Budget Body Movers
Hillary Stone
Author Bio
Hillary Stone grew up in a small town where her mother was the city librarian. She always loved to read and spent many happy hours lost in the wonderful world of books. Her dream was to be a writer when she grew up.
But time flew by quickly as she got married, raised two sons and taught school. Before she realized, it she was retiring after twenty-five years of teaching. But her dream never died, nor did her interest in the paranormal. Determined to fulfill her goal of becoming a writer, she wrote “Budget Body Movers”. The idea for the book came to her over twenty years ago when she was at a club and saw an old black hearse piled full of rock and roll albums. It was going to be given away on Halloween night. She didn’t win the contest, but the idea for “Budget Body Movers was born.
Hillary now lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with her husband. When she is not hard at work on the second book in the Blood Circle Series, she loves to travel and read any thing scary. She would love to hear from you and can be reached at hillaryannstone@gmail.com
Description
Two women driving a hearse for a living is strange enough, but drop disco and vampires in the mix and you have “Budget Body Movers,” the scary, sometimes funny and finally tragic story of two single women just trying to make a living.
Every year in October when the leaves turned red, gold and brown and jack-o-lanterns decorated neighborhood yards, Lucky Day suffered from horrible nightmares. Her father disappeared when she was five years old on Halloween night, and Lucky thought it might have been her fault. It didn’t help that whenever she questioned her mother about what happened to her father, her mother never wanted to talk about it. Now her mother and uncle are dead, killed in a car accident, and Lucky has quit her teaching job at the local high school to take over the family business, Budget Body Movers.
Vicki Fay Jordan, Lucky ‘s friend is still reeling over her divorce from her cheating doctor husband, and has recently made some bad decisions. One of them was to have an affair with her boss. After being told it might be best if she resigned, she jumped at the chance to join Lucky in her new business venture. But the lost of her salary and the ending of her alimony payments has left Vicki hurting for cash.
The two women unknowingly have become involved in the world of the undead when they transport two vampires in a casket from Fort Smith, Arkansas to a place called the Research Center in Houston.
Book excerpt
“I know you’re here somewhere,” Lucky Day mumbled as she sifted through a pile of unopened mail and sympathy cards. She lifted a vase of dead roses off the antique dining table. She’d taken the flowers off her mother’s and Uncle Fred’s graves after their funeral six weeks ago.
She hated to throw them away, but it was time to let go. Carrying the roses to the kitchen, she stuffed them into the trash and returned to the dining room to continue her search.
“Aha!” she yelled when she finally discovered her car keys under a greasy paper plate of leftover pizza from last night’s supper.
“You’ve hidden from life long enough. It’s time to rejoin the living,” she said in a singsong voice, mocking her friend, Vicki. To be fair, she knew Vicki’s bossiness came from genuine concern. Lucky realized she’d become something of a hermit since the car accident that had taken the lives of her mother and uncle. But she hadn’t felt like going anywhere. She hated to admit it but Vicki might have been right to put her foot down and insist Lucky join her tonight at the new club downtown.
Lucky snatched up her car keys, grabbed her purse and left through the front door, not bothering to lock it. She crossed the screened porch and hurried down the cracked concrete steps. When did it get so chilly? she thought as goose bumps popped up on her bare arms. She looked up at the huge dark clouds racing across the sky. A storm is coming, A huge storm. She shivered. Briefly she considered going back inside for a jacket, but nixed the idea. Vicki would be mad at her if she was late.
She slipped inside her faded gray Ford, and was startled by a tapping on her window. Sarah, the sixteen-year-old who lived next-door, stood outside. Lucky cranked down the window and forced herself to smile.
“Hey, Sarah, what’s up?”
“Nothing much,” the girl mumbled looking down at the ground with her long blonde hair hanging in her face.
Lucky waited impatiently for Sarah to speak again. Finally, after what felt like a full minute, Sarah asked, “Are you going to the football game?”
“No, not tonight. But I heard the Bears are doing great this year,” Lucky replied. “Last I heard they hadn’t lost a game all season. Are you going?”
“Yeah, Mindy and Jennifer are coming over and we’re going together.”
Lucky had taught history at Central High School until recently. The school was just a couple of blocks down the street on the other side of Rogers Avenue.
“Tell them I said hi.” Lucky started to roll up the window.
“Miss Day,” Sarah put out a hand to stop her.
“Yes?”
“Well I … I wanted to thank you for helping me study for my history test last night.”
“That’s okay. How did you do?”
“I knew a lot of the answers so I think I did okay.”
“That’s great! You only needed someone to ask you questions. Any time you need help let me know,” Lucky said.
“Miss Day …” Sarah paused as if searching for what to say next, “When … when are you coming back to school?”
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Genre Fiction
Author Website
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