Mystic Ridge: A Lesbian Paranormal Novel by Foxglove Lee

At long last, my new novel has hit the market!

Mystic Ridge is a book that features all your favourite ghost story themes and a queer cast of characters. If you love a supernatural tale that begins with one character inheriting a haunted house from an unknown relative, I'll do you one better: the girlfriends in my novel inherit an entire haunted summer resort!

It's October as I write this--the perfect month to read something spooky. So be sure to get your hands on Mystic Ridge. It's the perfect accompaniment to a grey, rainy day or a long, dark night.

Mystic Ridge: A Novel
By Foxglove Lee
Ebook ISBN: 9781005901394
PRINT ISBN-13: 9798697357880

When Beverly Landry inherits Mystic Ridge, a glorious yet neglected summer resort, she and her girlfriend begin a new life in the small town of Lament. As soon as Bev’s girlfriend, Cate, arrives on the ridge, she’s plagued by terrifying nightmares involving the death of a beautiful young woman. Everywhere Cate goes, she’s followed by black mist and glowing red eyes. When she sleeps, a demonic force guides her toward the ridge. Every day brings a new vision of death. 

If they stay in Lament, someone is sure to die.

Will Mystic Ridge tear Cate and Bev apart for good, or will a league of unlikely friends help the couple defeat the evil living on their land?

There are many places to buy Mystic Ridge. The following list is nowhere near exhaustive. Look for it at your favourite book retailer!

Universal Link: https://books2read.com/b/bwdede

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KWLTCH7?tag=foxglovelee-20
Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08KWLTCH7
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KWLTCH7
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08KWLTCH7
Germany: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08KWLTCH7

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/Search/Query?fcmedia=Book&query=9781005901394 
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1535689766 

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1048373?ref=RainbowCrush
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=wm0CEAAAQBAJ

Read it at Radish: https://radish.app.link/yG1jXdsgDab

DriveThru Fiction: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/332021/Mystic-Ridge 

Angus & Robertson: https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/ebooks/mystic-ridge-foxglove-lee/p/9781005901394

Vivlio: https://www.vivlio.fr/ebooks/mystic-ridge-9781005901394_9781005901394_10020.html
Thalia: https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/ID149846352.html

A Teacup for Trilby: A Heartwarming Holiday Story

We all have different needs, when it comes to the kinds of stories we want to hear around the holiday season. 

Some readers love escaping into a land of sugar and spice that in no way resembles real life. Other readers feel isolated by sappy-happy stories because they don't see themselves and their lives reflected. 

There's a place for the sappy stuff. There's a please for stark realism. Both are valid forms of entertainment.

Growing up as a queer kid in a situation of domestic violence, I hated the feel-good Christmas movies my mother loved. All the happy smiling people just reminded me how rotten my little life was. I wanted representation. I looked for fiction that was darker, fiction that reflected the fear I was experiencing in my own life.

As an adult, I appreciate the need for escapism more and more. As I write this post, I'm watching some kind of musical family Christmas special on TV. Little me would be rolling her eyes, big-time. But the world is just so awful sometimes. It helps to absorb other families' joy, even if it's fictional.

Having said all that, I would like to introduce the story I've written for you this Christmas.

A Teacup for Trilby sits somewhere between those two extremes of happy-sappy and stark realism. It's about a little girl spending Christmas at a shelter for women and children escaping domestic violence. 

You might think a story about being homeless for the holidays would be a total bummer, but I'm hoping that's not the case here. My main character, Amelia, befriends Trilby, a lovely older trans woman, and they pretty much adopt each other as grandmother and granddaughter. When Trilby is wronged, Amelia is the first one who wants to stick up for her. But what good can she do? She's only a child.

These characters experience great challenges, but, in the end, they are rewarded with love and acceptance. And I think that's something we're all looking for, especially this time of year.

Start a new tradition today by reading A Teacup for Trilby, a heartwarming holiday story from me, Foxglove Lee, for you, with love and affection.

A Teacup for Trilby
A Heartwarming Holiday Story
By Foxglove Lee

Amelia and her family are homeless this Christmas. How can their days be merry after they’ve lost everything?

When Trilby arrives at the shelter just in time for the holidays, Amelia’s family takes the older trans woman eagerly into their hearts. Trilby reminds the young girl of her late grandmother, who was always so loving and supportive. Everyone is over the moon when a wealthy benefactor arranges a festive shopping trip for the shelter’s residents, but the evening goes sour when a cold-hearted shop assistant denies Trilby the only gift she really wants. Can anyone set things right? And can they do it in time for Christmas?

You can purchase the ebook at many retailers, including:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L7L62G5?tag=foxglovelee-20
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/911689?ref=RainbowCrush
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=wxN-DwAAQBAJ
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/a-teacup-for-trilby-a-heartwarming-holiday-story
Universal Link: https://www.books2read.com/b/3yDA1n

You can also find it at the following and other subscription sites:
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/395417647/A-Teacup-for-Trilby-A-Heartwarming-Holiday-Story
Playster: https://play.playster.com/books/10009781370260881/a-teacup-for-trilby-a-heartwarming-holiday-story-foxglove-lee

And at Radish: https://radish.app.link/yrljelwZzS

New Genderqueer Young/New Adult Fiction: You Can Never Go Home Again

Before I tell you about my newest novelette, I want to let you know that if you're reading this post prior to October 6th, 2016 you can get You Can Never Go Home Again FREE from instaFreebie.  

Go grab it now. It's okay. I'll wait: https://www.instafreebie.com/book/15722

Okay, back to the book.

This is a good one. I wrote it in anticipation of Thanksgiving--the Canadian one that's coming up this weekend. I figured a lot of readers might be looking for a story to read while heading home to see family, as my main character is doing at the start of the story.

If you're looking for spooky fiction with a genderqueer main character, you found it!

What if you came home for Thanksgiving and your family home had disappeared?

Picture this: You started your first year at university a couple months ago and you haven’t been home since. You miss your parents, but you’ve learned a lot about yourself living away. Your family was accepting when you came out queer, but everything’s different now that you’re questioning your gender identity too. Even if you can work up the nerve to tell your parents, will they ever understand?

That’s the least of your concerns when you get home to find your house isn’t there. It’s just… gone! The neighbours have no idea who you are. What happened to your family? How can you find them? And does anyone remember the way things used to be?

A Paranormal LGBTQ Young Adult Novelette


Grab a copy of You Can Never Go Home Again while it's free or snap it up for a couple bucks from one of the following ebook retailers:

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1161260848
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/ebook/you-can-never-go-home-again-2

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1AWXYO?tag=foxglovelee
Amazon Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01M1AWXYO
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M1AWXYO

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=qZEsDQAAQBAJ

The Robber

I've got a lot of explaining to do.

Not in a bad way. I just want to tell you a little about the new short story I have on the market.  It's called The Robber and, leading up to the release of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Inner Strength (which includes an intense little story from my life), The Robber is available as a FREE download at Amazon.

So where does the explaining come in? Well, here's the thing: I wouldn't exactly classify The Robber as Young Adult fiction, like the rest of my books.  Although the protagonist is ten years old (it's her birthday in the story), I feel the story is better classified as literary fiction for adults.  It's not that there's anything specifically "adult" or offensive in terms of the content (aside from harsh language and distressing situations), but I still wanted to put a bit of a content warning out into the world.

Why the tie-in with this new Chicken Soup for the Soul book? (which you can pre-order here, by the way: http://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Soup-Soul-Empowering-Resilience-ebook/dp/B00IWTWFYK/ref=foxglovelee-20 )

Because while The Robber is a fictionalized version of events from my young life, my story It Takes A Village in CSS Find Your Inner Strength is a true story from roughly the same era. They both deal with substance abuse and family violence.

The Robber will be free at all Amazon sites starting today and ending on the release day of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Inner Strength, which is October 28th.

You can find The Robber at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ODBV4AM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ODBV4AM
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00ODBV4AM

Literary short fiction from the author of Tiffany and Tiger's Eye:

Samantha’s celebrating her tenth birthday, but turning “double digits” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Her special day is dampened not only by her mom burning the chicken fingers and making her go to Girl Guides, but also by the fact that she knows "the robber" will be coming later that night. After all, birthday cards mean birthday money, and birthday money is sure to attract him.

Sam and her younger sister Tory have tried for years to find the perfect hiding spot, but the robber always finds any bits of cash tucked away in their underwear drawers, or in the pyjama doll, or the hollow base of the ugly ceramic unicorn from Grandma Macintyre. It's only a matter of time before the robber arrives at Samantha’s bedroom door.

Not every horror story is supernatural…

You can find The Robber at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ODBV4AM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ODBV4AM
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00ODBV4AM