Book Blitz: ‘The Legend of Rachel Petersen’ by J.T. Baroni

Outraged when The Post Gazette overlooks him for a promotion, 43-year-old Sports Writer Christian Kane quits the Paper and moves to the country to write fiction. Inspiration flows from a grave he stumbles upon in the woods. He pens The Legend of Rachel Petersen, a fascinating story revolving around the dead twelve-year-old girl laid to rest beneath the weathered tombstone in 1863. His book climbs the Best Seller lists; then Hollywood adapts it into a blockbuster movie. Kane becomes rich and famous; but then! Does an enraged Rachel become more than a figment of the writer’s imagination and rise from her grave, seeking revenge on him for slandering her name?

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“I’m tellin’ ya, she won’t rest in eternal peace until the truth is spoken. She kinda told me in school today that everything said about her has all been lies. I think she knows that you know the truth. If you didn’t know her like you say, Mr. Woodley… Then how come you know she was buried with a rosary?”

The old man leaned forward as far as he could, right into Thaddeus’s face; with those hideous eyes he glared at the boy, then hollered at him, “Because my mother put it in her hands before my Daddy an’ me buried her!”

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“You did not view these pictures on your computer before sending them, did you?”

“No, why? Is there a problem that’s going to delay publishing?” 

“No! The exact opposite! In every one of the photos of you by the grave, about a foot away from you… There’s a freaking orb!”

Living in Western Pennsylvania all my life, I’ve been an avid Whitetail hunter since old enough to tote a rifle, which is also about as long as I’ve had a fondness for word games and literature. 

While hunting one year, I actually did stumble upon the pictured, weathered tombstone in the middle of the woods.

Waiting patiently for any deer to cross my path gave me plenty of time to think about that lone grave’s inhabitant and ponder her story, which I was then driven to write. Eerily enough, this is the premise of The Legend of Rachel Petersen, my first published novel, which I recently revised.

I call Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a small town outside of Pittsburgh, home.

​​My wife Becky and I share our home with two retrievers – Piper, and Remmy.

Amazon author page: www.amazon.co.uk/J-T-Baroni/e/B00772HHOQ

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One response to “Book Blitz: ‘The Legend of Rachel Petersen’ by J.T. Baroni

  1. james baroni

    Sarah’
    Thanks for such a great post on my book. Your blog kicks a##!
    JT Baroni

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