Earthbound by Rebecca Flanders is the story of Maggie Castle.

Maggie is a scientist and although brilliant in her work she is rather scatterbrained and is constantly losing everything from her keys to her briefcase.

However she is not entirely sure that it is not her mind that she has now lost when she buys her first house and meets her resident ghost.

Christopher Durand was an architect in life and an inventor who was well ahead of his time.  His time was cut short though.

Christopher has been dead for nearly 100 years when Maggie steps into his "life".

Maggie does not let the ghostly resident stop her from going ahead with her plans any more than she lets her overbearing boyfriend talk her out of buying the property.  What Maggie does not realise is that the ghost is far from trapped in the house like any ghosts she had read about.  Christopher is instead trapped with her.

It is one thing to get prepared to live in a haunted house, it is another thing entirely to have the ghost move into your apartment and tag along to Maggie's teaching classes at the local college. 

Maggie does a little delving into the past and soon discovers that her ghostly friend was a real person. However he does not seem too eager to want to leave and is happy to hang around with Maggie and learn all about the modern world.

Maggie and Christopher soon become close and Maggie finds herself falling for her ghost.  She compares him to her boyfriend and finds Larry coming up short.  It is not helped by Christopher's rather low opinion of Larry.

But Maggie knows that she cannot have Christopher the way that she wants him.  When they try to touch it is far too clear that Christopher has no form and there seems no way to change that. 

Spurred on by her friend Elena she delves further into the past in order to find out how Christopher died, the one piece of information he will not share with her, although he does provide some amusing versions of his demise. 

Still Maggie is torn between confronting Christopher with his past and losing him forever or leaving things as they are and never having a fulfilling life with him or anyone else.

A touching romance that adds a few new twists to what we believe about ghosts.  I loved the idea of Christopher being able to change his clothes to reflect the modern fashions, even if Maggie was the only one who could see and hear him.  I also liked the fact that he was not tied to the house and rather to Maggie herself.

I nice little read to while away an evening. 

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Also by Rebecca Flanders: Kissed by the Sea and Forever Always