The Intangibles File: A Gathering of Heirs

It is 1870 and peculiar events are taking place inside Atlanta, Georgia’s exclusive Briarcrest Hotel. Nobody associated with the hotel, newly constructed upon the ashes of the Morgan Heirs’ burned-out hilltop home, Briars, wishes to talk about these events. Jeremy Carter, the hotel’s young desk clerk—though warned by his superiors to ignore unsettling “happenings”—watchfully and secretly records each incident as it occurs in a spare hotel registration ledger, a file he calls: Intangibles. In Briarcrest’s sixth year, absentee owner Morgana Heirs Moss returns from Virginia with her son Joshua, favoring her investment with a first inspection. Arriving unannounced and without reservations, she engages Carter in an immediate and ongoing conflict, later demanding to see Carter’s Intangibles file. Therein, she discovers multiple witnesses’ testimonies to bizarre incidents attributable to a ghostly figure who wanders the hotel’s corridors. When family members and former servants begin turning up unexpectedly under differing and sometimes frightening circumstances, Morgana arranges a reunion. What happens next is best left untold…here.

From the Publisher

YOU'VE GOT A NEW PUBLISHED AUTHOR IN TOWN! Frederick, MD -- 09/26/05 PublishAmerica is proud to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish The Intangibles File: A Gathering of Heirs, by Ormond Beach's Ann Gray. Executive Director Miranda Prather expressed confidence today that Ms. Gray's book will quickly resonate with an audience. "The Intangibles File: A Gathering of Heirs is a well written and crafted work of fiction that fits our specialty like a glove. PublishAmerica primarily publishes works by, for or about people who face a challenge in life, and who overcome it by turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones. We believe that Ms. Gray is a promising talent in this field."

About the Author

About The Author Author Ann Gray had been an established writer of short stories for many years when she decided to write her first novel: BRIARS: The House of Heirs. The book, set in her home state of Georgia during the Civil War era, was a reflection of her love for the history of the Old South. Married fifty-eight years to Norman Gray, a retired Television Director and Motion Picture Production Manager, Ann is also the mother of two adult children, Claudia Gray of Eugene, Oregon, a talented artist whose original designs for Ann’s book covers have been praised, and Steven Gray, Vice President of Program Scheduling and Editorial Management at PBS Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The senior Grays enjoy retirement in Ormond Beach, Florida.

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