Review: Romance from the Past and the Present
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
Kingston Cottage was "built in the late 1800's by Rudolph Kingston (aka: RK)", who lived there with his wife and their two daughters.  After the death of their youngest daughter, Katie's, husband Seamus, Katie became unstable.  Her instability was magnified when she lost her most precious possession from Seamus; her wedding ring.  Not but a week after the loss of the ring, Katie, herself disappeared, and only her shawl was ever located, having washed up on the island near the docks.After new owners (who's children now own) took possession of the island and set up housekeeping in the cottage, they notices that odd things would happen.  The grandchildren, needing to sell the island, contact Revenant Investigators of Maine to come in and remove any spirits still lingering.  This is a major event for the investigation team since no other group has ever been allowed on the island to check for ghosts or other paranormal activity.  The crew assigned to the island investigation include Arabella Pierce, medium and lead investigator; Lena Thompson, lead investigator and empath; and Nick Mitchell, the tech guy.There's only one problem:  Folger Dade - the boss of Revenant Investigators, authorized a tag-along by Lucas Brown, a reporter for Debunker Media.  Arabella is not happy to have a reporter following them around on the island while they work.  And the fact that he's gorgeous and nice?  Well, that starts wearing down the defenses that Arabella has constructed due to past relationships.  It doesn't help that Lucas is also a skeptic, and Arabella can't stomach skeptics.Ghosts of Kingston Cottage is a fantastic short ghostly novella that has the reader truly believing that love never dies - even when the lovers themselves are ghosts - or a medium and a skeptic reporter.  I enjoyed the ghost hunting aspect (my husband and I are fans of several of those types of shows on television-he being a believer and me being the skeptic-don't judge) and the fact that they included the reporter in the actual processes of after-dark investigations, not just allowing him to sit in a "base camp" and watch the monitors.The blossoming romance between Arabella and Lucas is quick but believable.  I fell in love with my husband of 4 years after about a week so I know it's possible.  The interactions between Lucas, Arabella, Leah, and Nick are comfortable, playful even, since Arabella, Leah, and Nick grew up together.Ghosts of Kingston Cottage is a nice romantic story about past love, current love, and ghosts.Review Copy Courtesy of:  Entangled Publishing, at no cost, in exchange for an honest review.