Mira Books The uninvited, paperback/heather graham

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1777: In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Landon Mansion is commandeered by British Lord ``Butcher`` Bedford.

He stabs Lucy Tarletonwho spurned his king and his loveleaving her to die in her father's arms.

NOW: After the day's final tour, docent Allison Leigh makes her rounds while locking upand finds a colleague slumped over Bedford's desk, impaled on his own replica bayonet.

Resident ghosts may be the stock-in-trade of stately Philadelphia homes, but Allisona noted historianis indignant at the prospect of ``ghost hunters`` investigating this apparent murder.

Agent Tyler Montague knows his hauntings and his history.

But while Allison is skeptical of the newcomer, a second mysterious murder occurs.

Has ``Butcher`` Bedford resurfaced? Or is there another malevolent force at work in Landon Mansion? Wary, yet deeply attracted, Allison has to trust in Tyler and work with him to discover just what uninvited guestdead or alivehas taken over the house.

Or their lives could become history.