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Maybe this time
384 pages
A hilarious, ghost-filled romp about wrangling orphans, exorcising demons, and accidentally falling back in love with your ex-husband.
What it feels like
This brisk, laugh-out-loud romance blends supernatural chaos with the messy reality of second chances. The mood is delightfully frenetic, dropping the reader into a creepy, haunted house packed with eccentric mediums, difficult orphans, and a sinister housekeeper. Rather than genuine dread, the atmosphere leans into zany, spooky-lite comedy, driven by witty prose and escalating, ridiculous complications. The emotional arc follows a heroine trying desperately to close the door on her past, only to realize that sometimes the ghosts, and the ex-husbands, are worth keeping around. It is a perfect fit for readers who crave a playful, character-rich story where found family, romantic tension, and hilarious exorcisms collide in a delightfully chaotic adventure.
- Mood
- spooky-lite
- zany
- warm
- frenetic
- Tone
- humorous
- wry
- playful
- chaotic
- romantic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- second chance romance · found family · confronting the past · supernatural shenanigans
- The writing
- Witty, fast-paced, and dialogue-driven, balancing comedic timing with romantic tension.
- The arc
- Moves from a desire for clean closure to a chaotic embrace of messy, haunted second chances.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love their second-chance romances served with a heavy dose of eccentric characters and supernatural comedy.
Content notes
- ghosts and hauntings
- divorce and ex-spouses
- orphaned children
About the book
Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiance and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything. When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren't your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. What's worse, Andie's fiance thinks this is all a plan by North to get Andie back, and he may be right. Andie's dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that's not the only haunting.
What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiance. And just when she thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them.
If Andie can just get rid of all the guests and ghosts, she's pretty sure she can save the kids, and herself, from the past. But fate might just have another thing in mind.
Description from Open Library.
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