Haunt Me, Maybe
New ReleaseAven Ashwood just wants one thing: a quiet place to hide.
After barely escaping the warlock who slaughtered her family, she’s pretending to be human while hiding in the small town of Amber Grove; keeping her illusion magic buried and her familiar—a giant, snarky toad named Fenn—on stealth duty.
Everything’s going according to plan…until the attic room she rents turns out to have a tenant.
A very loud, very grumpy ghost.
Wes Hale has been haunting the Harvest Hill Inn since the 1950s, when a séance meant to debunk magic left him permanently dead and permanently annoyed. He doesn’t trust witches—especially not the stubborn, lavender-haired kind who can see him, touch him, and refuses to move out.
She wants peace.
He wants her gone.
Too bad they can’t stay away from each other.
As autumn settles over the town and shadows from Aven’s past creep closer, her fragile illusions begin to unravel—and Wes’s ghostly magic reacts to hers in ways neither of them can explain. Working together might be the only way to survive the warlock hunting her…
But every spark between them makes it harder to remember that one of them isn’t alive.
- Pages
- 335
- First published
- October 1, 2026
- Edition
- Ebook
Shelved by 2 Litcadians
Reviews
Started October 2, 2026 · Finished October 10, 2026
Thank you to The Nerd Fam and to the author for gifting me this eARC in exchange for an honest review! ——— For those seeking a cozy, spicy, paranormal fall romance, this may be the book for you. I loved the premise of a young witch coming into her own power, even under troublesome circumstances. I enjoyed her initial relationship with the grumpy ghost haunting her living quarters and eventual love interest, Wes. But as their relationship developed, the pacing and overall storyline began to fall flat for me. I felt that we rushed through training montages with little mistake, and honestly not enough information about the evil magician/entity/dude, Gideon, who’s chosen to lock on and devour her family’s magic. The romance itself was also a little too “possessive” (get it? ghost pun?) with all of Wes’ declarations of “mine” and telling Aven how she’s going to “take it” from him, in spite of her being written as virginal… But! It’s not a bad story, overall. I really liked the side characters, Briony, and Aven’s familiar, Fenn. They were sassy and well-depicted. I think for me, the story just got a little too lost in the smut and didn’t develop in the key ways it needed to.
