PHANTOM LOVER - Anna Leigh Keaton

Cobblestone Press – www.cobblestone-press.com

ISBN: 978-1-60088-122-0

April 2007

Erotic Paranormal Romance

Moonlight Cove - Present Day

When Lillian Nightsong was very young she had an invisible friend named Jacques Lazare Cheever. Lilly knows a revised version of the legend that surrounds him from a book that belongs to her grandmother. Lilly thinks that Jacques left the area once populated by the Coos Indians because the Princess he loved threw herself off a cliff.

Two hundred years ago a Coos Princess had cursed him to an existence as a phantom before committing suicide because Jacques did not love her. In all his years as an earth-bound spirit, Lilly was the only person to know he was still around.

But, children grow up, and adorable, sprite-like girls become care-worn women. When her job ends, her marriage goes belly-up, and her grandmother, Clara Nightsong, dies, little is left for Lilly. She returns to Moonlight Cove where she had spent so many happy summers to sell Clara's Bed and Breakfast Inn - the only home Phantom Jacques has. How will he get her to hear him again? But, Lilly has forgotten all about him until she finds her grandmother's diary...and discovers that she hadn't imagined Jacques.

Having a sensuous, earth-shattering relationship with an invisible male makes Lilly change her mind about love. But she must leave Moonlight Cove and Jacques must stay because the curse keeps him there.

Although melancholy and sad, PHANTOM LOVER is a lovely read. Anna Leigh Keaton has written of a man out of time and a lonely woman with a soft, achingly romantic style. There are enough present-day problems to keep the story centered and moving along, and enough old-world charm to blend into a perfect love story, proving that true love does conquer all, including time and space. Anna Leigh Keaton uses her talents to make everything fit together in a hot, gentle, and oh-so-satisfying tale. PHANTOM LOVER would be a pampering indulgence any time of day, especially on a rainy evening with the lights turned down low.

Maggie Anderson