<p>Traumatized by the events of <em>We Take Me Apart</em>, the unlikely heroine of <em>Desire: A Haunting</em> leads a silent life in the cottage that has been in her family since Hester Prynne first bequeathed it to Pearl&mdash;whose endearingly cranky spirit remains. So begins this strange friendship between &ldquo;dog&rdquo; and a ghost calling herself &ldquo;Ogie.' A different kind of love story, <em>Desire</em> is about how dog and Ogie learn to care for each other after only pretending to at first, about how they adopt a ghost child named William whose fascination with holidays brings celebration to the cottage, and about how long-ago dresses made from flowers stitch the three of them closer and invites new spirit into their lives.</p>