Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock is a supernatural type mystery centered around the restoration of a plantation home in Mobile.  The story is interesting, the writing is good and the book is free on Kindle.  The "free" part is really a lie as it is apparently more of a third of a book that is free.

In the story the main protagonist, Carrie Jo Jardine, is a "dream catcher" who dreams the history of the places where she sleeps.  She is also a trained historian who has been hired to help restore the huge plantation home so it can be turned into a museum.  She soon discovers that there is an old mystery attached to the house regarding an heiress that went missing in the 1850s.   The story centers around what happened to the missing heiress and why a friend, who helped Carrie Jo get the job, is acting so strangely.

This story is a great beginning but ends very abruptly making it very obvious that this is only part of a book.  I have bought the other 2 "books" so I can finish the story but will think long and hard before I start another book by this author.  The deception to lure you into purchasing the books is something I find very hard to accept.

If you like this book try the Taryn's Camera series by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard is the 2nd book in the Taryn's Camera series of ghost stories/mysteries.  The first book, Windwood Farm, was decently written and an interesting story but could have used a more professional editing job.  This book was better edited and the abrupt and confusing scene changes in the first book were pleasantly missing.

In Griffith Tavern Taryn's been hired to do a painting of an old tavern and stage coach inn using her creativity to express how the place would look if fully restored.  Her clients hope the picture will help them raise the money to purchase the property and properly restore the building.  Fairly quickly Taryn, a sensitive, begins to experience ghostly activity and the rest of the story is about her using the clues she is given during this rather varied activity (dreams, sightings and images in the pictures she's taken with her camera) to research and piece together what the ghost is trying to tell her.

As in Windwood Farm, there is a more modern mystery that also comes in to play but that is, in my opinion, just as superfluous in this story as it was in the first one.  Having said that the little bit of twist relating to both mysteries and revealed at the end is kind of cute.

On the whole I had a great time reading this book and easily finished it in 24 hours.  It is just spooky enough to be a good ghost story but not so disturbing to make it a horror novel.

People who like this book would probably enjoy Heather Graham's novels.