a great series.
Definitely recommend this book. You think you know what’s going to happen and it never happens
First book in a series, and yes, I’ve read All of them by now. The books aren’t very long- at least they don’t seem to be at the rate I’m reading them. The chapters shift as narrations from first person POV of various characters. It gives a nice set of reactions from personal viewpoints, and the characters are varied and interesting. and very human. Yes, parts of the stories are very creepy, and not all of them have a “happily ever after”. Just like real life.
Was good, just kind of a different story line than I expected. Slow in a few spots.
Just okay
Took forever to get through and is part of a series. I don’t mind that if it goes somewhere, but this one fell short.
Easy to get into and keep turning pages.
This was a fun, easy to read ghost story. I have read several of Bullock’s ghost stories and find them very entertaining. Her characters have interesting supernatural abilities and the plots are fast pace. I found this book a great way to relax in the evenings.
I enjoyed this book a lot. A few good twists and I was hooked.
Excellent read
I would have given 5 stars but the ending seemed anticlimactic and rushed compared to the rest of the novel! Over all was a great read but the ending detracted greatly from my experience!
Read this as the start of a series, and have been reading my way through the rest! An original series about a group of paranormal investigators, which isn’t something you run into often, so I thoroughly enjoy their investigations. I’m hoping there are more coming, because I’m almost to the end!
I like it
This book is just plain fun. It is like being a part of real ghost hunters and experiencing lives from the past. Fun.
Very good read wish it didnt end the way it did but was a good read
Love this book, and the subject matter. Definitely going to read on in this series. (And visit some of these locations on my next trip to Mobile!)
I would advise anyone that loves an excellent ghost story should read all of M. L. Bullock’s books.
I enjoy a paranormal mystery or thriller now and then, but this one was so over the top, I couldn’t get past the opening chapter where a horny football player’s girlfriend is taken and dismembered by an owl-like demon (complete with her hand followed by her head falling to earth) and the boy’s life being saved by an antebellum spectre. Perhaps it might make a great read for you, but she lost me.