Böcker av Joyce Keating

Bill and Jessie own a huge old home in Washington, DC''s trendy area of Georgetown. They invite Morgan, their 33 year old niece and her husband Anders, to house sit for nine days while they vacation in London. Morgan is elated with the offer since as a stay-at-home mom for 4 year old Tyler, she feels stuck and about to lose her mind. She figures this close to home change of venue may be just the thing she needs to keep her sanity. Anders is less inclined to accept the offer but he is willing. "After all," he said, "it''s not every day you get to spend time in a ''gen-u-ine'' haunted house." He said this in jest of course, for he refuses to give credence to the idea of hauntings of any kind, anywhere. Things happen in the house that will make a readers hair stand on end. And these things escalate as pages are turned. To say this is an over the top exciting, who''s-around-the-corner read, is an understatement.

Susan Elliott was the American wife of British actor Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Trading Places, A Room with a View, etc.). This is a true story of the life they shared before each dying tragic deaths - his through AIDS, hers through a fire in their home. Though the pages are laced throughout with stories of Denholm, this is primarily a story of Susan Elliott after Denholm. We learn of her struggle to cope with the changes in her life after he died, her dependence on alcohol and her attempts to keep a "stiff upper lip" throughout extraordinary hardships which would bring the majority of us to our knees.Told in story form and at times with painful candor by Joyce Keating, Susan Elliott's sister and closest friend, this is also a story of the immense strength of love between two sisters and the heartrending attempt of one to keep the other alive. Thankfully, tragedy in this story is well balanced by humor and wit.