Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Haunting
    Unavailable
    The Haunting
    Unavailable
    The Haunting
    Ebook257 pages4 hours

    The Haunting

    By Hope Tarr

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    Investigating a noise in the attic of her historic home, Maggie Holliday encounters a handsome man in a Civil War uniform. He calls her "Isabel," seduces her in ways the shy academic had never dreamed of then literally vanishes.

    With every fleeting visit, Maggie's mysterious loverEthantakes her closer to the edge of ecstasy and madness. Is he really a ghost? Far from chilling her, his touch is incendiaryit all feels so real and so very, very good. And so very familiar

    Ethan insists Maggie's the reincarnation of his long-lost love. And after a few incredible nights in his arms, Maggie is inclined to believe him. But does she dare surrender to a passion that transcends time, tragedy and even death?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Blaze
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781426800023
    Author

    Hope Tarr

    Hope Tarr is the award-winning author of twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels. She also writes screenplays as Hope C. Tarr – Stolen Kiss with Emmy Award-winning producer and director Linda Yellen is in development – and women’s historical fiction as Hope Carey. Hope is a founder and curator of the original Lady Jane’s Salon® reading series in New York City. Launched in 2009, the Salon donates its net proceeds to the NYC charity, Women in Need, Inc. Visit Hope at her website at www.HopeCTarr.com and follow her on Instagram @hopectarr and Twitter @hopetarr.

    Read more from Hope Tarr

    Related to The Haunting

    Related ebooks

    Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Sep 4, 2018

      I have no hesitation in saying that I have ever considered the [Electoral College] as the most dangerous blot in our Constitution, and one which some unlucky chance will some day hit. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Hay, August 17, 1823 He who

      3 min read

    • Article

      Quotients

      May 7, 2020

      Quotients
      8 min read

    • Article

      Swansongs And Southern Discomfort

      Oct 27, 2022

      THE BORDERLAND BETWEEN popular fiction and literary fiction is now fertile territory. Once upon a time it was easy to tell them apart. Popular and genre fiction were in small format paper-backs, literary fiction larger: now all have been promoted to

      6 min read

    • Article

      Story Time

      Jul 21, 2019

      Story Time
      1 min read

    • Article

      Folks’ Tale

      Nov 20, 2023

      Folks’ Tale
      3 min read

    • Article

      Peaky Blinders Recap: Series Six, Episode Three – Stephen Graham, At Last

      Mar 13, 2022

      The flat-capped epic’s final series reached its midway mark with an arrival, a return and a departure. Here’s your postmortem of episode three, Gold … “My name’s Hayden Stagg. I hear there’s some men from Birmingham looking for me.” We’d been eagerly

      5 min read

    • Article

      Tessa Castro

      May 31, 2023

      IN COMPETITION No 293 you were invited to imagine a vegetable at the heart of a murder and write a poem on it, called Vegetable Love. Max Ross’s narrator, reasonably enough, killed his stepmother for making him eat onions. It is curious that the carr

      2 min read

    • Article

      Sign Of The Times

      Jul 2, 2021

      Sign Of The Times
      3 min read

    • Article

      Excerpts From The Works Of The 2024 Whiting Award Winners

      Apr 10, 2024

      The 2024 Whiting Award winners were announced Wednesday night. Below are excerpts from their work.

      19 min read

    • Article

      The Trouble Gene

      Jul 1, 2020

      One clear thing about trouble—it can set you back to zero, a personal cone of silence. And reading, writing, listening allow entry into that troubled solitude; you disappear into it regardless t of the time or place you really are in, be it bed, kitc

      12 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 4, 2018

      I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Fred Allen I have always wondered, in reading travels, at the childish joy travellers felt at meeting people they knew, and their sense of loneliness when they did not, in

      4 min read

    • Article

      Let’s Go… Australia

      Apr 29, 2019

      She’s hot, punishingly hot in the out woopwoop town of Wilbrook on the Pilbara plateau in Western Australia, the location of James Delargy’s thriller 55. Usually, Sergeant Chandler Jenkins has a quiet, predictable life, punctuated occasionally by th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Feb 22, 2023

      Great Read
      7 min read

    • Article

      All Atsea!

      Nov 23, 2021

      All Atsea!
      6 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Oct 27, 2023

      By Janice Hallett Bestseller Hallett’s latest novel reunites us with the Fairway Players, the beleaguered am-dram group who featured in her debut, The Appeal. As before, young lawyers Femi and Charlotte must work out whodunnit from a bunch of emails,

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Lost Prayer

      Feb 2, 2023

      A Lost Prayer
      10 min read

    • Article

      La Otra Historia

      Jun 30, 2022

      La Otra Historia
      14 min read

    • Article

      Capturing The Esoteric Artistry Of The Crop Circle

      May 23, 2022

      There is a reason why most novelists stick to the bits of life their readers will be familiar with. Break-up tales, crime thrillers and historical journeys are genres in their own right because we instantly know the remit, we know how it feels, what

      2 min read

    Reviews for The Haunting

    3.5/5

    16 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 1/5
      The Haunting
      1 Star

      Quickie Review
      Idiotic plot and one dimensional characters that I couldn't care less about.

      The heroine is an obsequious doormat and despite the fact that her boyfriend is a complete jerk, the fact that she cheats on him, albeit with a ghost, is inescapable.

      The hero is a pathetic excuse for an alpha male and is actually in love with the heroine's past life.

      While the villain is suitably obnoxious, even his comeuppance couldn't save this catastrophe.
    • 5/5
      I'd loved two of Hope Tarr's earlier historicals--My Lord Jack and Tempting, but forgot to keep up with her books until someone on an email list mentioned her. Now I'm scrambling to catch up.American history professor Maggie Holiday is putting her life back together after losing her parents and her sister in a plane crash. Part of that is a new house (well, an 1850s Victorian) in a new town, and a new job as assistant professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Except that her lover, D.C. psychiatrist Richard, calls it running away, and Maggie's starting to notice that he takes every opportunity to belittle her choices, and she realizes she needs to break things off with him.There's no rush, though--he lives in the city, and hates the small town, and her old house, so he's out of her hair most of the time. First things first--exploring her house.She finds a diary of a previous inhabitant, Isabel, who describes her romance with a Union officer, and Maggie begins having vivid dreams about the war and Isabel's life.She gets a little more than she bargained for in the attic: an intruder, dressed in a civil war uniform--though how he got in, she doesn't know. He doesn't seem violent, and the way he talks and the fact that he calls her "Isabel" leads her to believe he's a relatively harmless reenactor who's a wee bit too caught up in his role. And then he seduces her.Actually, he's Captain Ethan O'Malley, the same man Isabel had written about in the diary, and he was hanged when a man who wanted Isabel framed him for espionage. Now his ghost is trying to be reunited with Isabel, or rather, Isabel's reincarnation in Maggie, and to clear his name.The Haunting is a short book, 244 pages, but it's complete nonetheless. Maggie's reactions are much more realistic than I've come to expect in this sort of paranormal romance--she keeps trying to figure out how the "intruder" got in, gets a new security system, etc. Even after the seduction, she doesn't immediately trust him, and it takes a lot of convincing before she believes, and remembers.In addition, her relationship with Richard is, sadly, all too realistic. He tries to control her by belittling her and trying to make her doubt her sanity. But when she's doing what he wants, he acts loving and charming, so it's a real effort for her to break up with him--especially when she's not sure he's not right about her sanity... after all, she's having an affair with a ghost.Even as I enjoyed the story, I had no idea how they'd resolve the issue in the end. We learn early on that Ethan has a limited amount of energy he can use to become corporeal, so their physical relationship can't continue in the same way indefinitely. I won't give away the solution, but it was clever and satisfying.This was an "Extreme Blaze," but obviously, I read too much erotica, because I didn't even realize it until I read an Amazon review complaining that the sex scenes were too extreme. Obviously, a case of YMMV.I'll definitely continue to look for more of Hope's backlist.
    • 4/5
      I actually really enjoyed this book and was quite surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. I am normally a “mystery” girl but this is nothing but a straight up paranormal romance. I do admit I have always had a soft spot for ghost and ghost stories. I enjoyed all the characters and the fact the story gave you insight to more than just the main characters thoughts/feelings.

      If your are looking for a lot of twists and side plots, this isn’t it. The story is very straight forward and predictable. I wasn’t upset by the predictably as it was more like the predictably of a comfy couch versus the predictably of a monotonous job. The only thing that leaves the reader at a unknown is how the author is going to end it and tie up all the loose ends.

      The only thing that kept this from 5 stars is all the talk in the book about how strong Maggie is. Well she is not a strong character but she does grow towards that in in the end. The author tries to explain this away with some not so good excuses.

      The narrator was very good at all the voices and I didn’t feel like they overdid the southern accents.