Mel
Turner is a contractor who specializes in restoring and renovating
historic homes. More often than one might expect, these properties
are haunted, and Mel can communicate with the ghostly spirits.
Mel’s new assignment is to restore a house that the
new owners want to market as a Haunted Bed and Breakfast.
That sounds like a plum job for Mel, doesn’t it?
Before
Mel officially has the job, she has to spend one night in
the house. Mel invites her friends Stephen and Claire to keep
her company, not that she’s afraid of ghosts or anything.
What she didn’t realize until the evening in question
was that her rival for the contract, Josh Avery, would also
be staying over on the same night. Things progress at a scary
pace, but take a turn for the worse, when the previous owner---
who is staying on at the house for the rest of her life---
dies, and one more ghost is officially in residence. Will
Mel be able to find the murderer before the murderer finds
her?
Blackwell
fine tunes her craft with a protagonist who embraces her unique
abilities, paranormal mysteries that ring true, and twists
and turns to keep the reader guessing.
Dead
Bolt is the previous book in this series. Juliet Blackwell
is also the author of the Witchcraft Mystery series. If you
enjoy books by Heather Blake, Joyce and Jim Lavene, and Victoria
Laurie you’ll love the Haunted Home Renovation books.
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