Come in and Cover Me by Gin Phillips is a novel about an archeologist named Ren who is 37 years old and has been living with the ghost of her brother since he died in a car accident when she was 12.
The novel takes Ren into the canyons of New Mexico where she unearths pottery sherds and begins to see even more ghosts of the women who lived in the canyon thousands of years earlier.
Ren falls in love with a fellow archeologist and realizes she is going to need to move out of the past to embrace her future. It is an interesting story, and I enjoyed the archeological aspects of it. However, I was never drawn in to Ren's character deeply enough to really care about her. Her boyfriend and her brother were more interesting, as was the landscape of the canyons.
The title comes from a Bruce Springsteen song, one of which her brother's ghost is always humming.
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