Eccentric tobacco tycoon Rodger Hawthorne III can have anything his heart desires except his dead wife, Sarah. Feeling responsible for the car crash that killed her thirty years ago, he offers one million dollars to anyone who can find her spirit and bring it to him within one week or the money is forfeited. Six spiritually-challenged-but highly intuitive-women find his ad over the Internet and accept his challenge only to embark on a journey they didn't quite expect that covers astral traveling, past life regressions and spiritual encounters of the unworldly kind. While this book is lightly based on a true story of a real man who is offering one million dollars to anyone who can prove that spirits exist, this story is purely fictional.
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A Lesson Book in Rituals,
By Sandy Lender "Author of Choices Meant for Gods" (Misbehaving in Candlelight) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Search for the Million$$$ Dollar Ghost (Paperback)
When Rodger's wife dies with their unborn child in a car accident, he blames himself and enters a life of seclusion behind the gates of his tobacco mansion. Then one day...he offers a substantial reward to the person who can prove that spirits exist...and not just any spirit...he specifically wants proof positive for the ghost of his beloved wife.
Enter a set of spiritual women who met online and now bring their own backgrounds and beliefs to the task of finding the deceased Sarah Hawthorne. What I found intriguing about the book was the way each of the ladies accepted the other with open arms and open mind. It was uplifting to see a group come together for the purpose of loving and helping, even if they were just a fictional set of BFF. What I wish was that Mardi Gras Publishing had assigned an editor to this book! I could have stayed in the story and enjoyed being lost among the characters and the ghosts and the myriad rituals that the characters were intent on teaching me if I didn't have to skip past so many mistakes in format and style. What a shame... But, to the authors' credit, they've built an uplifting tale with likeable gals who just want to get to the bottom of a love story gone awry. I was intrigued from page 1 and found myself flipping pages quickly to devour the storyline -- hook, line and sinker! From Sandy Lender, "Some days, I just want the dragon to win."
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The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost
By: Dorothy Thompson, Heidi AW Kaminski and Pamela Lawniczak Mardis Gras Publishing, 2006 [...] Loneliness can drive a person to do lots of things. But it can also bring old memories to the surface. One of those you've loved, those you yearned for and those you love still... Reclusive billionaire Roger Hawthorne is a lonely man. Since the death of his young wife, Sarah Pemberton, in 1972, he has lived alone in the Hawthorne Estates in Hickory Heights North Carolina. For thirty years, he has grieved for his lost bride and for thirty years he has refused to move on, to let himself heal. After thirty years of grief, Roger decides to take matters into his own hands. Appearing on a television talk show, Roger makes a plea: He will offer one million dollars to the person who can give him undeniable proof that ghosts exist. What he doesn't tell the television viewers is that he is hoping that he can finally contact Sarah, finally see her face again. Five women respond to Rogers' plea: Shiloh Swallowtail, a psychic who lost her husband and feels lost on her new spiritual path. Ezra Anne Thornberry, a clairaudient who has visitations from a helpful ghost named Henri; Ezra is in desperate need of money to support her family. Brianna Campbell, just delving into the spiritual world, who misses her dead husband Rick. Pan Ryan, a psychic who feels as if life is moving around her too quickly. Peggy Maguire, a metaphysical Sunday school teacher, who is feeling smothered by her family while recovering from surgery. And Brooke Murphy, an herbal practitioner and Wiccan, who wants to find more time to devote to her photography. Each woman is looking for a change in her life and they're hoping that this could be it, the change they were all wishing for. They should be careful what they wish for, however, as their wish is granted and will bring more change than any of them could have thought possible. Roger Hawthorne invites them to the Hawthorne Estates and sets a challenge: they must provide undeniable proof that ghosts exist within a week's time or they go home empty handed. What none of them know is that the veil to the spirit world is thinner than they realize. Someone, or rather, something is waiting for them in Hickory Heights and will stop at nothing to get what it wants.... I can't stress enough how incredible The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost is. At first I was a little sceptical, as different writers have different writing styles and multi-author books are usually pretty choppy. I needn't have worried. From page one, this book flows beautifully and you can't tell where one author started and another author continued. The writing is flawless and the story pulls you in until it absorbs your entire world. I loved the idea that, essentially, it was a book about spirituality and the existence of the spirit world. Normally, messages thinly disguised as novels have little to no story and the characters are nothing but mouth pieces to preach at readers. Nothing could be farther from the truth where The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost is concerned. The story is the main focus and the authors use the story to examine the spirit world and their beliefs. A truly refreshing concept. The story, and its incredible characters, is the focus here. Each chapter gives us a deeper glimpse into one of the characters stories but all of the chapters flow together beautifully to tell us the complete story. Roving narrative has never been used more deftly and more enjoyably. Believe it or not, The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost is also a touching love story. It examines what one man will do to find the woman who still claims his heart. If that isn't romance, I don't know what is. The novel is also a study of human relationships and how strangers, connected by the internet, interact with each other one they come face to face. It also helped me examine my own beliefs about the spirit world. There is too much proof in this novel for a reader not to believe, for a reader not to know that there are spirits among us. It's a rare novel that makes you think and examine your own introspective beliefs. I haven't been this taken with a spiritual novel since Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. Thankfully The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost is a million times better. This book has a lot on its plate: a ghost story, a love story, probing the consciousness of others, examining theories about the spirit world and the existence of ghosts, families and the ties that bond them, the strength of the human heart. But, incredibly, the authors juggle all these elements with deft hands while still delivering an incredibly satisfying, immensely readable ghostly tale. As soon as I had finished The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost, I started it all over again. It's a fast and easy read and beautifully written. Indulge yourself and get a copy of this book. It will entertain you, it may frighten you and it will certainly change the way you look at the world around you. I can't tell you how good this book is. You'll have to read it for yourself. Jamieson Wolf
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