Silk and Smoke
An erotic supernatural thriller
When Ayana Wells inherits her grandmother's weathered New Orleans home, she doesn't expect to find anything but creaking floorboards and old family secrets. Instead, she awakens something else-something older, deeper, and devastatingly seductive.
Étienne Rousseau is not just a ghost. He's a gentleman of another era, with velvet words and a hunger that transcends death. At first, Ayana is drawn in by his charm, his elegance, the haunting intimacy of his presence. Their connection burns with passion and danger-and a loneliness only the dead can understand.
But love, even from beyond the veil, can curdle.
When Ayana tries to break free and embrace the living, Étienne refuses to let go. Now he's not only haunting her dreams, but her home, her sister, her new lover-and he's willing to kill to keep her his.
Sensual, suspenseful, and terrifying, Silk and Smoke is a slow-burning descent into obsession, where love crosses the line into possession-and a woman must choose between the living and the dead before neither survives.
E·phem·er·al
(adj.) Lasting for a very short time
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Aurora has spent thirteen years surviving, not living.
Trapped in a broken home filled with cruelty and violence, every day has been a battle against the monsters she was forced to call family. Stained by her striking appearance-skin, hair, and eyes devoid of pigment-Aurora has always stood out.
But one night, when flashing lights and sirens tear through the darkness of her world, everything changes. Her abusers have been taken away in handcuffs, and for the first time, Aurora is free.
Or so she thinks.
Whisked away to a sprawling manor in New York, she's thrown into a new life with six mysterious older brothers she's never met, secrets buried in every corner, and danger that feels strangely familiar. As Aurora tries to rebuild, she begins to worry if the past is truly behind her, or if something even darker has been waiting all along.
Meek, quiet, and resilient, Aurora is done merely surviving.
She's ready to live and claim her new life as more than Ephemeral.
Even if it kills her.
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⏾ The first couple chapters are short but get longer as you go.