Looking for a great vacation read? Yeah, here’s your book!

“The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery” by Clarence A. Haynes

c.2026,

Legacy Lit                                         

$29.00                                        

240 pages

You fit right in.

Whatever it takes, that’s all right. Changing your mind and being one with the group is human nature. To relax your presence to maintain goodwill. To stay quiet and under the radar – but be careful. As in the new book, “The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery” by Clarence A. Haynes, denying who you are can be deadly.

Beautiful, talented, and driven, Gwendolyn Montgomery’s touch was magic.

Everyone who wanted to be famous knew that she alone could make it happen, that her work at Sublime Creative could make someone a legend like Gwendolyn herself.

Yes, she was a superstar.

Personally, though, things were different. Working long hours with whiny, demanding stars was fine, but Gwendolyn wanted companionship. She was lucky to meet James, who was sweet and geeky, not perfect, but better than another one-night stand.

And there was another problem: someone or something was trying to ruin Gwendolyn’s career.

It was horrible when a fashion show she’d organized at the Brooklyn Museum was trashed by a red substance that the police said was blood. It was terrible when the same thing happened at an event she’d done for her baddest, most spoiled client. But the gory Spanish words scrawled on the wall of both venues were what scared her the most.

“TRAIDORA,” they said. Traitor.

Since he was a teenager, Fonsi Harewood talked to ghosts; recently, he learned that he could sleep with one, too. That super-hot incubus was only the man of Fonsi’s dreams, though, so Fonsi renounced love and threw himself into being a part-time psychic and running La Playa, a store for believers in the spiritual.

He loved that store and his customers, but lately, he’d noticed something wrong, and his BFF’s mother, Estelle, also a psychic, confirmed it. El Intermedio, the spirit world, was roiling, and they needed someone with more power to help hold the spirits back.

Someone like Fonsi’s long-estranged cousin, also a Guardián, wherever she was…

If you’re like many people, you pick up a book, skim the first few pages, and decide to read or not to read. Do that with the beginning of “The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery,” and you’ll be tempted to put it back.

Trust this, though: although it’s a jumble at first, you won’t be sorry if you stay.

Whether you believe in ghosts or scoff at the idea of a spirit world, this novel will satisfy your cravings with lots of hair-raising moments, one or two moderately explicit eyebrow-raisers, and an intriguing back-story that includes a bit of mystery. But it’s not all boo-who: author Clarence A. Haynes injects enough excitement and humor to keep even the most sober-minded reader entranced with a twisty, fun plot.

For your vacation this year, you know you’ll want to take a good book along with you, and you can’t go wrong with “The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery.”

Check your suitcase. It’ll fit right in.