This book had a captivating storyline with mystery, murder, and secrets from generations past. I liked Declan's friend Remy and his fiancée Effie, and Miss Odette (Lena's grandmother). I didn't care for her much at first but she started to grow on me as the story progressed. Lena-she was the cool sultry seductress type. Declan was a wonderful hero, caring, thoughtful, handsome. I liked the settings, New Orleans, the bayou. He is having weird dreams, sleepwalking and waking up in rooms he didn't want to be in, seeing visions, hearing voices, feeling strong feelings, knowing things he possibly can't know. Strange things are happening in his plantation home. But Declan starts to wonder if this is true. The attraction/pull towards her is so strong Declan asks if maybe they have met before.she jokingly replies maybe in another life.

She is the owner of a bar and her name is Lena (Angelina) Simone. One day he sees a girl playing outside with a dog by the pond in the bayou. He can't explain why but he feels a very strong pull towards this house and he even knows how some rooms look inside the house before he even sees them. He has recently bought an old plantation house (Manet Hall) and he is going to try to restore it to its former splendor. … ( more)ĭeclan Fitzgerald moves from Boston to New Orleans. Only the companionship of the alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall - a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan's belief in the ghostly presence grows.

He is seeing visions of days from a century past, and experiencing sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief - sensations not his own, but those of a stranger. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room, relying on his own labor and skills. So when the opportunity to buy the house comes up Declan jumps at the chance to live out a dream. All he knew was that ever since he saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted - and obsessed - with it. Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans.

Bayou nora roberts