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    A Halloween Heart: A Romantic Holiday Story
    A Halloween Heart: A Romantic Holiday Story
    A Halloween Heart: A Romantic Holiday Story
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    A Halloween Heart: A Romantic Holiday Story

    By Rusty Fischer

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    Gemma Mathers is a tour guide at "Frightening Footsteps," a Ghost Walk company in Snowflake, South Carolina. It's Halloween and when only one guest shows for the tour, Gemma can hardly believe her good fortune at being stuck with handsome, young Greg Saunders all night. Or *is* it too good to be true? As real haunts start coming fast & furious, Gemma is convinced this will be a night to remember!

    This 4,924-word short story is 29 pages long.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRusty Fischer
    Release dateJul 27, 2013
    A Halloween Heart: A Romantic Holiday Story
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    Rusty Fischer

    Rusty Fischer is a full-time freelance writer, multi-published ghostwriter and the author of dozens of published books across a variety of genres, from nonfiction to fiction, including his popular A Living Dead Love Story series from Medallion Press. Visit him at www.rustyfischer.com to read more!

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      Book preview

      A Halloween Heart - Rusty Fischer

      A Halloween Heart:

      A Romantic Holiday Story

      By Rusty Fischer, author of A Town Called Snowflake

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      A Halloween Heart

      Rusty Fischer

      Copyright 2012 by Rusty Fischer

      Smashwords Edition

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      This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

      Cover credit: © Maksim Šmeljov – Fotolia.com

      This title was formerly released as Haunted Snowflake.

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      Author’s Note:

      The following is a FREE short story edited by the author himself. If you see any glaring mistakes, I apologize and hope you don’t take it out on my poor characters, who had nothing to do with their author’s bad grammar!

      Happy reading… and Happy Halloween!

      Enjoy!

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      A Halloween Heart:

      A Romantic Holiday Story

      Something wrong? he asks with a knowing grin as I check my watch for the third time in as many minutes.

      I’d resent the smirk if it wasn’t so genuine. And devilish. And charming.

      I mean, the guy’s done everything but hold my hand for the last ten minutes.

      No, not at all, I bluff, putting on my best walking ghost tour face as I straighten my old-timey bonnet. "I just, you know, this is supposed to be my biggest night

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