Sunday, November 8, 2009

Spooky America Four Real Ghost Stories by Lori Haskins ISBN 0375825002

Creole Fires

A down-trodden former Southern debutante is sold to a plantation owner as a servant and becomes the perfect mistress, whose passion saves him from his forthcoming marriage to a cold, haughty heiress...When a former Southern debutante arrives at the plantation of a wealthy New Orleans landowner, as his servant no less, a fire is ignited in this steamy historical romance. Reissue.... Click here or on the image for details


From Here to Paternity by Jill Churchill, ISBN 0380777150

Vacationing at a Colorado ski resort with a couple of friends and an assortment of offspring, suburban sleuth Jane Jeffry is horrified when she careens into a snowman that hides a dead body inside of it...Jane Jeffry, suburban sleuth extraordinare, and her friend, Detective Mel VanDyne, have braved a blizzard to join her friend Shelley at a Colorado ski resort. In spite of having all their kids along, Jane and Shelley imagine a few mindless days of relaxation. But their hopes are dashed on their first attempt to ski when Jane careens into a snowman that hides a very real -- and every dead -- body.

The slopes are littered with suspects -- a convention of genealogists led by a political fruitcake who thinks she's going to put her hand-picked Tsar on the Russian throne, a mysterious crimson-clad skier who's always on the horizon, and ex-stockbroker who's hiding from his investors, and an irate tribe of Native Americans. Jane has to take a census of the suspects and make some grave assumptions about who was vacationing with malicious intent.... Click here or on the image for details



Spooky America: Four Real Ghost Stories by Lori Haskins, ISBN 0375825002

Recounts four fact-based tales of hauntings, including a ghost horse on the coast of Massachusetts, a haunted painting at a Virginia plantation, a skeleton in Colorado, and a ghostly sea captain of California....A ghost horse that warns ships away from the reefs. A haunted painting that won't be moved. A body of bones that doesn't want to stay in its grave. A sea captain with a hook for a hand who still walks the beaches of California a hundred years after he died. Here are four ghost stories from around the country about real people and true events.... Click here or on the image for details