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An irresistible novel brimming with wit, warmth, and Irish humor, about the married owners of a friendly tavern in Belfast and the intimate lives of the customers and employees who band together to save it from demolition. Jack Beaumont and his beautiful wife, Lily, are the owners of the tavern on Maple Street, a tiny Victorian pub they inherited from Jack's great-uncle Ernest. It's a quiet place, untouched by the modern world, and that's why the...

The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which two of Hannah's own distant relations had had a part), and the suicides--or where they murders?--of...

"Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she's spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan's long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates....

Humorous novel about the efforts of a Garden Club to preserve an old Connecticut house.

Collects two love stories, including "Courting Catherine," wherein Catherine Calhoun intends to stop a man from buying a shabby old mansion on the coast of Maine and converting it into a hotel. In "French kiss", when Polly Prince becomes the apprentice of ruthless tycoon Damon Doukakis, she faces the biggest challenge of her life -- not to be seduced by the CEO.

Producer Penny Wintercraft-Hawkes and her boyfriend, folk-singer Ringan Laine, begin restoring an old theater that Penny has recently inherited and encounter a tragic spirit.

1777: In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Landon Mansion is commandeered by British Lord "Butcher" Bedford. He stabs Lucy Tarleton, leaving her to die in her father's arms. Now: After the day's final tour, docent Allison Leigh makes her rounds while locking up... and finds a colleague slumped over Bedford's desk, impaled on his own replica bayonet. Has "Butcher" Bedford resurfaced? Or is there another malevolent force at work in Landon Mansion? 1777:...