Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Jennifer Crusie
• Title: Maybe This Time
• Publisher: ‎ St. Martin's Press; First Edition (August 31, 2010)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 342 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0312303785
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0312303785
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.15 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.39 x 1.28 x 9.56 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (may show some minor discoloration on page edges.)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything.

When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren't your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. What's worse, Andie's fiancé thinks this is all a plan by North to get Andie back, and he may be right. Andie's dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that's not the only haunting.

What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when she thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them.

If Andie can just get rid of all the guests and ghosts, she's pretty sure she can save the kids, and herself, from the past. But fate might just have another thing in mind….

About the Author:

Jennifer Crusie was researching her dissertation on the differences in the way men and women tell stories when she got sidetracked into writing romance novels.

Her first book was published in 1993 (which pretty much finished off any hope of her getting that PhD) and her twenty-fifth book, One in Vermillion, part of the Liz Danger mystery series written in collaboration with Bob Mayer, came out in September of 2023, all of which she considers a minor miracle, especially since she is also a New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestseller and a two-time Rita award winner.

Jenny is now working on the Rocky Start mystery series also in collaboration with Bob Mayer. She is a very happy woman.