Marcia Talley - All Things Undying

‘Mmmmm.’ He nuzzled my neck.

‘Do you think the spirits can see us when we’re naked?’ I asked.

‘I suppose so.’

‘When we’re on the toilet?’

‘Sure.’

‘How about when we’re making love?’

Paul kissed my forehead, my nose and my lips, tickling them with his tongue in the way that drives me crazy. ‘Our last night in Dartmouth, Hannah.’

When I came up for air, I said, ‘But we’ll come back, won’t we? I just love it here.’

‘Of course. And we’ll stay at Horn Hill House, too.’

‘Paul?’ I asked as he began to nibble on my earlobe. ‘Do me a favor?’

‘What’s that?’ he mumbled

‘When we come back, let’s ask Janet for a different room.’

Marcia Talley’s first Hannah Ives novel, Sing It to Her Bones , won the Malice Domestic Grant in 1998 and was nominated for an Agatha Award as Best First Novel of 1999. Unbreathed Memories , the second in the series, appeared in 2000. Both were Featured Alternates of the Mystery Guild. She is also the editor of a collaborative serial novel, Naked Came the Phoenix , where she joins twelve bestselling women authors to pen a tongue-in-cheek mystery about murder in an exclusive health spa. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and collections.

Marcia lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband Barry, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. When she isn’t writing, she spends her time traveling or sailing. Marcia and her husband recently returned from the Bahamas, where they lived for six months on Troubadour , their thirty-seven-foot sailboat.