Hacienda Moon (The Path Seekers) by KaSonndra Leigh

Sometimes the Darkest Soul Can Have the Brightest Heart of All...

Love, obsession, and betrayal, the most powerful human emotions, are spun together in this gothic novel. 

Tandie Harrison is a path seeker, a medicine woman that can travel through time by channeling other spirits. After losing her psychic visions in a car accident, she moves into the alluring plantation house, Chelby Rose, and falls for its charismatic caretaker, Eric Fontalvo. 

Their burgeoning affair ignites a centuries old curse, ensnaring them in a web of danger, deceit, and intrigue. Soon Tandie learns that in placid Bolivia, the mystical worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected. Book description.

I was given this copy by author free for review, but as always on the basis that my opinion is honestly held, and whether paid for or free my views are not influenced by that. Integrity is important to me and gushing false reviews do neither author nor reader any favours. As always my views are what I honestly feel about this book.

 This book fits well within the paranormal romance genre and is also a mystery/thriller rather than just simple romance. Tandie Harrison was a police medium, but had suffered the tragedy of her daughter dying, divorce from her husband and losing her visions. Seeking a fresh start she moves into an old plantation house Chelby Rose.

The house is the centre of a mystery that’s focused a round a centuries old curse. The characters are well written and seem very real people and I genuinely cared about what happened to them. There's two sizzling potential love interests, firstly house owner Saul Chelby and then caretaker the delicious Eric, a host of “characters” from bar owner Virgil and his strange sister Abby, his wife Shania to a strange girl who tells Tandie she is her gardener whether Tandie wants her to be or not... and there are spiders, lots of them! There also an old galleon out to sea at night, but oddly only Tandie and a few others can see it. Witches, ghosts. People that appear real but aren't really there – poor Tandie wonders what is happening to her?

Tandie is writing a fiction novel but as her new life unfolds she finds that the events she has been writing about begin to come true, and her characters bear names frighteningly similar to real people in the area. The more she tries to work out what’s happening the deeper the mysteries that unfold. And her visions return though in a different form to what she is used to. She becomes suspected in a murder and her life is in danger – who can she trust. Tandie discovers that in the local area the worlds of the living and the dead are intertwined with dangerous results. The story is a knife edge roll with events constantly unfolding and plots that lead into further plots... it will certainly keep you enthralled to the end.

It’s an excellent book if you enjoy paranormal romance, no vampires or werewolves here but a host of witches and ghosts to keep you on the edge of the seat. The characters are well described and come across as fitting well into the story and I felt a real connection with them. To enjoy a book I have to feel empathy with the characters and feel as if I am “in” the book – Hacienda Moon disappoint. It’s well edited too – few errors and a good length for me – I love a good long book to entertain me for several hours. Its 613 kb, 292 pages and real value at just £1.96.

Stars: Four, a book I really enjoyed and I'll look forward to Tandie's next adventure.

                                                                   Reviewed by Midnight Ruby

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