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Whispers at Royal Palm: A Haunting Beneath the Banyan Shadows
Paperback
Series: The Stones of St.Petersburg (Florida)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 22 2025
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Ghost Story by Nick A. Shishkov
Beneath the sun-warmed palms and quiet brick streets of old Saint Petersburg, Florida, the dead have never truly gone. Their whispers move through the Royal Palm Hotel-a once-grand house where time has peeled away the paint but not the memory.
When a caretaker named Miles arrives to restore the property, he finds more than dust and disrepair. The walls hum with the grief of another century. In the faded ballroom, a woman's voice lingers in the air, humming a tune no one living remembers. And in the garden, shadows walk paths worn smooth by the forgotten.
As Miles uncovers letters, photographs, and the remnants of a family's vanished life, he begins to see echoes of his own past reflected in theirs-of loss, guilt, and the quiet hope of redemption. Each discovery draws him deeper into a story that refuses to rest.
But in this city built on memory, where every brick remembers the hands that set it, the line between the living and the lost begins to blur.
Part ghost story, part elegy for Florida's early dreamers, Whispers at Royal Palm is a haunting meditation on love, faith, and the restless persistence of the past. Written in the lyrical, reverent realism that defines Nick A. Shishkov's Saint Petersburg series, it reminds us that some houses do not forget-and some souls never stop building.
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