A Curse of Loss and Longing

By Megan Elder Evans

Tristan Cunningham wants to be left alone to haunt his ancestral home, but his sister's descendants have other plans. He has no use for renovations or the new maid who spends all hours knocking about the house, rearranging his furniture and ripping down dusty, moth-eaten curtains. He has no use for anyone when hope of breaking his curse before midnight on All Hallows Eve has long been lost. Tristan has long accepted the fate awaiting him-a reuniting of his spirit with the body that has remained un-aging and comatose for the last one hundred fifty years-and the last thing he needs is a ragamuffin maid disturbing his last months of freedom from an eternal, undying sleep. But when his attempts to terrify Evangeline Quinn away from Cunningham Hall fail, he finds not everyone is as selfish and conniving as his sister's descendants. Some, in fact, are capable of giving Tristan what he has been missing for too long. Love.

All Evangeline Quinn wants is a home that doesn't drain her bank account with needed repairs, food on the table, a degree in interior design, and for her twin brother to stay out of trouble for once in his life. She never would have imagined that her brother's first felony charge for breaking and entering, only a few months after aging out of foster care, would give her the chance to change their lives for the better. But a fat paycheck and the chance to live, temporarily, in the once-grand Cunningham Hall while helping with the renovations comes with a surprise. For no one told her the old place was haunted by the ghost of a young man whose eternally youthful body lay sleeping in the attic.
In this paranormal romance inspired by Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty, Evangeline and Tristan must work together to break Tristan's curse before time runs out, for both Tristan's freedom and a chance at the kind of love and companionship each has always thought to be out of reach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRZ7BGPB
• ISBN13: 9798262905973
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"