Ghosts are supposed to be scary, like The Librarian in the movie Ghostbusters. They haunt places and torment people. They’re agile, able to float around rooms and disappear on a whim.
Right?
Not always. Max is a ghost, but he’s more like Casper than The Librarian. He’s too nice to haunt people. To his dismay, his occasional attempts wind up more comical and embarrassing than scary. The other problem is that, unlike Casper, Max has no idea how to manage his ghostly being. He flounders about with his new weightlessness. Graceful flying is not an option. He can’t even begin to figure out how to get where he wants to be.
Joe is a private investigator with the misfortune of being the only person who can hear Max speak. And Max has a lot to say. He wants Joe to find his killer. While Joe isn’t happy about working for a ghost, he’s far less enthused about Max accompanying him on on a date.
Meet Max and Joe, from Into The Light:
Max coughed.
“Oh no,” Joe muttered.
“You’re wearing too much cologne,” Max said. “It’s choking me here.”
“Why did you follow me?”
“I didn’t mean to!”
“Jesus.”
“I’ll keep quiet.”
“You’ll disappear.”
“Don’t you think I would if I could?”
“Max.”
“I’m trying!”
Joe muttered a string of curse words, then complained about running late. He backed out of the garage and said, “Don’t talk to me.”
“I’m working on disappearing.”
Joe grunted something unintelligible. Max thought better of asking him to repeat himself. He fidgeted in the seat, thinking maybe he could remain in the car for the evening. He’d been stuck in worse places. At the very least, he needed to move to the backseat. Otherwise Donna would be sitting in his lap and he was pretty sure that would piss Joe off. Not to mention the discomfort of being sat on by someone who didn’t know he existed.
As Max struggled to fling himself into the back, his hand slid over the button for the window. It lowered a few inches before he caught himself, pushing the button in the opposite direction. He teetered more, desperate to get his balance. Up and down the window went.
“Max! What the hell are you doing?”
“Sorry. I’m trying to get out. Doing my best here, Joe.”
More curses. Max finally managed to slam himself backward. As he landed on the backseat, his foot hit the radio and the station changed to country. Joe sputtered a few new curses as he readjusted the station.
Max stayed perfectly still hovering in the middle of the backseat. He closed his eyes and willed himself to disappear. How did other ghosts do it? Why couldn’t he manage to navigate this whole spirit world?
Max has a lot to learn, and Joe is going to need a lot of patience!
Max Paddington refuses to go into the light until he finds his killer. This presents a dilemma, since Max is even less competent as a spirit than he was as a live person. No one sees or hears him and he can’t manage to get anywhere or do anything on his own.
Joe Cavelli is a private investigator, living an ordinary life. Then one day he walks across a parking lot, gets yelled at by a ghost, and his life only gets stranger from there.
Max and Joe team up to find Max’s killer. In the process, they form an unlikely friendship and change each other’s lives in ways they never expected.
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