This is Sandra Bea Harries´ second book - a series of short paranormal stories which will keep you spellbound. Her first book entitled, "Madame de Champlain: Quest for Sanctuary," is a historical novel about a part of our intriguing Canadian history—the dysfunctional marriage of Hélène Boullé to the famous explorer and founder of Québec City, Samuel de Champlain. Not only is Sandra keenly interested in Canadian history, but she is also fascinated with paranormal activity around the world, anthropology, archaeology, genealogy, science, Native legends, and folklore. She was born in Kingston, Ontario with a rich heritage of United Empire Loyalists, Puritans, and royal ancestors, including Eleanor of Aquitaine. Sandra currently resides in Toronto with her husband and family. Borealis books by Sandra Bea Harries: Eerie and Eccentric Tales Madame de Champlain

This short story collection is a sequel to Eerie and Eccentric Tales. In it Sandra has once again painted portraits of the paranormal from her palette. Sinister secrets lurk in an insane asylum, malevolent ghosts haunt a rectory and Anne Boleyn exacts revenge on Henry the VIII. Wailings drift into the portrait of an actual mummy, Momia Juanita (a sacrificial child of the Incas); Hopi natives tell of aliens connected to the end of the world; an Italian catastrophe is caused by an unusual neighbor; a teen`s true identity is linked with avenging vampires; and, lastly, a mysterious Mayan witch evolves into a museum display. Why not pace the potent path of the paranormal where the unexpected is found in the whispers of wailings of long ago?

Sandra has conjured up eerie tales about true and fictional subjects that will spirit you through the supernatural to the unforeseen: spooky Egyptian mummies, mystical Incas of Machu Pichu, Scottish witches and wee fairies, haunting American ghosts and elusive aliens, mythical Irish mermaids, and fiendish European werewolves. She´s also sprinkled in a dash of eccentric tales involving extraordinary Native American legends, odd old ladies, creepy Victorian mansions, uncanny cats, and other weird stories. If you are intrigued by the paranormal then this is the book for you! Expect the unexpected!

Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec – considered a "saint" by many – at the age of 42 married 12 year old Hélène Boullè. Through Hélène´s eyes we learn of their tense and turbulant marriage with its many upheavals. Considerably older, Champlain, explorer, navigator, cartographer, and historical writer, must adjust to the stormy temperament of his refined Parisian wife. Hélène must adapt to his solitary ways and the crude unforgiving wilderness with its severe winters, lack of food, Iroquois uprisings, and personal violation. Lust, love, betrayal of trusted friends, deception, death, suicide, anger and frustration also weave their threads through the thin blanket of their dysfunctional marriage. Can the marriage of these two truly remarkable people survive?