In THE UNINVITED the Krewe of Hunters team goes to
Philadelphia to investigate a possible murder in a historic
home.
Allison Leigh is a professor of history, and has
been a guide for the historical Tarleton-Dandridge House
for a number of years. She loves the historical
revolutionary war era house and plans to write a paper on it.
Allison is beautiful, logical and doesn't believe in
ghosts... even when she finds Julian Mitchell the same man
she had just a few hours earlier
found dead in one of the rooms of the historic house in her
living room. She thinks she
made him up.
Tyler Montegue, an F.B.I. agent with the Krewe of Hunters,
a paranormal unit, does believe in ghosts. He's seen them
and talked to them. At first neither is particularly
thrilled with having to work together. Upon learning his
identity, Allison begins making remarks about ghost busters
and was sure they weren't there to solve a murder but to
make some awful reality show.
After a lot of denial Julian, the ghost, finally gets
through to her and is then seen by the whole team of
investigators. As they all work to solve his murder as well
as other mysterious events connected to the house, Allison
and Tyler discover they are attracted to each other and
work on that too.
This book has a double storyline in the extent that you are
solving a modern day murder but you are also discovering
the secrets of what happened to one of the original members
of the Tarleton family, Lucy Tarleton. Lucy was a patriot
spy during the occupation by the British and was believed
to have been killed by her Crown lover Lord Brian "Beast"
Bradley. But did he? What is the truth and what is someone
willing to do to hide that truth?
I thoroughly enjoyed THE UNINVITED. It intrigued me
all the way to the last page, with Ms. Graham's
trick of trying to make the reader believe the obvious
suspect is the killer before twisting it back around to look
at another, and actually leaves you with a final kick at
the end. Sometimes a book will have too many characters
that make you have to reread pages just to make sure you
got it straight but she managed to bring in a lot of
secondary characters, giving them just enough to add color
to the storyline but not enough to take over. THE UNINVITED
is a
book that will make you believe in ghosts.
A Philadelphia mansion plays host to uninvited death
1777: In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Landon Mansion
is commandeered by British Lord "Butcher" Bedford. He stabs
Lucy Tarleton-who spurned his king and his love-leaving her
to die in her father's arms.
Now: After the day's final tour, docent Allison Leigh makes
her rounds while locking up...and finds a colleague slumped
over Bedford's desk, impaled on his own replica bayonet.
Resident ghosts may be the stock-in-trade of stately
Philadelphia homes, but Allison-a noted historian-is
indignant at the prospect of "ghost hunters" investigating
this apparent murder.
Agent Tyler Montague knows his hauntings and his history.
But while Allison is skeptical of the newcomer, a second
mysterious murder occurs. Has "Butcher" Bedford resurfaced?
Or is there another malevolent force at work in Landon
Mansion? Wary, yet deeply attracted, Allison has to trust in
Tyler and work with him to discover just what uninvited
guest-dead or alive-has taken over the house. Or their lives
could become history!
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