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?”
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.
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/sharon_buchbinder/
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