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A broken engagement sends Graciela Harper crawling back to Heron Creek with her tail between her legs, but finds the sleepy little town too changed to set her life right. Not even her budding drinking problem can obscure her Gramps’s failing health, or erase the mental picture of her first love happily married to her childhood best friend. To top it all off, she’s having a heck of time convincing the town’s dashing young mayor of her unfit-for-dating status.
When the ghost of 18th century lady pirate Anne Bonny starts insisting on a near daily audience, Graciela has to confront something else she never expected—being certifiably nuts at twenty-five years old.
Her brand new "I don't give a crap" attitude makes it easy to dismiss the mysterious threats that seem to be tied to her search for more information on the long dead pirate, but when her family becomes a target, Gracie knows she needs to find out why the ghost insists on being a constant, reeking companion.
If Graciela can put aside her prejudice against people without a pulse, she may discover that Anne Bonny’s problems are intricately linked with her own. The past harbors answers could help the cantankerous spirit find closure, but she is, after all, already dead. If Graciela doesn't move fast, she might find herself doing the haunting, instead of the other way around.
My Review
~~I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review~~
Who likes Pirates? Who likes ghosts? Who likes treasure hunts? You do!!!! You know you do!!!!! This book has pirates, ghosts, and a treasure hunt!!! This book has it all. I couldn't put it down. I started it and the book begged me to finish it before I went to sleep that night. I am so glad I did. This is a great story. It has intrigue and a cliffhanger in it.
Gracie goes to live with her grandfather to care for him. She ends up befriending the towns Mayor, and get reacquainted with her old friends she use to hang out with when she was younger. She gets a job at the library with a lady that is mean and nasty. Always tellin Gracie to stay out of the archives. There is also a ghost that has been following Gracie around. She is scaring Gracie into thinking that she is nuts.
Get this book now!! Read it with the lights off, if you dare, and don't put it down until your finished!!!!
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Author Bio
Lyla Payne has been publishing New Adult romance novels for a little over a year, starting with Broken at Love and continuing with the rest of the Whitman University series. She loves telling stories, discovering the little reasons people fall in love, and uncovering hidden truths in the world around us - past and present. In her spare time she cuddles her two dogs, pretends to enjoy exercising so that she can eat as much Chipotle as she wants, and harbors a deep and abiding hope that Zac Efron likes older women. She loves reading, of course, along with movies, traveling, and Irish whiskey. Lyla's hard at work, ALWAYS, and hopes to bring you more Whitman University antics and at least one more Lowcountry ghost tale before the end of the year.
Lyla Payne is represented by Kathleen Rushall at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.
If you want to know more, please visit her at http://lylapayne.com
If you're a fan of Young Adult fiction--science fiction or otherwise--please check out her work that's published under the name Trisha Leigh. http://trishaleigh.com
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