by Jen DeLuca
Part of Boneyard Key, book 2
First published 2025
Sophie has spent her whole life in Boneyard Key, Florida, and she knows every haunted corner of it. That knowledge built her career: the town's one and only ghost tour, run by her, for locals and visitors who want the real story. It isn't making her rich, but it's hers. Then Tristan arrives. He grew a fraternity fundraiser into a multicity ghost tour company, and he needs Boneyard Key's spooky reputation to save his bottom line before his Fortune 500 father cuts his funding in the fall. Sophie is not pleased. Her expletive-filled confrontation with Tristan goes viral, and suddenly the whole internet is watching. The two rivals agree to a deal: whoever runs the more successful tour by summer's end stays in town, and the loser walks away. But spending a season competing against someone means spending a season getting to know them. Tristan starts to love the town. Sophie starts to see Tristan differently. Begrudging respect turns into something warmer, and then something warmer still. The question stops being who wins the business and starts being whether either of them can afford to lose the other.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: charming, competitive-tension, heartwarming, light-hearted, witty
Tropes: competition-stakes, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, rivals-to-romance
Setting: Boneyard Key, Florida
335 pages · Paperback · Berkley