Familiar Haunts
(2025)(The second book in the Velvet Teahouse Witches series)
A novel by Kate Swansea
She’s trying to rescue a gothic treasure. He’s trying to flip a haunted wreck for profit. The theater? It has other plans.
Ballerina Alice Wentworth never expected to return to Pembrooke, Oregon, where she once spent childhood summers. But after a devastating injury forces her off the stage, she’s back to choreograph The Nutcracker and salvage what’s left of her future.
That is, if the crumbling seaside theater doesn’t collapse first.
Between the flickering lights, rippling mirrors, and whispered voices, something about Onyx Hall feels deeply wrong. But nothing could prepare her for the arrival of the new owner.
Chase Hunter. Her first love. The boy who disappeared thirteen years ago, right when she needed him most.
He’s back as her boss—smirking, charming, and maddening as ever—and more interested in flipping the wreck for profit than fixing it. He’d sooner let a chandelier crash down on her than spend another penny.
But when catastrophe threatens Alice’s entire production—and Chase’s big sale—they’re forced into an uneasy partnership to repair the theater together… with a bit of magic thrown in for luck. And as they work together to save it, something long-buried begins to stir.
Onyx Hall isn’t just collapsing. It’s awakening.
Now, between the sparks flying onstage and the shadows slithering backstage, they’ll have to face their past, fight for their future, and survive whatever the hell is haunting the theater before curtain call on the Longest Night.
A slow burn, witchy, second-chance romance set in a crumbling gothic theater on the Oregon coast. For fans of atmospheric fantasy with a bit of humor, aching chemistry, and stories where the building itself has secrets.
(Second Chance / Forced Proximity / Paranormal Romance / Slow Burn/ Romantasy)
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Ballerina Alice Wentworth never expected to return to Pembrooke, Oregon, where she once spent childhood summers. But after a devastating injury forces her off the stage, she’s back to choreograph The Nutcracker and salvage what’s left of her future.
That is, if the crumbling seaside theater doesn’t collapse first.
Between the flickering lights, rippling mirrors, and whispered voices, something about Onyx Hall feels deeply wrong. But nothing could prepare her for the arrival of the new owner.
Chase Hunter. Her first love. The boy who disappeared thirteen years ago, right when she needed him most.
He’s back as her boss—smirking, charming, and maddening as ever—and more interested in flipping the wreck for profit than fixing it. He’d sooner let a chandelier crash down on her than spend another penny.
But when catastrophe threatens Alice’s entire production—and Chase’s big sale—they’re forced into an uneasy partnership to repair the theater together… with a bit of magic thrown in for luck. And as they work together to save it, something long-buried begins to stir.
Onyx Hall isn’t just collapsing. It’s awakening.
Now, between the sparks flying onstage and the shadows slithering backstage, they’ll have to face their past, fight for their future, and survive whatever the hell is haunting the theater before curtain call on the Longest Night.
A slow burn, witchy, second-chance romance set in a crumbling gothic theater on the Oregon coast. For fans of atmospheric fantasy with a bit of humor, aching chemistry, and stories where the building itself has secrets.
(Second Chance / Forced Proximity / Paranormal Romance / Slow Burn/ Romantasy)
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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