Author Description

Centuries of frightening ghost stories haunt the small coastal community of St. Simons Island, Georgia. After taking a job as caretaker for the island’s notorious haunted lighthouse, aspiring horror author Paul Banks is about to find out these legends are not just true but also connected in this exciting paranormal cozy mystery. After completing graduate school, Paul moves in with his mother on St. Simons Island. He soon lands what he believes to be a low-stress job as the caretaker for the St. Simons Lighthouse, a historic site and a hotbed for supernatural accounts. In the meantime, Paul splits his time between writing and exploring the lighthouse. Only Paul begins to experience frightening paranormal activity that puts him in danger. With the help of Kelly, a mysterious, clever young woman and the local historian Jeremy, Paul begins to connect the area’s many ghost stories with the factual accounts they are based on. Such a connection leads Paul to realize that a curse on the island has led to several tragic deaths at the lighthouse. Can Paul and his friends break the centuries-old curse before it claims the lives of him and his loved ones? The Haunting of the St. Simons Island Lighthouse combines the thrills and suspense of a Darcy Coates paranormal cozy mystery with the striking setting of Eugenia Price’s St. Simons novels for an elegant southern ghost story full of twists and turns.