Review: Well done paranormal romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2000
The luck of the assignment draw pleases Mary Corbett as she chooses a sealed envelope containing an inventory job in her hometown of Boston.  In turn this allows her to spend time with her sister during the holidays.  However, when co-worker Tony Parker asks her to switch with him, the kind team player agrees especially since Tony has covered her in the past.Mary travels to the old Martine Louisiana plantation about a hundred miles north of Baton Rouge.  There she meets her co-curator Jack Windom, a person she once wanted to share a bed with but he rejected her overtures since he was engaged at the time.  To Mary's chagrin, she remains attracted to the married Jack.  Worse yet for Mary is the visions and nightmares that she begins to see of the previous owners, Jean-Pierre and Magdalene Larrusard, dead for well over a century.  Haunted by them, Mary tries to help find peace for Magdalene and herself.BLUE MOON is a fabulous contemporary gothic-like ghost story filled with action and growing suspense that hooks the audience into a one sitting read.  Mary is a compassionate individual that makes her the prefect foil for the star-crossed lovers who disturb her every breath.  Jack is a hero in every sense of the word.  The lead duo makes a great couple even though the resolution of his marriage is too simple.  The secondary cast adds depth ranging from voodoo to assignment swapping, which in turn provides additional insight into Jack, Mary, and the two ghosts.  When it comes to leading suspense tales C.D. Ledbetter is one of the better writers on the market today.Harriet Klausner