The Reaper Chronicles

Series · 4 books · 2021-2023

By Apryl Baker

Books in series

Reaper

2021

Ella Grace Banks—I’m an Army brat, so I’m numb to being yanked out of school and moving no matter the time of year. Dad doesn’t care that we were only about a month from finishing school, that it’s my baby sister’s freshman year in high school. Why would he, though? He cares more about the stupid military than he does us.That’s how we ended up in Jacob’s Fork, West Virginia.My very first day, I was the victim of a hit and run accident that left me in a coma where there’s nothing but dark scary things.The reality waiting for me when I wake up is even scarier—I’m told I’m a living reaper who will forever see ghosts, and it’s my job to help them move on from the world of the living. I mean, this is not me. I’m the girl who’d rather run around in sweats, a t-shirt, and flip flops with a book in my hand than try to convince ghosts they need to cross over.And then there’s Eli. He’s my Guardian Angel, apparently. His job is to protect me, and that means maybe even from my dad, whose military unit kidnaps supernatural creatures and studies them. But can anyone actually protect me from a world of spooks and the people trying to harm us?I guess that’s what we’re about to find out.

Hijinks & Misdemeanors

2021

Learning to be a living reaper is hard enough, but discovering your own father captures other paranormal beings to experiment on for the government? It’s something Ella Banks is trying to come to terms with. She’s starting to hate him a little because he’s not about to retire from the military, and she’s not about to change her mind that what he’s doing is just plain wrong. This fact becomes even more apparent when a dragon shifter goes missing in town and the sheriff shows up to question Ella about her father’s comings and goings. She’s all but certain her dad took the shifter, and it’s tearing her apart. Should she betray her father, or should she stand up for the paranormal community? She’s at a loss as to what to do. Before she can even begin to figure it out, she’s attacked in her home, and Eli, her Guardian Angel, starts to think her father’s superiors suspect Ella is something more than human. And then there’s the guy who seems to have taken an interest in her. He’s cute, a football player, and a shifter. Another complication. It’s all just a little much to deal with, and Ella decides tackle one thing at a time. First on the agenda is investigating what really happened to the dragon shifter, but along the way, her sister falls into the line of fire. And it’s up to Ella and Eli to find the answers…before everything falls apart.

The Reaping Season

2021

There is a fear of the dark that lives deep inside us all. It’s embedded into our primal instincts, and no matter how old we get, it never goes away. We can lie to ourselves, but we can’t lie to what waits for us in the night. The townspeople of Jacob’s Fork, West Virginia know this all too well. Deep in the mountains there is a secret shrouded in the shadows, one that is whispered about to frighten and protected for reasons too unspeakable to bear the light of day. A secret that emerges once every thirty years. It’s called The Reaping Season. Jacob’s Fork becomes a ghost town after sunset. Shops close, school functions are canceled, and you sit inside your home, praying it doesn’t know where you are and come for you. And now, Ella Grace has landed herself smack in the middle of it all. Will she learn the truth, or will The Reaping Season claim her instead?

Lake Cree

2023

Come one, come all to the Lake Cree Amusement Park, where you won't find just games, rides, and a funhouse, but a park full of ghostly haunts! Ella Grace loves Halloween. It's her favorite holiday. What other holiday celebrates scary rides, haunted houses, haunted hayrides, candy corn, and all other manor of frightful things? Eli is not so in love with the holiday that celebrates all the things that can hurt you. But he does love amusement parks. So, when Jordan invites them all to attend the soft opening of the Lake Cree Amusement Park, he grudgingly gives in to Ella and they all head to the park where they will be locked in for the night. Only the park is the home of an ancient force and an even deadlier presence, the very land itself bloodsoaked with a dark and violent history. And all Supernaturals know that on All Hallows Eve, the veil between good and evil, the living and the dead, is at its weakest. Can they survive long enough to find a way off the island, or will they be the next victims of Lake Cree?

Author

Apryl Baker

Author · 52 books

So who am I? Well, I'm the crazy girl with an imagination that never shuts up. I LOVE scary movies. My friends laugh at me when I scare myself watching them and tell me to stop watching them, but who doesn't love to get scared? I grew up in a small town nestled in the southern mountains of West Virginia where I spent days roaming around in the woods, climbing trees, and causing general mayhem. Nights I would stay up reading Nancy Drew by flashlight under the covers until my parents yelled at me to go to sleep. Growing up in a small town, I learned a lot of values and morals, I also learned parents have spies everywhere and there's always someone to tell your mama on you. So when you get grounded, what is there left to do? Read! My Aunt Jo gave me my first real romance novel. It was a romance titled "Lord Margrave's Deception." I remember it fondly. But I also learned I had a deep and abiding love of mysteries and anything paranormal. As I grew up, I started to write just that and would entertain my friends with stories featuring them as main characters. Now, I live Huntersville, NC where I entertain my family and watch the cats get teased by the birds and laugh myself silly when they swoop down and then dive back up just out of reach. The cats start yelling something fierce...lol. I love books, I love writing books, and I love entertaining people with my silly stories. You can reach me at any of these places: Blog: http://apryl-baker.blogspot.com/ Twitter:@AprylBaker The Promise Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2zTi... PS: DO NOT GET IN MY WAY IF THERE IS A SALE ON AT TARGET - my home away from home!