A Lingering Passion — Lee Barwood

A haunting revived and set in motion by an obsessed producer's search for the truth of his family history reaches out to ensnare the cast of a revived play. As cast members face old ghosts, both their own and those bound to a century-old theater, love and jealousy clash as greed and fear drive the living and the dead alike.

Producer Stan Richards, obsessed with his family history and his own drive for fame, resolves to find the truth about his great-grandfather in the Ozarks town where he performed over a hundred years before. Declan Garrett, nursing a secret tragedy, is swept up in the theater's haunting as he takes the lead in the play; his leading lady, Phyllida Hancock, has loved him for years but never spoken. Her psychic gift shows her that Declan is in danger from the ghostly presences in the theater.

She must decide whether her love can save Declan from a doom that also comes in the guise of love -- but may claim him forever.