These Hot Days

Each July, visitors to Gettysburg  glimpse a bloodstained figure. Ann Kinnear expects a restless Civil War spirit. What she finds instead is a story of duty, loss, and the guilt that has bound one soul to the battlefield.

When Ann Kinnear visits Gettysburg to investigate reports of a ghostly figure haunting a historic farmhouse on the battlefield, she expects the usual quiet communion with the departed. But on a scorching July afternoon, she slips into a vivid vision of 1863â€"one so complete she finds herself inside the farmhouse as it once was, face-to-face with an old man and young woman preparing for their roles in the fight to come.

Ann quickly realizes she's witnessing the hours before tragedy will strike. Torn between her role as an observer and every instinct urging her to intervene, Ann must decide how much of the past she's willing to confront … and what price might be paid in the present.

A gripping, time-bending mystery about devotion, regret, and the echoes that refuse to fade, "These Hot Days" uncovers the human heart behind one of America's most haunted places.

An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short from Matty Dalrymple, author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, beginning with THE SENSE OF DEATH, and the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers.