The Awakening – Book 1
The dead need her help. The living are hiding secrets.
Twenty-one-year-old Alma Wilmot thought the hardest part of her life would be figuring out what came after college.
Then the grandmother she was just getting to know died.
Now Alma has inherited Serenity’s Soul, a quirky shop in the Long Island village of Laykensville, a huge old Victorian farmhouse she barely remembers, and a responsibility she never asked for.
On her first day as proprietor, she starts seeing ghosts.
At first, the spirits only want help. Missing cash. A lost ring. A message that never reached the right person. But every answer uncovers new questions, and every solution pulls Alma deeper into a hidden world.
Her friends and the shop’s employees seem to know more than they’re saying. Strangers keep appearing at exactly the wrong moments. And whenever Alma thinks she’s finally starting to understand what’s happening, someone reminds her that seeing ghosts is only the beginning.
As Alma struggles to balance her increasingly impossible life, she begins to suspect that her grandmother left behind more than a business.
She left behind secrets.
And somehow, everyone seems to think Alma is supposed to know what they mean.
Perfect for fans of urban fantasy, supernatural mysteries, found family, slow-burn romance, and hidden magical worlds, The Awakening is the first book in The Chameleon Prophecy series.
W. A. Sotis 