It seems there is a house in every American small town that has a legend. In Pinewood it is the Beauregard House. This house was the residence of General Elijah Beauregard during the American civil war and the house is believed cursed and haunted by his ghost.

When, in the seventies, Bessie McCambridge decides to renovate the old house in order to open it as a guest house, the town's sherriff Jasper Davis is wary, believing partly in the town's ghost story.

His fears are soon tested when the House's first guests, a young couple named Mitch and Summer, arrive to stay. From soon after their arrival things begin to go a little askew, time seems to be changeable and different time periods intermingle. Things are not going to end well for Mitch and Summer.

Years later the events of that fateful night are forgotten by the townfolk, and the Beauregard House is under new ownership. Once again the intention is to open this as a guest house. The now former Sherriff Davis has grave reservations about this and determines that the same will not happen to Genny and Daniel, as happened to the first couple all those years before.

In many aspects this book offers little in the way of originality, and it will certainly not stretch any reader. What it does manage however is to entertain. There are times when it is not necessary to be stretched by a novel, and challenged into considering a message the author wishes to convey.

Sometimes we just want to read a story – plain and simple. To read in order to find out what happens next, and to root for the characters hoping they will survive to the end.

This is such a book. The various characters and situations could have been culled from many other books with a name change here, an exchange of traits there, and a rearrangement of the geography on top of it all. But it is very well written and quite engaging.

There are characters here you will care for, and you will find yourself eagerly turning the page to discover what comes next.

This is a horror novel in the traditional sense and a wonderfully refreshing, entertaining one.

Synopsis
She died to escape him, managing to rip her soul from his vengeance and slip into eternity. A hundred years later, hes calling back her reincarnated soul. They say he made a pact with Satan. They say his spirit inhabits his old home. But whatever they say, one thing is true--something lurks in the Beauregard House, waiting, as an entrepreneur ignores the warnings and converts it to a bed and breakfast. It is the last place his guests will ever stay, for General Elijah Beauregard pulls intruders through time, past each succeeding generation of his half-crazed relatives, and to the feet of the very devil himself.