Rating: 4.25🌈
The ranks of the Bisbee Bachelor’s Club continues to shrink with Shadows & Reservations, the story of
Hadley Granger, owner of the most haunted house and hotel in Bisbee and his romantic love story with Lyle Hewer. Lyle Hewer is someone who is an outsider to the close knit Bisbee community but has been working his way into their lives book by book.
Sterling’s story focus is Granger and The Sullivan House, a place he rarely leaves and one that’s rightfully earned the reputation as the most haunted place in the town. Full of spirits that cannot rest and constantly haunt both Granger and anyone who steps on the property, its anguished history is a great part of the story.
That’s where the mystery and murders are and the relationship between the two men will be built. When the story concentrates on Granger, a sad, tormented man with a broken past, the book is terrific. Lyle, for me, no matter what story he’s appeared in, has been more a problematic character. That continues here.
His ex and the issues that come up with Lyle aren’t as realistic, amazingly given that Granger’s are ghostly. But Granger is such a great character and the support group of the rest of the Bisbee community works really well to make him and this an interesting mystery and satisfying story.
The Bisbee Bachelors’ Club :
- Haunted Hearts #1
- Moonlight & Madness #2
- Unhappy Medium #3
- Grave Expectations #4
- Riddles & Rivals #5
- Shadows & Reservations #6
- Heart & Soulless #7
- Specters & Sparks # 8
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Shadows & Reservations (The Bisbee Bachelors’ Club Book 6)
Blurb
What happened to Dottie Granger and why is her son still trapped in The Sullivan House?
The people of Bisbee have spent forty years whispering about the reclusive Hadley Granger, and the night his mother disappeared from The Sullivan House. The shy inn keeper has done his best to keep her memory, and the haunted bed and breakfast, alive by any means necessary. When the town learns that Hadley is also a best-selling author, his private life and all his secrets begin to bleed off the page.
Hadley’s latest guest is a stoic engineer protecting a few secrets of his own. Lyle Hewer’s come to Bisbee to escape a collapsing affair and to determine if the Queen Mine is safe enough to reopen. But trouble follows him to the quirky former mining town when his ex arrives and books a room at The Sullivan House.
The chivalrous inn keeper volunteers for the part of Lyle’s new boyfriend to help him save face, but their plan goes awry almost immediately. Lyle has been in love with the gentle inn keeper from the first moment he stepped foot in The Sullivan House, and Hadley finds himself falling for his prickly guest too. But Hadley has one very big problem: Lyle has to leave before it’s too late and the secrets of The Sullivan House shatters both of their lives.
Warning: brief scenes depicting domestic violence against women and children.
- Publisher: Bawdy Books (September 16, 2021)
- Publication date: September 16, 2021
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 