Darkest Hour

That's assuming they want to go there and aren't trying to kill her. Also, she tends to do as much fighting as she does talking when trying to deal with them.

The book starts with Susannah taking a job and ends up baby-sitting for an eight-year old named Jack Slater, basically a withdrawing, boring type of kid . It turns out that he is also a mediator but didn't know it or understand what was going on.

Then she ends up reading some very, very old letters written to Jesse, whose name was actually Hector. They letters are from Maria, the girl that Jesse was supposed to marry, a marriage stopped when he was killed in the house Susannah currently lived in; in fact, in the room that was now her bedroom.

Her feelings for Jesse continued to remain strong and get stronger. She is definitely in love with him but knows, rationally, that nothing can ever come of it since Jesse is a ghost.

She gets awoken one night by the ghost of Maria de Silva Diego who would have been Jesse's bride. She threatens Susannah and her family while she's holding a knife at Susannah's throat.; she wants them to stop digging a hole in their back yard.

Susannah takes the letters to the local historical society for safekeeping, but when she gets there she finds a large portrait of Maria. She also finds a minature painting of Jesse. She even finds that they have letters that Jesse wrote.

Another character is introduced who you just know is going to cause problems in for her in further stories. There's also been a murder and she has to deal with the murderer and her accomplice attacking Father Dominic while she's also trying to get into another dimensional reality and "rescue" Jesse.

Even more complications are introduced when Jesse's own skeleton is dug up.

Another quite interesting book in the series, especially in the way it brings in the past of the major characters and the problems of the present. A very good book in the series.

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