White Rock: Book One in The Thin Veil Series

Since 1933, hundreds of Dallas motorists traveling around White Rock Lake at night have reported picking up a beautiful female hitchhiker who claims to be the unfortunate victim of an automobile accident. After asking to be taken home, once the drivers arrive at their destination, the woman disappears from the back seat leaving only a puddle of water where she had been sitting. Is this the troubled spirit of a woman who died tragically long ago at the lake or simply the construct of a mass hallucination? As a child, Laura Milton saw the apparition at White Rock Lake and it has haunted her dreams ever since. As she comes to terms with an inherited gift of empathy, she yearns to be free of the specter that has taken over her life and refuses to let her go... In her search for the truth, Laura returns to her home town of Dallas to interview a myriad of colorful characters who impart bits and pieces of the puzzle with every breath-taking story. But now there are people following her who would stop at nothing to keep the identity of the White Rock ghost a mystery...Borrowing from the genre created by authors such as William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and Harper Lee, WHITE ROCK is a Southern Gothic mystery based on one of the most iconic urban legends in Texas. Written in a literary voice, the book faithfully incorporates historic events with popular folklore and eyewitness testimonies to craft a lush and intelligent ghost story set in Dallas, Texas. It is the first in a series of novels based on the protagonist, the brilliant yet flawed Laura Milton and her uncanny gift of communication with the dead... Read more