The Lookout's Ghost follows Reece as he gets a life changing diagnosis and breaks up with his long-term boyfriend. He decides to spend the summer working at a fire lookout tower as a fresh start. Once there, he begins seeing a ghost - a man named Charlie who went missing decades before and was suspected of being a serial killer. This was honestly lovely! I enjoyed the way that Reece and Charlie helped each other heal and the way they got to know each other, they were both exactly what the other needed. I did often have the thought of "how is half of what they are doing even possible", but the author had an explanation for it later in the book, so it didn't take away from my enjoyment at all. I wasn't able to guess who the culprit was on the mystery side of things, and the author was able to throw me down the wrong path at least twice - I think I was more focused on the romance side of things and that is why my brain was fooled when it came to the mystery, I am normally able to guess more than I did. 

Synopsis:

I don’t believe in ghosts. I also don’t believe in cottage cheese as a main food group, but sometimes in life, we are forced to confront when we’re wrong.

Thankfully, I was only mistaken about the ghosts.

At thirty-four years old, I’m arguably too young to have a midlife crisis, but a life-changing diagnosis followed swiftly by a caustic breakup seems to have done the trick. Reeling, I’ve traveled home to Ponderosa, Idaho, Gateway to Nowhere, to spend the summer high above the forest in a remote fire lookout tower.

An escape from the maelstrom my life has become should be good for me, right? Except solitude is difficult to come by when you aren’t actually alone. Despite its name, the very last thing I expect to find living with me in Dead Man’s Lookout is, well, a dead man. Especially not one as shockingly kind, attractive, and funny as Charlie Randolph.

The only problem is, he’s maybe, probably, a serial killer. Or is he?

Suddenly, I’m thrust into a decades-old cold case involving six murdered hikers and one (not so) missing fire lookout. When history begins to repeat itself, falling for a ghost is the least of my concerns. But nothing is ever as it seems in Ponderosa, and I’m not sure if Charlie and I are strong enough to weather the truth when we realize Death isn’t lurking in the shadows—it’s already inside.

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