I'd been a little lax in keeping my eye out for new Molly Harper books, partially because I've been trying to whittle down my physical TBR pile in the corner of my room. (My e-book TBR pile is astronomically large, if you're curious.) I'd turned a friend on to Harper's work and I was pleased when she told me that there was a new book out. After stalking a Barnes & Nobles employee, I managed to get my mitts on a copy. 
 When you get down to it, this is standard Harper fare. By that I mean that if you've read and loved her other books then the odds are very, very high that you will absolutely adore BH&H. It's not as strong as her Nice Girls series, but then this is a standalone book and you don't have all of the slow character building that you can get with a longer series. The characters here are still pretty likable and I absolutely loved the Deacon/Nina pairing. That might be seen as a bit of a spoiler, but then Harper doesn't really try to hide or even really hold off pairing the two of them together- which was actually fairly nice. I admit that at times I wished there was a teensy bit more drama llama goodness, but part of what makes this book work is that most of the pairings in this book are pretty straight forward and honest about everything. I'll admit that I wouldn't be upset if Harper wrote a follow up book or short story somewhere along the lines (maybe have Nina design another garden in another haunted locale?), because I absolutely loved the nerdy-geek courtship between Nina and Deacon. He's pretty much ever nerd girl's fantasy, to put it bluntly, and Nina's a character that most of us will probably be able to relate to in one form or another. 
 Overall I really did like this book and odds are favorable that I'll read it again, which means that it won't be sent to my local book exchange unless I end up having to downsize my book collection to about 4-5 books. (Every bibliophile's nightmare.) I'll admit that the mystery/action here was fairly light for the most part, but that's partially because we had two major pairings in this book and Harper had to spend time on trying to give each one enough buildup to seem reasonable. It was still fun and I finished this pretty quickly, which is almost always a good sign with me. I can only hope that Harper decides to write some more haunted house-esque books, maybe even making a series about paranormal investigators?