Chimera (Five Star Expressions) [Hardcover]

Lois Carroll (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Five Star (ME) (June 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594144575
• ISBN-13: 978-1594144578
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,448,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lois Carroll has been writing since her childhood when she received a daily diary as a gift. With a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a master's in Theater, she began her professional writing and editing career working at a publishing company.

Now a wife, mother, and grandmother, she writes full time. Writing as Lois Carroll and as Lois Schwartz, she has five hard cover books, three paperbacks, over a dozen earlier e-books, plus short stories and non-fiction articles in national magazines and journals. Her latest hard cover from Avalon, A Case of Puppy Love, has been published in Large Print by Thorndike Press.

She loves hearing from her readers. You can read about her books and email her through her web site at: http://loiscarrollbooks.com/

Read her short stories at her blog: http://loiscarroll.blogspot.com/

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars strong paranormal tale, July 3, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chimera (Five Star Expressions) (Hardcover)

Carolyn Whitney Matison unexpectedly inherits from her Great Aunt Louise Whitney her mansion and the money to convert it into an inn on the condition that she looks for an emerald necklace that went missing decades ago. Some family members blame the loss of jewelry on Robert Ashford who was courting the younger daughter Sarah. When her sibling Lora died in a fall Robert received the blame and subsequently his life and that of Sarah were destroyed.

Attorney Rob Ashford, great nephew of Robert, believes the necklace remains inside Greystone; he wants to see that it is found so his relative's name can be cleared. The Whitney family hired Rob to help Carolyn with her inheritance. Neither he nor she expected to feel a strong regard for one another. Carolyn also has problems accepting that she sees the ghosts of Sarah, Lora, and Robert until Rob admits he has always seen them. Someone is causing accidents to occur and they have come close to killing Carolyn and Rob, but the major impediment to their love is that she is tricked into believing that he is the danger causing the perilous events. Unless she trusts in love, another couple may join the unhappy tragic afterlife that walk in Greystone.

Readers who cherish ghost stories will thoroughly enjoy CHIMERA, a paranormal tale about past deeds haunting the present. Carolyn, hurt by the man she loves, struggles to trust anyone yet her inability to communicate with her beloved hero leads to her unhappiness and to fans shouting at her to talk to him. Rob comes across as a saint who forgives her for jumping to the wrong conclusion about him leading to the audience wanting a Rob of their own.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars Suspense and romance!, June 13, 2006

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This review is from: Chimera (Five Star Expressions) (Hardcover)

This is a great book that will keep you turning pages right to the end. You won't want to put it down.