The
Haunting of Hotel LaBelle
Sharon
Buchbinder
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal,
Fantasy
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Date of Publication: November 16,
2016
Print ISBN 978-1-5092-1153-1
Digital ISBN 978-1-5092-1154-8
Number of pages: 198
Word Count: 48,000
Cover Artist: Rae Monet
Tagline: The past meets the present when a curse
turn-of-the-century man meets a feisty modern day woman.
Book Description:
When hotel inspector, Tallulah
Thompson, is called in along with her pug, Franny, to investigate renovation
delays, she meets an extremely annoyed and dapper turn-of-the-century
innkeeper. The only problem is he’s in limbo, neither dead nor alive, and
Tallulah and the pug are the first to see him in a hundred years.
Cursed by a medicine woman, “Love
‘em and Leave ‘em Lucius” Stewart is stuck between worlds until he finds his
true love and gives her his heart. When he first sees Tallulah, he doesn’t know
what he’s feeling. Yet, her stunning beauty, and feisty attitude pull him in.
With the fate of Hotel LaBelle on
the line, Tallulah with the help of a powerful medicine woman turns Lucius back
into a flesh and blood man. She and Lucius team up to save the hotel, but
Tallulah can't help but wonder if he will ever let go of his past love and
learn to love again.
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/OB-RseyCWyM
Short
Intro:
This short novel gives readers
insights into Homeland Security Anomaly Defense Director Bert Blackfeather’s
Native American heritage. An in-between book in the Jinni Hunter Series, this
is a lighter paranormal tale than the others. Take one Montana innkeeper from
an era when men were men and women were glad of it, one sassy hotel inspector
with a pug on patrol, and stir in a generous dollop of humor and sexual
tension—and you have The Haunting of Hotel LaBelle. Come along to Big Sky
Country and enjoy the ride with Tallulah, Lucius, Bert, and his sister, Emma as
they join forces to rescue the people and the hotel they love.
Two
sentence blurb:
Modern day woman, Tallulah Thompson, is
the only person to see lost in limbo, “Love ‘em and Leave ‘em Lucius” Stewart
in over a century. There’s a way to release him from the spell, but will reversing
the curse make things better—or worse?
Key
Words:
Ghosts, Native American, Medicine Woman, Paranormal, Homeland Security
Excerpt:
A book flew at his head—and
sailed through him, bouncing off the wall and landing on the floor.
Mouth
agape, the woman stared from him to the book and back to him again. “You’re a
ghost.”
“Not
exactly. Shall we start over?” He leaned against the wall and folded his arms
across his chest. “After a hundred years of being invisible to everyone except
you, I’d like to know who you are and what you’re doing here.”
“Of
course. Why not? Could today get any weirder?” She sank into the desk chair,
shook her head, and sighed. “My name is Tallulah Thompson. I’m a hotel
inspector, hired by the current owner as a consultant to find out why the
renovations are delayed and what he needs to do to fix it. He’s teetering on
the brink of bankruptcy.”
“What
tribe are you?”
She
jerked her head up and those doggone lapis lazuli eyes of hers sparked as if
she’d strike him with lightning and kill him with one look. “No one asks that.
It’s not politically correct.”
“Well,
I guess you haven’t been talking to the right people. And I don’t know what you
mean by that last part. I’ve never been involved in politics.”
“Nowadays,
it’s considered rude to ask about another person’s national origins.” She threw
her hands up. “Why am I giving a ghost an etiquette lesson? What am I
thinking?”
Review:
Great story that kept me reading for hours. The characters popped, the dialog was real and I loved the ghost story.
5/5
Review:
Great story that kept me reading for hours. The characters popped, the dialog was real and I loved the ghost story.
5/5
About
the Author:
Sharon Buchbinder has been
writing fiction since middle school and has the rejection slips to prove it. An
RN, she provided health care delivery, became a researcher, association
executive, and obtained a PhD in Public Health. When not teaching or writing,
she can be found fishing, walking her dogs, or breaking bread and laughing with
family and friends in Baltimore, MD and Punta Gorda, FL.
Twitter ID @sbuchbinder https://twitter.com/sbuchbinder
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Goodreads author page https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4417344.Sharon_Buchbinder
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