Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time
By Jennifer Crusie
St. Martin’s Press, 2010. 342 pgs. Romance

Andromeda walked away from Archer North and their twelve months of marriage ten years ago. She has decided to marry again and, in an attempt to establish closure to that portion of her life, Andie visits her ex’s law office to return her uncashed alimony checks and say a final goodbye. But instead of making the clean break she was hoping for, she finds herself hired as a nanny to care for Archer’s two young wards living in a reportedly haunted castle in the middle of nowhere. Now she must save the troubled children from the malevolent spirits determined to keep them from ever leaving the estate.

This is perhaps the best work of supernatural romance I have yet to discover. Crusie uses the perfect combination of comedy and horror to create a creepy but heartwarming story. Her characters are endearing and while the story doesn’t stray far from the expected, there are still some plot twists keep the pages turning.

CZ