Haunted: Where the past meets the present...
by Melissa Tilley HallPublish: Jun 09, 2023Series: HauntedSupernatural Suspense Romantic Suspense Paranormal Romance Romance Historical FictionBook Overview
The old plantation house had been standing for well over a century, stuck in a time capsule all its own. Its walls bear witness to the horrors and sadness that had taken place within.Richard Hammond, a wealthy plantation owner, had built the home for his growing family when tragedy struck. His wife passed away giving birth, leaving Richard to raise his only daughter in a town caught up in their own traditions that he refused to impose upon his daughter, Amara.
Timothy, a boy from the wrong side of town becomes best friends with Amara and they eventually find themselves in a tragic love story.
Jesse Calmers takes control of the house some years later and the horrors he committed there are still locked away in the basement of nightmares.
As the years passed, the plantation house became a place of fear and dread. A place the locals avoided. It has become the ghost stories told around campfires at night, and the truth of what really happened there became a thing of the past.
Desirae is an interior designer in Hollywood, California, who has become burnt out on working with the Hollywood elite. One day, unexpectedly, she is contacted by an Estate attorney in Madison, Georgia to inform her that she needs to travel across the country to a place where she has never been, to go over her grandfather's will. A grandfather that she thought had been dead for many years. When she arrives, she is blown away. To her astonishment she has been left with a beautiful plantation home with a shady past. A home she is determined to possibly live in. She quickly finds out that everyone in the town is petrified of the house and wants nothing to do with it.
Frustrated that she cannot get a contractor or anyone to help with the work on the house. She seeks out the help of Sylvia, the owner of the Bed and Breakfast she is staying at. With Sylvia's help, she finds a contractor, who just happens to be Sylvia's grandson, Shane, who not only isn't afraid of the house, but also draws Desirae's attention in a bizarre way. Together the three of them look for the truth of what really happened in the house all those years ago.
Will they find the truth or will the house and what is wandering within its walls scare them off…the way it has everyone else in the past?
