Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series returns with a brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt . . . and the supernatural forces that bring them together.
Collins Cartwright does not want to go home. Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming, was supposed to be in her rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parents’ antiques shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice—at least, that’s what she tells her family. They don’t need to know she’s lost her job and is out of money. Or that the ghosts who have always been her companions have recently gone silent.
But just because she’s returned home doesn’t mean she has to stay with her parents or crash on her twin sister’s couch. Lucky for her, the new-to-town upholsterer has a room for rent above his store. Unluckily, it is absolutely crawling with more ghosts who are freezing her out. And Collins hates being ignored.
Brady Cooper is absolutely and totally fine. Seriously, there’s no secret reason why he decided to uproot his life and suddenly move to Sweetwater Peak. He just needed a change of pace. At least that’s what he tells himself. And everyone else.
When he agrees to let the elusive Collins Cartwright stay in his spare room, he doesn’t know that she’s absolutely bonkers—constantly talking to herself and having conversations with no one—or that she looked like that. But as they begin to get closer, the lines between them start to blur, leaving both of them—and the ghosts who have been pushing them together—wondering whether their temporary arrangement could be something more permanent.
MY THOUGHTS
I rarely listen to an audiobook before reading the digital version, particularly when I am unfamiliar with the author. I decided on the audiobook introduction to Lyla Sage entirely because of the two narrators, Samantha Brentmoor and Jason Clarke. Those two, together, performing this fascinating ghostly story, are perfection! The MMC and FMC, Brady and Collins, are such interesting and singular characters, and the rest of the small cast of characters in the fictitious town of Sweetwater Peak are quirky and brought to life by the narrators' limitless talents. Their slow-burn romance is more rewarding than any other I can think of. The culmination of their emotional, spiritual, and physical chemistry blew me away. Their sexual chemistry was so off-the-charts sensual and connected, my swooning reached epic heights. I absolutely adored these two characters together and look forward to the next book in the duet to spend a little more time with them.
