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REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS
Fiction
- Fantasy
Title: A Ghost
Among Us
Author: Debora ElizaBeth Hill
Rating: Must Read!
Publisher: JAQKAR Publishing
Reviewed by: Heather Froeschl
http://www.bookreview.com/
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Never before have I encountered a ghost I like so much as Sir
Jerome Kennington. We should all be so lucky to have a spirit
so full of life in our homes.
Three women rent a house in Hampstead that comes furnished with
antiques and its own resident earth bound spirit. What follows
is a wonderful story of the three living together, as only women
can, sharing and supporting each other through career challenges,
men troubles and decisions of what to wear.
Deirdre Hall is a television show host who falls for a guest
rock star. Charlotte Lewis is a photographer who wants desperately
to capture the essence of the souls in London, and Natalie Ladd
is a painter who ends up wowing the crowds at a gallery showing.
In between the inspiring lives these ladies lead, they find
the time to make love with their boyfriends, liberate a lab
full of test animals and help sort out the mystery that has
their ghost remaining on the earthly plain.
Jerome was murdered, and he needs to discover why and by whose
hand. There is an evolution here of this lost soul. At first
he can only be seen by the three women, the first in 200 years
to do so. Then he discovers that others can see him as well.
He was trapped in the house that at one time was part of his
own estate, but as time goes by, with the women to help him,
he finds he is able to travel about. Jerome shares with the
girls, his understanding of life and death and reincarnation:
shocking one of the boyfriends.
And then there is Deidreís boyfriend, the rock star,
who looks exactly like Jerome. Though he is not a Kennington,
it is possible that he is a descendant and turns out to be a
clue to a piece of the puzzle.
The author has succeeded in bringing a group of friends to life
for the reader, even the character who has been dead for so
long. Attention to detail is given at just the right moments.
The research that was involved, in portraying Jeromeís
story from the 1800ís, was obviously enjoyed by the author,
as the details of the period are wonderfully vibrant.
I savored this book to the very end, which turns out to not
be the end after all. The second novel, Jeromeís Quest,
I am told will be available shortly. I look forward to it with
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