Between These Walls by JD Phillips

A building with a nefarious past

Two people in dire need of a place to live

A deal too good to be true

Desperate spirits hungry to be heard

I’m intrigued before I open the cover and flip through the first couple pages, before I even finish reading the description on the back of the book.

Between These Walls is an independently published book by author JD Phillips, that tells the story of Ryan, a down on his luck musician desperately in need of a place to stay, and Embry, a young girl running from a troubled past. Both find themselves in room 222 of a rundown, old building called the Oxmorn, inhabiting the same place seemingly separate from one another, yet somehow aware of each other’s presence just the same.

From strange, terrifying screams in the night to the song Crimson and Clover playing at the same time each evening, to old rumors that it had once been inhabited by a cult, this book is filled with ghostly tales that could have each filled a separate book themselves (and as a reader, I hope, perhaps one day, they will).

I found myself unable to put this down for long without wandering back to it, desperate to know what becomes of Ryan and Embry, who this strange person simply called The Doll Maker is and why people keep leaving them offerings. I wanted, no, I needed to know the Oxmorn’s secrets as much as the characters did. To know its secrets, what compels this decrepit, aged, forgotten building to remain so haunted, and just as importantly, what first caused the spirits to linger there in the first place.

I strongly urge anyone in the mood for a good, suspenseful ghost story to pick up a copy of this. It was well written and so deeply compelling I had dreams after reading it late into the evening, trying to put together all the pieces.

This is more than just your typical ghost story. It’s a story of love, longing, pain, connection, and hope. Each turn of the page reveals something new, either within the characters, or the Oxmorn’s tragic history that will leave you flipping through the pages, over and over.

You can find a copy of Between These Walls on Amazon here: https://a.co/d/58Pw0pU as well as some of her others; this story is tied to her Touching Spirits series.