Alexander Owens has a great life. He runs a successful B&B with his two best friends, and his five ghostly roommates have come to feel like family. While he isn’t usually the logistics guy, with his friends traveling for work, Alex is poised to take on Midnight Manor’s biggest challenge yet: hosting a last-minute wedding.
Alex is confident he’s up to the task, so long as he doesn’t get distracted by his own failed engagement. Or end up flustered by Sebastian Fairfax, the unspeakably hot assistant to the B&B’s biggest investor. Despite working together dozens of times, Alex’s usual charm simply cannot penetrate the witch’s prickly personality.
But when a disrupted spell evicts Sebastian from his body, leaving him stuck in spirit form, Alex must reverse the accidental possession—a violation of their strict magical permits—before the upcoming wedding, or risk losing Midnight Manor forever.
And because that’s not complicated enough, Alex finds himself falling for Sebastian. A man with more layers than he ever expected.
A man he physically cannot touch.
Author
Isabel Sterling
Isabel Sterling writes stories about queer love and resilience with a witty magical twist. She is the author of several YA and adult novels, including: These Witches Don’t Burn, This Coven Won’t Break, The Coldest Touch, and the forthcoming With All My Haunted Heart (out Fall 2026 from Berkley/Penguin Random House). Isabel is also a master certified life coach, the founder of The Confident Author Academy, and the host of The Author Burnout Cure podcast. An alum of Purchase College and Syracuse University, Isabel spent a decade working in higher education and LGBTQ non-profits before striking out on their own to write and coach full-time. Isabel lives with their spouse and fur-babies in Central New York, where the winters are frigid, the summers are too hot, and autumn is perfect.
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