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DEADPAN

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Time 2h 17m

Reads 60
Votes 12
Parts 10
Time 2h 17m

"She doesn't want the house. She wants me-and she won't stop until she wears my skin."

Some houses keep secrets. Larkspur House keeps the dead. Sloane Blackwood needs a reset. Divorced, broke, and emotionally fried, she heads to a fog-soaked town to claim her inheritance: a crumbling Victorian mansion on a cliff. She expects water damage and bad vibes-not a full-time ghost with a superiority complex. Edward Larkspur has been dead for 120 years and has opinions about the living. Especially this new woman stomping through his house. But if she solves the mystery of his death, he might finally be free. Together, they'll unravel a century-old murder, outwit nosy locals, and maybe-just maybe-fall into a love that defies death. If the house doesn't kill them first.All Rights Reserved

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What Lurks in the Shadows

19 year old Hayes Barlow has always been a little lost-an outcast, a dreamer, a photographer searching for something he can't quite name. But when the mysterious and captivating Lili Monroe moves in next door, his world tilts on its axis. She's unlike anyone he's ever met-beautiful and haunting. And from the moment he lays eyes on her, he's obsessed. But Lili is keeping secrets. Dark ones. Her family refuses to acknowledge her existence. And when Hayes pushes for answers, he's met with warnings, anger, fear and deep desires. For fans of gothic dark romance, tragic obsession, and forbidden love affairs, haunting tale of passion, madness, and the terrifying lengths we go to for the ones we cannot live without. Some love stories never end at all. Trigger warnings: Murder Sexual intimacy Sexual inter course Depression Obsessive disorder Suggests Domestic violence Blood FOR MATURE AUDIENCE