Cassie has made a big change in her life. All her friends are getting married and having babies, leaving Cassie outside the magic circle and lonely. Then her landlord announces that he's selling the building she lives in. Buying something in Orlando proves to be impossible, so Cassie snaps up a beach house in Boneyard Key. It seemed like a good idea, until she gets there. There's something wrong with the wiring and her laptop won't charge. Plus other odd things happen. It's an old house which apparently needs work.
Cassie keeps her employment stable by charging her computer at Nick's coffee shop. After a grumpy beginning, they reach a détente. Which is why, when the ghost in Cassie's house writes a threatening note with her fridge poetry magnets, Cassie ends up at his shop. Nick is a local, a descendant of the First Fifteen founders, who has his own ghostly roommate, the previous owner of the café. He points her toward the spiritual investigators in town.
Cassie gets to know “her" ghost and becomes fond of Nick, but whenever he comes to her house, it's like he loses control and acts like an asshole. He's his normal likeable self at his house, but his ghostly voyeur makes the couple inhibited. She's worried that he's secretly a controlling bastard. He's worried that she'll move back to the city.
Ghosts and romance seems to be a trend right now. Earlier this year, I read Suddenly Psychic (which has a very similar plotline to this book) and Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places. It's a trend that I can live with. I enjoyed this without being creeped out by the ghost aspect. That's a good thing, since I have another novel like this in my reading queue (and a second on hold at the library).
I liked that I got to see the romance from both Cassie's and Nick's points of view. It was fun to watch their mating dance while Cassie tried to figure out Sarah Hawkins, her spectral housemate. I note that DeLuca obviously plans a second volume and I'm pretty sure that it will feature two associated characters: Sophia, the ghost tour leader, and Theo, the bookstore owner. I hope my library purchases it when it is published.
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