Love is everywhere. . .

When does a gift become a curse?

Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house. But he isn't ready for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne.

As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to believe in the unbelievable. And she's given Matt fair warning: sometimes people don't like the skeletons she finds. She never dreamed that the warning would apply to herself. For she's about to discover that Melody House holds much more than a simple mystery form the distant past. What it holds is a very real and lethal danger, one that will cast her into a struggle against the worlds of both the living and the dead.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Loved it!!
Comment: This is the fourth book by Heather Graham that I've read regarding her "supernatural" series and I have to say that I like this one the best. It follows a small-town sheriff named Matt Stone who hires a paranormal psychic investigator named Darcy to stay at his southern bed and breakfast when "ghost" activity scares a few maids and houseguests off. He doesn't believe in spirits and thinks Darcy is many things, including a fraud, despite her beauty and demeanor. They don't get a long and the tension between them builds until it hits a cresendo. There is a murder-mystery that is fun to read and try to guess whodunit and overall, the story is enjoyable.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A FAN
Comment: This book had a really good story line, the only problem was the way it was written. It didnt flow very well and it was hard to figure out who was speaking at a paticular time. I'm a fan of hers and like the haunted house idea. She does a good job describing characters and places. At the begining of the book, I almost stopped reading. However, it does get better by the middle.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good read overall....but...
Comment: Haunted actually gave me a few chills here and there. Great characters and story. Really good mystery. It won't bore you too much, until the extended sex dialog. There are atleast of couple pages of each sex scene. That may not sound bad, but that's two pages of, "then he felt her here and there as she moaned..blah..blah..blah". Not very interesting. I could see a little but pages?...c'mon. Anyways...awsome read, characters, and ending.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Good Paranormal Time
Comment: Haunted is the story of Darcy, a professional paranormal investigator, and Matt, the local sheriff and owner of an old mansion with many unexplained activities happening. Beginning with Darcy's initiation into the paranormal, the story covers the ground of what's really haunting the mysterious Lee Room in Melody House, Matt's ancestral home. This being a romance, the sparks fly soon and often between Darcy and Matt, even though he's an open skeptic and she senses the ghosts that live in his house.

The writing is good in this novel; Graham has obviously done her research in that she presents paranormal investigators realistically, even incorporating real tools of the trade. There are a myriad of characters, which at times seems confusing; a few are caricatures, but overall the dialogue is witty and engaging. The attraction between Dary and Matt is edgy and tense, but the romance side of it isn't as fully developed. But overall this book achieves its goal of being both creepy and sexy, and it's highly readable and entertaining. If you can look past the actions of a few characters, you'll enjoy this one.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: big on "romantic", low on "thriller"
Comment: This is the first novel by Ms. Graham that I've read, and will be the last. Thinking it would be a horror thriller with some romance aspect I was disappointed to find it was much more a romance novel with the pretense of a haunted house thriller as a plot vehicle. I kept thinking it might improve along the way, but no, unfortunately it led to the predictable ending I anticipated. And if I read the phrase, so-and-so "arched a brow at" one more time I was going to scream aloud!

Overall, an unimpressive book that I would not recommend to thriller or horror readers at all.

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