He was gentle now, as though he pitied me, and tried coaxing me out of my distraction. “This is the perfect night for our resident ghost,” he told me. “Wouldn’t you like to meet her?”
“Ghosts don’t walk before midnight,” I said grumpily.
His face grew bright with mischief. “This one does. She was wife to Matthew, the most handsome of Lucinda Garcia’s sons, and she knew he was unfaithful. She was not much of a woman, I’m afraid, since her way out was to hang herself from the canopy of the bed in the Green Room. Now and then, someone will see her looking out the windows of that room on a rainy night. Or a servant will swear she’s come upon Isabelle sleeping in the bed and that the figure faded away as she watched. She’s a harmless ghost, concerned with her own troubles, which she seems doomed to go on enduring forever. She died on a rainy night, and nights like this one are always the best for sightings.”
Setting my book aside, he pulled me from the chair. Abby watched us doubtfully as we left the library together, and Colin called to her to tell Tristan, if he came, that we had gone to visit the Wolfe Haven ghost.
The room waited for us with rain whispering at the panes and the bed lost in a canopy of green darkness. A draft crept in from closed windows and the candle flames dipped, throwing eerie shadows onto the walls. Colin turned off the lamp, leaving only candlelight.
“Our ghost doesn’t care for too much illumination.”
**Recipient of a Bronze Medal for Romance in the 2010 Foreword Review's Book of the Year Award; a three time finalist in the 2011 and the 2012 International Book Award in Romance, General Fiction, and Mystery/Suspense; received Honorable Mentions in the 2011 San Francisco Book Festival,the 2011 Halloween Book Festival,the 2012 London Book Festival, and the 2013 Great Southwest Book Festival and Great Southeast Book Festival It is now an award winner in the Romance category of The USA "Best Books 2011" Awards, sponsored by USA Book News; winner in the Romance category at the 2012 Paris Festival of Books; 2012 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist; 2012 IndieReader Discovery Award-4 star review 2013 Pinnacle Award Winner in Romance.
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