This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Mine was very busy, but very enjoyable too.
This week’s pick is a book by a favorite romance author. Her first series, Well Met, is one of my all time favorites. I am looking forward to picking this one up this summer. I was graciously given the ARC and will be reading it the early part of the summer.
Haunted Ever After by Jen Deluca
Publication Date: August 13, 2024
Summary from Goodreads:
Small Florida coastal towns often find themselves scrambling for the tourism dollars that the Orlando theme parks leave behind. And within the town limits of Boneyard Key, the residents decided long ago to lean into its ghostliness. Nick Royer, owner of the Hallowed Grounds coffee shop, embraces the ghost tourism that keeps the local economy afloat, as well as his spectral roommate. At least he doesn’t have to run air-conditioning.
Cassie Rutherford possibly overreacted to all her friends getting married and having kids by leaving Orlando and buying a flipped historic cottage in Boneyard Key. Though there’s something unusual with her new home (her laptop won’t charge in any outlets, and the poetry magnets on her fridge definitely didn’t read “WRONG” and “MY HOUSE” when she put them up), she’s charmed by the colorful history surrounding her. And she’s catching a certain vibe from the grumpy coffee shop owner whenever he slips her a free slice of banana bread along with her coffee order.
As Nick takes her on a ghost tour, sharing town gossip that tourists don’t get to hear, and they spend nights side-by-side looking into the former owners of her haunted cottage, their connection solidifies into something very real and enticing. But Cassie’s worried she’s in too deep with this whole (haunted) home ownership thing…and Nick’s afraid to get too close in case Cassie gets scared away for good.
It will be an interesting read and a fun one I hope. I love the supernatural vibe to the whole story. I keep hoping that that cover will start to grow on me, but nope, don’t think that is going to happen. I just loved the Well Met series covers and wish they would do something similar for this one. This is the start of a new series and I hope it will be one that I can fall in love with, despite that cover!
What do you think? Do you like the cover? Have you read the Well Met Series? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 
This sounds like a promising start to a new series! I hope that you can overlook the cover 😂 I didn’t think it was too bad, but then I don’t know what the other covers look like!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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