Countenance gets 5 stars in a New REVIEW from The Paranormal Romance Guild!!!
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5*****Stars
Book: Countenance
Author: Joy Ross Davis
Publisher: Ecanus
Publishing
Genre: Paranormal/Mystery/Ghosts
Rating: Adult
This is a book you don't
want to put down until the end. It is full of surprises, suspense, secrets,
ghosts, demons, and angels, so what's not to love. From the first page, it
holds your interest with a cast of characters you can't help but love. There
are moments when you have tears in your eyes and others when you have a smile
on your face.
Thirty-eight year old
Nealey's life as she knew it came to a halt the day her ex-brother-in-law,
Brian, shot and killed her husband and her two children, then her sister and
himself. Although injured, Nealey survived physically, but definitely not
mentally. When her Aunt Sylvie Wolcott found out what happened she immediately
went to Nealey to give her help. After a year, Nealey sold her home, quit her
job and went to live with her aunt at The Playhouse Inn in the mountains of
Tennessee.
Just before her death
Nealey’s mother begged her never to return to the Playhouse, however, Nealey
finds herself living there once again. Thirty years ago, something frightened
her mother so badly, she never returned. From that day on her mother was never
the same, and it was Aunt Sylvie who put food on the table and made sure that
Nealey and her sister, Naomi, were cared for.
Sylvia is a well-known and
popular cookbook author, and she surrounds herself with some very unusual
characters. Noble and Worthy brothers stay at the Inn, as does Benton, her very
tall and handsome custodian. And not to be left out, Lulu the most loveable
Irish Wolfound. However, while Nealey is trying to come to terms with her new
life and the people around her, a new guest named Max makes an appearance. Max
is a man who has a great many secrets; he is definitely not what he appears to
be.
Aunt Sylvie gives Nealey
half ownership of the Playhouse; now she has to learn how to run a B & B.
At least now she has something to take her mind off the horrors that happened
one year ago, or does she? It doesn't take long before strange things happen,
voices and two small twin girls who pop up at breakfast saying they are hungry.
It seems that there are a great deal of secrets involved with the Playhouse and
apparently, ghosts are one of them.
There is a lot about her
life and her family Nealey needs to learn about, some good and some scary.
There is evil living in the house. It wants something or someone; it will stop
at nothing to get it. Someone is in danger, but who? Why are there ghosts
living in the house? Why didn't they pass over? There is also a connection
between Benton and Nealey, but is it something that can have a happy ending?
Benton, Worthy, and Noble all have secrets and are also more than they appear
to be. Everything at the Playhouse is a mystery. Although this book is
paranormal, there is still a lot of mystery, which should appeal to anyone who
loves that genre.
This was Joy Ross Davis'
debut novel, which I found very hard to believe.
Reviewed by: Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal
Romance Review Team
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