Unfinished Business

A Haunting Adventure

By: Karen Stegman-Bourgeois

Narrated by: Armand Lane

Meet frat boy and liar Harrison Bloom.

Sure, he’s a narcissist, but he loves his family. Of course, he’s spoiled, but he works hard. Naturally, he feels terrible about choosing a career path his father dislikes, but he makes up for it by dating women Dad would approve of. Hold on... he does what??

He can’t get a break. His brand-spanking new, one-day-old Mustang convertible is stolen and wrecked before he can purchase insurance. All he can afford is a Craig’s list find, which happens to be a hearse. When he discovers that his new car is haunted, the spirits inside need a little help with their unfinished business before they can ... move on.

Each apparition has a different life lesson that Harrison unwittingly learns, but the stubborn Harrison does it his way until he finally works up the courage to... but I digress.

Felix, the first ghost, was a chef in life who invented a meatball to die for. Oops. Frederick turns out to be Madoff 2.0, and Kate helps him turn his thirty-year-old body into an art piece that Michelangelo would be proud of.

Harrison’s father is a federal judge who put away a mobster. To get Judge Bloom isn’t in his repertoire, and when he breaks out of prison, his goal to get even is killing one of the judge’s offspring – that’s Harrison!

Harrison’s life keeps getting messier as his unemployment, love life, dishonesty, bad cliches, and bad decisions take the reigns.

He helps countless souls before he meets Lucy, the wisest one of all. She helps Harrison in ways that can’t be forgotten, including fixing his love life. When Lucy’s daughter, Mia, gets involved, the lies that ensured his long-term unemployment disappear, and his life seems to get on track again.

But he has the clingy, crazy, lying Nikki to worry about. He can’t shake her because his family loves the nurse. She’s sweet and demure around them. Does Harrison see a reflection of himself in her?

©2023 Karen M Stegman-Bourgeois (P)2024 Karen Stegman-Bourgeois

Refreshing and hilarious

This book is quite refreshing. Easy to follow and funny. Harrison starts as a lovable jerk who develops into a more lovable version of himself, kinder and more considerate.

A series of unfortunate but hilarious mishaps makes him into a servant for the deceased. As he helps the ephemeral characters only he can see and hear, he develops and navigates his complicated relationships in the process. The author gives him a great voice with a funny inner dialog. The pacing is just right and the plot is full of action. Somehow Harrison ends up a target, but... I don't want to spoil it.

Tl;Dr: it's a fun, refreshing story that doesn't follow any tired old tropes that I know of. Action, comedy, romance, ghosts!