"an amorous ghost makes sensual mischief"
Writer Adele Amhurst arrives at the house she had her
friend and new boss Gina rent for her sight unseen. Intent
on getting inside to check out the inside of the house and
weary from travel, Adele was not aware that her new
neighbor was standing on her front porch watching her walk
up. Nicholas Patterson introduces himself and does not
make a great first impression with Adele other than being
really handsome. The inside of the house turns out to be very cozy and full
of antiques but the upstairs was too cold, so Adele
decided to sleep downstairs in front of the fire on the
couch. After her first night she wakes up feeling like
someone had been sleeping next to her, she thinks nothing
of it. When she arrives at the Daily Messenger, Gina shows
her to her new office and asked if she had met Adam. Adam
it turns out is a horny ghost that has been scaring off
previous renters of the house. Adele does not believe Gina
about the ghost. Adele wakes from her second night in the house and
realizes that she had the most erotic dream that she has
ever imagined. She writes down notes about her dream,
thinking about incorporating it somehow in a story, tamed
down of course. Adam visits Adele again in her dreams the
following night, this time she is aware and surprises Adam
with her knowledge of him. But Adele and Adam soon realize
that she is not dreaming and that provokes an interesting
discussion between the two that ends with them
passionately entangled. Adam starts showing his true colors and Adele devises a
way to get him out of her house with the aid of Gina and
her neighbor Nicholas. Will Adele be able to trust
Nicholas and go through with their plan? Can even such a
plan work, or are the risks too great? By Midnight is an interesting novella that makes you
believe in ghosts, and the possibilities of an amorous one.
Reviewed by Catherine Smith
Posted March 15, 2007
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