Fountain Dead - Book Tour and Giveaway

Fountain Dead
by Theresa Braun
Genre: YA Horror 

Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past.
Of course, Mark keeps his ghostly encounters to himself, all the while sinking deeper into the house's dark, alluring, and ultimately terrifying history. As romantic entanglements intensify, the paranormal activity escalates. Past and present come together. Everything is connected—from the bricks in the walls to the hearts beating in their chests, all the secrets of Fountain Dead are finally unearthed.


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​The vapor wafting from the stagnant pool smelled like the rancid rot from inside a carcass. Mark felt he breathed in fire. The gooey surface boiled and foamed as if a prehistoric substance. His heart stopped as something emerged. A goopy and gnarled dome became a sickly face. The eyelids still closed, the rest of the form rose, covered in green.
A tattered dress clung to the feminine curves. The cloth slipped from the shoulders, drawing his attention to her skin. The texture made him gag.
A sour taste of bile filled his mouth. His skin contracted as he contemplated her spongy flesh. Her black eyes sprang open like a demonic doll’s. Her inhuman gaze stabbed his very core, and he knew he was facing a soul-less being. The eyes burned like hot stove burners.
A decomposing hand extended toward his throat.
Mark woke, wet with perspiration. His pillowcase and sheets were damp, as if he’d taken a swim in the fountain. That idea made him unable to breathe. His heartbeat sped along at a rate close to heart attack status as he tried not to blow a gasket about the evil that lie in wait. He whipped his pillow from behind his head and squashed it to his chest. No one would grasp what he’d been feeling—or what he’d been seeing.
His lip trembled.
Something—a fiend, a spirit, the fountain—wanted to hurt him.
Mark’s chest compressed.
The devil on his shoulder advised him that his mother had to be right. All of the metal music, the cartoons, the swearing, had been an invitation for demons and darkness. Forget the fact that none of his friends had ever mentioned opening some gateway to hell. These dark forces had chosen him.
He lied back, exhaustion sinking him deeper into the mattress. After pulling the blood warm sheets up to his chin, he shunned the moonlight streaming into the room. The crooked claws of the branches squealed against the half-open windowpane. Summer’s hot breath puffed into the house. Mark didn’t have to strain to hear its griping—the sighs of the woodwork and the building’s various joints.
The door to the servants’ quarters was open again. However, that bothered him less and less. A perfume of fragrant flowers sent him to sleep.

Theresa Braun was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and has carried some of that hardiness with her to South Florida where she currently resides. An English teacher and adjunct college professor for over thirteen years, she continues to share her enthusiasm for literary arts with her students. She earned a Masters in English literature with a thesis on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In her spare time, she enjoys delving into her own creative writing, painting, photography and even ghost hunting. Spending time with her family and traveling as often possible are two of her passions. In fact, her world meanderings are often backdrops for her work. Striving to make the world a better place is something dear to her heart.


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Do I believe in ghosts? Absolutely. I live in Florida, and I have to say we have some amazing local ghosts. The Ft. Lauderdale walking experience stops at a downtown brewery/restaurant that used to be a brothel. More than one murdered prostitute haunts the place. Supposedly, across the street, one of the bars is home to Al Capone’s spirit. And, the Stranahan House is so loaded with ghosts that you can rent it for a night and test out your paranormal equipment. That’s on my list of things to do, for sure.
The biggest thrill as a supernatural enthusiast happened during the Miami ghost tour in Coconut Grove (and I’ve done haunted tours all over the world). We walked through some of the streets, peering into storefronts and trying to catch a glimpse of some of the resident ghosts. We went through a couple of creepy parks where spectral trees and serious orbs appear in pictures. Also, people tend to get obscured and weird anomalies occur. However, it wasn’t until we stopped in front of a grave surrounded by a tiny fence that I believe I snapped my best paranormal photo thus far. Sure, I’ve gotten orbs and weird squiggly lines that can’t be explained, but never had I caught what looked like a ghost on film. If you look closely, I believe you can see a faint face in the spectral haze. Skeptics can still deny the ‘evidence’. I get it. But, those of us who believe can clearly see what’s there.
Have I lived in a haunted house? Most definitely. My latest novel, Fountain Dead, is inspired by a real home in Winona, Minnesota. I’ve fictionalized the back story. However, as a teen, my room was the very same one the protagonist, Mark, stays in. His window (and mine) overlook a vacant lot. There wasn’t a fountain on the property, yet I had vivid nightmares about a murky pool of water that several young women emerged from. They were covered in mossy gunk and were both beautiful and goddess like, yet terrifying. These reoccurring dreams are what my imagination, all these years later, still wrestles with today. What happened to those girls? No one knows. That’s how Fountain Dead was born…

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