A bad review, an empty refrigerator, and a restless spring storm are enough to put Mara in a foul mood. As a romance author living alone outside Briar Hollow, she expects the worst thing haunting her evening to be reader comments and a lack of milk. Then something crashes near her house, strange events begin escalating, and a phantom named Rowan becomes impossible to ignore. Rowan can touch Mara only under certain conditions, communicate through contact, and move through a world that has not belonged to him for a long time. Mara should be terrified. Instead, curiosity becomes attraction, attraction becomes attachment, and the impossible man in her home begins to feel more real than the ordinary life waiting outside it. But Rowan's death was not a simple ending. Someone wanted him gone, the circumstances surrounding his spirit are tangled in violence and unfinished business, and Mara's connection to him draws attention from forces that would prefer the past to remain buried. Every answer makes the boundary between life and death less stable. Mara writes happily-ever-afters for a living, but she has never had to build one with a man whose soul may belong somewhere she cannot follow. Rowan wants her safe even if safety means losing her. Mara refuses to accept that love should end simply because the world says it must. As the haunting grows more dangerous and an old threat closes in, they must discover what created the bond between them before the same power that brought Rowan into Mara's life tears them apart for good.
A bad review, an empty refrigerator, and a restless spring storm are enough to put Mara in a foul mood. As a romance author living alone outside Briar Hollow, she expects the worst thing haunting her evening to be reader comments and a lack of milk. Then something crashes near her house, strange ...