The Phantom Bride

Her husband taught her to fear being wanted. A possessive phantom will make her crave it.

A mother on the run. A manor steeped in blood. A ghost searching for his bride.

Chloe left her daughter with the only family she could trust and disappeared. But her husband has money, reach, and no intention of letting her go. After a violent encounter forces her to flee again, the small town of Duskhaven offers somewhere to hide—and a Halloween masquerade where she can pretend, for one night, that she is still a woman worth wanting.

Then Nathaniel McKay asks her to dance.

A century ago, Nathaniel and his fiancée died at Duskhaven Manor. The stories name him a murderer. The ghost haunting its halls remembers a betrayal—and he has waited a hundred years to collect what he is owed.

Chloe knows she should fear him. Instead, his attention reaches the parts of her she thought her marriage had destroyed. When he calls her little bride, she lets herself believe it is nothing more than a dangerous man’s flirtation.

But every touch strengthens a ritual she never agreed to enter. Every whispered vow draws Nathaniel closer to flesh and binds Chloe more tightly to him.

By Halloween night, she discovers that her husband’s bloodline is tangled in the manor’s history—and her body and soul have become the means of settling its debt.

Completing the ritual could give Nathaniel life and condemn Eric to death. Refusing could leave Chloe haunting the very halls she came to escape.

And beneath the terror is a desire she can no longer blame entirely on magik.

The Phantom Bride is a standalone erotic dark gothic Halloween romance featuring a possessive, morally black ghost hero, forced proximity, supernatural compulsion, magikal dependency, blood-bound vows, and dubcon intensity. Includes an HEA; no prior books required.