We've
surpassed the half-way mark for November. How's that holiday thing working out
for you? Planning for the next one? This time of year they all start to run
together depending on where you live.
Time to put your feet up and read for a while. We've got a new one for
you today. It's THE HAUNTING OF HOTEL LaBELLE by Sharon Buch binder. It falls into
the Contemporary, Paranormal, Fantasy category.
Here's
the cover:
If
that short and to the point description isn't enough for you, here's the longer
version:
When
hotel inspector, Tallulah Thompson, is called in along with her pug, Franny, to
investigate renovation delays, she meets an extremely annoyed and dapper
turn-of-the-century innkeeper. The only problem is he’s in limbo, neither dead
nor alive, and Tallulah and the pug are the first to see him in a hundred
years.
Cursed
by a medicine woman, “Love ‘em and Leave ‘em Lucius” Stewart is stuck between
worlds until he finds his true love and gives her his heart. When he first sees
Tallulah, he doesn’t know what he’s feeling. Yet, her stunning beauty, and
feisty attitude pull him in.
With
the fate of Hotel LaBelle on the line, Tallulah with the help of a powerful
medicine woman turns Lucius back into a flesh and blood man. She and Lucius
team up to save the hotel, but Tallulah can't help but wonder if he will ever
let go of his past love and learn to love again.
And ooh-la-la we've got a book trailer for you. We love book trailers here at Supernatural Central:
Sharon stopped by Supernatural Central to answer our fave questions. Here's what she had to say:
SC: Tell
me a little bit about your main character of this book.
SB: Dashing
and dapper innkeeper, Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em Lucius Stewart is cursed by a
powerful Medicine Woman when she believes he has wronged her daughter. Stuck in
limbo, neither dead nor alive, Lucius cannot escape until he finds a woman he
loves more than his hotel—and who loves him back. For over a century, he’s
watched as new owners have come and gone. The latest owner is making changes he
doesn’t like but can’t control, that is until Tallulah Thompson arrives and can
see him. Thunderstruck, he can’t believe this woman has the sight and he
resists falling in love because he’s still in love with a woman who died a
hundred years ago. Torn between the past and the present, a lost love and new
opportunity for love, Lucius has some decisions to make--but will he relinquish
his hold on his past?SC: You have to watch out for those Medicine Women. They can be kind of spooky. Do you believe in the paranormal and if so, do you have an experience you can share?
SB:Yes,
I do. I’ve had many experiences. Here is one that had a lot of witnesses and
still stands out in my mind..
When
I was in college, I shared a duplex with four other women. The day I moved into
my attic room, as I unpacked my boxes, I heard my roommate shout, “Sharon!” I
ran downstairs, only to find Cindy in the shower. When she came out, I asked if
there had been a problem.
She
smiled. “Oh, I forgot to tell you. We have a ghost.” This ghost moved things
around, knocked things off shelves and mimicked other roommates’ and even
boyfriends’ voices to get attention. She also paced a hallway that ran from the
kitchen to the bedroom on the main floor.
One
night I pulled an all-nighter for an Organic Chemistry exam (not my best
subject!). I had a little dachshund, named Bisou, who went everywhere with me.
That night I studied in the kitchen, drinking gallons of coffee, memorizing
benzene rings. I decided to take a little nap. I cuddled on the couch with
Bisou and closed my eyes. The doxie started shaking and whining and I heard the
footsteps. They came closer and the dog became more agitated. The ghost was
standing right next to the couch and the dog was in a frenzy.
“Please,”
I said, “I need to get some rest, this exam is really important to me. And
you’re making my dog crazy. Could you please go away?”
The
ghost’s footsteps receded from the side of the couch, down the hall and then
stopped. I aced the exam (a miracle).
After
I had been living in the haunted duplex in for a few months, I invited my
sister-in-law and brother over for dinner to meet my new boyfriend, my
roommates, and see the place. My room was in the attic, and at $25 a month for
rent (5 women, $125 total!) I wasn’t complaining about my space. I was very
happy to be there and grateful to have such a bargain. The ghost was almost an
added value at that point.
We
had appetizers, did not really get to dinner, when my brother, a Vietnam vet
and Green Beret who to this day keeps in touch with buddies from the 82nd
Airborne, said, “Why don’t you show us the place?”
My
then boyfriend had already been repeating all the strange events (with
embellishments) that I had told him about and was making Twilight Zone music.
As
I led my brother and sister-in-law up the stairs to my room in the attic, the
now very annoying boyfriend said, “Ooooooo! Can yooooou feeeeeel the
spiriiiiit?”
“Yes,
I can,” my brother said. “She’s right next to me, has shoulder length brown
hair, and is wearing a brown print dress. She’s very lonely.”
My
brother turned on his heel without even reaching the attic and raced down the
stairs. At the bottom of the stairwell he said, “I have to go! She’s all over
me. It’s like she’s so happy I can see her, she’s trying to get under my skin.”
My
brother and astonished sister-in-law ran out the door. The dinner party was
over and so was my relationship with that idiot boyfriend.
PostScript:
Ever since that night, my brother literally “sees dead people.” I always
thought it was interesting that I heard them. It’s as if each of us got one
part of the psychic abilities, but not the whole package!
SC: That's a great story, especially the part where you dumped the dud. Seem like you're a woman who gets things done. What titles are you working on now that you can tell us about?
SB: I
am working on two books and have a novella on the backburner. In Bury My Heart:
Book Two of the Hotel LaBelle Series, Emma Horserider, a horse whisperer and
secondary character in the Haunting of Hotel LaBelle, gets her man in the form
of a tattooed biker and remote viewer named Bronco who works for her brother.
In Kiss of the Burmese Prince: Book Three of the Kiss of the Jinni Hunter
Series, a new jinni hunter inherits her dotty old grandmother’s estate and
discovers she was employed by the OSS, the precursor to the CIA and was not the
least bit crazy. The novella is tentatively titled The Billionaire Cowboy
Baron’s Surprise Baby, and as you can tell from the title, there’s a rich
cowboy, a surprise baby and an unexpected romance.SC: That was fun! Thanks for the engaging responses, Sharon.
Sharon
Buchbinder has been writing fiction since middle school and has the rejection
slips to prove it. An RN, she provided health care delivery, became a
researcher, association executive, and obtained a PhD in Public Health. When
not teaching or writing, she can be found fishing, walking her dogs, or
breaking bread and laughing with family and friends in Baltimore, MD and Punta
Gorda, FL.
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Here's all the links you need to find Sharon:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sharon_buchbinder/
Sharon came to us today via Bewitching Book Tours.
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