Beloved - E-book - ePub

When you're seriously unattached and recently unemployed, the inheritance of a cottage on Nantucket Island might seem like a really Good Thing. The fact that the house is ramshackle and possibly haunted? Mere details. Jane Drew never actually believed the neighbors' murmurs about her great-aunt being a psychic, or a witch, or a psychic witch. Still, a series of eerie events soon has her convinced that the spirit of a beautiful Quaker is roaming the place, and it seems clear that it will take more than a smile and a wave goodbye to make the spirit leave.
If Jane is to move things along, she's going to have to think like an islander. But she's a Boston graphic designer with no experience of the island or its history, and she could use a little local knowledge in her quest. There is no one more local than the aloof, wary, and impossibly seductive Mac McKenzie. Descended from generations of hard-working islanders, Mac has very clear opinions of off-islanders, and he's not afraid to express them.
He has little patience for New Age types, moneyed types, and those for whom "antiquing" is a verb. He regards spaghetti as noodles, not pasta, and he drinks water from a tap, not a bottle. He's suspicious of people who design graphics, whatever those are. And he doesn't believe in ghosts. Period. When he finds himself up against the insistent, persistent, infinitely irritating Jane Drew with her knack for complicating his life, he does what any self-respecting islander would and shrugs her off -- for a while, anyway.
But Mac understands, as Jane does not, that not every force is benign -- and not every force is otherworldly. REVIEWS"BELOVED has charm, romance, and a delicious hint of the supernatural. If you loved the film 'Somewhere in Time, ' don't miss this book."--LaVyrle Spencer" BELOVED is great ... a lively, engaging, thoroughly enchanting tale. Ms. Stockenberg is an exciting voice in the romance genre.
Her writing is delicious; I savored every morsel of BELOVED."--Jayne Ann Krentz"Antoinette Stockenberg is pure magic! She does a wonderful job of evoking mood out of setting. The love story between the hero and heroine was complex and moving; what appealing characters!"--Susan Elizabeth Phillips"A delightfully different romance with a ghost story -- a great combination that was impossible to put down."--Johanna Lindsey"Antoinette Stockenberg continues to demonstrate her talent for delivering unique tales of romance and danger with tantalizing supernatural overtones."--Romantic Times"Antoinette Stockenberg's BELOVED will transport readers to a remote island world filled with humor, vivid life experiences, glimpses of the supernatural, and characters that sparkle ...
[it] will inspire the reader to cheer and look forward to this author's next gem."--Gothic Journal