The older kinswomen advising her are motivated by their own hidden agendas. Her estranged husband comes to town in hopes of rescuing the marriage.

Should she pit herself against Harry's entrenched interests and align herself with a native who champions historic preservation?Ī budding romance develops between Marlena and small town doctor Ron Huddleston, an old flame still carrying the torch. Meantime, she discovers her ancestral Victorian home is slated to be sacrificed on the altar of real estate development. Harry is looking for a three-way romp and blames his mistress for surreal vandalism that is threatening his bottom line. Marlena is looking into her crystal ball for a happily-ever-after, but she keeps getting tripped up by the past. Their connection awakens an ancestral curse. Fatefully, her torrid relationship with owner/development mogul Harry Drake echoes the storyline of an accursed couple from 1900 who were ancestors of the illicit lovers. Marlena is the brains behind its design and phenomenal success. Zebub's Poolhall Saloon, a hip private club at the castle-like five-diamond Alta Hotel. The religious fanatics are bent on ridding the town of Satanic influence by targeting B. A remote mountain outpost, Alta has a history of witch-hunts among a faction of the natives. But will the youngest survive to see 1978?Įnter the ancestral curse, underlined by a lurid hexing from mannish Letty Brown-Hawker, who is obsessed by Marlena's physical resemblance to a notorious ancestor, Cassandra Vye. The three similarly gifted women have much to catch up on.

Marlena Bellum, blessed with modest paranormal ability, is a beautiful San Francisco architect who's back in her home town of Alta, Wyoming, for a holiday family reunion with her mother and older cousin. Set in 1977 at the height of sexual revolution, this cautionary tale about a rude moral awakening heats up when an unplanned pregnancy throws a curve ball into the heroine's erotic, vainglorious dreams of a rosy future with her powerful client. It's a perfect choice for readers who like their paranormal suspense spicy but also intelligently focused on the dilemmas of contemporary women-in this case, sexual relationships and reproductive rights. HOME SCHOOLING: The Fire Night Ball is the debut novel in a trilogy.

Genre: Suspense,Books,Romance,Fiction & Literature,Paranormal,.

Title: Home Schooling: The Fire Night Ball.

The Fire Night Ball by Anne Carlisle