A standalone Halloween tale with a hot AF ghost! Cassie Nolan is stuck for yet another summer working in the family business: leading groups of tourists down to the haunted pier to witness the nightly visit of the ghost known as Old Salt. Yes, Old Salt really is a ghost—a young sea captain who died in 1879. And yes, he clanks his chains. The tourists are always amazed. Cassie? Not so much. Because really, chains? Could he try for a more original haunting technique? Or just give it up already? And okay, maybe she insults Old Salt when the tourists aren’t around. She never thought he was listening. Or that he had a few of his own thoughts about her attitude. And she never in a million years imagined he was soooooo hot!! *** A previous version of this appeared in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance
Author
After spending her youth thoroughly obsessed with Nancy Drew and Harriet the Spy and convinced that her suburban neighborhood was awash in dangerous secrets, Carolyn Crane grew up to become a RITA-nominated author of romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and other tales of adventure and love; she also writes erotic romance about bank robbers as Annika Martin. Her books have been published by Random House and Samhain; these days, this perfectionistic control-freak of an author likes to indie publish. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two cats and works a straight job as a freelance marketing writer. During rare moments when she’s not at her computer, she can be found reading in bed, running, or helping animals.
