In an effort to reinvigorate the paranormal investigation genre -- and his career -- Killian McKay makes the decision to livestream a ghost hunt in the house where he had his first supernatural encounter as a kid. To make sure things get interesting, he hires a witch to stir up the spirits in the house.<br><br>When the witch, Lady Ivana, turns out to be a handsome, muscular, genderfluid man named Ivan, Killian quickly realizes he underestimated just how interesting things can get.<br><br>Ivan is the real deal, a witch with herbs and spells and magic, and he knows more about ghosts than Killian ever hoped to learn. Killian wants to know everything Ivan knows, and he wants to know everything about Ivan ... but first, they have to survive the night.

The Haunting of Killian McKay

“You know you’re the best, right?”


“Yeah, yeah,” Helen said. “Go on, he’s waiting.”


Killian turned and moved around the side of Ivan’s truck to slide up into the passenger seat. They smiled at each other.


As Killian gave directions, his stomach tensed and heart raced. Normally when he hooked up with people, he was drunk and they were strangers he never intended to see again. Jason was an exception. Speaking of which…fuck. He shifted onto one hip and pulled his phone from his back pocket. The mercurial tirade he scrolled through when he opened Jason’s messages was not as bad as he’d expected. Well, it was bad—going from “good luck” to “what the fuck do you mean you’re quitting” to “you never could have hacked it as the real deal anyway”—but Killian found that he just did not care. Not as much as he would have yesterday. Not enough to regret his choice.


“Everything all right?” Ivan asked. “You got quiet.”


Chapter 15