Delighting In Your Company by Blair McDowell
Delighting In Your Company
What more could a girl ask for?
When Amalie Ansett visits her elderly cousin on the small Caribbean island of St. Clements, the last thing she’s looking for is romance. Just out of a disastrous marriage, she’s ready to swear off men forever. That is until she meets local plantation owner, Jonathan Evans. He is tall, good looking, intelligent and incredibly sexy. What more could a girl ask for?
An unsolved murder …
Then Amalie discovers that the man she loves is a ghost. Only she can see and hear him. Perhaps he is real to her because Amalie is the image of her distant ancestor, Jonathan’s bride in that earlier time. Jonathan was murdered two hundred years ago, and has no knowledge of who killed him or why.
A perilous trip to the past…
When Jonathan asks her to help him by returning with him to his past, Amalie is torn. If she helps him solve the mystery surrounding his death, she could lose him forever. If she doesn’t, she is stuck with a ghost for a lover.
And a love that crosses the boundaries of time.
To save Jonathan, Amalie agrees to travel with him back in time to the Caribbean of the 1800’s, when sugar reigned supreme and the slave trade was making fortunes for wealthy planters and ship owners. Her adventures there include a slave uprising, murder, deceit and an enduring love that crosses the boundaries of time.
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He was real. Jonathan Evans was what? A ghost, a spirit, a jumbie? But to her he was real. True she couldn’t touch him. She had a fleeting thought that that was a pity. She would rather have liked to touch him. But how could she help him? She wasn’t that other Amalie, no matter what he thought. She couldn’t be, could she? And yet where had those memories of Ansett Plantation come from?
Josephina arrived at the table for breakfast at that moment and all thoughts of ghosts had to be put aside.
“What are your plans for the day, my dear?”
“I’ll spend the morning working in the archives again, and then this afternoon I guess I’ll just swim and read as usual.”
“Could you run me up to town before you begin? I need to see my solicitor.”
“Of course.”
It was mid morning when Amalie entered the basement room at the Museum.
“You!” Amalie looked at Jonathan, perched on her stool, his hair falling over his forehead, his elbows on the table, his long legs stretched out in front of him. He was whistling softly. That same elusive tune.
“You’re rather late getting here. I’ve been searching for evidence.”
She stared at him. He looked so real, so alive.
Reading her thoughts he said, “Jonathan Evans, in the flesh. Except that, unfortunately, I’m not in the flesh. If I were I could kiss you as I should very much like to.”
Amalie flushed. The thought of being held in those arms, caressed, kissed by those lips…she turned her thoughts hastily away from that direction.
“What’s that tune you’re always whistling?”
“Greensleeves.” He sang a phrase, his voice low and melodious.
“Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously,”
He sighed. “You used to sing it.”
“I used to sing it?”
“You used to sing it.”
“It must have been the other Amalie who sang it. But I know it from somewhere. I’m not sure where.” She finished the stanza in her light soprano,
“While I have loved you well and long,
Delighting in your company…”
Jonathan looked long at her. “Of course you know it. You are one with her. Why do you find this so hard to accept?”
Amalie just shook her head. How could she possibly be a woman who died two hundred years ago? She was alive. She was born in the twentieth century. For that matter, how could she possibly be holding this ridiculous conversation with a ghost?
REVIEWS for
'Delighting In Your Company'
The Romance Reviews
- 4 out of 5 stars
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Black Hippie Chicks Take on Books
When I first began this book, I thought that I wouldn't like it because it dealt with the slave trade. I was delightfully wrong. I promise you won't be able to put this book down. ....More
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Close Encounters with the Night Kind
This was a book I was literally sucked into and it would not allow me to put in down. I was so completely engrossed in the plot that I literally lost track of time. It was breathtaking, heartbreaking, and so well written that the vividness of the details came to life right before my eyes......More
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Curse of the Bibliophile
- 5 Hearts
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Reading Reality
- Rating: A
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- 4 of 5 Clouds
Someone said ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ or something like that and that is certainly the case in this story. Amalie starts out the story having just divorced, lost her parents, and is all alone in the world with only her friend and business partner left. Then she finds a note from a distant cousin who turns out to be the last in her line also.
My Guilty Obsession
- 3.5 - 4 Stars
This truly was a great fun read that I had a hard time putting down. I almost read it in one sitting.
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By JP on Amazon.com
- 5 out of Stars
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Katy Cody's Reviews
5 out of 5 Stars
This was a captivating adventure with a great romance that I highly recommend! ....More
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Marlene's Reviews
5 out of 5 Stars
The story works on a lot of levels, the love story because Amalie knows it can't last, but does it anyway. She's always trying to make things right for Jonathan, aware that it's a sacrifice for the greater good. But it only works when she builds trust with people in both the present and the past, especially her past self. That was fascinating. ....More
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Sassafrass's Reviews
4 out of 5 Stars
DELIGHTING IN YOUR COMPANY was so interesting. I was intrigued by the blurb because I had no idea how the author was going to pull off the story. I was pleasantly surprised. I think the notion of the island legends and magic help lend to the overall tone of the story. Yes, it's paranormal romance, so you're supposed to suspend reality, but the historical accuracy of the island made the plot even better.
This is my first time reading a novel by Blair McDowell, but she got me so wrapped up in the world she created in this book, I don't believe that it will be my last. ....More
Deborah (LoveToReadRomance) Reviews
5 out of 5 Stars
I was fascinated with the history and beliefs of the Caribbean of the 1800's. I read this book in two sittings, I just lost track of time while reading, and that is the sign of a great book to me, if it can "take me away"! Ms. McDowell you definitely have a new fan!. ....More
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