Melissa Erin, Jackson. Riley Thomas Mystery.

Read by Victoria Villarreal

This short story is set a few months before the events in The Forgotten Child. Riley Thomas can see and communicate with ghosts. But ever since a Ouija board incident gone awry, this ability has always scared more than intrigued her and she has vowed to avoid paranormal activity at all costs. She does a decent job of keeping the ghosts at bay-until she breaks up with her cheating asshat of a boyfriend and moves into a new apartment alone, that is. While she's ready to start her single lifestyle drama-free, her ghost roommate has other plans. Every night for a week, he rudely wakes her up at 3:12. Struggling to get her crap together, Riley knows she has to make a choice: take two steps back and ditch the new digs before begging her best friend to let her crash on her couch-again-or take one step forward and figure out why this ghost is going bump in the night …

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