"THE LAIRD AND THE LADY"- 9 "ASHES TO ASHES " - PART 3 BY JOAN MARSHALL GRANT (1949) 1ST READ

Joan Marshall Grant wrote 7 books about her previous incarnations and this is her only fictional novel (published 1949) . A story about Marylda, an American millionaires travelling incognito to escape from fortune hunters. In a romantic French chateau she meets the Laird...they fall in love...they are summoned home to his Highland castle. Stories of haunted houses are legion : but this one, instead of retreating into materialism or indulging in flattering credulity, provides a provocative account of how a ghost began and how it ended. Surely a most vital consideration, for which of us is not in danger of joining their uneasy company..
PART 3
Chapter 9
"ASHES TO ASHES 1ST READING
Marylda the lonely millionaires and the laird, Rowan, are now in Scotland where Rowan lives in castle Cloud - his Grandmother Georgina met Marylda and she gets her first impression of Georgina and Cloud the castle....Rowan was alone with Georgina who tells him about her love for Hector. Marylda met Janet, who had expected to become Rowans wife....She sees the ghost of Emilie again on a walk...she almost drowned and is recovering...She is becoming aware of her connection with Emilie....
Grandmother confides in Rowan about the ghost of Emilie... and of Hector her husband, Emilie had left him....Marylda has finally talked to Rowan about her past and her wealth.... more about the story of Emily who turns out to have been related to Marylda....Here we are at New Year's Eve which will be a bigger affair than Castle Cloud had seen for years....and Marylda slips back into Emilie....
I have read the Autobiography of Joan Grants earlier years, up to the publication of Winged Pharaoh her first book. Her published far memory books and writings are below and i read a number of them:
Time out of Mind (1957) • 1 & 2 "TIME OUT OF MIN...
Winged Pharaoh (1937) • 1 - WINGED PHARAOH - A...
Life as Carola (1939) • LIFE AS CAROLA, JOAN G...
Eyes of Horus (1942) • 1 Part - Chapter 1 E...
Lord of the Horizon (1943) • "LORD OF THE HORIZON" ...
Scarlet Feather (1945) • 1 - SCARLET FEATHER a ...
Return to Elysium (1947) • "RETURN TO ELYSIUM" T...
So Moses was born (1952) • 1 - "SO MOSES WAS BORN...
Fiction - The Laird and the Lady 1949
By turns poetic, inspirational, down to earth, challenging, funny and wise. Joan Marshall Grant was never conventional, always to be relied on to think for herself and ever ready to help other people.
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