Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeists

Gemma Holloway didn’t ask for the Victorian farmhouse at the edge of Maple Creek. She didn’t ask for the October wind that rattled the shutters before she even got the key in the lock, or the smell of woodsmoke that greeted her in every room when no fire had been lit in two centuries. She definitely didn’t ask for the ghost.

He calls himself Rowan. He has amber eyes and a voice like the turning of autumn leaves — dry, beautiful, slightly dangerous. For two hundred years he has been the estate’s keeper, its curse, and its prisoner. He has watched generations of Holloways arrive and leave. He has told himself, each time, that he doesn’t care.

Then Gemma walks in with a box of her grandmother’s books, a season’s worth of stubbornness, and thirty-one days until Halloween — the night the curse either breaks or claims her too.

There are rules about ghosts and the living. Rules about what can and cannot be touched, what can and cannot be felt. Rowan knows every one of them. He has spent two hundred years perfecting the art of not feeling anything at all.

Gemma Holloway is about to ruin every single rule.

Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeists is a slow burn cozy paranormal romance featuring a grumpy ghost who forgot how to be warm, a sunshine heroine who refuses to be haunted, found family in the form of very opinionated estate portraits, and an ending that earns every one of its two hundred years of yearning.

Tropes: Slow burn · Ghost romance · Forced proximity · Grumpy/sunshine · Haunted house · Found family · Inheritance · Yearning romance

Content notes: No explicit content. Mild peril. Deep feelings. One Victorian farmhouse with opinions.