Lucian Salvatore returns to Clover East after his grandmother calls him home to take care of the family's recording studio. This is a welcome trip after the tragic loss of his boyfriend.<br><br>Nate Lockwood is the man who practically runs the Salvatore studio. He suspects he’s going to be replaced once Lucian comes home to take over the business. But Nate doesn’t plan on leaving Clover East so soon, at least not before he solves the mystery that’s the real reason he came to the small town in the first place.<br><br>Will Nate be able to discover what happened to his aunt who disappeared in Clover East so many years ago? What does her disappearance have to do with Lucian’s family ... and the haunted recording room in the studio where they both work?

The Recording Room

“…I loved Frank and I thought he’d love me forever like he kept telling me he would. But his family wouldn’t have it. They worked him hard as a horse. And he forgot about me. Didn’t want to have anything to do with me. When I told him I had his baby, he…he…” She sniffed hard. “I just wanted him to know about our child. If he didn’t want it, that was fine. I didn’t want anything from him, I swear.”


Lucian’s heart clenched at her story. Was it true? Had his uncle become such a monster? He reached out to her. Spirit or no spirit, she was a victim here and his heart went out to her.


“Never mind, then. I get to keep his handsome nephew—what are you doing? I told you I intended you no harm but you’re just the same.” She slapped his hand away and pounced down that very second, squeezing Lucian’s neck with her sheer, flimsy, but God-awful strong hands.


Chapter 17