She built a life around fear she could close like a book. Then a real one walked in off the mountain.
AUDRIANA
I sell fright for a living. Horror on the shelves, spooky readings on Halloween, a scare you can pick up and put down and shut when you're through.
Then a man walks into my shop straight off a burning mountain, soot in his hair, calm as anything, and asks how the story ends.
I don't know his name. Nobody in this town does. He's the crew member who stays at the edge of the frame, and he looks at me like he's already decided something I haven't caught up to yet.
When the wind shifts and the smoke rolls down on the strip, he's the one who stays steady while everyone else panics — and I'm the one falling apart, because this fear didn't come from a book and there's no cover to close on it.
He goes up the mountain. He promises he'll come back.
The scariest part isn't whether he does. It's that I've known him a matter of hours, and I already can't survive the morning after — because the people I love leave in the dark, and no one ever warns me first.
So he warns me. In advance, out loud, standing in the doorway I'm holding open for him to leave.
He's not going anywhere. That's the scare I don't get to close.
Spellbound by the Firefighter is part of the Scared of Love series—nine standalone Halloween romances where the spookiest thing isn't what goes bump in the night, it's the moment you realize you're falling and there's no closing the book on it. Each one can be read on its own, but why stop at one good scare? Dim the lights, grab the whole series, and let every mountain man and firefighter prove that the bravest thing you'll ever do is let someone stay.
Genre: Romance
AUDRIANA
I sell fright for a living. Horror on the shelves, spooky readings on Halloween, a scare you can pick up and put down and shut when you're through.
Then a man walks into my shop straight off a burning mountain, soot in his hair, calm as anything, and asks how the story ends.
I don't know his name. Nobody in this town does. He's the crew member who stays at the edge of the frame, and he looks at me like he's already decided something I haven't caught up to yet.
When the wind shifts and the smoke rolls down on the strip, he's the one who stays steady while everyone else panics — and I'm the one falling apart, because this fear didn't come from a book and there's no cover to close on it.
He goes up the mountain. He promises he'll come back.
The scariest part isn't whether he does. It's that I've known him a matter of hours, and I already can't survive the morning after — because the people I love leave in the dark, and no one ever warns me first.
So he warns me. In advance, out loud, standing in the doorway I'm holding open for him to leave.
He's not going anywhere. That's the scare I don't get to close.
Spellbound by the Firefighter is part of the Scared of Love series—nine standalone Halloween romances where the spookiest thing isn't what goes bump in the night, it's the moment you realize you're falling and there's no closing the book on it. Each one can be read on its own, but why stop at one good scare? Dim the lights, grab the whole series, and let every mountain man and firefighter prove that the bravest thing you'll ever do is let someone stay.
Genre: Romance