Ghost of a Chance

By Katie MacAlister and Kate Marsh

Book Overview

There are other worlds with mysteries to solve.Worlds where not all of the suspects are technically alive.That's when Karma kicks in.

For all those transmortis anomalies that need to be exterminated, there's Karma Marx-a woman who exorcises haunted houses, sending troublesome spirits and entities to the ever after. What she'd really like is to banish Spider, her cheating, sleazy realtor husband, from her life. So, she makes him a deal: she'll clean one last home for him if he grants her a divorce.

The only problem is that Adam, the house's former owner, isn't happy with Karma's plan. Using his poltergeist powers, he seals the place, forcing Karma, Spider, and a motley assortment of characters (living and not-so-living) together for a hair-raising twelve hours.

But when Spider turns up dead in the basement, it's a locked house mystery, and Karma's determined to reveal the truth, even if it means tackling all of the mansion's inhabitants-mortal and otherwise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952737710
• ISBN13: 9781952737718
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Fat Cat Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

great book

I was hooked on this book from page 1 & didn't put it down till I finished it, I thought it was great, looking forward to more.

Ghost of a Chance

I love Katie MacAlister aka Kate Marsh. I buy every book and this one was no exception to her wonderful list of books.

Really Good Book

This was a great book that was over too fast. i love everything she writes and can not wait until the next one!

Willingly Suspending Disbelief

Sometimes, in order to enjoy a book, it's necessary to suspend disbelief. For Ghost of a Chance, I'd recommend tying disbelief to a construction crane, and hauling it up about 13 stories, where it can dangle overhead while you enjoy this completely delightful mystery. Karma Marx cleans houses for a living. Only there's not a mop or a spray bottle of vinegar to be seen. Her work is a little more specialized. She rids houses of otherworld spirits. According to the instructions given to her as a transmortis anomaly exterminator, she's supposed to banish intruders to the Akashic Plain, where they will suffer perpetual torment. But Karma, being a kind soul, has only been able to bring herself to impose the banishment once or twice, to really nasty beings who had it coming. She sneaks the other miscreants home with her. She has an obsessive-compulsive Russian domovoi (a house spirit). She keeps an agoraphobic Roman goddess of door hinges and thresholds in the pantry, a vegetable spirit in the lettuce keeper, a bunch of imps who should be in the silver drawer but aren't--and a husband who will hit the roof if he finds any of these unwanted house guests. Said sleazy husband makes Karma an offer: rid a house he's just bought of its current infestations (it's reputed to be the most haunted house in the Olympic Peninsula) and he won't contest the divorce that Karma so desperately wants. Simple enough, except . . . The two-hour job turns into a lock-down. A malevolent (or is he?) poltergeist named Adam Dirgesinger, seals Karma, a sulky Goth teen-ager, and assorted spirits and humans, in the house. They're all going to be there for twelve hours--except the ones who turn up dead, of course. Ghost of a Chance is part locked-house mystery, part romance, and part screamingly funny look at a world where Karma's lettuce bin talks back to her. By the end of the book, you'll be willing to believe that Karma's world is the real one and ours is ho-hum by comparison. But take heed: this book is like popcorn. You won't be able to stop with just one Kate Marsh/Katie MacAlister/Katie Maxwell. by Sharon Wildwind for Story Circle Book Reviews reviewing books by, for, and about women

Make sure you have time to read it straight through

I was intrigued by the title and decided to get the book and after I was about half way through I noticed it was by Katie MacAlister (one of my fave's!). I read it in one sitting and it was just great! Looking for more - write faster please!