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Hesitant Mediums
Hesitant Mediums
Series · 3 books · 2021-2024
By
Belinda Kroll
Books in series
#1.5
Miss Preston's Predicament
2021
Introducing Tessa Preston in this Jane Austen meets ghost hunters short story
Approximately 5,500 words or 22 printed pages. For fans of Charlie N. Holmberg, Olivia Atwater, Tilly Wallace, and C. J. Archer! In this short story, the fashionable and eccentric dowager Dame Hartwell has lured the reclusive Miss Tessa Preston to attend her drawing room séance. If Dame Hartwell can't convince Miss Preston, her former protégé, to return as her medium-in-residence, she doesn't know how she will protect her son and his new fiancé from the brewing storm of malcontent spirits surrounding them. "Miss Preston's Predicament" is a short story between novels by Belinda Kroll. This story can be read as a standalone... but it includes characters and references events from her full-length historical fantasy novel,
Haunting Miss Trentwood
, the first book in the Hesitant Mediums series. Truly, we suggest you read Haunting Miss Trentwood first, but understand you must do what you must. Read this story for a fun, light read featuring historical fantasy, Victorian comedy of manners, and plucky feminine ghost hunter a la Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.
#1.75
An Inconvenient Séance
2023
Short story leading into A Spirited Engagment
It was a truth universally ignored that sons abhorred being sent to séances in search of a wife.
For fans of Olivia Atwater, Tilly Wallace, and Charlie N. HolmbergIn this short story (approx. 4,000 words) Jasper Steele has had enough of ghosts to last him a lifetime, so why is he attending a séance? Mostly to appease his mother, who worries about his head and his heart after his summer in the English countryside getting rejected by Mary Trentwood. Eloise Carterprice has never been one to let a good opportunity escape her, so it's only natural that her ghost appears during the latest séance hosted by her mother. Will Jasper find a bit of romance? Will Eloise have her bit of fun? Read on, dear Reader, read on! This is a short story bridge between
Haunting Miss Trentwood
and
A Spirited Engagement
. It is a companion to "Miss Preston's Predicament."
#2
A Spirited Engagement
2024
The second book in the Hesitant Mediums series
For fans of Sally Thorne, Tilly Wallace, Olivia Atwater, Charlie N. Holmberg It is a truth universally acknowledged that ghost brides are annoying romantic rivals. Making her reluctant return to London after a ten-year absence, Tessa Preston cannot hide her dismay at her employer's friendliness with Jasper Steele, the man who chased her away. To make matters more annoying, he's haunted by a most insistent ghost bride. Determined to prove her indifference to the charming Jasper, Tessa realizes the entitled ghost demanding his attention may not be all she seems. Meanwhile, unaware of Tessa's enmity, Jasper is delighted to have a second chance at her affections, and will let nothing, not even her cold stares, dampen his enthusiasm.
Author
Belinda Kroll
Author · 6 books