Jeanie Freeman-Harper

The story of the Hotel Galvez Bride, long considered to be little more than an urban legend, is captured in the novel of tragic young love. Although the story has circulated for more than six decades, the reality has yet to surface. Rookie reporter Emery Rose sets out on a mission to find that truth. Her search draws her into powerful forces outside herself and brings her into a self discovery that changes her life. Set in both 1950s and modern day Galveston Island, this story leads the reader into fast paced intrigue and suspense at every turn of the page.

"A Mist in the Pines" is the second novella in a trilogy that begins with "Jesse McCann". The story continues into 1913, in the rugged East Texas saw mill town of Morgans Bluff where nothing is ever as it appears. Jesse's wife, Annie, owner of Morgans Mills and mother to their twenty year old daughter Katie, is expecting their second child. Life is at last peaceful and prosperous. Suddenly everything changes. An old adversary and mill violence brings conflict and danger into their serene life. Just as all seems lost, a surprising secret spirit returns to protect against evil forces surrounding Jesse and his unborn child.