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Dust and Violets
You think you have do it yourself problems? When Jason buys Violet House and starts to remodel, he finds he's gotten far more than he bargained for. The house has a current inhabitant, and Jason discovers that doesn't mean mice or squirrels. See what happens when the new homeowner meets the household spirit.
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Title of ebook: Dust and Violets
ISBN: 9781933389141
Publisher:
Torquere Press
Internet download file size: 217 kb
Released online for download: 08-15-2005
Author of eBook: Shade, Mike
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Prologue. He wandered through the house, straightening the odd lamp, rifling through a book left open on the spindly legged table. Once, before hard times had befallen him, this house had been rich, bright, full of dresses and women that shone like jewels simpering on the perfectly-tailored arms of perfectly-bred men. Dinner parties and intimate dances -- they weren't the Lincolns or the Jeffersons or the Saint-Benets, but they were proper society. Old money. The right sort. He sighed, wandering alone down the dark halls, admiring the fine weave of the carpet, the delicate woodwork, the high ceilings. His step was light, his grey-green eyes fond as he explored the space he knew better than his own visage. Things changed, of course, as they often did. War was hard on business, cholera and consumption harder. So much lost, so much changed from those happy, light-hearted days. Still, he had the house. Samuel grinned suddenly, the look changing his face from genteel and stable to wickedly mischievous. He turned and slipped through a secret door in the main dining hall, suddenly cloaked in the deepest shadows. Of course, the very best thing about being old money was breaking the rules ... read full excerpt from Dust and Violets ebook
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