Get your nature hiking boots out folks! Carlie and Major Pickford, a cop involved in the case, set out to find this mysterious source of unsettled spirits. The first third of the book is spent in the small town of Halfway (there are wendigo!) but the rest of the story is spent in the woods. They were key in locating the source of the troubled spirits. My inner biologist loved the bit about the long-lost chestnut species. Over all, she’s really well balanced and I really like that about her.

Yet she isn’t some alpha female always feeling she has to fight to maintain her place in the world. Carlie doesn’t hesitate to show folks that she can take care of herself and she doesn’t apologize for whatever bruises a heavy-handed person might receive from her. It’s an idea that I strive for even if I don’t often obtain it. She also takes care of her things in the belief that they will be there, in good condition, to take care of her. She’s independent but not prickly about having friends who show they care about her. Carlie is a character I want to be friends with. Now there is a child’s spirit trapped in the depths of the forest that she must free or learn to live with a troubled conscience.

Things were pretty quiet until a few restless spirits and a determined cop started pestering Carlie. She has a large, ornery cat named Gus, and she treasures her grandmother. Set in Halfway, New York, Carlie works at the only real diner in town. With the help of Gus, and Gran, and a rugged cop who really does want to save the world, she'll fight to bring a ghost home, and deliver justice to a murderer who hides in the cool, mysterious green of a forest gone mad with magic.To check out the book tour wide giveaway, scroll to the bottom! And check out the tour page for more reviews, interviews, and more. The danger is real, but Carlie's magic is born of a pure spirit. Come find me.Danger, like the shadowed pools of the forest, can run deep. There are ghosts in the forest, and one of them cries out to Carlie across the years. Major Pickford asks Carlie to lead him into the deepest shadows of the forest to find a mythical circle of chestnut trees, thought lost to forever to mankind. Carlie spends her days cooking at the finest-and only-real diner in town, and her life is a balance between magic and the mundane, just as she likes it.When a blonde stranger sits at the diner counter and calls her by name, that balance is gone.

Carlie loves her enormous familiar, Gus, who is twenty-five pounds of judgmental Maine Coon cat, and she positively worships her Grandmother, a witch of incredible power and wisdom. She loves her town of Halfway, NY-a tourist destination nestled on the shores of an Adirondack lake. Carlie McEwan loves many things.She loves being a witch.

Halfway Dead by Terry Maggert