It’s release day! 🎉 Findley Black and the Ghosts of Printer's Devil is finally available in stores. This is a short story about Owen Key, a man who inherits a bookstore from his biological father. A store that, as it turns out, is said to be haunted.
I wanted to thank everyone who pick up an ARC of the book. The reviews are starting to pop up, and I am thrill at Findley and Owen’s reception. I quite like them too. This one is a little bit of humor, and little bit of sweet, and a little bit spooky. I’m happy to see that I’m not the only one that thinks it’s a nice little Halloween romance. 🖤🖤🖤
Excerpt:
“So, any chance this whole ghost hunting thing was just a ploy to get me alone?” He was starting to sober up, and the idea of ghosts, even on Halloween night, was losing its appeal. “Just maybe?”
“Since I’m being honest?” Findley straightened, stepping close. “Maybe a little, at first, but I’m afraid now I’ve got my heart set on it.”
“Oh.”
Findley pulled the towel out of his hand, tossing it aside, and Owen’s heart began to pound. “Well, that’s disappointing.”
Findley smiled and then leaned in to kiss him, his hand on either side of the counter, pinning him there.
His mouth was warm, the kiss slow and deliberate, and Owen wrapped his arms around his neck, and allowed himself to be pressed back against the sink.
It felt good being kissed like this. To be touched and explored by another man’s tongue. Since moving back, Owen hadn’t so much as spent time in another man’s company. Not one that wasn’t way too young, and on his payroll. And they were strangers, yes, but it didn’t feel like all the times he’d kissed other strangers, in other places. Maybe that was because of what alcohol was still coursing through his system, or maybe it was because that, in some way, they’d lived on the periphery of each other’s worlds.
Whatever it was, when Findley pulled away, Owen fought the urge to pull him back.
They looked at each other a long moment, both breathless, and Owen hoped, both considering giving up on any thoughts to ghost spotting, in favor of getting each other off right there in the kitchen, or in the living room on the couch. Or maybe in the bed upstairs.
Owen would have voted for the bed upstairs. That way they could easily fall asleep and wake up a few hours later to do it again.
But finally, when Owen had been certain Findley was about to give in, instead, he stepped back and smiled. “Besides, haven’t you always wanted to see a ghost?”
“The thought had never occurred to me.”
Blurb:
Findley Black and the Ghost's of Printer’s Devil
Starting over at thirty-four is harder than Owen Key expected. Lonelier too. There’s Bella, and the odd assortment of kids he’d inherited when a father he barely knew left him Printer’s Devil. But his bookstore employees and his cat aren’t much good when it comes to getting laid.
Findley Black says a lot of things. At least according to everyone at the store. When Owen runs into him for the first time during one of his ghost tours, with his leather jacket and flirtatious looks, Owen finds himself more than interested in what he has to say.
Owen may have been hoping for a one-night-stand, but when Findley asks to stay the remainder of Halloween night in the Printer’s Devil in hopes of seeing the ghost of a serial killer, he finds it hard to say no.
Halloween is a time for ghost stories and trick or treat. But running out of candy is a bad omen, and it’s hard to get lucky when something otherworldly seems determined to ruin your night.
You can pick it up from most online retailers by clicking the universal buy link below.
Or pick it up from JMS Books for 20% now through Tuesday, November 2nd.
Looking for more Halloween fun?
Check out Ghost Dater from Ofelia Gränd
This is a short, Halloween follow-up with Sandy and Thad from the Rockshade PID series. But, as my TBR pile is in danger of an avalanche, this was my first introduction to the pair. I LOVE it. Werewolf ghost…say no more!
It is a ton fun, sweet, and being a Gränd book, a little dirty! LOL
Thaddeus Esax has a grumpy werewolf problem. For a year, he’s been mated to Sandulf Hunter, a ghost werewolf he brought back from the dead without meaning to. It’s been great. Thad’s been happy, and he believed Sandy was too. But Sandy has been sulking for more than a week, and Thad fears their relationship isn’t going as well as he believed.
The problem with being mated to a ghost is that said ghost never can leave your side, and therefore it’s extremely hard to keep secrets. Thaddeus wants to surprise Sandy, to cheer him up, but to do that, he has to trick him into believing they’re doing something they’re not.
Telling Sandy they’re having a Halloween party doesn’t go over well, but how do you trick a ghost? By making him believe he’ll be dressed up as a pirate for an evening, of course.
COMING SOON
