Echoes of Love

Book excerpt: Kala wants to catch a ghost. The ghost wants to catch her. What does Tor want? Paranormal writer Kala Westenra, staying with her best friend Vika in Norway, is hunting for a new subject for an article and finds it when she hears footsteps in the hall twenty minutes before Vika's hot brother Tor Viitanen arrives home. This, Vika tells her, is the vard&øger—a Norwegian ghost, a future echo which always precedes a person's arrival. Kala plans to stake out the hallway to catch the vard&øger in the act and is shocked when on its arrival it kisses her. Her feelings for Tor have been hidden ever since she first met him two years ago. Could it be that the vard&øger is acting on Tor's secret desire for her? As Kala and Tor work together to understand what is happening with the spirit, their longing for each other begins to overtake them—and the vard&øger has more to show them than they expected...