Anything's Possible

by Mcwilliams

A Ghost of a Chance

Just one good deed was all it'd take for a certain rather lazy ghost to finally get into heaven and join his fiancée. And since the nice folks at the China View Inn figured a fake ghost would be good for business, well, maybe he'd give 'em the real thing....

And while he was at it, there were a couple of folks at the inn who were just about perfect for each other. And if a good old-fashioned things-that-go-bump-in-the-night haunting was what it'd take to get Cassie Whitney and Dan Travis together, why, he'd be more than happy to oblige....

Genres: Category Romance, Romance

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a delightful read, it has a ghost who needs to do a good deed to get to heaven to live happily with his love. He is actually "hired" as an actual ghost; then we also have an assassin on the loose! The hero is an award winning reporter who comes to recuperate as well as find a safe spot from a mob boss threatening him at the heroine's aunt's inn. The heroine is a hot-shot advertising executive who decides to drum up business for her aunt with a ghost story. From the start these two have insane chemistry. The hero is of course hiding his real identity, then his colleague follows him there to protect him. The book was hilarious and sweet and romantic. I liked the romance, also having a hero who isn't this player with women.

[literackawyprawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cos pomiedzy 3.5 a 4 ⭐️
Ta ksiażka była strasznie chaotyczna. Mam wrażenie, że akcja działała na zasadzie kolejki górskiej, która powoli idzie w góre, a potem gwałtownie spada na dół. Mimo wszystko wkręciłam się w fabułe tej książki, ale też momentami mnie nudziła. Nie mogłam też poczuć takiego oderwania od rzeczywistości, ta książka nie ponosiła mnie aż tak bardzo.
Jednak to nie znaczy, że była zła.
Ta historia to połaczenie romansu, wynajmowania duchów, Agaty Christie i Sherlocka Holmsa.
Było kilka niedopowiedzeń, które zostały wyjaśnione dopiero na końcu książki (sytuacja była z początku a wyjaśnienie na końcu).

[A · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very lighthearted romance that has a bit of a paranormal element to it. It involves an ancestor looking to do a good deed and getting caught up in the crossfire between a hitman hired to take out a newspaper reporter(H) in hiding. The h is an advertising executive who is helping her aunt with the inn on her vacation.

[Steve Bender · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute romantic comedy with a touch of paranormal and mystery. Fun heroine and sexy man. Good read.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

On an impulse, I picked up a bag of books at a library in greater Minnesota for $2. This is the first I’ve read. So over the top it was kind of fun.

There are two stories weaving through the book. As it begins we’re introduced to two ghosts, Jonas and Millicent. Jonas died while drunk shortly after building an inn for his fiancee and he can’t be reunited in heaven with Millicent until he performs a good deed on earth. After 150 years of waiting Millicent is getting a bit impatient.

A descendent of Millicent’s, Hannah, has inherited the Inn and is now operating but she’s run into financial troubles after a new resort opened nearby. Her niece Cassie comes to visit on vacation and decides to help her Aunt attract customers by staging a fake ghost siting. Our hero, Dan, enters soon after. He’s a Pulitzer prize winning novelist being chased by a small time mobster who wants him dead. And that’s where the crazy sauce really starts up.

Ghosts who eat pastries, lots of pastries. Assassination attempts. Excellent use of 1990’s slang, like the word “tush”. There’s not a lot of emotional development in this tale, but who cares. Oh baby. Bring on the crazy sauce.

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of my big guilty pleasures. It's just so, so, so crazy and over the top.

Cassie is an advertising guru on holiday at the inn of her aunt. She decideds to attract some more customers so invents a ghost story. What follows are a research journalist recovering from an attack on his life (the hero!), an undercover journalist sent to protect the hero, a ghost asking for the job of fake ghost to scare the customers (so he can do his good dead and get in heaven), crazy ghost-hunters, killer-kids, an assasin, and election cheating eldery ladies.

And somehow that all still works (even the ghosts, although that was a bit cheesy at times), and it's charming and the romance between Cassie and Dan is sweet, and I love their plans for the future.