By Blood Possessed — Elena Santangelo

A VERY CONTEMPORARY WOMAN DISCOVERS A RICH PAST--AND AN EXCITING FUTURE...

The dreary days of Pat Montella's life come to a screeching halt when she's summoned to the history-laden estate of Bell Run, Virginia, where she's to inherit its old farmhouse and lovely, spacious woodlands. Ninety-one-year-old Miss Magnolia Shelby reveals the surprising reason she has chosen Pat to be her heir. Energetic Miss Maggie's passion is the Civil War, and through uncanny visions, Pat soon discovers that history can indeed come alive: in the pungent scent of roasting pork and coffee... the sudden fearsome sight of long-ago battles ... the sound of bullets striking wood.

What Pat "sees" while piecing together the tragic, poignant truth about Bell Run and the people who fought for it over a century ago, seduces her deeper into the past and into a dancer more frightening and immediate than she can possibly know...