‘This could be your mother’s last Christmas,’ were not the words Alison wanted to hear so close to the holidays.
Determined to spend one last festive season with her ailing mother, Alison, her daughter Grace, and Anthony her brother, decide to make the journey back to the town where they grew up.
However, an uninvited guest comes with them. Lisa, Grace’s imaginary friend is along for the vacation too.
When Grace then starts acting out of character, blaming Lisa for urging her on the strangely familiar sounds around the house begin. An old Christmas tune resonates through the rooms, carrying with it long forgotten memories of their late father, the Spirit of Christmas, and the town’s boogieman, Old Mr Sharpe.
As dark, long hidden secrets begin to unravel they find that if they want to make sense of what is happening around them, then they must believe.
The Season of Secrets is a tale of ghosts, forgotten memories, and secrets, from DE McCluskey author of The Boyfriend, The Twelve, Reboot, and The Contract.
About DE McCluskey
Born in Liverpool in the UK, Dave McCluskey left school and began working in a music shop selling guitars and drums and playing in bands around the local music scene. When he realised that fame and fortune, and rock god status, was proving elusive, he decided to go to university to see what they had to offer. This led to him wasting almost 30 years of his life playing around with computers.
He became an author in his 30s having been an avid reader since he was a child. He writes as DE McCluskey, mostly in the genre of horror (mainstream, extreme, and comedy), although he has been known to dabble in thrillers, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and also children’s books (cleverly disguising his pen name as Dave McCluskey, no one would ever put those two names together).
He began by creating comics and graphic novels, thinking they would be easier to write and sell than traditional novels (how wrong he was). He then made the switch into the media of novels and audiobooks as someone told him that way lies the riches and the fame he has always craved.
Even though the riches and the fame has continued to elude him, he has not looked back since.
His books include the highly regarded The Boyfriend, Zola, Reboot: A Cosmic Horror, The Twelve, Cravings, CRACK, and the historical thriller In The Mood for Murder.
Dave remains an avid football fan although sometimes he wonders why, and he has been known to lurk around the stand-up comedy circuit in the North-West of England.
He lives at home with his partner, their two children, and a sausage dog with an ego, just because he will soon be getting his own children’s book series, called Ted (the series will be called The Adventures of Lord Teddington of Netherton).
You can find Dave hanging around social media like a bad smell. He is most active on Facebook but has been known to pop up on Instagram and TikTok. He is not active on Twitter, or X as it is now known, as that platform is terrible.