Fatal Family Secrets — Maggie Shayne

Johnny's would-be girlfriend has called it quits, his newfound grandfather has pulled a vanishing act, and his odd connection to the dying has mutated into something else, something he doesn't understand. So was already having a lousy week when a kid came tearing out of the woods like the devil was chasing him and right into the path of his truck. Teenage Ryan isn't too badly hurt, but it turns out the seventeen-year-old has a serious ghost problem. He's convinced no one would believe him or be able to help him even if they did. But that was before he met Johnny and the gang at Spook Central.

Johnny takes Ryan and his gorgeous older sister Breia to his friend Kiley's no-longer-haunted Victorian money pit, which has also become ghost hunting headquarters. But Kiley's not so sure the house is phantom-free. She's heard a woman's smoke-and-whiskey voiced laughter haunting the halls. Maya, the gang's resident witch and the most mesmerizing woman Johnny's ever met, sets wards around the place to keep Ryan's ghosts away. Johnny sets wards around his heart to keep himself in the friend-zone where Maya has put him. Her reasons are very practical and entirely ridiculous since he's pretty sure their fates are entwined. Soon, they must fight to protect a young boy from the most powerful and determined pair of ghosts they've ever encountered, who are wiling and able to kill if that's what it takes to get what they want. And what they want is Ryan.

Johnny and Maya and the rest of the gang are the only ones who can save him. The question is, can they stay alive doing it?

Star-crossed lovers in a rom-com ghost mystery with a Scooby Gang you'll want to join!