Shani Struthers

"This isn't a ghost we're dealing with. If only it were that simple..." Eighteen years ago, when psychic Ruby Davis was a child, her mother - also a psychic - suffered a nervous breakdown. Ruby was never told why. "It won't help you to know," the only answer ever given. Fast forward to the present and Ruby is earning a living from her gift, running a high street consultancy - Psychic Surveys - specialising in domestic spiritual clearance. Boasting a strong track record, business is booming. Dealing with spirits has become routine but there is more to the paranormal than even Ruby can imagine. Someone - something - stalks her, terrifying but also strangely familiar. Hiding in the shadows, it is fast becoming bolder and the only way to fight it is for the past to be revealed - no matter what the danger. When you can see the light, you can see the darkness too. And sometimes the darkness can see you.

The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light - or 'home' as Ruby calls it. Not just a job for Ruby, it's a crusade and one she wants to bring to the High Street. Psychic Surveys is born. Based in Lewes, East Sussex, Ruby and her team of freelance psychics have been kept busy of late. Specialising in domestic cases, their solid reputation is spreading - it's not just the dead that can rest in peace but the living too. All is threatened when Ruby receives a call from the irate new owner of Highdown Hall. Film star Cynthia Hart is still in residence, despite having died in 1958. Winter deepens and so does the mystery surrounding Cynthia. She insists the devil is blocking her path to the light long after Psychic Surveys have 'disproved' it. Investigating her apparently unblemished background, Ruby is pulled further and further into Cynthia's world and the darkness that now inhabits it. For the first time in her career, Ruby's deepest beliefs are challenged. Does evil truly exist? And if so, is it the most relentless force of all?

A series of standalone chilling ghost stories, that are also connected to the bestselling Psychic Surveys series. Are you brave enough to delve in?"That house, that damned house. Will it ever stop haunting me?"After her parents' divorce, five-year old Corinna Greer moves into Blakemort with her mother and brother. Set on the edge of the village of Whitesmith, the only thing attractive about it is the rent. A 'sensitive', Corinna is aware from the start that something is wrong with the house. Very wrong. Christmas is coming but at Blakemort that's not something to get excited about. A house that sits and broods, that calculates and considers, it's then that it lashes out - the attacks endured over five years becoming worse. There are also the spirits, some willing residents, others not. Amongst them a boy, a beautiful, spiteful boy... Who are they? What do they want? And is Corinna right when she suspects it's not just the dead the house traps but the living too? Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown HallPsychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to MePsychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore StreetPsychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross CottagePsychic Surveys Book Five: DescensionPsychic Surveys Book Six: LegionPsychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to KeepPsychic Surveys Book Eight: DUE OUT SPRING 2021Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys PrequelBlakemort (Corinna's story)Thirteen (Ness's story)Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story)This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The VenetianThis Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh FloorThis Haunted World Book Three: HighgateReach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: MandyReach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home FarmReach for the Dead Book Three: DUE OUT SUMMER 2021Jessamine Series: JessamineComraich Carfax House - A Christmas Ghost Story (standalone novella)

Although this is Book Four in the Psychic Surveys series, and some series elements continue, it can also be read as a STANDALONE.In a quiet Dorset Village, Old Cross Cottage has stood for centuries, overlooking the place where four roads meet. Marred by tragedy, it's had a series of residents, none of whom have stayed for long. Pink and pretty, with a thatched roof, it should be an ideal retreat, but as new owners Rachel and Mark Bell discover, it's anything but. Ruby Davis hasn't quite told her partner the truth. She's promised Cash a holiday in the country but she's also promised the Bells that she'll investigate the unrest that haunts this ancient dwelling. Hoping to combine work and pleasure, she soon realises this is a far more complex case than she had ever imagined.As events take a sinister turn, lives are in jeopardy. If the terrible secrets of Old Cross Cottage are ever to be unearthed, an entire village must dig up its past.

A snowstorm, a highway, a lonely hotel... Devastated by the deaths of her parents and disillusioned with life, Caroline Daynes is in America trying to connect with their memory. Travelling to her mother's hometown of Williamsfield in Pennsylvania, she is caught in a snowstorm and forced to stop at The Egress hotel - somewhere she'd planned to visit as her parents honeymooned there. From the moment she sets foot inside the lobby and meets the surly receptionist, she realises this is a hotel like no other. Charming and unique, it seems lost in time with a whole cast of compelling characters sheltering behind closed doors. As the storm deepens, so does the mystery of The Egress. Who are these people she's stranded with and what secrets do they hide? In a situation that's becoming increasingly nightmarish, is it possible to find solace?

From the author of the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, comes a brand new series of STANDALONE books, set in and around the world's most haunted places and blending fact with fiction. In Book One discover Venice, 'the world's most haunted city' and Poveglia, in the Venetian Lagoon, 'the world's most haunted island'. As soon as troubled couple, Louise and Rob arrive in Venice for a weekend break, events take a sinister turn. Louise is convinced that someone - or something - is following her as she and her husband explore the city's labyrinthine-like alleys. Her unease is heightened when they meet Italian couple, Kristina and Piero, in a restaurant one evening, who convince them to take a trip with them across dark waters to the island of Poveglia in the Venetian Lagoon - a former plague island and once home to a mental asylum. It is here that Louise learns about the tragic history of Charlotte Evans, the woman who has been targeting her..."A treasure trove of detail, filled with suspense and curiosity and a deftly crafted read you won't be able to put down." CMTS"A chilling tale made all the more sinister as Poveglia Island and the folklore surrounding its macabre history is real!" Amazon Customer"An absolute masterpiece." Sue Barnard"Shani Struthers is one of my favourite writers in the paranormal genre and this new series shows that she is moving from strength to strength." Caroline Maston