A plantation house which contains a ghost? Rachael isn't sure what to believe, but the current owners of the Weston Plantation house have been thwarted in their efforts to build a hotel. Apparently a ghost called Ingrid, wife of a former owner, scrawls unhappy messages in the dust. She died at Weston in Georgia but was buried at the family's second home at Turtle Tear in Florida, and her spirit is said not to have left Weston. Rachael and her partner Merrick are now renovating Turtle Tear and about to host a wedding. Rachel uncovers a trunk of old possessions and letters, and her curiosity leads to her becoming just a little obsessed.

TAKE ME BACK is an erotic love story told in present tense. Merrick has a lot of unresolved issues in his past, which make him cross with Rachael for not telling him everything. She doesn't wish to sound crazy, but she realises that wanting to find an old recipe for key lime pie is not a wholly convincing excuse for travelling from Florida to Georgia to look through a barn full of kitchen equipment. The owner of Weston sees a message smeared on a window and panics. But Rachael investigates and finds herself thinking that maybe a ghost cannot cross the water to an island to be in her burial site. What to do? Her own relationship is going downhill fast, and she barely even notices.

This novella by Kelli Maine will appeal to those interested in family trees and histories, as well as being an unusual adult romance. Rachael's habit of constantly speaking to Merrick in her mind as she tells her story, "I wondered what you would make of it," can make it hard to get into the narrative at the start. There is an earlier book called Taken and it would probably be better to read that one first to get a good grip on the characters and locations, before reading TAKE ME BACK.