Jessica Jennings is a paranormal writer with a strange specialty: she's an interviewer for the dead. But a typical assignment at an old mansion on Halloween turns out to be more than she can handle. Claude Elburke, a renowned pianist, is not just any other interviewee. The catch? Claude has been dead for more than a hundred years, tormented by the house's sinister spirits, and an ancient, malevolent evil. #1 in haunting 2024/3/28 Cover by Aravis Brightspell ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack and reading a plagiarized copy of my work. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/Aravis-Brightspell.

Secrets abound within the walls of the old Elburke mansion, where 16-year-old Kari Miyazaki works as a part-time gardener, unaware of the events that would soon entwine her fate with its not-so-ordinary occupants. For nothing is what it seems with her eccentric employer, or the elusive young master of the house, or for that matter, the new transfer student at her school. Taren Leinier had sworn never to see her again, if it meant keeping her away from the inherent dangers of his razor-edged world. But after several years, he finds himself a student at Kari's school--and back into her life. For death's icy fingers had finally found her, and his enemies will stop at nothing to destroy all those he loves, to possess a terrible power that can bring the world to its knees. Cover layout and design: Aravis Brightspell Cover photos - credits to the original artists https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1151936410921437728/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/238690848970799076/