After eighty published novels, from Historical to Romantic Thrillers, I wanted to write something different. The world seemed to be such a dark place I wanted to write something hopeful, something where God won.
I had no idea what that book might be, but I had written a couple of ghost stories in the past and I thought those are definitely stories about good vs. evil. I considered where I should set it? I figured England has a lot of ghosts, so I started searching the internet, looking for dilapidated buildings in England.
I found a scary looking abandoned orphanage in Southerland, England and started researching the area. From there on, it seemed as if I were pulled along a path from the beginning to the end of this novel. Everything I researched led me toward the terrifying true story of the occult that ended up killing dozens of people.
I felt called to write THE GHOST ILLUSION, book number one in the trilogy. After I had finished what was a very difficult and scary novel, I decided to write something lighter. For book two, HAUNTED was the result, a novel set in Jerome, Arizona, deemed one of the major ghost towns in the state.
Fun to write, with tons of actual ghost stories, I loved the way the novel turned out, and particularly liked the hero and heroine.
Since I like to write in threes, I had to come up with a third book to finish the trilogy. THE UNSEEN was the result. Former priest Lucas Devereaux appeared in book one. He was handsome and sexy, and I felt he deserved a story of his own. The Unseen is set in a battered, 1870s mansion in St. Francisville, Louisiana. It’s a story of ghosts and a former priest with special talents to tackle the resident demon.
I hope you’ll look for my Ghost Trilogy and that you enjoy the novels. THE UNSEEN has just been released.
Very best wishes and happy reading, Kat
For fans of Darcy Coates’s paranormal thrills and Jeneva Rose’s romantic suspense, the supernatural and physical worlds collide in this mesmerizing tale of a gruesome murder set against the Southern Gothic backdrop of a historic Louisiana mansion.
It begins when two young boys discover a 100-year-old skeleton buried near the grounds of Belle Reve, a Greek revival style mansion built in the 1870s. As police investigate, strange and eerie occurrences plague the mansion—footsteps in empty hallways, slamming doors in empty rooms.
The owner of Belle Reve, Rachel Belmond, beautiful and still young at 44, is also in failing health, her condition deteriorating. It’s her niece, Nicole, who begins to suspect that something deadly has invaded the house. And it is Nicole who meets someone who might be able to find answers . . .
As the incidents grow more intense, Rachel’s niece, Nicole Belmond, begins to suspect that something otherworldly may have invaded the house.
Lucas Devereaux is the owner of the Baton Rouge Youth Center where Nicole’s teenage half-brother has been sentenced for a juvenile crime. The attraction between Lucas and Nicole is instant. Hearing rumors that Lucas, a former priest, has the ability to deal with supernatural events, Nicole shares her worries about Belle Reve. But Lucas can’t begin until he has more information.
Fearing for Rachel’s fragile health, trying to ignore their growing attraction, Nicole and Lucas work to find the link between the mysterious old bones and the terrifying events in the house that grow more ominous every day. Can Nicole and Lucas protect Rachel and stop the demonic forces that threaten the very existence of Belle Reve? Or is more happening than anyone can imagine?
Audiobook Narrator- James McAdams.
Suspense [Kensington, On Sale: September 30, 2025, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9781496744081 / eISBN: 9781496744104]
Bestselling author Kat Martin, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, currently resides in Missoula, Montana with Western-author husband, L. J. Martin. More than seventeen million copies of Kat’s books are in print, and she has been published in twenty foreign countries. Fifteen of her recent novels have taken top-ten spots on the New York Times Bestseller List, and her novel, BEYOND REASON, was recently optioned for a feature film.
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