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.

Broken Lies

In a village held hostage by lies, the dead refuse to be silenced.

1964, Te Tapu Village, Aotearoa New Zealand

When eighteen-year-old Maggie Carrie follows her best friend into the glade behind the primary school, she knows it will be a mistake. The older boys joining them are trouble. One is an O’Regan… and that makes him dangerous.

But what she doesn’t know is that some mistakes are inescapable. Some must be lived again and again, night after night, decade after decade, until those she loves are hurt, too.

2015

Something has changed at Te Tapu Primary School. The presence of a mysterious plaque on the caretaker’s shed seems to have awoken an evil long thought put to rest – a watchful presence, hungry for retribution.

Natalie Sullivan, a fiercely headstrong teacher, senses the darkness immediately. When a troubled child with a special gift joins her class, she knows she must protect him. But in doing so, she must confront her own family’s tangled past – even if that means hurting the people closest to her. Every truth unearthed reveals the lies that have poisoned Te Tapu for generations.

Because in this village, the past isn’t buried… it merely waits.

Broken Lies begins where Unspoken Truths ends, delivering a haunting, contemporary gothic mystery with generational secrets so powerful that love and hate transcend life… and death.

Hunger Pangs

Everyone hungers for something…

Running from a violent past and desperate for a fresh start, Cara Jennings is relieved when she’s offered a position at the mysterious Nysa Grove School.

Nestled among wild gardens and steeped in rustic, otherworldly beauty, Nysa Grove seems almost too perfect. It doesn’t take long, however, for Cara to sense that all is not as it seems at Nysa Grove.

There’s Sebastian, the handsome deputy principal whose mercurial moods seem to carry unspoken warnings. And there’s Deanna, the revered principal who speaks in riddles, bakes with uncanny devotion, and appears to hold the entire school in thrall.

As strange visions plague Cara, and children disappear, she finds herself questioning everything — and everyone. What secrets are her colleagues hiding?

Haunted by the ghosts of her own past, Cara must decide how much of herself she will sacrifice for the thing she craves most: belonging.

A haunting gothic tale of desire and the quiet horrors of institutional devotion, Hunger Pangs explores what we are willing to consume — and become — in order to be accepted.