FOR THE LOVE OF JAZZ by ELKE FEUER Blog Tour

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Restoration architect Josie Fagan takes on a project with lawyer and senator’s son, Patrick Pullman. It’s the perfect match. She needs his endorsement to save her business and he wants to restore his ancestral Chicago home. Love wasn’t part of her plan. Neither was being asked to stay at his home, haunted by ghosts, or discovering she has a claim to his home – which she adores. When she finds out his family may be responsible for her aunt’s disappearance fifty years ago, it’s a race to unearth the truth before she loses not only her business and her heart, but her life. 

Patrick can’t deny his attraction to Josie and is willing to take a chance on love since his broken engagement a year earlier. Things become complicated when he learns of their family connection and her claim to the home he loves. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, or that his family is involved in her aunt’s disappearance, so insists they work together. But, when he starts seeing his uncle’s ghost, and threats are made on her life, he’s forced to confront the possibility his family could be responsible.

Review

Genre:ghosts,romance,mystery,review copy,family drama

I found this book much more intriguing than a common romance story. Elke Feuer uses the background of William and Lola's love to introduce Patrick and Josie, forging a connection between the couples which appears to be strengthened by the supernatural bond.
In 'For the Love of Jazz' Elke Feuer really is the master of absorbing her reader into a beautifully formed plot and them amazing us with the unforeseen!
The relationship between Patrick and Josie is filled with sexual tension, but the author leaves the reader anticipating any romance as the two continue to banter and speak in coded innuendo. Patrick and Josie use Lola and William's relationship as a reason for them not to be together, and I enjoyed the times in which both characters were possessed by the spirits of their dead relative
Aside from these two Elke Feuer builds an array of peripheral characters who are all integral to the plot and who she describes animatedly. I was particularly fond of Joe, in the jazz club, but also very wary of Patrick's parents and Gary the lawyer!
The story follows Patrick and Josie's investigation and Elke Feuer is clever, but subtle, in the way in which she involves the supernatural in the story and I certainly never had the ending worked out!
I would definitely recommend this book, for fans of romance, supernatural and anyone who just wants a little fun!
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EXCERPT

Had she really seen a … ghost? She looked at her wine glass. No, she’d only had one glass, but since when did drinking produce ghosts? Never! Blood pulsed wildly against her temple in fear at what she’d seen — hadn’t seen. The clock on the other side of the room struck one o’clock, startling her. Had an hour really passed?

“Time is the least of your problems, Josie.” Pushing the recliner back to its upright position she looked around frantically to make sure it was really gone. The dimly lit room suddenly closed in on her, casting dark shadows in corners that weren’t there earlier. She shot out of the chair and headed to the light switches and turned them all on. Light filled the room with the exception of the odd missing bulb, and revealed there was nothing there but dust bunnies. She breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Now what? She could knock on Patrick’s door and tell him what she had seen, but what good would that do? The last thing she wanted was her new client to think he’d hired a crazy person. Besides, what would she say? Hey, I just saw a ghost can I sleep in your room? Yeah, that would go over well.

She blew out the candle and picked up the glass of wine from the table, liquid courage to sleep. She made sure the lights in the stairwell were turned on before the ones in the living room were turned off.

She closed her room door and pulled the chain across the newly installed deadbolt lock. Reason told her the lock couldn’t keep the ghost from coming into her room, but it gave her some comfort anyway. What the heck had she gotten herself into?

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Elke lives in Grand Cayman with her husband and two kids. Reading, spending time with her family, traveling, and meeting people is her joy. Writing is her passion. She enjoys her job as a project manager, but her dream is to write full-time and stay home with her kids. 

Jazz and salsa are her favorite music to write to. She sometimes wonders if she’s not Billie Holiday incarnate because of the strong connection she feels to her and jazz. It’s her favorite writing music along with salsa. 

She stumbled into writing suspense, and to her surprise found she enjoyed it, along with writing about serial killers. Elke is fascinated by them, and what motivates them to kill. She writes time travel, historical, and contemporary novels to even out her dark side.

Readers can connect with Elke at:

http://elkefeuer.com/

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https://twitter.com/ElkeFeuer 

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6550227.Elke_Feuer 

http://www.crimsonromance.com/elke-feuer/