Off the Main Road / Vivien

Two New Winslow stories in one volume! Off the Main Road Celine Richards is a young research assistant and grad student rethinking her life plans. When her boss invites her to join him on a trip to investigate claims of a cursed town, she decides that this will be the thing to help make up her mind. Dr. Jennings has been researching and theorizing about the New Winslow phenomena for years, but this time he has a contact within the town. Roman Beckett has been stuck for two years and is willing to join the experiment in exchange for potentially getting out from under the curse. Celine doesn't know what she expects, but this prickly twenty-three year old liquor store clerk isn't it. Still, she's intrigued. He might even be willing to let Celine try to use her not-so-secret abilities in order to help him. Maybe. If she promises not to blow him up.Off the Main Road is a prequel novella to the New Winslow series, featuring familiar characters twenty years earlier! Vivien Ten years ago, the New Winslow curse was finally broken. For teenage Jamie Beckett, that was just one big event in a season of big events that included threats to his family's safety, the arrival of his psychic abilities, and the start of his employment at The Countess Bed and Breakfast.Now twenty-six, Jamie has a happy life working full-time for The Countess and spending his off hours with his family back in New Winslow. In fact, everything would be just about perfect if it weren't for the flames burning at the inside of his skull as he tries to make breakfast for The Countess' guests. He doesn't know much about the spirit causing it, beyond the fact that she used to be a regular guest, his mother, Celine, never liked her, and her extraordinary powers have apparently survived her death. Jamie has sensed Vivien in the building for years, but she's never been this strong before and it's clearly time to help her move on.However, it's not going to be so easy, especially when Vivien's rage leads to a horrific situation that leaves Jamie guilt-ridden and unsure where to go from here. Vivien has no intention of leaving the Countess and it is going to take the combined efforts of Jamie, Celine, and their friends to stop her. But now that it's his turn, will Jamie have what it takes to save his home from an otherworldly danger?Vivien is a sequel story to the New Winslow series.