Lee Barwood

Paranormal, Mystery, and Environmental Fiction

A Lingering Passion

New in the Haunted Ozarks series


A haunting revived and set in motion by an obsessed producer’s search for the truth of his family history reaches out to ensnare the cast of a revived play. As cast members face old ghosts, both their own and those bound to a century-old theater, love and jealousy clash as greed and fear drive the living and the dead alike.

Producer Stan Richards, obsessed with his family history and his own drive for fame, resolves to find the truth about his great-grandfather in the Ozarks town where he performed over a hundred years before. Declan Garrett, nursing a secret tragedy, is swept up in the theater’s haunting as he takes the lead in the play; his leading lady, Phyllida Hancock, has loved him for years but never spoken. Her psychic gift shows her that Declan is in danger from the ghostly presences in the theater.

She must decide whether her love can save Declan from a doom that also comes in the guise of love—but may claim him forever.

Selected Works

Horror
A Lingering Passion
Love and death tread the boards at a haunted Victorian theater
Some Cost a Passing Bell
Love can survive death -- but so can hate. The two collide in this haunted Ozarks tale of betrayal and heroism -- on both sides of the grave.
Folklore/Juvenile
Klassic Koalas: A Coloring Book of more than 80 Koalas and Uniquely Australian Creatures
Australian wildlife images to stimulate creativity in children and adults alike
Klassic Koalas: A Summer Party in Koalaland
Vintage wildlife photos illustrate a children's story about koalas
Klassic Koalas: Ancient Aboriginal Tales in New Retellings
Retellings of eight Australian Aboriginal tales, mostly focusing on the koala -- a powerful figure in Aboriginal lore
Fantasy
A Dream of Drowned Hollow
Gryphon Award-winning ecological fantasy novel, now available from Double Dragon Publishing (February 2006)
The Siege for Westmarch
Volume I of The Ribbons of Power, this was Honor Book Award winner in Andre Norton's Gryphon Award competition
The Rise of Champions
Volume II of The Ribbons of Power
Mystery
By the Book
A professor is murdered. Can the plot be unraveled?

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