"Nora Roberts at her best"
Memphis, forty-fives year old Rosalind "Roz" Harper for the
most part feels good about life mostly because of the young
that has brought her family home Harper House back to life.
Her "son" David takes good care of the estate. Her In the
Garden's nursery manager Stella Rothchild does likewise
although the mother of two young sons will probably leave
once she weds her beloved Logan. Finally her beloved
employee Hayley Philips has a delightful newborn who makes
Roz feel like an indulgent grandmother. The two flaws in Roz optimistic outlook are the return of
her sponge of an ex husband Bryce Clerk doing what he does
best trying to live off someone else with Roz his target
and the mystery of the Harper Bride ghost. The former is a
question of ignoring him though Bryce keeps pushing; the
latter is to much a presence to pretend she is not there so
Roz hires genealogist Dr. Mitch Carnegie to look into her
past. Mitch quickly becomes a ghost believer even as he
falls in love with his reluctant client, who ponders a
second chance after the failure of her first attempt at
marriage. This paranormal family drama is a Nora that can stand alone
but reading the previous novel, BLUE DAHLIA, enhances the
experience as the audience will have a taste how far the
Harper "extended" family including ghosts has come. The
ensemble cast seems genuine and clues to the mystery of the
ghost augment the novel. Nora Roberts is at her best with
the first two novels of the Garden trilogy leaving readers
to anticipate quite a finish to the miniseries. Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2005
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted November 26, 2006
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