Review: A ghostly, charming, and hilarious Regency romp!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 9, 2013
The ghost of Lady Sybil, poisoned by her husband, has been haunting her ancestral home, Harroweby House for going on 100 years. The home has recently been let to a trio of sleazy conspirators who have all but kidnapped the rightful heirs to the Harroweby fortune: lovely young Lady Selinda and her very precocious 10 year old younger sister Lady Lucy, following the untimely deaths of their parents from typhus.  The pretenders to the fortune are the so-called Aunt Prudence, her oafish son Rupert, and Prudence's nasty companion/governess Miss Snypish.  Enter the eccentric but oh-so handsome, wealthy, and kindly Lord Waverly who notices that things are just not quite right with the orphaned sisters and the goings-on at Harroweby house.  Ahah, but young Lucy is not only very bright but she possesses the paranormal "six sense" in that she is the only one who can actually SEE and communicate with the ghost of Lady Sybil! Discovering that the late Lady Sybil is indeed little Lucy's great-great grandmother sets the unlikely pair into a plan to rescue them from the clutches of the three nasty conspirators who plan to rob them of their inheritance by getting rank Rupert to compromise beautiful Lady Selinda into a forced marriage. But with the help of Lord Waverly, (who is smitten by the charms of Lady Selinda) clever Lucy and her new friend ghostly Lady Sybil, can they save the day? The characters in this stellar tale are delightful, either in their goodness or in the case of the three conspirators, delightfuly awful.  The character of young Lucy is especially charming and loveable.  Fraught with unique twists and turns, harrowing suspense, and gut-busting humor, the introduction of the haunting but kindly Lady Sybil makes this Regency romance thoroughly unique.  It is skillfully written with all of the historical authenticity throughout and light-hearted entertainment at its best.