by Jayne Castle
Part of Harmony
First published 2005
Virginia Burch has spent her career reading the ruins of Cadence's Dead City, the ancient underground civilization buried beneath the streets of the Old Quarters. When she meets Sam Gage, a ghost hunter who owns a prime piece of real estate above those ruins, she gets an offer she can't easily turn down: space to live and room to build her consulting practice from scratch. Sam has something else in mind too. A marriage of convenience. The arrangement is strictly professional, a way to launch Gage and Burch Consulting on solid footing and give both of them a competitive edge in the market. Virginia agrees. The terms are clear. The logic is sound. What neither of them plans for is the pull that builds between them every time they work a site together, a current that has nothing to do with contracts or business strategy. Sam is difficult to ignore. Virginia is harder to walk away from than he expected. Somewhere beneath the city, the old ghosts stir. Above ground, two people who agreed to keep things simple discover that some agreements are impossible to honor.
Genres: adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance, paranormal-romance, urban-fantasy, contemporary-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, mysterious, romantic, slow-burn, tension-filled
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, marriage-of-convenience, slow-burn-romance
Setting: Cadence, Dead City, Old Quarters
82 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Penguin Group USA Inc