Review: This would make for a great movie on the lifetime channel.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2013
This book was so entertaining, heart-warming, and very hysterical. I enjoyed every single minute of this book so much, I plan to go see what other works she has to offer. This was a cast of loveable, zany, and outrageous  characters. They are all so different, and yet they work and blend so perfectly together.First off you have:Justine Hale - a modern woman in her thirties. Her husband just left her to become a monk. She has her hands full just trying to keep her head above water, after losing her job.Pip (Phillip 11 yr old son who mad at the world right now) and Judy Ann (Her 8 yr. old daughter who is afraid of her own shadow, and a big fear being left behind)Pauline, her newly-widowed, and bankrupt mother who moves in with her until her husbands estate can be settled.But even worse is being saddled with Agnes, too, her ex-mother-in-law. When her son left, he left her behind for poor Justine to take care of, too.The two older women have always led very pampered lives. Neither of them have worked a day in their life, and it seems as though they are useless when it comes to cooking and cleaning, too. They would rather sit around feeling sorry for themselves and constantly bickering with one another, than to help Justine with the everyday chores..After Justine loses her job she decides to make some major changes in her life. She wants to move out of Virginia, and hopefully leave all the bad memories behind. So she packs up the family and heads for an old southern type mansion (Think..'Gone With The Wind') on which she has taken a lease-to-buy in Alabama. The whole story revolves around a 'Delta Dawn' setting.When she get there she gets more than she ever bargained for. The house is practically in ruins, and she doesn't realize it, yet, but it also comes with her own personal ghost.Lottie Roberts - the ghost who doesn’t know she’s a ghost and exists in the house her late husband, Elmer, built prior to the Civil War. She’s certain she can come back to life, if she can only figure out how to do it.And if that's not enough to keep your interest, throw in the handsome hunky neighbor next door, Tucker Highsmith and his father who resides in a nursing home during the week( after setting his own house on fire by accident) and lives with his son on the weekends.There's also the mysterious Milo Roberts, who happens to be a distant relative of Lottie’s late husband. Under the guise of searching for moles, he keeps digging holes in the yard searching for the treasure Elmer buried before he left for war.A few of the other reviewers criticized the author for using unusual words, but the words she used were some of the same exact words and terminologies, that I've heard my own Great-grandmother use often. That's just the way they talked back then.I don't normally read books with ghosts or the paranormal, but I loved this story. It wasn't like your normal voo-doo type of story at all. In fact; there was no special powers were involved. And if you're looking for a book with hot steamy romance scenes, this is not the book for you. There is romance involved, but the author leaves the hot and steamy parts up to the readers imagination.I would highly recommend this book to everyone!