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want to scare you. It seems mad to
tell a woman you’ve only just met that you’re falling in love with
her.”
    “I feel the same about you.” Mary laced her
fingers with his. “I don’t know if we’ll be able to make it work,
but I want to be with you. You make me feel…beautiful and
special.”
    “You are both those things, and more, to
me.”
    Mary looked into his eyes, and it clicked. She
was home. In this place, with this man, she was truly
home.
    As the sun rose higher, flooding the room with
light, Michael cupped her head, drawing her to him for a slow, soft
kiss.
    They rested their foreheads together. “Are we
really going to do this?” she asked, more scared now than she’d
been when faced with the ghosts.
    “Yes. We’ll stay here tonight, and then we’ll
go to Dublin. I want to show you the city, and when it’s time for
you to go home I’ll take vacation and go with you. I’d like to meet
your grandparents.”
    “And after that?”
    “As Yeats says, ‘Life is a long preparation for
something that never happens.’”
    Her lips twitched in a smile.
“Meaning?”
    “Meaning that after that we’ll live, pretty
Mary, we’ll live and be happy.”
    Dawn blanketed the gray stones of Glenncailty,
pushing back the shadows, and the ghosts, with the clean light of
day.
     
     
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Epilogue
     
    Sorcha dropped into her desk chair. Her hands
were shaking. Clenching them into fists she stared at the phone,
wondering what she should do. This wasn’t the first time one of
Glenncailty’s guests had seen a ghost, and after what had happened
to her friend and roommate Caera, Sorcha was starting to worry that
the castle wasn’t safe.
    Someone had warned her—tried to warn her—two
years ago when the castle first opened, but she hadn’t listed. Now
she was afraid she might have put people at risk by ignoring that
warning. Elizabeth, the hotel manager, needed to know about this
latest incident, as did Seamus, the owner. But before she explained
her fears to them she needed to understand exactly how great the
danger was. As far as she knew the ghosts had only harmed one
person, but it seemed that last night Mary Callahan and Michael
Baker had come close.
    There was a knock at the door. “Sorcha? We need
you, I can’t find a reservation.”
    Rising from her chair, Sorcha put her best
greet-the-guests smile on and followed Kristina to the front desk,
making a mental note to come back to the problem of the
ghosts.
    Before she did anything, she had to talk to
Sean Donnovan.
     
     
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    More from Glenncailty
Castle
     
    The Harp and the Fiddle , Glenncailty
Castle Book One
    The Fire and the Earth , Glenncailty
Castle Book Two (May, 2013)
     
    Keep reading for an excerpt from The Harp
and the Fiddle .
     
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    The Harp and the Fiddle
    by Lila Dubois
     
    Caera Cassidy has spent two years building the
historic—and haunted—Glenncailty Castle into one of the most
sought-after hotels and performance venues in Ireland. But she
can’t say it’s her dream. She lost that years ago when what she
thought was love led her to a dark place not even her music could
reach.
    Once in a while, though, it’s safe to pretend.
And that’s what she’s doing when she plays her harp on the empty
stage in the castle’s theater.
    When American folk musician Tim Wilcox spots
the mysterious woman at the front of the theater, he’s enraptured.
Not only by her virtuoso skill and ethereal voice, but by her dark
beauty—and the shadows in her blue eyes when she insists she’s no
musician.
    Wary of repeating the mistakes of her past,
Caera tells herself she can indulge in the pleasure of Tim’s
company, his touch, without risking her heart. But she hadn’t
counted on Tim’s determination to convince her she’s worthy of her
gifts. Or on lingering souls who live in the castle, who are
growing restless, ready to warn her that deadly mistakes are not
meant to be repeated…
     
     
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