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A Haunted Love by Dakota Star
3.0
To be honest, when I picked up A Haunted Love I thought it was a ghost story. From the cover, title, tagline (“Finding someone special has never been so terrifying…”), and description, I was really convinced it was going to be a Halloween story about an evil spirit stalking a widow and her new love. Instead, it’s a steamy romance fraught with guilt and a flesh-and-blood stalker not making it any easier on the couple.
It’s also not really a Halloween story. It’s relevant in that Ash’s husband was lost to cancer around Halloween time three years ago. Every year Ash throws a Halloween party to distract herself and to stop any well-meaning people from randomly stopping by to give their sympathies. It’s at this party that Ash meets Cole, her sister’s new neighbor and a recently retired Navy vet who gets her pulse racing.
The emergence of a stalker who’s not happy to see the widow with a new man also gets her pulse racing (but not in a good way). The author does a good job keeping readers on their toes about the identity of Ash’s deranged stalker and I found myself second-guessing the whole way through. It really keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Overall, while I went into this book expecting a Halloween ghost story romance, I wasn’t disappointed with the sexy romantic thriller that I got.
*I received a review copy through NetGalley
It’s also not really a Halloween story. It’s relevant in that Ash’s husband was lost to cancer around Halloween time three years ago. Every year Ash throws a Halloween party to distract herself and to stop any well-meaning people from randomly stopping by to give their sympathies. It’s at this party that Ash meets Cole, her sister’s new neighbor and a recently retired Navy vet who gets her pulse racing.
The emergence of a stalker who’s not happy to see the widow with a new man also gets her pulse racing (but not in a good way). The author does a good job keeping readers on their toes about the identity of Ash’s deranged stalker and I found myself second-guessing the whole way through. It really keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Overall, while I went into this book expecting a Halloween ghost story romance, I wasn’t disappointed with the sexy romantic thriller that I got.
*I received a review copy through NetGalley