The Ghost and Miss Demure — Melanie Jackson

Karo Follett left her career in a blaze of glorious rage, ditching both work and its attendant philandering plagiarist, her boyfriend, for a job restoring the Belle Ange plantation in Virginia. On the way, inspiration struck like...well, like lightning.

A billion volts can be eye-opening, but an even bigger shock is on its way. Karo can now see spirits -- and what a spirit! Hugh Vellacourt, the original owner of Belle Ange, was eighteenth-century America's answer to the Marquis de Sade. (She's not exactly sure what de Sade was asking.) Kinky, snarky, twisted, lonely...his fantasyland in the attic is like nothing she's ever seen, and his sense of humor requires Karo get together with her whimsical, irreverent, to-die-for boss -- a work relationship, which she's sworn off forever. Romance is in the air, but has it got more than a ghost of a chance?