Review: A Lingering Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2012
This story was provided to me for the purpose of an honest review. When I was asked to choose a book to review from a long list, the description of RETURN TO ME really stood out. For readers old enough to remember and love "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," this story will be right up your alley, as it would for lovers of supernatural romance.While vacationing at her family's beach house, teen Sam Reading hears nightly creaking noises only she can hear and then, on the summer solstice, she discovers gentlemanly ghost Harrison Benning in his physical form. Eternally bound to remain in his family's home, the solstice is the one day out of each year that Harrison becomes flesh and blood.Sam and Harrison form an enduring friendship over years of summer vacations and though he only materializes on that one day, he remains ever near and leaves signs of affection for her eyes only. As Sam becomes a young woman, their relationship blooms into an everlasting love that endures through loneliness, separation, loss, decades and even death.I did not know that this was a short story going in and I finished it wanting more. That is not a negative; I wanted to spend more time with Sam and Harrison and their story. In actuality, I found it to be a spanning romance stripped to its core. Ms. Fox Hall wastes no time pulling the reader in to quickly know the characters and feel deeply for them as life takes its twists and turns.So as not to make this review longer than the short story, I will end by highly recommending that you read RETURN TO ME.  I will certainly be reading more of author Tara Fox Hall's books.