Katy Lindstrom knows that the ghosts of past loves don’t limit their haunting to Valentine’s Day. Even so, she’ll serve up a two-for-one eradication special with a smile and plenty of Kona blend.
But this Valentine’s Day, the past comes to Springside—in human and otherworldly form—and it threatens to derail everyone’s happily-ever-after, Katy’s business, and even her relationship with Malcolm.
When a powerful necromancer launches an attack meant to force Katy into a decision, she will need to make a choice. If she wants to keep Springside and its ghosts safe, she will need to make a sacrifice of her own—one that involves her happily-ever-after with Malcolm.
Season 1: Season 1 is made up of five novelette/novella-length
Episode 1: Ghost in the Coffee Machine Episode 2: Giving Up the Ghosts Episode 3: The Ghost Whisperer Episode 4: Gone Ghost Episode 5: Must Love Ghosts
Season 2: Season 2 is made up of three novella-length
Episode 1: Ghosts of Christmas Past Episode 2: The Ghost That Got Away Episode 3: The Wedding Ghost
Charity Tahmaseb has slung corn on the cob for Green Giant and jumped out of airplanes (but not at the same time).
She spent twelve years as a Girl Scout and six in the Army; that she wore a green uniform for both may not be a coincidence. These days, she writes fiction full-time from her home in Minnesota.
It’s Valentine’s Day and Necromancer Orsen has come to Springside determined to recruit Katy for his prestigious guild of Necromancers, along with his lackey Carter. Carter has brought along with him a familiar ghost, Malcolm’s old partner Selina, who is both powerful and sexy, and it doesn’t miss Katy’s attention of how happy Malcolm is to have Selina back.
While this did feel a bit unfocused, I did like that we got Selina resolved. We finally got to see her in the ghost and find out just what she was to Malcolm. And I loved Nigel through this, who is powerful, but yet trying to find his way without relying on that power (except to protect and as knowledge, and to intimidate the bad guys). I loved the advice he gave to Katy about Malcolm, considering he isn’t enthralled by Malcolm and knows his MO, that Malcolm knows how to attract women, but doesn’t really understand how to keep them, and that Selina was for all operating purposes a girlfriend. Selina did in fact see Katy as competition, and Malcolm, who didn’t understand the fact that Selina was a girlfriend, was clueless and confused on the whole situation. Outside of relationship troubles, there is still a lot going on in this, like Orsen practically acting like a gangster, leaning on Katy to join his operation so he could gain more power, with his good Carter to rough her up. Dangling information over her about her parents, which sounded suspiciously like he may have caused their deaths and even threatened to take away all of the town ghosts, which had mysteriously mostly vanished except for a few hold-outs in hiding. This continues to have colorful rounded side characters that add so much to the personality of this cozy series that encompasses her loveable small town, as well as the adorable romance between Katy and Malcolm that while threatened in this story, didn’t disappoint. I adored the end scene! I continue to love this cozy paranormal.
I've gone through several of these books and am frantically searching for more. The characters are people I'd love to meet. I Love the idea that coffee is the one thing that can fix everything. And I truly appreciate not having to wade through infinite F-bombs!