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Published Aug 2010
352 pages
Genre: Romance
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Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her. A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who have driven away three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs someone to take care of the situation, and he knows Andie can handle anything....
When Andie meets the two children, she realizes the situation is much worse than she feared. Carter and Alice aren't your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. Complicating matters is Andie's fiancé’s suspicion that this is all a plan by North to get Andie back. He may be right because Andie's dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that’s not the only haunting....
Then her ex-brother-in-law arrives with a duplicitous journalist and a self-doubting parapsychologist, closely followed by an annoyed medium, Andie’s tarot card–reading mother, her avenging ex-mother-in-law, and her jealous fiancé. Just when Andie’s sure things couldn’t get more complicated, North arrives to make her wonder if maybe this time things could just turn out differently....
"You don't have to believe in the afterlife to relish this fun, bright romp." - Publishers Weekly
"A charmless romance, neither funny nor scary." - Kirkus
"Starred Review. Crusie at her very best." - Booklist
"[Her] sense of humor and knack for fun characters are all here." - Library Journal
"After six years without a solo project, Crusie roars back onto the scen with a marvelous new tale that inclueds her patented brand of humor and human foibles." - Romantic Times, 4.5 stars
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Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me Lies, Crazy For You, Welcome To Temptation, Fast Women, Faking It, and Bet Me.
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