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The Enemy Held Near Kindle Edition
When Ruthie tries to flee the house and Foster decides to stay, the spirits around them start waking up and do everything in their supernatural power to force the living back together. Not only might this haunting drive the family further apart, they may be unable to survive it.
Everything we touch is haunted. Every place we live is populated by ghosts. When we try to run, they follow. If we stay, they may possess us.
Armand Rosamilia and Jay Wilburn crafted a haunting story with a sweeping scope through the worlds of the living and what lies beyond. The story is also intimate, close to home, and disturbingly familiar. The emotion and action will haunt and possess you long after the book is done.
WE ARE ALL HAUNTED
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 22, 2016
- File size3449 KB
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- ASIN : B01C513KAI
- Publisher : DevilDog Press (March 22, 2016)
- Publication date : March 22, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 3449 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 205 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,212,904 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,139 in Occult Suspense
- #2,914 in Ghost Suspense
- #10,880 in Occult Horror
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About the authors
Armand Rosamilia is a New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he's not sleeping. He's happily married to a woman who helps his career and is supportive, which is all he ever wanted in life...
He's written over 200 stories that are currently available, including crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers, horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, nonfiction and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels.
He also loves to talk in third person... because he's really that cool. Maybe.
You can find him at https://armandrosamilia.com for all of his information as well as random things he enjoys
and e-mail him to talk about books, baseball and Metal:
armandrosamilia@gmail.com
Jay Wilburn is an author of horror and speculative fiction that lives in coastal South Carolina near Myrtle Beach. He is doing very well following a life-saving kidney transplant. He taught public school for sixteen years before becoming a full-time writer. His signature series is the Dead Song Legend Dodecology and for younger readers, The Lake Scatter Wood Tales. Follow his many musings @AmongTheZombies on Twitter, the Jay Wilburn author page on Facebook, and at JayWilburn.com. Jay Wilburn has a lot of original content on his Patreon page including a serial vampire novel and more. Patreon.com/JayWilburn Or catch him streaming live on Twitch. Twitch.tv/JayWilburn
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4 18 2016
The Enemy held near By Jay Wilburn and Armand Rosamilia was THE best ghost story I have had the pleasure of reading in a very long, long time.
It is a story about the Turner family Foster, his wife Ruthie daughters Maggie & Heather as well as his family’s home , a homage to the generations that have gone before, and still influence the dynamics of daily family life.
Things were ok for a while, yet Ruthie never felt like she belonged there and the manifestations and interferences has left Ruthie wanting to take her family and flee that wretched house and the souls that meddled in the livings affairs. And flee she would with or without Foster.
Foster and his older girls Heather could see the spirits that dwelled in and around the property, they could interact with them if they so pleased. At times the spirits could temporarily control the living to find a means to their wishes and the outcome the Family of past generations required. Some people were easily controlled, while others would need to be inebriated or other wise impaired to be processed. The unfortunate victims did not have to be family and nor were all the spirits confined to the house and yard. A few of the victims are as followed. Melinda Goshen Social Worker from Child Services Dept. The foster father of the safe house Frank who were looking after The Walter kids. Xabda her real name was Sylvia Parker and she was one of Ruthie’s nosy ,pill popping ,alcohol drinking neighbors in the trailer park. That becomes a bigger part of the story.
One of the more prominent and out going ghost is Uncle Duke. Uncle Duke raised Foster after his parents were killed. Sounds like he was a pretty stringent disciplinarian. You go through most of the book wondering if he is a malevolent spirit or if he is trying to protect Foster and his family from the wrath of the others, so he is just trying to head off conflict and help them to keep with the family’s rules.
Armand Rosamilia and Jay Wilburn masterfully orchestrated this collaboration. It reads like an updated “Outter Limits story” with more twist and turns than the beloved show could have ever dreamt of doing . The story line was voluptuous the characters were fascinating and the events were realistic. We have a family struggling with daily life and the supernatural, they love each other and would give their lives for their kids, yet one feels he has to stay and the other can’t stand the thought of staying in that house one more second. No one is right or wrong here. “For every action there is a equal or greater reaction.” Those were the words that played through my mind while reading this book. There is no wrong or right answer, there is only the struggle and action with a consequence, It comes down to what can you live with? Leave or stay you will die eventually the how is the tricky part. Or forsake and denounce your love for the ones you love to hopefully protect them.
Bravo Guy’s! This is an epic story. I urge anyone who likes to peek on the dark side to read it. After reading the book, I had to think of what I wanted to say about it. It was that good!
The story involves the ghosts of past generations and their fight to keep all of the family together in the home that has been passed from one crop to another. Rosamila and Wilburn do a fantastic job building the characters as the story is told from their point of view. You really get the sense of how dire Ruthie's situation is and her determination to save her kids. I really liked how the house itself was developed into a character and brought into the story to demonstrate the grasp it has and its ability to call the family to it. If you like creepy houses and ghost stories, check out this book!
Melinda and Xandra are expendable, but the ghosts of the Turner family want Foster to keep Ruthie and their girls in the home. Family must stay together you see.
Not everyone has been able to stay together though. Foster's parents died and he was raised by Uncle Duke. Uncle Duke tries to control things throughout most of the story, but even he can see the family's history can't continue.
Ruthie is focused on escaping the Turner home with her daughters. Due to her past, she might have been seen as easy to control to keep around, but inner strength is enough to conquer most demons.
Maggie is able to see the family ghosts while Heather is just a teenager.
The family's killer history comes to a head, just not in the way anyone really wanted. Prices are paid and now they must remain hidden.
There are so many twists and turns, you really have to read the story in one sitting to make sure you're keeping it all straight. Thankfully the story is so engaging, that's not an issue.
Enjoy!
-This book is over 200 pages long and not once did anybody eat a bowl of spaghetti
- Once, when I was a kid, I skinned my knee. They didn't bring that traumatic event up either.
- This is a ghost story, where are the white sheets with the eye holes cut out? THAT'S creepy!
- Spoiler Alert! No zombies!
- Why don't pirates make butter? ARGH.
No, really, great book. Read it. This is a haunted house story that everyone can relate to. We all have that family member we wish would go away... but they keep haunting us.