One Lavender Evening

by Karen Keast

The bloodied stranger emerged like a shadow from the dark, rainy night, and Elizabeth Jarrett's life began a dizzying dance to a haunting refrain from the distant past....

Exactly one hundred years earlier, to the hour, Elizabeth's great- grandmother had opened her home-- and her heart--to a wounded desperado. In opening the door to this desperate stranger on this stormy night, was Elizabeth about to discover that the ghostly goings-on at Rose Haven were, more than eerie plantation lore? Was it possible--was it fated--that a legendary love affair was about to be relived?

Genres: Category Romance

251 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1988

About the author

Sandra Kay Patterson Canfield was born on 21 November 1944 in Longview, Texas, USA. She wrote as Sandra Canfield and under the pseudonym of Karen Keast. She also used the pseudonym of Sandi Shane in collaboration with the writer Penny Richards (alias Bay Matthews). At 58, Sandra passed away on 23 January 2003 in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I figure the author intended the book to be ultra-romantic all this mysticism and parallels to a story that began hundred years ago but that wasn't the result; the book was just average. The hero comes to the heroine's doorstep in a storm; reminiscent of what happened a 100 years earlier. Despite not knowing anything much about each other they feel this pull; a past connection but atleast the hero tells her who he is later. He is an ATF agent who still has a mission to finish and then we get our HEA.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The heroine's life begins to parallel her great-grandmothers when a bloodied stranger shows up on her doorstep.

This is probably one of the first category books to add an element of the paranormal.

[Maria Ella · Rating 5 out of 5]

nothing

[Michelle]

another great tear jerker book