A review by fawkes_phoenix83
Heart of Evil by Heather Graham

3.0

I honestly don’t know how I feel about this book. It’s an intriguing storyline, but there were several parts that were just nonsense. I liked that the ghosts were involved more in this book than they were in Phantom Evil. The ending was so rushed it left me more irritated than anything.

Ashley runs a plantation that does civil war re-enactments and one of the actors gets murdered. She starts seeing ghosts of her ancestors. The ghost of Marshall Donegal is some sort of comedian, he tells her he’s a powerful ghost who can protect her, but when she needs to be saved his great and powerful ghost sword goes right through her kidnapper. Surprise, surprise. So much for his protection.

When she goes missing Jake starts barking commands (I thought Jackson was the unit leader??????).

Unable to fight her attacker, Ashley gets placed in a tomb, but while Jake and the killer are fighting she’s able to push the cement slab off the tomb and “rise” (that’s literally how Heather Graham describes it in the book.) She can’t fight the attacker to save her life, but she has the strength to move a cement slab. Okay. Jake stops fighting the killer to try to help her out and you guessed it he gets hit from behind. Grandpa saves them by shooting the killer and Ashley says, “you go, Grampa!” And then she collapsed in Jake’s arms. And that’s how the book ends. Probably the corniest ending to any book I’ve ever read.