Real estate agent Charlotte O'Donohue never looks forward to Mondays. Usually, a couple cups of coffee will fix her mood, but today an unexpected voice directs her to a dead body. She's going to need a bigger cup, and it better be caffeinated!
When the dead body happens to be your client, the scandal could jeopardize her brother's business, but Charlotte is more worried about a mysterious stranger who decides she's the number one suspect. He seems familiar and dangerous. He knows she has a secret, and Charlotte will do anything to keep the truth from him. How could he possibly understand that she can hear the dead?
Ghostly whispers from a spirit who haunts the large Kansas City mansion warns of more danger to come for Charlotte, her family, and for the stranger. But as Charlotte discovers a key to one mystery, another one appears...one that could reveal more than a murderer but a long-forbidden love.
The haunted and the living seem to be conspiring against the spunky real estate agent, throwing her into a love of her own that shakes her to the core.
When long hidden secrets expose lost loves, two intertwined families are placed in jeopardy in Charlotte's Voices of Mystery.
The first in a series blending romance, suspense, a little haunting, strangers to friends, and enemies to...we'll have to see. (Summary via Goodreads)
I could not put The Haunted Lost Rose by C.L. Bauer down !! I easily could have read it in one day but wanted to make it last a little so I read it in two days. The Haunted Lost Rose has so much....romance, family, suspense, murder, ghosts, and mystery.
In The Haunted Lost Rose the story mainly follows two characters, Charlotte and Max. Max was a friend of the family and best friends with Charlotte's brother Tom when they were kids. Charlotte had a kid crush on Max when they were kids and when he comes back to town years later, the crush develops deeper.
Charlotte works for Tom selling real estate and they get the old Taylor Club property to sell. They have a customer interested, the Martin's, but when Charlotte finds Mr. Martin dead in the house while doing one final walk through and she is at the top of the suspect list , things aren't looking good for her. And to make matters worse, Max shows up in town as a grown up and his job is a federal attorney and he sets sights on Charlotte .... in a bad way. It doesn't look like her father who is a retired Judge or either of her law enforcement brothers can help.
Unfortunately Charlotte is drawn to the Taylor Club by a ghost. She can hear and talk to some ghosts like her mother and brother as well as someone named Rose. She can only hear Rose when she is inside the Taylor Club and what she gets are kind of like clues which draw her in deeper. Then she meets Gio who is connected to Rose and they try to help each other.
These are just a few of the things going on in this story. I could keep going and tell you some of the other situations and stories but if I did that it is just taking you away from digging into the book sooner. I can guarentee that you will thoroughly enjoy this book and when you get to the end, you will be glad that Bauer has provided you with a hint of where the second book will be heading. Bauer has ended The Haunted Lost Rose in a way to ensure that readers will be looking forward to the next book.
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