"A Delightful, Humorous Paranormal Romance"
Eve Bluebeard wants noting to do with the family business of
piracy or with
men; she is a modern woman and feels she does not need a man
to do what she
wants; unfortunately she lives in a time when society does
not agree with her.
So she does what any creative and head strong woman would
do, she invents a
husband. She has been operating The Tower's, London's
premier mental asylum for
the paranormal for three years while her imaginary husband
has been away in
Transylvania treating a vampire of bloodlust. Just before a very important dinner with members of the
Supernatural Science
Foundation, Eve is surprised with a visit from her father
the infamous Captain
Bluebeard. He tries to get her to go back to the sea and to
think about marring
Captain Hook; Eve reminds him that she is already married
and that she would not
marry Hook if he was the last man on earth. At the start her dinner party seams to be doomed by a series
of weird events,
her butler is smashed and dropped a bottle of port on the
rug, cook burnt the
dinner, one of her crazed patients dug a hole and her
gardener fell into it. All
the while Eve is trying to keep a calm face for her guests
because this visit is
very important for the funding of The Tower's. Just when Eve
feels that things
are under control again, a man claiming to be Dr. Adam
Griffin, her husband
crashes the dinner party. Eve can not protest that Adam is not her husband due to she
has no husband and
must act out the farce to her dinner guests. Adam (which is
his real name) even
looks how Eve described him and she finds him quite
attractive. He finagles his
way into staying at the Tower's for a bit. Adam discovers
the occupants of The
Tower's are a motley group of paranormal with a wide array
of problems that keep
Eve and her staff on their toes: a paranoid leprechaun, a
bell obsessed hunched
back dwarf, a claustrophobic vampire, a werewolf who thinks
he is a housefly
plus many more. Minda Webber has created a delightful humorous paranormal
romance filled with
historical and literary characters along with her own. The
combination of which
one would think would not work, but she makes it seem not
only possible but
real. That along with the humor, jokes, and little quips
that have you trying to
remember what they refer to; make this story a fun and
enjoyable read.
Reviewed by Catherine Smith
Posted September 12, 2007
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