Reviewed by Tricia McGill

Reviewer Rating: ****1/2 Stars
Title: Blue Moon
Category: Romantic Suspense
Author: C.D. Ledbetter
Publisher: DLSIJ Press
ISBN: 1-928973-34-5
Release date: May, 2000

35 year old Mary Corbett evaluates antiques in houses of historical interest. Deciding to take an out of town assignment rather than be unemployed she goes to an old plantation mansion 100 miles north of Baton Rouge to take inventory of the contents before its sale. Once there she meets up with Jack Windom, the other curator sent to evaluate the
property.

They met 5 years ago on another assignment and were attracted to each other and a strange quirk of fate has brought them together again. Both seem to be here because of altered plans.

The moment Mary drives onto the plantation she feels as if she already knows the grounds and the layout of the house. Sadie, a voodoo priestess, talks of spirits and signs. At the voodoo ceremony held on the night of the Blue Moon Mary has visions of Jean-Pierre and Magdalene, a couple she knows were previous owners of the property.

Jack has a wife. When he met Mary five years ago he was about to ask for a divorce when his wife got sick. She is now dying. Mary decides she must have the plantation mansion and asks her rich tyrant of an aunt for money. But her aunt, a spiteful shrew, buys the plantation for herself.

After more visions and nightmares Mary goes to a therapist who advises her to live in the house to unlock the memories and solve the riddle. She persuades her aunt to let her oversee restoration work on the mansion. The path to the truth is littered with setbacks and nightmares of a different
kind.

Blue Moon abounds with nasty villains, voodoo magic, ghosts from the past, secrets and excitement, but it is the gentle love story that dominates. A complex love story of a man for two entirely different women.

Copyright © 2001 by  Tricia McGill