Other than this being 3rd person, I loved everything about this book! Sure it was a little long, but all of the story was needed in my opinion. I’d wanted to read this author’s first book, but didn’t get to, and so when this one popped up and the publisher offered me the chance to read it early, I jumped on that chance!

I normally don’t care for reading about con artists or criminal type of characters. So you’d think that I wouldn’t like Gretchen. However when I got to know her, her family background that led her to where she was, as well as how she might be conning older women, but she is doing it so that she is leaving them better off afterward, I was won over. And her surprise when she actually did see a real ghost, and how that went for her, it was hilarious! Oh my gosh, Everett was so much fun, he made the book!

Charlie, our love interest, also a great guy. It was easy to see why he wasn’t a fan of con artists, especially worrying about what was happening to a friend of his. His taking care of his grandpa brought to mind some of my current issues with my stepdad’s dementia slowly getting more of a hold on him. Every little detail we learned about Charlie as he let Gretchen in bit by bit made me fall in love with him right along with her. And when she told him she found a way she could stay and he could go, wow, I hate the way she did that! How could she not even throw out the suggestion he could stay too?

So much humor and emotion in this story. I will definitely need to go back and get my hands on the author’s last book and will recommend this one highly as well!