Warm Moonlight (Kindle Single)

'I'd like to tell you a story', an old woman says to her beloved great-granddaughter - and thereby hangs a tale . . . . and what a tale . . . In 'Warm Moonlight', Joseph Wurtenbaugh, the author of 'The Old Soul', presents a supernatural tale done his way. It's a thrilling story of adventure and rescue, of escape and revenge, set in New England in the early days of Prohibition. Written in the great storytelling tradition, 'Warm Moonlight' has all the intensity of a got-to-hear-how-it-ends campfire yarn, but with a decidedly adult sophistication and sensibility. The ending is unique and satisfying, but leaves the audience, like one of the characters in the story, wondering - how much of it was true? How much invented? Can such things be? Maybe it's a ghost story or . . . . maybe it isn't.

Amazon.com Review

Joseph Wurtenbaugh, author of The Old Soul--one of the 10 Best Kindle Singles of 2012 So Far--returns with a very different story for his second Kindle Single. The scene is New York City, 1986. Our protagonist, the octogenarian daughter of long line of sea merchants, wiles away the hours of a late summer afternoon, quietly sipping tea with her great-granddaughter. "Susan," she says, "I would like to tell you a story." Soon we are transported back to the old woman's youth, and the tale she tells--part ghost story, part redemption narrative--expertly conveys a heavy sense of foreboding with a light linguistic touch. The result proves once again that Wurtenbaugh is a first-order conveyor of the macabre, a writer who is sure to delight fans of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen King in equal measure. --Jason Kirk

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