The Romantic Spirit — Glenna Finley

Falling in love wasn't part of the plan.

But it was springtime, and to lovely Maggie Rome the romantic charm of San Francisco was irresistible. So was John Elliott, the handsome bachelor she met the day she set out to sublet an apartment.

But then entered Agatha Jarvis into her life -- so eager to have Maggie take over her apartment, rent free, asking only that she baby-sit for a strangely silent canary and a rare porcelain urn that held the ashes of her dear departed friend. Who really was this eccentric lady who communed with the spirit world? Maggie felt she was being drawn into a sinister intrigue -- a mysterious danger was closing in. Would she be able to escape its threat to her life-and the love that was waiting for her?