This Unexpected Thing by Tabitha Drake

For perpetual eighteen-year-old Cordelia Baxter, there are worse things than being dead: Falling in love with someone who is alive.

Cordelia has been in spiritual limbo since the night she was savagely murdered thirty years ago. Her parents moved out and left the house abandoned after her funeral, and for the past three decades the ghost of Cordelia has become the stuff of local legend. Everything changes when a new family buys the house and Julian Cahill moves into the room where she died.

Julian Cahill and his family are hoping for a fresh start after the death of his father. They know the history of the house. They’ve heard the stories. But there’s no such thing as ghosts. Right? And yet, there is no denying the random cold spots, the electrical malfunctions, and the occasional feeling that his family is being watched.

When an incident with a ouija board renders Cordelia visible to Julian, an unlikely romance blooms. Amid the backdrop of Julian’s suspicious sister, who aims to have Cordelia exorcised, and Julian’s dangerous amateur pursuits to solve her thirty-year-old murder, Cordelia must quickly learn how to live with the living before all their lives are ruined.