Eldrith Manor
Leigh Rivers
by Michele DeLuca
A SPIRITED ROMANCE! In this mystical love story, there is just one thing keeping Rebecca and Sebastian apart. She is living and he is ... not.
Together, they enlist Albert, a widowed college professor who reluctantly allows them the use of his body so that Sebastian can return to physical form and earn his redemption.
It seems to be a love affair that cannot last, but the three discover that there is an eternity of wonder for each of them to look forward to. The only question for this trio — who stays and who goes?
The prologue of “Forever More: A Love Story from the Edge of Eternity”:
“As passings go, he told me his was a good one. When they found his body, there was a slight smile upon his face as if he were happily dreaming in his favorite armchair. It wasn’t long after his earthly remains had been dispatched to the cemetery, that his spirit started showing up in my life. And while I know it sounds odd that anyone could fall in love with a dead man, I have to tell you that his energy was more alive than anyone I’ve ever known in physical form...
In the beginning, I thought he had come to me for help to heal the hearts of his daughter and granddaughter. Though that was part of it, he also saved my life and led me to finally understand what it felt like to be truly known and exquisitely loved. His presence helped to unfold in me an astounding late-life blossoming of which I couldn’t have dreamt. Much later, when I was an old woman, I realized it was all of that and so much more. My name is Rebecca St. Claire, and this is my story of Sebastian.”
August 10, 2017
Like most people perhaps, I approach any reports of conversations with the dead or stories of appearances with a healthy dose of bemused skepticism, but I enjoy the columns by Michele De Luca in the Niagara Gazette, so I decided to take a chance on her novel, Forever More. I am very glad I did. It begins with séances and the usual stories of appearances and I wondered how she could develop the love story plot without the usual devices of sex and violence. Then, there they were in context,...
April 3, 2016
Forever More: A Love Story From the Edge of Eternity (2016) is a romantic metaphysical novel by award-winning journalist Michele DeLuca. The story begins with our protagonist, a teacher named Rebecca. Rebecca is a middle-aged cancer survivor, and has just learned of her husband’s unfaithfulness. To find answers and a new direction in life, she returns to her childhood home of Lily Dale. Lily Dale is an actual psychic and medium community in Western New York, and is the picturesque setting for...
November 19, 2020
I visited Lily Dale many years and has a reading. It was a little scary and somewhat comforting. I wish I had taken the advice given to me, but at 19 years old, you are skeptical of a stranger knowing better than you. This book was good other than the gratuitous sex. It seemed unnecessary for for their story. )
June 5, 2016
As a professional journalist, Michele DeLuca's outstanding work reflects boundless curiosity, dedicated research, warmth and compassion. Forever More, her remarkable first novel, reveals those same compelling qualities. The story involves troubled schoolteacher, Rebecca St. Clair, a recent cancer survivor betrayed by her husband and on the brink of divorce. Seeking solace and direction, Rebecca returns to Lily Dale, a mystical lakeside community in Western New York, where her mother and...
June 7, 2017
Forever More is a fiction story resonating with truth. It is a great novel to read, but a better one to believe. If you fear the loss of a loved one or your own death, this book rewards you with the key to the door to eternity. With a beautiful flow of words and well developed characters Michele Deluca thoroughly entertains while taking you by the hand and leading you to what some have always known to be true and others have always hoped for. Death is not final, nor the end, but a new...
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