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    Message by Chotchkies
    Message by Chotchkies
    Message by Chotchkies
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    Message by Chotchkies

    By Thea Hutcheson

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    When Maddie Robertson takes a job importing a statue of a Babylonian goddess from England to a gallery in Denver, it seems like a simple task--until a spirit in her house starts arranging the chotchkies on her bookshelf into messages of danger.  As she researches further, she discovers the goddess statue has a history of violence and despair, and Maddie finds herself in the thick of the desperate position the spirit warned against.  Worse yet, the knight the spirit showed her doesn't make an appearance, leaving Maddie to work out a solution for herself or pay the price.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLilac Moon Books
    Release dateFeb 20, 2017
    ISBN9781386557470
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      Message by Chotchkies - Thea Hutcheson

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      When Maddie Robertson takes a job importing a statue of a Babylonian goddess from England to a gallery in Denver, it seems like a simple task—until a spirit in her house starts arranging the chotchkies on her bookshelf into messages of danger. When she researches further, she discovers the goddess statue has a history of violence and despair, and Maddie finds herself in the thick of the desperate position the spirit warned against. Worse yet, the knight the spirit showed her doesn’t make an appearance, leaving Maddie to work out a solution for herself or pay the price.

      Message by Chotchkies

      © 2013 Thea Hutcheson

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      Lilac Moon Books

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Cover by Laura Givens

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      Maddie heard clinking and tinkling as she worked at the immense desk in the corner of her home office. The Herman Miller chair squeaked as she sat back and swiveled to look at the wall-to-wall pine bookshelves, thinking a breeze through the open window was tickling the Japanese mobile.

      No. Or at least not enough to make the rectangles of painted glass shiver and dance. She did smell someone’s barbecue, though, making her belly grumble.

      All six shelves lay in shadow; the books and chotchkies filling them made darker angles and oddly shaped lumps. That meant it was after seven. Her back ached from hunching over the keyboard for too long.

      Ordinarily, she was very strict about getting up and stretching, but this job had her all wound up. It started as a simple favor for Jordan Daniels to import a statue in time for a show some women artists were mounting in his gallery. She’d had downtime between research gigs and the money seemed easy enough. But it had turned into a Murphy free for all and Jordan had become a nightmare client.

      She stared at the glow-in-the-dark professor figure facing her, front and center on the third shelf from the top, right at eye level. Now that was odd. She pointed the desk lamp at the shelves. The blue gummy mummy sarcophagus stood between the professor and a troll wizard, and a silver dagger letter opener lay behind them, pointed at the professor. Maddie stared at the tip of the dagger catching the bright light of the lamp.

      All four knick knacks belonged on separate shelves. And she was reasonably certain they’d been in their usual places when she came in to work this morning.

      A shiver went through her and she swallowed, her mouth suddenly dry and fusty. The north Denver house had a reputation as haunted before she’d bought it, but she’d brushed it off, along with the notion that it was squarely centered on intersecting ley lines. Perhaps she shouldn’t have taken the stories so lightly.

      Standing up and stretching, she tried not to think about things moving about on her bookshelf and what that might mean given the house and its reputation.

      She was mistaken about the items moving. That was all. She’d moved them looking for some book or simply set them

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