title: Weeping in the Wings: Book 2 of Sarah Bennett Mysteries
author:  Terry Lynn Thomas 
description: <span>Like most writers, I had a passion for books,stories, and all things Gothic from an early age. My grandmother and I used to watch the Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" in the 1960s. It scared me, but I liked it. (I know, I'm dating myself.) I always held a secret dream of writing professionally, but real life got in the way and writing went by the wayside.My love of books and reading did not. I had a taste for the Gothic mysteries oft he early twentieth century--the books with the covers depicting a woman running across the moors in her nightgown. For some reason, those were the books I reached for when I was looking for something to read, long after these books were popular. I mined used bookshops for them, collected them, and read them over and over. These stories, coupled with my love of writers such as Mary Stewart, Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, and Dorothy Eden influenced my writing in so many ways. I love mysteries, especially those written by British authors. When I set out to write in earnest, I wanted to pay homage to these great writers of the past and this specific style of writing. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>This idea gave birth to the Sarah Bennett Mysteries, which are set in San Francisco during the 1940s. Told in the true Gothic tradition, Sarah Bennett is a medium whose family thinks she is mentally unstable. The first book in the series, The Spirit of Grace, introduces us to Sarah just as she is coming home after spending a year in a mental hospital.The next two books in the series, Weeping in the Wings and Neptune's Daughter--which just won an Indie B.R.A.G. medallion--follow Sarah as she discovers who she is and how she can use her "gift" to help people. </span>
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  > Finding You
  
  > Elizabeth Holland
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Thank you
  
  Thank you to everyone that has contributed towards the creation of this book.
  
  A very special thank you to my wonderful beta readers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Chapter One
  
  Laura Harper
  
  1st November 2020
  
  The wind howled in the distance and Laura Harper pulled her sleeping bag
  tighter to ward off the icy gale. Only that morning the newspaper heading had
  warned that London was expecting a s