Welcome to Litsy!

The first book in the Hesitant Mediums seriesIt was a truth universally acknowledged that one's suitors and ghosts ought never mix, especially when the ghost was one's father.Resigned to spinsterhood in her English manor house, Mary Trentwood is horrified when her father's ghost crawls from his grave, and struggles as he spouts opinion after opinion about the most mundane things. Mistaking the newly-arrived and quietly handsome Alexander Hartwell as her father's solicitor-for who else would interrupt her mourning?-Mary soon realizes her father is adding matchmaking to his repertoire. Neither Mary nor her father realize Hartwell hunts a blackmailer, and shouldn't waste time seeking Mary's smiles...