Guest Post with Author Mary Behre and Giveaway

Meet Mary Behre, author of Spirited.

Mary Behre is the lone female in a house full of males and the undisputed queen of her domain. She even has the glittery tiara to prove it. She loves stories with humor, ghosts, mysteries and above all else, a good romance. When not writing, she enjoys reading, gluten-free baking, and hanging out at the beach with the most important men in her life, her family.

Her debut paranormal romance, SPIRITED (Tidewater Novel #1) was an award-winning manuscript before it sold to Berkley Sensation. The Tidewater Series is mix of humor, suspense, and a psychic love-connection. The first three stories are about three sisters separated years before in the foster care system. As they search for love, each other, and a way to live with their psychic abilities, they’re tossed into the middle of mysteries that only their unique gifts can help solve.

Mary is represented by the fabulous Nalini Akolekar of Spencerhill Associates.

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Thank you for having me on Ramblings From This Chick. My name is Mary Behre and I’m here today to talk about my top five favorite ghost story movies. Yay! I love ghost stories and I love movies, so this is awesome.

Before I give you my list, Tonight Show style, I need to preface with a statement…I always figure out the big mystery within twenty minutes of a movie. So I refer to my husband, The Cool Engineer, to be the gauge for deciding if a movie was or was not predictable.

5. High Spirits—This little known gem starred Steve Guttenberg and Daryl Hannah. Unlike the rest of the stories on the list, it was a romantic comedy. The premise of the movie was that the owner of a dying castle in Ireland, decides to turn his ancestral home into a spooky hotel for American guests. The castle is supposedly haunted, not that he believes it. But when the guests arrive, the ghosts, offended at being mocked decide to show him how a haunted castle should really look. There were two love stories involving ghosts and mortals, that just made the movie-goer want everyone to get their happily ever after.

4. The Shining (1980)— No ghost story list could be complete without a Stephen King mention. This movie was scary and creepy and great. But even as a kid, I couldn’t buy the idea of a ghost becoming corporeal. They’re ghosts. Souls without bodies. They cannot just create one from nothing. And yet, I still love how Jack Nicholson became John Torrance so convincingly. How the ghosts drove him to madness. That I could believe. Years after I saw the movie, I read the book. Oh, my GOSH! A thousand times better than the movie and the story was so different. If you haven’t read the book, pick it up and it’s sequel Dr. Sleep to find out what happened to Danny, after he grew up.

3. The Others—This ghost story starred Nicole Kidman as a mother trying to care for her children who had a rare allergy to sunlight. A well-written ghost story that had an ending The Cool Engineer said wasn’t predictable. I loved her interactions with the ghosts. Her fear of them and her need to get them out of her house. And the ending—whether or not I predicted it—was powerful.

2. Ghost—What can I say, I’m a romance writer at heart. I love that he stuck around to solve his own death and to protect his lover. And hello, Whoopi Goldberg as a pseudo-medium was hilarious when she learned she really could talk to the dead.The only thing I didn’t like is the ending. The couple didn’t end up together. But, the way it was written they couldn’t. Still, the fact that there was no happily ever after is what kept this story squarely in second place on my list.

1. The Sixth Sense—This movie is my absolute favorite. What I loved most about the movie is that the ghosts are not monsters. The fear and tension created in each scene comes from the living person’s reaction to seeing a ghost. I love that the ghosts are given reasons for being there, such as unfinished business or they don’t know they’re dead. Plus, have you seen the movie? Brilliant writing and directing. I’m a cheapskate and will often wait until the movie is out on DVD or On Demand through the cable company before I’ll watch it. I saw this one twice in the theater just to make sure I hadn’t missed any clues. I had. But I had because of the brilliant writing and directing.

So that’s my list of my top five favorite ghostly movies. What do you think? Agree or disagree? Have a movie to add?

Thank you again, for hosting me on Ramblings From This Chick!

She’s running from who she is…...

All Jules Scott wants is to live a normal, quiet life—preferably one that doesn’t include ghosts. Jules’s talent for communicating with the dead has brought her nothing but trouble. Despite her best efforts, needy spirits always find her and draw her into their otherworldly drama. When one implicates her in a series of deadly crimes, she may need to entrust her secrets to the person least likely to believe her.…

He’ll do whatever it takes to catch her.

Detective Seth English can’t get distracted from the big case he’s working on, not even by his alluring new neighbor. He doesn’t believe that Jules had anything to do with the string of robberies-turned-murders that he’s investigating, but when she keeps showing up in all the wrong places, his gut tells him she knows more than she’s letting on. To solve his case, he’ll need to expose what the sexy redhead is hiding—no matter how impossible the truth may be….

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• 1 copy of Spirited

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