Greta Roscoe is trapped. Forced by her half brother, Marshall, to act as a courtesan she beds powerful men to enable Marshall to control their decision making. Aaron Shane is a newly ordained young minister full of Episcopal beliefs so when he is introduced to Greta at a dinner party her is shocked by her apparent promiscuity and finds himself unable to resist expressing his thoughts about her willingness to give her body to men.

Later, feeling ashamed of his bigotry he decides to return to Greta's home and apologise. As he approaches her house he looks up at the window and witnesses her murder. Seconds later he too is murdered by an unseen assailant.

As the two of them look down at their own bodies they are approached by a glowing being, Aridite, who takes them to a strange apartment where he explains their situation. Although they are both dead they are held in a state of Limbo until they can determine the identity of their killers and move onwards.

Voyagers is a bizarre concept. Within a matter of pages of the beginning the two main characters are dead and spend the rest of the book acting as ghostly investigators searching for the reasons they were murdered. This idea allows the author to explore two distinct threads within the story. First there is the whodunnit aspect – who murdered Greta and Aaron and why; then there is the story of the two "ghosts" as they struggle to come to terms with the nature of their existence.

This book is wonderful! Original and totally addictive. I particularly enjoyed the conflict experienced by Aaron as he becomes aware of his increasing attraction towards Greta (certainly not seemly for a man of the cloth – even a dead one!).

K.L. Nappier is a talented author. This is the second of her books I have read and in neither case have I been even remotely disappointed. Her other book, Full Wolf Moon, was a completely different concept (having a werewolf theme) but showed a similar strength of writing and originality of thought.

Another wonderful story from a highly skilled author – K.L. Nappier is one to watch out for.

Synopsis
There could be no unlikelier pair of amateur sleuths than Greta Roscoe and the Reverend Aaron Shane. Not because Greta is the most elegant courtesan of St. Louis's high society during the Gay 1890's, and Aaron the city's most self-righteous minister.

It's because they're dead.

And because an angelic tutor named Aridite has given them the assignment of solving their own murders:

[the angel replied] "...The two of you are dead too soon. You can't come forward, you're not prepared ... I need to set you up with a goal to accomplish ..."

If only things in the Afterlife were as simple as they seemed.