Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff This is a fun little fantasy book loaned to me by my dear mother. I think it’s set in Ottawa, though I’d have to look that up to be sure – definitely a major Canadian city, anyway. Claire is a Keeper, whose job it is to patch up holes in the fabric of the universe so it doesn’t rip to pieces. When she turns up at Elysian Fields, a bed and breakfast, she’s decidedly upset to find that her current assignment seems to be taking over the B&B. Never mind that there’s an open hell hole in the basement and that Room 6 is occupied by a sleeping Keeper gone bad. She’s meant for bigger stuff, right? Vying for her attention are two hunky men: Dean, who cooks and cleans for the B&B, and Jacques, the ghost of a French sailor. (This plot line leads to such constant innuendo that my mother doesn’t want to see the book again. Also, as the busy mother of a baby, if you have a choice between a handsome, sweet and useful man, and one who can’t do anything but spout romantic lines – I really don’t get the conflict.) But it’s all fun, as are the supernatural guests who frequent the B&B. I don’t think I’ll need to reread it, but it was good fluff.
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