Wanted:
One Ghost
by
Loni Lynne
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BLURB:
Stuck
in ghostly limbo for 238 years, James Addison can't move on to an
afterlife. After being falsely accused of treason and executed,
fate's cursed him to remain an earth-bound specter until he meets a
historian sent to research his past.
Distrustful
of fate, Dr. April Branford wants to be taken seriously, but her
unique ability to divine history by touching objects seriously
compromises her credibility. Her latest assignment? James Addison, a
legendary colonial ladies' man with a shadowy past. Without much to
go on, she doesn't hold out much hope to discover the man behind the
legend until the day she accidentally touches him and brings him back
to life.
With
the help of family and ghosts from James’s past, they unravel the
truth. But after falling in love and with time running out, it’s
hard for April to believe in fate and a future where forever is now.
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Read an excerpt:
**My thoughts**James Addison stopped in his tracks and turned around, sensing he wasn’t alone. A young woman dressed in leggings and woolens, her small, flat hat cocked jauntily over her eyes stood there, smiling at him.Could she see him or was she looking at something behind him?No. Impossible! No one could see him.She examined the damn tree.“Did you ever wonder what trees would tell us if they could talk?” She glanced towards him again. “Do you think James Addison hanged from these branches?”James looked to the right of him, to the left. No one was there. Who was she talking to, the blasted tree?“I wonder why he was never given a trial. Wasn’t the Treason Act of 1695 enacted at the time? James Addison should have been provided a counsel and jury for his crimes.” She turned towards him again. “Was he really executed for treason?”“Was he really executed for treason?” James said, mimicking her feminine voice with his own British brogue. He walked toward the odd girl, wanting to shout in her face at the idiocy of her questioning the bloody tree. Didn’t she know how foolish she looked? “No, he wasn’t executed for treason. He was beaten to a bloody pulp and murdered!”With eyes gone wide, the girl stared up at him. “Murdered?” she asked back. “Are you sure?”James stiffened. Dear God in heaven! Was she actually talking to him? He looked behind him to see if she might be addressing someone else. No one was there. Gathering his wits, he studied her closely. Could this girl actually hear him, see him?
For me, this was a unique ghost story. April knew that she had the gift of psychometry, meaning she could get a good sense of the history behind an object. Somehow, fate has much more in store for her when she starts to research James Addison for her boss. She literally brings his story to life and ends up in the greatest romance of her life.
The mystery surrounding James' death and April's quest to prove the legends wrong, with James at her side, is actually an intriguing one. I am a big fan of history and love to put together different pieces of a story to find the truth. The research aspect was intriguing enough, as it is, let alone the spicy romance that spans the ages. I enjoyed this one.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Loni
Lynne is a stay at home mom, domestic goddess, U.S. Navy Veteran and lover of
all things vintage/shabby-chic/Victorian and antique. From china cups and tea
sets to lace doilies crocheted by hand (her grandmother made the
best) she
believes a touch of femininity never goes out of style.
Growing
up all over the country she's been blessed with experiencing a good deal of
culture and lifestyles. Much like her personality, she has eclectic tastes
in what she likes to read and write. There is no 'one' genre in whichshe
settles for.
God and
fate have been big influences in her life. Both have taken her to places
she never thought she'd be, both in the physical sense and in the spiritual.
She wrote brief stories and snippets of life as it happened to her in her
youth, and encouraged by her teachers, continued to write. Blessed
with a loving
supportive family growing up, she was able to explore her options which at
times have been put into use in her stories. The Navy--and fate, afforded
her the opportunity to meet her Army, "Annapolis-native"
husband and team up
with him to parent two beautiful daughters.
Years
later, her husband gave her the best birthday present ever--a laptop,
a membership
to Romance Writers of America and a goal to complete a manuscript
for submission by her next birthday. She did it. A few years later she was
blessed with one of those novels, Wanted: One Ghost, as her debut
novel.
Believe
in Fate
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