The Ghost and Miss Demure: A Plantation and Lightning Ghost Romance Mystery

By Melanie Jackson

Book Overview

Some ghosts can be too friendly.

Karo Follett left her career in a blaze of glorious rage, ditching both work and its attendant philandering plagiarist, her boyfriend, for a job restoring the Belle Ange plantation in Virginia. On the way, inspiration struck like... well, like lightning.

"Melanie Jackson has a truly awe-inspiring imagination... and writes romance for those with a yen for something different."
-RT Book Reviews

A billion volts can be eye opening, but an even bigger shock is on its way. Karo can now see spirits-and what a spirit! Hugh Vellacourt, the original owner of Belle Ange, was eighteenth-century America's answer to the Marquis de Sade. (She's not exactly sure what de Sad was asking.) Kinky, snarky, twisted, lonely... his fantasyland in the attic is like nothing she's ever seen, and his sense of humor requires Karo get together with her whimsical irreverent, to-die-for boss-a work relationship, which she's sworn off forever. Romance is in the air, but has it got more than a ghost of a chance?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09RM3YWNF
• ISBN13: 9798412226705
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

enjoyable paranormal romance

Restorer Karo Follett quit her previous position with a potato salad flourish that haunts her as she became a pariah though her cause was just. She struggles with finding a new position and finally scores work on a remote plantation, Belle Ange in Virginia. She immediately travels to her new job site before her employer might change their mind. She arrives at her destination during a torrent. At the front gate, lightning hits her. Suddenly Karo sees an apparition having trysts like an eighteenth-century Marquis de Sade; Karo has met the original owner of Belle Ange, Hugh Vellacourt. Fearing she suffers from PTSD, Karo meets her British boss and is attracted to him but vows to adhere to her pledge not to mix work and pleasure. As she helps restore the mansion into a tourist attraction, she tries to ignore the ghosts and their sexual spirits as much as her desire for her employer. The Ghost and Miss Demure is an enjoyable paranormal romance starring an outraged female who has become an ardent misogynist and the two males in her life who make her reconsider her vow of no men allowed. The background never quite settles on modern day restoration romance or ghostly interlude yet fans will enjoy the antics of "Miss Demure" and her unwanted mates. The ghost is very entertaining as his attitude is his French peer was a phony upstart who became a legend because vellacourtism is not as sexy as sadism; mindful of Robert Wuhl's presentation in Assume the Position on Bissell vs. Revere. Karo's triangle between the British hunk haunting her heart and the S & M spiritual expert advising her how to use her vagina makes for a lighthearted fun frolic. Harriet Klausner