Review: an interesting story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2013
Forty year old Syria Warrington has been married for eighteen years to her husband John and has two beautiful teenage daughters. They live in Westville, Ct.  She works in real estate and her greatest hobby is antiquing.  Antiques fill her home, even the dishes once belonged to someone else.  A visit to her favorite antique store would bring about changes in her life she never could have imagined.  When being waited on by Jeff O'Mallery the owner's son she feels an unexpected sexual arousal toward him even though this is the first time she has ever really seen him.  He is a man who keeps to himself and tends to wear a black top hat in the store.When she next visits to the antique store she finds out that Jeff was lost at sea and presumed dead.  His body was never recovered.  She feels sad for the owner but quickly forgets about the incident until a black top hat appears on her door step.  Excited about this discovery and realizing that it is an antique she immediately brings it into her home and sits it on her amoire in her bedroom.  Her life will no longer belong to her but to an entity she is unaware of.Jeff's ghost is now residing in the black hat and Syria has always been a woman he has lusted after but could never hope to have, now in death he will finally get the woman he couldn't have in life.  It doesn't take long before the sexual dreams Syria believes she is become a reality.  Her husband conveniently winds up on the floor each night and her body is invaded over and over again until she is unable to eat, work or stay awake at night to spend time with her husband.  How long will it take for her to realize what is happening and by whom?  Will she finally figure out the hat is the cause before it is too late?  Is there anyone she can confide in that won't believe she is crazy?Months go by and Syria is getting weaker and weaker and finding it difficult to have any sort of relationship with her family.  For a time the feelings the entity gives her and her sexual satisfaction make her crave the attention.  She pulls further and further away from her husband until tragedy strikes.  What happens and to whom?In the beginning of this novel I enjoyed it but as it went on and on about the same thing it began to feel long and drawn out.  It became very predictable after a while and if the book were shorter I believe it would have been much more interesting. I have read other books by this author but this was not my favorite.Reviewed by:  Linda TonisMember of the Paranormal Romance Review Team