book cover of A Grave Showdown
 

A Grave Showdown

(2026)
(The eighth book in the Grumpy Ghost series)
A novel by

 
 

Three weeks ago, Anna McGuffin almost told a dead man she loved him. Now she's about to risk everything to keep him.

When Anna McGuffin moved to Lockwood Cove a year ago, she was looking for a fresh start after a brutal divorce. What she got was a haunted Victorian mansion, a ghost dachshund named Daisy, a circle of women who refused to let her face anything alone, and the unlikely love of her life: Richard Lockwood, a stubborn nineteenth-century ghost with a sharp tongue and sharper green eyes.

Together, Anna and Richard have solved murders, cleared old debts, and quietly carved out something resembling a future. But the trial that just rocked the town has changed everything. The choices made in that courtroom have unleashed something terrible, and the ghost of serial killer, Alistair Hawthorne, is coming back for blood.

Anna can't fight Hawthorne alone. She can't fight him with Richard. She can't even fight him with the help of a ghost dachshund (though Daisy is, as always, willing to try). To save the town, the ghost she loves, and the future she's only just allowed herself to want, Anna will have to do the unthinkable.

She'll have to ask for Madame Corrine’s help.

She'll have to tell the Wednesday Wine Committee the truth.

She'll have to trust that the town that took her in will stand with her now.

Grab your wine glass. Hug your dachshund. Anna McGuffin is going to need everyone.

For Fans of:

⭐ Cozy romantic paranormal mystery

⭐ Slow burn romance

⭐ Witty banter with the dead

�� Adorable ghost dog sidekick

⭐ Found family

In A Grave Showdown, the climactic finale of the Grumpy Ghost series, every loose thread is tied, every secret is told, and one extraordinary woman discovers that happily ever after isn't a gift — it's a fight worth winning.


Genre: Cozy Mystery



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