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  “Oh my…” Danielle muttered, reverently taking the locket in one hand. With her right thumb she gently stroked the gold metal. It looked exactly like the heart locket from her dream. “This is perfect.”

  “Danielle, don’t cry!” Lily scolded. “You’re going to ruin your makeup! Chief, you made her cry!”

  “That’s okay, Lily.” Tears slid down Danielle’s face. “I can redo my makeup.”

  The wedding started exactly at three. The chairs had been arranged as they had been for Lily and Ian’s wedding. All the guests were seated as the guitarist began playing. Sadie came down the staircase first, the basket of flowers dangling from her mouth as her tail wagged.

  As Walt had predicted, Sadie repeated the performance from the night before, but what he had not anticipated was Max, who joined Sadie midway down the staircase, the pair walking side by side to the first-floor landing. When they arrived at Ian and Walt, the cat and dog sat at attention, as if the entire thing had been perfectly choreographed. The fact the cat and dog sat at attention for the entire ceremony would be a story told and retold for years to come in Frederickport.

  Walt didn’t think too much about Max joining Sadie; his full attention was on the bride coming down the staircase. His heart swelled at the sight of her, ravishingly feminine while at the same time bold, stubborn, and fiercely loyal. He remembered being attracted to her the first time they had met, in spite of the fact he believed her to be a burglar. Even when he had insisted she leave that day, he had wanted her to stay. She had been the woman who threw open the parlor windows and let him smell the ocean breeze again. Without her he would never have had the courage—or desire—to take his second chance. She was truly his life.

  For Danielle it was all a blur—a magical wonderful blur.

  “You may kiss the bride,” Danielle finally heard Ian say.

  Before all their friends, Walt took Danielle in his arms and kissed her. When the kiss ended, but the embrace did not, Danielle whispered in Walt’s ear, “Lily was right. This was the perfect wedding.”

  The Ghost and the Baby

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  The Ghost and the Baby

  Haunting Danielle, Book 21

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  While the residents on Beach Drive prepare for the welcomed arrival of a new baby, they are blindsided by the newest resident’s plans to close down Marlow House.

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  No one is prepared for the deadly secrets the new neighbor unwittingly conceals.

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  Walt knows more than he realizes. If he can just remember.

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  The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds, Book 2

  The Ghost Who Wasn’t, Book 3

  The Ghost Who Wanted Revenge, Book 4

  The Ghost of Halloween Past, Book 5

  The Ghost Who Came for Christmas, Book 6

  The Ghost of Valentine Past, Book 7

  The Ghost from the Sea, Book 8

  The Ghost and the Mystery Writer, Book 9

  The Ghost and the Muse, Book 10

  The Ghost Who Stayed Home, Book 11

  The Ghost and the Leprechaun, Book 12

  The Ghost Who Lied, Book 13

  The Ghost and the Bride, Book 14

  The Ghost and Little Marie, Book 15

  The Ghost and the Doppelganger, Book 16

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