Horror, Half-Truths & Hookups: A Romantic Comedy

By Dalton Douglas

A tourist-trap stop outside Stephen King's house is supposed to be a harmless family-photo moment-until Robert Worley meets Chase Smith on the sidewalk and everything in Robert's carefully controlled world tilts.

Robert is steady, earnest, and allergic to attention. He's a "good kid" with a lifetime habit of performing normal so well he sometimes forgets what he actually wants. Chase is charming, quick-witted, and emotionally braver than he looks-using humor as armor, but always the first to say the true thing when it matters. One impulsive night in Bangor becomes the kind of memory neither of them can file away.

Years later, they collide again in Dalton during the town's fall "Horror & Harvest" fundraiser-spooky book club, costume trivia, scary-story night in The Rectory, and a haunted hayride that practically demands jump-scare proximity. Dalton is small, nosy, and dangerously invested in other people's love lives... which makes secrets hard to keep and half-truths impossible to survive.

As old shame resurfaces and new feelings refuse to stay quiet, Robert and Chase have to decide what's scarier: being seen, or letting the best thing they've ever felt become "just a hookup" in someone else's story.

Horror, Half-Truths & Hookups is a warm, funny, tender romantic comedy about second chances, truth-telling, and the kind of love that turns one night into a lifetime-no ghosts required.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GL2FNYQ2
• ISBN13: 9798246549872
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"