RIDING THE THUNDER
DEBORAH MACGILLIVRAY
ISBN# 0505526921
September 2007
Dorchester Publishing Company, Inc.
200 Madison Avenue, Suite 2000, New York, New York 10016
Paperback
$6.99
333 pages
Paranormal Contemporary
Rating: 5 Cups

Asha Montgomerie owns and runs The Windmill, a combination restaurant and motel, swim club, laundromat, and a drive-in theatre on her property in Kentucky. She has kept the property completely original, just as it was given to her. This is very important since The Windmill is haunted and comes complete with resident ghosts from over forty years ago.

Jago Luxovius Fitzgerald Mershan is a representative for Trident, a company wanting to buy out both Asha and her brother from their properties, a horse farm, Valinor and The Windmill. He is there on family business ordered by his oldest brother.

Jago is a man on a mission to purchase all the Montgomerie property in Kentucky, while his two brothers work on other Montgomerie sisters to get theirs. The brothers are out to cripple the Montgomerie empire for a slight done to their father that caused him to commit suicide. Jago not only has to worry about his brothers but also himself. He has never thought he would find love, much less fall for Asha from the first time he sees her. Asha also is having problems of her own with the attraction and something else. Decades before Laura Valmont and Tommy Grant were young sweethearts that loved The Windmill and were to be married but were killed before that could happen. The lovers haunt the place which includes a Wurlitzer jukebox that is uncontrollable and will play anything at anytime and usually a fitting song for the moment. Asha is determined to stay firm and hold out against Jago and the company he represents. Circumstances arise and she realizes that her heart is on the picket line on not holding out against him in love. Jago must now worry about his lying to Asha and come clean about why he is there before he can tell her he loves her. The problem now is that the past is creeping into the present with Asha having flashbacks of deja vu and visions of her previous life as Laura. It seems that the souls of Laura and Tommy are linked with Jago and Asha and their love lives on in them also. Life is coming full circle, including the one that killed the young pair, and he will kill again.

This is a very compelling tale about lost lives and loving forever. It takes you back through visions to an earlier time and literally a time warp in some cases, like the haunting. I love the jukebox playing only music from the Sixties and that it is always apropos to what his happening in the story. The motley cast of characters is also a great ensemble, with side plots all throughout the story and meshing so well tying it all together. The past and the present meet and come full circle to give justice to a wrong done. This is a tear jerker at times but be prepared to laugh, cry, and sing along to your favorite oldies. If you like young love, time warps, haunting ghosts or jukeboxes, and even riding the thunder on a Harley, this is the one for you.

Lainey
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