Cid
(Cid Garrett P.I. Book 1)
Summer has arrived and, with it, an opportunity for Cid Garrett (paranormal investigator for PEEPS) to make some cash as a carpenter. His colleague Jesse Holden has hooked him up with a fill-in position on a multimillion-dollar renovation on an isolated 1920s southern mansion called Hidden Meadow. The job is being run by a driven female contractor, Kiki Pickles, who specializes in renovating prewar buildings. She lets Cid know right away that she’s hired him for his carpentry skills and not as a ghost hunter. But Cid is all too aware that in the renovation of old homes, sometimes you have to deal with a myriad of pests, living and dead.
Lurking at the top of the stairs is a very cranky ghost. He’s been woken up by the sound of pounding hammers and screeching tile cutters. He can’t do anything about the tools themselves, so he targets his rage at the men and women working on the mansion. Jesse is attacked in one of the three attics in Hidden Meadow and left to die. Cid arrives just in time to fight a black mass, and he surprises it with a good salting. Jesse is saved, but the ghost isn’t finished with them yet, nor is he the only entity that has been released to cause havoc in the first of the “Cid Garrett P. I.” novels.
"Cid” is the debut novel of the "Cid Garrett P.I. Series” written in the "Haunted Series" universe.
High Court
(Cid Garrett P.I. Book 2)
It sits upon a forested hill overlooking a lush valley and the town of Stepner. High Court has fallen into ruin and has become quite an eyesore to all but a man with a vision. A vision of bringing it back to life and using the cabins and motel rooms as artist studios. Calvin Franks has the property, and the money, but he also has a big problem, a ghost named Luminosa. She died in a tragic multiple murder over fifty years ago, and she won’t let anyone touch the property until she finds justice.
Kiki Pickles hires Cid Garrett on as a finishing carpenter, but she’s counting on his experience as a paranormal investigator with PEEPs (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners) to find a way to rest the tormented spirit, so the project can be completed.
But High Court has more than paranormal interference. Some very live saboteurs have invaded the worksite. Why they are determined to shut down the project and what happened to Luminosa and her family are the mysteries Cid is determined to solve with the help of Jesse, Wayne and Faye.
Stakes are high, and the danger is real at “High Court.” Join Cid as he flies solo in this 2nd novel of the “Cid Garrett P.I. Series.”
Tiny Houses
(Cid Garrett P.I. Book 3)
Nathan Carter is trying to solve a real problem, homelessness in America. He has a great idea, offer them a tiny house that they have helped to build. The city is on board, and there is interest in the community. All should be on track for the Tiny Houses Charity to succeed, but there are a few problems. Ghosts. Not your garden variety bump-in-the-night creatures. No, that would be too easy.
Nate hires contractor Kiki Pickles, who has a reputation for being able to work on haunted properties, to renovate the Gilded Age mansion on his property. Kiki brings her crew from the Hidden Meadow project, (Cid, Cid Garrett P.I. Series) which includes finishing carpenter Cid Garrett who hopes that he can rid the property of these violent ghosts before someone gets seriously hurt.
But time and ghosts wait for no man. Kiki has disappeared, and Cid finds his back is up against the wall. It’s time to call in the big guns, in this case, an axe-carrying ghost named Murphy.
“Tiny Houses” is the 3rd book of the “Cid Garrett P.I. Series” (a spin-off of Alexie Aaron’s popular “Haunted Series”).
The Promise
(Cid Garrett P.I. Book 4)
On the shores of Lake Michigan sits a beautiful stone house. The locals from Sweetwater tell a story about a widow who watched from the window of the house every day of her life, waiting for a promise to be fulfilled. When she died, the house was forgotten for decades, until the Campbell family found it.
Elle and Cole Campbell would like to make the stone house their summer home, but a few things stand in the way. The house needs a renovation, and it’s haunted, very haunted.
Cid gets the call to do a PEEPs assessment on the haunted nature of the building. He and Burt ask Kiki Pickles along to assess whether the house is sound and the land safe for the Campbells to live there with their family.
On this assignment, Cid has to wear two hats, the contractor and the ghost hunter, which is challenging enough without continually being mistaken for Emerson, the long-lost husband of the infamous widow Victoria Buell who demands that Emerson come home and keep his promise.
The house is waking up and, along with it, the spirits of those killed there, ghosts who possess and ghosts who demand to be heard, no matter the cost to living.
“The Promise” is the 4th book of the “Cid Garret P.I. Series” (a spin-off of Alexie Aaron’s popular “Haunted Series”).
Walnut Grove House
(Cid Garrett P.I. Book 5)
Kiki Pickles’s construction company is well known, amongst certain circles, as a group that can work alongside the paranormal during a renovation. Kiki has been hired to finish a job abandoned by twelve other firms. She has brought with her the best contractors for the job. The contract is very specific: get in, finish the job, and, above all, don’t mess with the ghosts.
Cid Garrett arrives with Jesse at Walnut Grove House with hopes of accomplishing his part of the restoration and leaving with a healthy paycheck. No sooner does he enter the grounds of the mansion when he is bowled over. Not by an errant ghost but by Sally Wright, the crews’ chef for the duration of the renovation.
The contractors’ first day working on Walnut Grove House is eye-opening. They were warned not to expect benign white ladies, but they weren’t expecting over a dozen burly ghosts who seem to want to collect a few dead contractors to join them.
Join Cid while he tries to balance a budding romance while trying to keep himself and his team alive.
“Walnut Grove House” is the 5th book of the “Cid Garret P.I. Series” (a spin-off of Alexie Aaron’s popular “Haunted Series”).
Riverview Manor
(Cid Garrett P.I. Book 6)
“We’re here in front of a grand mansion,” Mike started. “It was moved from another location. As we have seen in previous shows about renovations, you never know who or what you’re going to wake up once you start lifting floorboards. But what happens when you lift the entire house?”
Deep in the damp cellars of Riverview, the dead woke from their long rest. They were assaulted by sunlight as the house moved away from the foundations. Hands reached up to pull back the house which had progressed beyond their grasp. They huddled in the dark corners until nightfall and then crawled out looking for the house they had always thought was rightfully theirs. The stark construction-littered lawn was all that greeted them. They felt the pull of the house and knew it was near, but the light had cost them too much energy. They moved back down to the hidden rooms and would reside there until they had enough power to go in search of their stolen home. And when they found it, the people who stole it would pay. They would pay dearly.
Cid and Jesse head down south to an unusual renovation project. They are going to put a post-Civil War mansion back together after it was moved from its riverside home up Telegraph Hill to sit on the property where a once proud Queen Anne house stood before it was burned to the ground.
Pickles Renovation is going to have to deal with more than cracked timbers and reconstructing the damaged areas of Riverview Manor. They have ghosts to rest from Riverview Manor’s past but also Briarwood House, a house that haunts Riverview. Cid, who stubbornly refuses help from Mia Martin early in the investigation, decides that Riverview is way over his and Jesse’s heads. He decides to call in the best of the best to help. But will it be in time?
Join Cid Garrett on an investigation of a lifetime in “Riverview Manor”, the 6th book of the “Cid Garrett P.I. Series” (a spin-off of Alexie Aaron’s popular “Haunted Series”).