The ouija board was a terrible idea. I knew it the moment my best friend pulled it out.
But it was veil season, I was three weeks from losing the only thing my grandmother left me, and some reckless, grieving part of me wanted to knock on the open door—just once—to see if Gran was still close enough to answer.
She wasn't.
What answered was Jack Malone: a 1950s Chicago con man, dead since 1957, and now standing in my living room looking far too solid for someone who's spent seventy years on the wrong side of the veil.
I could almost live with the charming dead man in my bookshop.
What I can't live with is the other thing that came through behind him.
Because the door didn't close clean. Something hungry slipped out with Jack. Now the whole town is going grey at the edges. People are forgetting the faces they love. And every day it grows stronger and I have until Halloween midnight to send it back into the dark.
Ghosts, Grumps & Grimoires is a cozy paranormal romance featuring a grumpy necromancer who's done with everyone's nonsense, and a charming dead con man who's very bad at staying out of her personal space.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
But it was veil season, I was three weeks from losing the only thing my grandmother left me, and some reckless, grieving part of me wanted to knock on the open door—just once—to see if Gran was still close enough to answer.
She wasn't.
What answered was Jack Malone: a 1950s Chicago con man, dead since 1957, and now standing in my living room looking far too solid for someone who's spent seventy years on the wrong side of the veil.
I could almost live with the charming dead man in my bookshop.
What I can't live with is the other thing that came through behind him.
Because the door didn't close clean. Something hungry slipped out with Jack. Now the whole town is going grey at the edges. People are forgetting the faces they love. And every day it grows stronger and I have until Halloween midnight to send it back into the dark.
Ghosts, Grumps & Grimoires is a cozy paranormal romance featuring a grumpy necromancer who's done with everyone's nonsense, and a charming dead con man who's very bad at staying out of her personal space.
Genre: Paranormal Romance