Sara Wade recently inherited her grandmother’s plantation, Harrogate. Wanting to avoid more embarrassment from her daughter and her unusual talent, Sara’s mother encourages her to go and take over the estate in order to keep her out of high society. Her father, not understanding but loving his daughter also encourages this decision. But what is Sarah’s unique ability that embarrasses her mother so? She can see and communicate with ghosts.

Garden of the Moon is a paranormal romance novel from Elizabeth Sinclair, and it’s actually a pretty good one. The writing is done rather well, and it has all of the romance, heartbreak and mystery that one should. It’s a short novel at 317 pages, but packs a good story inside for when you need to read a something a little less serious and fun. Spoilers will be in the next few paragraphs so beware!

The book opens with Sara on her way to Harrogate and being slightly nervous as she says that things feel different from when she would visit her grandmother as a child. But once she moves into the manor, she begins to realize that she is not alone, and that the spirit of a man seems to be watching her, along with a more malevolent presence that seems to want to keep the two apart.

After her long time friend joins her at the plantation to help her run the estate, Sara becomes engrossed in the story  of this man and the woman he loved, whom bears a strong resemblance to Sara. Along with a growing love for this mysterious man, Sara begins to be plagued by the malevolent spirit and that spirit’s antics are becoming more and more life threatening. However in the midst of the mystery and the danger, a relationship blossoms between Sara and the ghostly man.

This is the only part of the book where I took issue, as for the most part the rest of the book was fun, was the ending of the book. In the end Sara is able to go back to her long lost love who lived decades ago and looses all of her memories of her beloved father, her best friend and the life she had. These people will also forget her. Really? Yes it’s great that she’s back with her true love but to have all of these other relationships with people that she cared about just brushed away with no care is a bit much. I loved the relationship that she had with her father (considering the time period), and hated that all of the build up and talk throughout the novel is just forgotten at the end.

But on the whole I would give this book a thumbs up. If you’re looking for a short but fun and romantic paranormal romance, Garden of the Moon is a decent read. If you can find it cheap go ahead and buy it, but I recommend looking in your local library first to see if you can borrow it.