Review: Looking Forward to the Sequel!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2012
Amanda is an independent, head-strong woman who owns a small motorcycle repair shop.  She has a perfect mother, father, and sister...obviously she doesn't fit in very well with her up-scale family.  She also has a philandering con artist husband, who she's desperately anxious to divorce.  Though she's agreed to most of Charley's ridiculous demands, he keeps throwing monkey wrenches into the divorce process.  The day of his latest postponement, she goes to his apartment and they have a huge fight.  Then she decides to go on the vacation she's planned to celebrate her freedom anyway...anywhere away from Charley!Almost to her destination, her bike malfunctions and she runs off the road and down a mountain.  As she lies injured and frightened, Charley appears on the mountain side.  Instead of helping her, he taunts her into crawling back up to the road where she collapses on the pavement.  She wakes up in a hospital with her father by her bedside.  He gives her the unpleasant news that Charley has been murdered and that she's the prime suspect in the crime.Hard pressed to work up a tremendous amount of sympathy for him, she feels a sense of relief that through death they have indeed parted.  However, Charlie hasn't really departed...his ghost is now her unwelcome constant companion.  Telling her that the same man that shot him also tampered with her bike, and will continue to try to kill her, he swears that he can't go on to that great beyond until he saves her life and rights the wrongs he's committed against her.  She's NOT happy!What follows is a fun read while maintaining the suspense of a good mystery.  I bonded with Amanda, since I have two exes who continue to haunt me in a different way...but I digress.  The reader becomes acquainted with an array of characters that are all well developed.  When the book wounds to it's climactic end, I was disappointed to leave my new-found friend...but was comforted be the promise of a sequel.