Book – “A Viking Ghost for Valentine’s Day” by Jo-Ann Carson

Hello Friends,

After writing about the true story of Amanda Teague marrying a pirate ghost last week, I went in search of romance stories featuring ghosts.

I read a 2007 Harlequin Blaze novel, “Kiss and Dwell” by Kelley St. John. The heroine is a spiritual medium and her mission is to help a handsome deceased man pass over into the light. He doesn’t want to go. He’s existing in a middle zone of the afterworld, a half-way place. Helping women with their sexual fantasies, dreams and orgasms. He’s eager to help the heroine too, if she’ll let him, and if they don’t break the rules.

When the sexy man was alive, he’d never found love with a woman. But the stakes are high in the afterlife, between heaven and earth.

“A Viking Ghost for Valentine’s Day” by Jo-Ann Carson is a novella-sized story. A widowed mother of three is desperate to earn money to feed her children. She takes a job as a cleaner in a haunted house. She works during the evening. The worst time! The ghosts have their own nightly routines. Socializing, gambling, screams, and gunshots. I was dying to know what the ghosts were doing behind door number three, the room she was forbidden to enter.

The hero is a large Viking man. Yum! He didn’t make it to Valhalla. It was wonderful how he came to protect her and her children. He also helped food come her way for the kids, and made her cups of tea. 

There’s a sinister paranormal force in the story that gave me the chills.

Overall, the book was an enjoyable, short read.

Here’s The Blurb

To feed her three children, Widow Abigail Jenkins takes the only job available in Sunset Cove: night cleaner in the notorious, haunted tea-house. She figures the wild, supernatural rumors about the place are pure fiction. After all, ghosts don’t exist.

Eric Eklund a sexy spirit from Sweden is over a thousand years old. Having missed his chance at Valhalla, the Viking spends his time roaming the world and gambling. That is until he sees Abby whose feisty earthly-spirit turns his ghostly world upside down.

When the two meet sparks fly, but their romance is interrupted by a poltergeist hunting children.

What happens when you mix a naughty, Viking ghost built like a Norse god, a strong woman who suffers no fools and a nasty poltergeist? Answer: another fun, Gambling Ghost story.

A Viking Ghost for Valentine’s is a lighthearted novella filled with love, laughter and just enough ghouliness to thrill and chill you to the bone.

Amazon link, Viking Ghost

Enjoy your weekend,

♥ Ashlyn