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Timeless Desire by Lucy Felthouse
3.0

I note some people are tagging this novelette as paranormal romance, but I really don't think that it is. A book conservator and a security guard are working at a historic hall, where they come across a sad, lonely ghost and gently encourage him to move on to the afterlife. Neither are involved with him, but they do become involved with each other, so really it's more a normal romance with a supernatural backdrop. And it's easy and likeable, a quick little read, and (horror fan though I am) I still enjoyed that the ghost wasn't hostile in any way. I wonder if it's a little too short for my tastes, though - like Emily, the book conservator, I'm book mad, so I was far more invested in Emily's work at the haunted library than I was her relationships with either George or the ghost. Perhaps if more time had been spent with them I'd feel differently, but then again: old books! I'd probably still be drooling over the library...