Cemetery Glows at Midnight: BOOK THREE (Ghost Town of SoreAss Creek - Whiskey Gulch 3)

Welcome back to Whiskey Gulch — where tombstones hum louder than hymns, bras glow brighter than lanterns, and even the goats don’t stay in their graves.

Jo McGraw thought she could finally leave the haunted town behind. Wrong. Just two miles outside, her horse slammed into an invisible wall — a ghost-built force field that traps everyone for fifteen nights. Sheriff Zeke, mustache twitching with authority, writes her a glowing ticket for “illegal exit attempt” and announces the law: nobody leaves until the dead say so. Anyone who wanders in with groceries? Stuck too.

Now Jo’s crew is joined by new neighbors — Dr. Colt Rivera, a city vet allergic to hay; Misty Sue “Boom-Boom” Barker with her stash of dynamite; Rowdy Belle Knox livestreaming everything; and Professor Quibble, whose buzzing “ghost detector” won’t shut up. Meanwhile, the cemetery grows louder. Tombstones hum, dogs drag home glowing bones, and Aggie Pruitt insists the epitaphs are spelling out treasure maps. Wade Boone can’t escape Widow Eliza’s glowing marriage proposals, Peach Bellamy loses her lingerie nightly, and Grandma Mavis sets up a picnic right on a grave, daring Reverend Pike to preach louder.

By the time the first “Cemetery Glow Festival” kicks off — complete with glowing cotton candy, fines for “loitering near death,” and the Yorkie Choir squeaking in harmony with the tombstones — Jo knows this isn’t just another haunted night. It’s a siege by sass, whiskey, and ghosts who refuse to stay quiet. And when the Ghost Librarian Ella Mae arrives, shushing the living and the dead alike, even the fearless start sweating.

Why you’ll love this book:

• Grandma Mavis outdrinks a preacher’s ghost (again) and heckles Reverend Pike until he cries.
• Widow Eliza Crane proposes to Wade Boone in the cemetery…
• Sheriff Zeke fines people for “illegal exit attempts,” “loitering near death,”
• The Boone twins argue whether Aggie’s “map of glowing epitaphs” leads to gold, or trouble.
• Peach’s bras glow brighter than lanterns, fluttering across the cemetery like misguided fireflies.
• Goldens drag glowing bones home, Yorkies form a midnight choir.
• Ella Mae, the Ghost Librarian, shushes the living and dead alike, weaponizing silence.
• Aggie Pruitt insists everything is “research” She is the only person excited about being here.
• Morty the Undertaker pops out of coffins at the worst moments, just to yell “Boo!”
• MooDonna the goat places bets on ghost goat races — and usually wins.
• The First Annual Cemetery Glow Festival: glowing cotton candy, and a drunken parade
• Keys McGraw plays 1980s ballads while Yorkies squeak backup.
• Peach and Ophelia’s bra feud hits new glowing heights.
• Tombstones hum louder every night, until Aggie insists it’s a “cosmic alignment.”
• Zeke’s glowing tickets fill Jo’s saddlebags faster than she can rip them up.
• Yorkies demand “air rides” in the middle of ghost goat stampedes.
• Because where else do you get bras, booze, barking, glowing bones, and ghosts who never shut up?
• And because in Whiskey Gulch, the dead don’t rest — they throw louder parties than the living.