The heroine is a resigned homicide detective and a recovering alcoholic. Her strong psychic gifts drove her to drink and she's been running from them every since. She now works for an insurance agency investigating life insurance claims. There she meets the hero. He's a single father of 3 children whose wife vanished 7 years ago. On behalf of his children and his own peace of mind, he's hired the heroine to look into the truth of his wife's disappearance. Is she really in France as everyone believes or was she murdered? After a bad storm whips out the bridge, the heroine must stay in their house. There she encounters a ghost in the foyer and her own desire for the hero. I couldn't decide if this was a bad paranormal romance or an even worse suspense romance. If it's just a paranormal romance, the setting is bland and very unfulfilling in the romance department but if it's a suspense novel, it was completely non suspenseful and frankly unimaginative. The whole book is spent with the heroine trying to find out what happened to the wife when she's been the ghost in the foyer the entire time! And the heroine was too fearful to speak to the menacing presence that she missed the opportunity to solve the mystery in the first 3 chapters. Also, why the hell did the wife's ghost smack the heroine unconscious if she wanted her help? You can see the bad guy and the murderer from a mile away so it came as no surprise when the villain is revealed. But the villain wasn't ever actually involved in the story until the point when he's revealed as the killer. This was almost laughable bad. ( )