A Spirited Defense — Michele Bardsley

Las Vegas cocktail waitress Violetta Graves sees spirits. No, not alcohol. Dead people. Yeah, it's as fun as it sounds. She's bunking with her sister and brother-in-law, who argue all the time, and her four-year-old nephew. Just as she's finally getting her life on track, she gets a spirit visit that leads her straight to a corpse in suburbia -- smack dab in the middle of her sister's fancy neighborhood.



Violetta has no choice but to call in hunky homicide detective Matt Stone, who for some crazy reason wants to date her. As she deals with her sister's marital woes, her new job, and her wanna-be boyfriend, she discovers a terrible secret that will lead them to a revenge-driven murderer and may well send Violetta on the Other Side -- permanently.