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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://uu.worldcat.org/oclc/784030555 Title: Dream lake Author: Lisa Kleypas Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012. ISBN/ISSN: 9781250008299 1250008298 9781250014276 1250014271 9781620903063 1620903067 9780312605919 0312605919 OCLC:784030555

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Dream lake

Author:	Lisa Kleypas
Publisher:	New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	In the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love, is attracted to Alex Nolan, a bitter and cynical man battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost who is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All the ghost knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there. Read more...

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Genre/Form:	Love stories ghost stories Domestic fiction Ghost stories Romance fiction Fiction Histoires de fantômes Romans, nouvelles, etc
Named Person:	Alex (Fictitious character) Nolan; Zoe (Fictitious character) Hoffman
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Lisa Kleypas Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781250008299 1250008298 9781250014276 1250014271 9781620903063 1620903067 9780312605919 0312605919
OCLC Number:	784030555
Notes:	"A Friday Harbor novel"--Cover.
Description:	374 pages ; 22 cm.
Responsibility:	Lisa Kleypas.
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In the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love, is attracted to Alex Nolan, a bitter and cynical man battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost who is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All the ghost knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there.

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I adored book 3!

by booksonthebeach (WorldCat user published 2013-05-04) Excellent

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Alex, the youngest of the three Nolan brothers, is an outstanding carpenter and contractor who sinks deeper and deeper into depression and alcoholism with each passing day. His decline is a source of sadness and frustration for the ghost who has been tethered to him since Alex first began helping his brother Sam renovate the Rainshadow Road house. The ghost remembers only bits and pieces of his past and needs Alex's help to figure out who he is and how he came to haunt the Rainshadow Road house in the first place, decades ago, and for that, Alex must be sober and cooperative.

Zoe Hoffman is the chef and co-owner of Artist's Point, a bed-and-breakfast in Friday Harbor, Washington. Her grandmother raised her after her mother took off when she was tiny, and her father abandoned her at his mother's house when Zoe was in the third grade. Now Emma's health is failing, and Zoe hires Alex to renovate the old cottage Emma still owns on Dream Lake so that she can bring her grandmother to live with her there. Zoe and Alex met once several years ago, and it didn't go well: Zoe looks like a blond, vintage pin-up girl, and Alex resorted to rudeness to keep himself from drooling over her. Growing up with abusive, neglectful, alcoholic parents left Alex convinced he is undeserving and incapable of being in a loving relationship, and he recognizes that is exactly what Zoe needs and wants. Still, the two are unwillingly drawn together, and slowly learn that love is worth fighting for.

I absolutely fell in love with these characters and this book. I think my favorite character was the ghost, and I so appreciate that Ms. Kleypas made even a spectral person seem real. I was also grateful that Alex struggled so hard and for so long against both his alcoholism and his phobia of commitment. It drives me crazy when romance novels (or any type of story) make obstacles dissolve once boy meets girl, like somehow the power of attraction alone can overcome addiction or abuse. The closest Kleypas came to doing that was to have Zoe's cooking help Alex cope with the DTs, but that made sense for a book in a series laced with gentle magic.

For readers' advisors: character doorway is definitely primary, but story is strong, too. There are sex scenes and some occasional swearing.

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