Borrowed Haunting: Loved by Something Wicked
He has been dead since 1913. He is not less dangerous for it.
Zara Washington came to Sable Creek, Mississippi for a consulting job. She did not come for the ghost in the house on Wisteria Street. She did not come for the dead man in the charcoal three-piece suit who has been waiting - patient, calculating, and dangerous - for a hundred and thirteen years. She should have left on day three. Tariq Al-Amin was not a good man when he was alive. Crime boss. Shadow operator. He ran an entire town's economy through seventeen shell companies and kept his name off every record by design. The men he made wealthy shot him three times at his own table and buried him under a death record that said "cardiac failure". They moved on. He did not move on. He lied to her. Carefully. Selectively. Just enough truth folded in to make the rest feel real - enough to trust him, never enough to see what was actually happening. He placed a pocket watch somewhere warm. He opened a study door. He arranged every single piece of it with the cold patience of a man who had spent a hundred and thirteen years deciding exactly how this would go. She is brilliant. She figured out his history, his empire, his murder dressed up as natural causes. She saw through everything.He counted on that too. Death did not make him honest. It made him patient.
He lied. He arranged everything. He is not sorry.
Explicit content. Dangerous love interest. No happy ending. The house wins.
Borrowed Haunting is a dark paranormal romance standalone novella featuring:
A dangerous, manipulative ghost love interest with zero redemption arc
A possessive, obsessive love interest who lied, arranged everything, and is not sorry
Explicit sexual content (18+ only)
Psychological manipulation as a central story element
A morally gray love interest who knew exactly what he was doing
Southern Gothic atmosphere
A non-happy ending
A Black woman protagonist who is brilliant, composed, and completely unprepared for this
Standalone novella - no cliffhanger, no prior reading required
This is Book One of the Loved by Something Wicked series. Each book in the series is a complete standalone featuring a different woman and a different paranormal love interest. No shared timeline. No cliffhangers. They can be read in any order.
If you read and loved these, Borrowed Haunting was written for you:
Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton - for readers who know exactly what they came for: a possessive, dangerous love interest with no apology, no honesty, and no off switch
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - for the haunted house atmosphere, the creeping dread, and a sharp woman who should have left and didn't
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw - for the slow atmospheric horror wrapped around an impossible love story
Bride by Ali Hazelwood - for paranormal romance readers ready for something darker, more atmospheric, and with significantly higher stakes
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