Goldengrove

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Summary: Standard Southern Gothic Romance
Review: Anne Whitehead receives a cryptic call from her brother, David, while he is exploring a supposedly haunted mansion named Goldengrove where ghosts sometimes sing at night. Concerned, Anne travels to the mansion to discover her brother missing and a curious assortment of secretive people tied to the mansion's history as well as her brother's disappearence.

Mary Beth Craft's first novel is a rather standard southern gothic romance with a resourceful heroine surrounded by two mysterious men in conflict with one another. You can tell one fourth of the way through the book who the bad guy is and who will eventually win the lady's heart though there are some twists and turns that show some original thought.

A quick rainy night read, fans of the gothic romance genre will only be disappointed that the ghosts spend far too much time off-stage and act merely as unresolved window dressing.

Rating:
Summary: Standard Southern Gothic Romance
Review: Anne Whitehead receives a cryptic call from her brother, David, while he is exploring a supposedly haunted mansion named Goldengrove where ghosts sometimes sing at night. Concerned, Anne travels to the mansion to discover her brother missing and a curious assortment of secretive people tied to the mansion's history as well as her brother's disappearence.

Mary Beth Craft's first novel is a rather standard southern gothic romance with a resourceful heroine surrounded by two mysterious men in conflict with one another. You can tell one fourth of the way through the book who the bad guy is and who will eventually win the lady's heart though there are some twists and turns that show some original thought.

A quick rainy night read, fans of the gothic romance genre will only be disappointed that the ghosts spend far too much time off-stage and act merely as unresolved window dressing.

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Summary: Quick read/romantic ghost story?
Review: This book is a fast read and a wonderful who done it. I loved how well it read and the mysterious singing ghosts in the old southern mansion:corny but fun. Would be a wonderful movie. Makes a rainy day book.