Postcard For Reader

Guest Post: J.R. Turner (& Giveaway)

Introducing J.R. Turner, author of the Extreme Hauntings series!

Skater Kaylee Hensler might not be Miss Popular, but there are some friends a girl can do without. When the decaying ghost of a murdered girl decides they need to be total BFF’s, Kaylee will sacrifice the trust of her family, her swim coach’s respect, and any hope of a date for the Harvest Dance. And oh yeah… discover that super-evil entities are nothing at all like they are on TV or in the movies Aside from seriously bad attitudes, they not only like to kill…but replay the killing again and again for all eternity. To avoid that fate, she’ll have to rely on her wheelchair-bound friend Davey, the mysterious Madame Maggie, and the surprising depth of her own power. Will Kaylee survive, or will she become someone else's DFF: Dead Friend Forever?

Detour 2 Death is the third book in the Extreme Hauntings series. These are ghost stories, each set in a different location. The first, DFF: Dead Friends Forever is about a haunted house, the second, School’s Out 4-Ever is about a girls reformatory, and in Detour 2 Death, the haunting occurs in a hospital.

I think what makes the third book special is that Kaylee is really coming into her powers and finding out who she is as a person. Her ability to heal becomes a weight on her conscious during the course of the book. She questions how she can be expected to heal all the sick people in the hospital and worries she might heal a serial killer or a child molester. She finds some peace by the end of the book, but the next ones will challenge her greatly.

One of the themes in the series is growing much stronger than I expected it to. Because the characters are dealing with demons and souls, angels and religion grew in focus. These were not elements I planned on exploring, but between Kaylee’s father and his beliefs as a psychologist and her mother’s beliefs as a one-time student of angelology, the conflict has become very interesting, and important to the future books.

I sure didn’t plan on having an angel become a love interest or a shrink become the doubting Thomas in need of serious enlightenment. Yet these are what make me passionate about the series and I hope readers will find them as interesting as I do!

Thank you so much for being a part of my blog tour. To show my gratitude I’d like to offer a free book thong to one of your readers. I’ll draw a name from those who comment and announce the winner in a day or two. In the meantime, I’m happy to answer questions or simply respond to comments.

It’s a pleasure to be here!

Warmly,

Jenny :)