Haunting Olivia

Sedgwick Sisters #2

by Janelle Taylor

When she inherits a summer cottage from her estranged father, magazine editor Olivia Sedgwick, forced to confront her painful past, returns to Blueberry, Maine, where she encounters her first love and the child she thought she had given up for adoption. Original.

Genres: Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, Suspense, Ebooks, Mystery Thriller, Mystery

315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

The legendary Janelle Taylor was born on June 28, 1944 in Athens, GA. In 1965, she married Michael Taylor with whom she had two children, Angela Taylor-MacIntyre and Alisha Taylor Thurmond. Ms. Taylor attended the Medical College of Georgia from 1977 to 1979 and Augusta State University from 1980-1981. She withdrew from the latter after she sold her first two novels. Today, she is the author of thirty-nine novels, three novellas, and many contributions to other collections. There are thirty-nine million copies of her works in print worldwide and she has made The New York Times Bestseller List eight times. Ms. Taylor's works have also been featured ten times on the "1 million +" bestseller's list at Publisher's Weekly.

Some of Ms. Taylor's most recent books include By Candlelight, Someday Soon, Lakota Dawn, and Lakota Winds (due out in paperback in May 1999). She has also made contributions to other books including The Leukemia Society Cookbook, Christmas Rendezvous, and Summer Love. In addition, readers can see her as co-host of the QVC/TV Romance Book Club Show.

Ms. Taylor's interests include collecting spoons, coins from around the world, ship models, dolls, and old books. She loves to fish, ride horses, play chess, target-shoot, travel (especially in her motorhome and out West), hunt for Indian relics, and take long walks with her husband. Reading, in particular books set before 1900 and current Biographies, Thrillers, Horror, or Fantasy novels, is also one of Ms. Taylor's favorite activities. She is also extremely active with charity work and was even featured on the cover of Diabetes Forecast in February of 1998.

She lives in the country on seventy-nine acres of woods and pasture with a lake and a catfish pond. She writes her novels in a Spanish cottage which overlooks a five-acre lake, a working water mill, gazebo, and covered bridge.

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Olivia Sedgwick was fired the day she got the letter. Her father has died, leaving her a beach house - with conditions. She is surprised because that is where her greatest sin had happened when she was 16. She had fallen in love with Zach Archer, a 17-yr old loner who unintentionally got her pregnant. She was immediately shipped off to an unwed mother's home and Zach was told she left town, never wanting to see him again. Olivia was informed, after giving birth, that the baby was stillborn. Heartbreaking at best, Olivia has lived for 13 years with the dreams of her child and what he/she might have been.

One of the terms of inheritance is that she must live in Blueberry, Maine for 30 days and buy two items a day from the town stores. A townsperson comes at 8:00 am daily to collect the receipts and Olivia must sign that they were collected. Not a problem? HAH! As usual, the stipulations bring old history to light and not only is someone trying to kill her, they are also trying to damage Kayla Archer, Zach's 13 yr. old daughter! and it just gets better.....

[Marianne Hinton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually really enjoyed this book. The plot was all over and pretty predictable, but I like it.....a good read!

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

October always puts me in the mood for a supernatural type book. The title and cover of this book strongly hints at a paranormal undertone. But, except for some vivid dreams, the book has no supernatural element at all. The reviews on the book were very favorable for the most part. But, for me it fell flat.
Olivia was one of three daughters her very wealthy father had with three different women. When he died, he left each daughter a piece of property and a certain sum of money. However, each girl had to follow a set of really strange rules for a month or forfeit the inheritance.
Olivia will inherit a cottage, must live in the town of Blueberry for a month, go into town once a day and make two purchases each day.
This is the last place Olivia wants to go. Memories of her first love, an unplanned pregnancy, and a stillborn child would make the return to the cottage very painful. But, Olivia's mother is in financial straits, so Olivia agrees to the terms of her father's will.
Upon arrival at the cottage, Olivia learns she is not welcome in Blueberry. She also discovers her father lied to her all those years ago about her child being dead.
The story started off on a pretty silly premise, then got worse, until it just veered completely off track. Zach was not such a great parent, the daughter was a brat, and the whole town of Blueberry had no idea what "inner " beauty really was. overall a D.

[Bec · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm not exactly sure what to say about this book so I'll keep it short and sweet!
How on earth this book can be rated almost 4 stars I have no idea! It's bad! The plot was quite a good one and I am really disappointed that the author has wasted such a good plot on such a crappy book!
The characters were lacking personality I didn't get to know or like any of them. And the villains! Boy were there a lot of candidates. It seems like every other page the Heroine was adding a new one to the list, the whole town could have killed her with dirty looks alone!
For people hoping to at least get some good hot sex scenes out of this monstrosity, forget it! The sex scenes in this book are shocking! I didn't realise sex could be that nondescript! They were very very strange, sort of like the author had never done it before only heard about it and just winged it!
All in all a most weird and unsatisfying book that strangely enough i finished, i will definately be skipping this Author from now on!

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book

You people should just read this novel yourselves and write your own review on this novel. I enjoyed reading this novel very much and I love reading this author too. ShelleyMa

[Denise Gobble · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, kept you guessing until the very end.

[Steve Sangster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another amazing story

I love how the characters flowed from the first book to this one. I am so into this series. One more book to go. I highly recommend it to everyone!

[Kelly Grainger · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't realize this was a second book, now I need to read the first and third! It was a great read!

[Pandichka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Невероятна книга, не можех да я оставя, много любов, много истини, леко криминална, заслужава си да се прочете. Това е първата книга, която не исках да свършва.

[Mrs Cross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful

This was a sentimental and emotional story. I loved the twists and turns. Fantastic writing! I would read it over and over!

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half of the book was pretty good it kept me flipping the pages until I got about half way through when it seemed to become repetitive and really boring.

[Jewel Olvera]

I just finished Haunting Olivia and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The family dynamics, the romance, the teen-age angst and the mystery combined to create an exciting story. The book was well-written and held my attention throughout the story. As a woman, mother and grandmother I felt what was happening on multiple levels. All-on-all, a very good book and one I heartily recommend.

[Peggy]

What a great book

Wow this was better the first Finding Amanda.
I could not put it down.
I just wish she made more books of this type but this was truly awesome I am so glad I read it.
Oh I fell in love with teen it was so right on the money for a teen funny to heart touching in places also just one great book.
I nothing bad to say on this one not one bit

[Carol MacInnis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had a little of everything. A love story, crime, drama, mystery, just to name a few. With all that is going on, it kept my interest right until the last page. A wonderful read that I really enjoyed.

[Julie]

I didn't realize until I started reading this that 1. this is a romance rather than a mystery and 2. I have read a book by this author before. Moonlight and Madness. From the 80s. Sexy space aliens. I wish I were joking.

I got to page 20 or thereabouts.

[Amy Phelps · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good story. The plot kept me intrigued. Some of it was very obvious but it was still a good read. The sex scenes were a little more graphic than I usually like to read but they didn't take away from the story. They didn't really add to it either.

[Trish · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've started reading her books. I like this series a lot.

[Erin Barnes · Rating 1 out of 5]

Such a bad book - poorly written with a ridiculous story. Unfortunately, I'm a sucker for "supernatural" fiction (which this was billed to be, but not).

[Beth Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

very quick read.

[Patricialogan8 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it it had drama and suspense

[Lisette · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy reading Janelle Taylor's books. I can't wait to read the book detailing there third sister Amanda's journey to happiness.

[Theresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 - It was fine. Nothing "haunting" about it, though. I was expecting ghosts or at least something paranormal.

[Lisa Russo-Rodriguez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a brisk read. It was a real page turner, full of thrills and very haunting. very sweet ending. very happy it was recommended to me.