It is explicitly stated, however, that in order to achieve their HEA, they have to resolve the hauntings in the house. The hero and heroine, each with their own baggage, are attempting to establish (or desperately trying to avoid establishing, in Lena's case) an intimate, sexual relationship. It's definitely a paranormal by my definition. But Declan and Lena, of course, refuse to be driven away. When the ghosts get particularly mad, they can throw crockery. The ghosts want the house to remain abandoned and/or filled with unhappiness, and try to get their way by slamming doors and producing cold spots and apparitions of rooms as they once were.
Ghosts haunt the house, although it's never 100% defined whose ghosts (Abby, Lucian, Lucian's mother, certainly Abby and Lucian's daughter as a baby, maybe potentially Julian, Lucian's brother, the one who rapes and murders Abby). Interwoven in Declan and Lena's story is the turn-of-the-century story of Abby, the bayou servant who marries Lucian, the heir of Manet Hall, and bears him a child (Lena's ancestor), but whose rape and murder by Julian, her husband's twin, is covered up by her husband's mother. There he falls for Lena, a bar owner and descendent of a previous inhabitant of the Hall.
Suffice it to say that Declan, a rich Boston lawyer, quits everything and buys a house in New Orleans, Manet Hall, that he has always been drawn to. The above link takes you to the Barnes & Noble site for the book, with its plot summaries. Rethinking my ideas, I don't think Eric and I are talking about exactly the same thing, but here we go anyway. I'm reading Nora Roberts' Midnight Bayou and it's doing exactly that in ways I think I'm going to blog about when I've finished it. That is, does the "paranormal" part of the world correspond in some way to the world of romance experienced by the reader while reading the book itself-and, by extension, to the worlds of desire and love?Įric, yes, absolutely.
I wonder whether paranormal romance lends itself to allegorical reading, or at least metafictional reading. In my post on the definition of paranormal romances, Eric asked:
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