Jo Buer
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Jo Buer is a gothic suspense and paranormal mystery author living in New Zealand. She is a sucker for the supernatural, time travel, and all things woo-woo. From an early age she came to realise that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Jo lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary town with her husband and feline familiars, Atlas, Gaia, Zeus, and Hades. When not doting on her cats, devouring self-help books or gorging on chocolate, she writes slightly dark, sometimes scary, often ghostly stories with a smattering of romance.
Jo is also the host of the Alchemy for Authors podcast - a podcast to transform and supercharge your writing life with an emphasis on mindset and manifestation.
Genre:
- Adult Fiction
- Horror
- Short Stories
Skills:
- Novelist
- Short Story Writing
Branch:
Hamilton
Location:
Hamilton
Publications:
Rest Easy Resort
A cursed resort and unsettled ghosts will put one relationship to the ultimate test.
Hannah O’Connor wants to enjoy her honeymoon at the newly revived Rest Easy Resort with her true love by her side. Instead, her new husband is spending every moment on his phone, wrapped up in business calls and oblivious to the darkness closing in.
Hannah fills her time exploring the resort and inadvertently awakens an ancient curse that swirls and lashes in an ominous threat against everyone in its wake. Caught in a disorientating slip through time, Hannah finds herself faced with an impossible choice between love… and death.
Lives are in jeopardy. Marital bliss threatened by the hauntingly surreal. Will Hannah make the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loves?
Unspoken Truths
How far will one small town go to bury a haunting truth?
1939
Gwendolyn Davies is determined to make it on her own. In the sleepy little village of Te Tapu, she accepts a teaching position and finds love with a local farmer. Yet, behind the closed doors of the boarding house where she resides, terror reigns and secrets stack up.
Tortured.
Imprisoned.
Threatened.
Gwen’s only hope to survive is to risk her love, job and reputation, and escape before the secret she carries destroys them all.
Present Day
Riley Cooper is thrilled to win a teaching position at Te Tapu School until she learns of the town’s dark history.
An unsolved murder.
A mystery Te Tapu is eager to bury.
Unnerved by the discovery, Riley sets out to uncover the secrets others would kill to keep hidden. The voices of the dead refuse to be silenced, leaving Riley with an unforgiving choice.
What is she willing to pay to bring the truth to light? Her life… or her sanity?
A thrilling and compelling tribute to Wuthering Heights. Journey into the gothic suspense found in Te Tapu, and discover what Unspoken Truths are buried there!
Hades's Haunt
Magic. Murder. Mayhem.
Alice’s life just got a lot more complicated...
Grieving the loss of her mother, Alice Lovell is thrilled to learn she has one last living relative in the enchanting town of Widdershins. But Great Aunt Mara and her sassy black cat, Hades, are nothing like she expects.
Within 24 hours of arriving in Widdershins, Alice’s life is turned upside down when Mara unveils a shocking family secret before vanishing without a trace, leaving Alice accused of a chilling murder.
With the relentless local sheriff banging on her door, and Mr. Tall-Dark-and-Serious, a mysterious magical investigator, making himself at home in her head, Alice’s world spirals into chaos. And as if that wasn’t enough, her aunt’s mischievous cat, Hades, is up to something, and it’s got the living AND the dead rattled!
Unsure who to trust and with time running out, Alice has no choice but to find Mara, stop a killer, clear herself of murder, and clean up Hades's mess!
Hades’s Haunt is Book 1 in the Widdershins Magical Mystery Series, a spellbinding paranormal cozy mystery, where a quirky town, a mischievous cat, and untapped powers converge in a captivating tale of self-discovery and suspense.
Between: A Gothic Novella
In a house full of secrets, one woman’s need for the truth may cost her life.
Ink still wet on her divorce papers, Rhea Harding arrives at Cambre House yearning for nothing more than sanctuary from the horrors in her past.
The sprawling estate offers romantic décor and lush gardens… but it’s all just a picturesque façade. As the sun sets and shadows creep, the house shows itself to be something else. Something secretive. Something sinister. And its occupants, at first so welcoming, are keeping its secrets to themselves.
Unable to leave and unsure who to trust, Rhea’s hold on reality begins to slip away. Will she lay bare the truth of Cambre House? Or sacrifice her sanity—and life—for the peace she so desperately sought?
If you enjoy raw emotion, haunting prose, and spine-tingling suspense, then you’ll love Jo Buer’s newest gothic novella. Immerse yourself and discover the truth of what lies Between.