Espresso Mojo

by Maia Strong

It’s tough getting the band back together when your lead singer is a ghost.
No one is surprised to learn Todd’s new coffee shop has a poltergeist. The debate is what’s to be done about it. Fortunately, Todd’s boyfriend, Ben, is a paranormal investigator, and Ben’s partner, Frieda, has a successful track record with removing unwanted ghosts when necessary.

Reluctant to employ the nuclear option, Frieda opts to hold a séance and cleansing ceremony. The ritual reveals the poltergeist is actually the ghost of a grunge musician who died just as her band, Viaduct, was about to hit it big. Frustrated and angry at having run out of time in life, she needs the Presence Unknown team’s help if she’s going to find peace.

Ghostly possessions throw a wrench in the coffee shop renovations. PUPI must find the magical key that will reunite the members of Viaduct–living and dead–before time runs out again.

288 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 2022

About the author

Writing, acting, bellydancing, and teaching people to talk in funny voices. Who knew you could make a living doing stuff like that? I didn't, and in fact I can't. Those are the things I do to feed my soul rather than my stomach.

I've always written, but I never expected to write romance. I have documented evidence of a seafaring play I wrote in the second grade. Something involving a giant duck, if memory serves; I'm too scared to dig it out of the binder and find out for sure. Since that rather inauspicious beginning, I've turned my hand to fantasy, science fiction, action adventure (with dinosaurs, oo!), and now steamy romance--with fantasy in it because that is my first genre love. It's inescapable when the first time you read The Lord of the Rings is in the fourth grade. (I read Asimov's Foundation trilogy the next year, but I didn't really understand it. I have yet to try reading it again lo these many years later.)

Off the page, I work in a number of positions with local theatres, I bellydance, and I train and perform aerial. I enjoy traveling, eating good food, drinking good coffee, and hanging out with my husband and our kitties.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was another wonderful book from Maia Strong. I loved the Seattle references, the love interests, and most of all the ghosts.