The Phantom Stallion's Bride
(2025)(A book in the Bluegrass Gothic Romance series)
A novel by Rachelle Ayala
The ghost said only two words: Save him.
Cassie Leigh didn’t believe in curses until she saw the woman in white standing in Ravenwood’s fog-shrouded barn—translucent, desperate, smelling of lavender and grief. She came to Kentucky chasing a story about haunted horse farms and spectral stallions. What she found was far more dangerous.
She found Nate Ravenwood.
Six years ago, Cassie left him for a Chicago newsroom and a byline that mattered more than love. Now that career is ashes, and she’s back in Hollowridge with nothing but her typewriter and the bitter knowledge that she chose wrong. Nate’s farm is failing. His Derby champion is wasting away from an illness no one can explain. And the wealthy rival who’s been waiting for Ravenwood to fall has finally made his move.
But the sabotage destroying Ravenwood isn’t just human greed. It’s tangled with something older—a curse that binds the Ravenwood women to sacrifice, a phantom stallion that shouldn’t exist, and a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal spanning three generations. The ghost isn’t warning Cassie away. She’s begging her to stay.
To save the man Cassie never stopped loving. To break what should never have been bound.
Cassie was always good at running. This time, she plants her feet, raises her fists, and fights for the second chance she doesn’t deserve—because some loves are worth haunting, and some curses are made to be shattered.
Features:Second-chance romance • Ghostly woman in white • Phantom stallion legend • 1950s Kentucky gothic • Brooding heir hero • Journalist heroine • Generational curse • Sabotage conspiracy • Kentucky Derby stakes • Ex-lovers reunited • Found family • Supernatural mystery • Guaranteed HEA
Genre: Mystery
Cassie Leigh didn’t believe in curses until she saw the woman in white standing in Ravenwood’s fog-shrouded barn—translucent, desperate, smelling of lavender and grief. She came to Kentucky chasing a story about haunted horse farms and spectral stallions. What she found was far more dangerous.
She found Nate Ravenwood.
Six years ago, Cassie left him for a Chicago newsroom and a byline that mattered more than love. Now that career is ashes, and she’s back in Hollowridge with nothing but her typewriter and the bitter knowledge that she chose wrong. Nate’s farm is failing. His Derby champion is wasting away from an illness no one can explain. And the wealthy rival who’s been waiting for Ravenwood to fall has finally made his move.
But the sabotage destroying Ravenwood isn’t just human greed. It’s tangled with something older—a curse that binds the Ravenwood women to sacrifice, a phantom stallion that shouldn’t exist, and a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal spanning three generations. The ghost isn’t warning Cassie away. She’s begging her to stay.
To save the man Cassie never stopped loving. To break what should never have been bound.
Cassie was always good at running. This time, she plants her feet, raises her fists, and fights for the second chance she doesn’t deserve—because some loves are worth haunting, and some curses are made to be shattered.
Features:Second-chance romance • Ghostly woman in white • Phantom stallion legend • 1950s Kentucky gothic • Brooding heir hero • Journalist heroine • Generational curse • Sabotage conspiracy • Kentucky Derby stakes • Ex-lovers reunited • Found family • Supernatural mystery • Guaranteed HEA
Genre: Mystery
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