Former CVHS English Teacher Spins Romance Tale
A Southern Gothic novel is Susan Coryell’s second published work.
When mystery writer Susan Coryell needed inspiration for her latest gothic novel, the former Centreville High School English teacher remembered a picturesque haunted house she bumped into while living in Northern Virginia. “It was one of the houses that my husband (a real estate agent) listed,” Coryell said. “It was a Revolutionary War-era estate that was rumored to house a ghost. I’m no Ghostbuster and I never did see a ghost, but whenever my husband would show the house, the kids would react to it.” The house was eventually sold and the memory of the home stored away until she decided to revive it as the setting for her new book, Red, Red Rose, published by L&L Dreamspell. It is a fictional story about 20-year-old Ashby Overton, who …
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