Seeing Red: Red’s Magick, #2

By Debbie Mumford

Katie O'Malley needs to feel safe and welcomed somewhere in the world, but Evan Flynn's pub—with its unusual inhabitants—is the last place she expects to find refuge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WDM Publishing
• Release date: Feb 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215536247

Debbie Mumford

Debbie Mumford specializes in speculative fiction—fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. Author of the popular Sorcha’s Children series, Debbie loves the unknown, whether it’s the lure of space or earthbound mythology. Her work has been published in multiple volumes of Fiction River, as well as in Heart’s Kiss Magazine, Spinetingler Magazine, and other popular markets. She writes about dragon-shifters, time-traveling lovers, and ghostly detectives for adults as Debbie Mumford and contemporary fantasy for tweens and young adults as Deb Logan.

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Seeing Red

Seeing Red

Debbie Mumford

WDM Publishing

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Also by Debbie Mumford

Preview: Her Highland Laird

About Debbie Mumford

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Evan Flynn leaned against the old-world mahogany bar and surveyed his domain. Flynn’s Irish Bar was his dream-come-true. He’d designed every detail, from the painting of horses and hounds behind the bar to the softly glowing lamps on the scattered tables, but finding that bar in an abandoned restaurant scheduled for destruction … well, that had been sheer luck.

He ran a hand over the smooth wood, lovingly restored by his older brother, Ben, rested a hiking-booted foot on the polished brass foot rail, and breathed in the scent of lemon oil and beeswax. The bar was his talisman. His good luck piece. He was Irish enough to believe in such things, as did the rest of his family. Grannie Flynn certainly had. She’d always insisted that Evan had inherited the family gift, that he had the sight, like his grandfather before him.

Evan shook his head and glanced over his shoulder to his grandparents’ talisman, the pane of ancient Irish glass that had been the founding of his family. Without its intervention, his grandparents would never have met. It, or rather its inhabitant, had been the magic that had made their little bed and breakfast the destination of choice for couples seeking a romantic get-away in Colorado’s Mile High City.

For nearly sixty-five years the family business had flourished in Denver, first with Evan’s grandparents and then his parents. Unfortunately, neither Evan nor Ben had been interested in continuing the tradition. Both young men had chosen the Pacific Northwest for their homes. Ben had settled in Seattle, but Evan had fallen in love with Portland.

After a long and successful run, Evan’s parents had retired to Estes Park, Colorado, leaving the home that had housed the bed and breakfast unoccupied. But last year, when the city condemned the entire block where the house stood, Evan had returned to Denver