Spirits

After losing the family fortune to a fraudulent psychic, inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. All he needs is a genuine haunting to prove his Electro-Séance will work. A letter from wealthy industrialist Dominic Gladfield seems the answer to his prayers. Gladfield's proposition: a contest pitting science against spiritualism, with a hefty prize for the winner.The contest takes Henry to Reyhome Castle, the site of a series of brutal murders decades earlier. There he meets his rival for the prize, the dangerously appealing Vincent Night. Vincent is handsome, charming…and determined to get Henry into bed.Henry can't afford to fall for a spirit medium, let alone the competition. But nothing in the haunted mansion is quite as it seems, and soon winning the contest is the least of Henry's concerns.For the evil stalking the halls of Reyhome Castle wants to claim not just Henry and Vincent's lives, but their very souls.Novel: 69,409 wordsOther books by Jordan L. Hawk:The Whyborne & Griffin series:Widdershins (Book 1)Threshold (Book 2)Stormhaven (Book 3)Necropolis (Book 4)Bloodline (Book 5)Eidolon (A Whyborne & Griffin short story)Remnant (A Whyborne & Griffin/Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal short story) – written with KJ CharlesCarousel (A Whyborne & Griffin short story) – in the Another Place in Time anthologyHaintedHeart of the Dragon (short story)The SPECTR series:Hunter of Demons (Book 1)Master of Ghouls (Book 2)Reaper of Souls (Book 3)Eater of Lives (Book 4)Destroyer of Worlds (Book 5)Summoner of Storms (Book 6) Jordan L. Hawk is a trans author from North Carolina. Childhood tales of mountain ghosts and mysterious creatures gave him a life-long love of things that go bump in the night. When he isn't writing, he brews his own beer and tries to keep the cats from destroying the house. His best-selling Whyborne & Griffin series (beginning with Widdershins) can be found in print, ebook, and audiobook. A scientist and a spiritualist medium join together to hunt things that go bump in the night.

Book 2 in the Spirits SeriesPrevious Book: Restless SpiritsAfter the events of Reyhome Castle, Henry Strauss expected the Psychical Society to embrace his application of science to the study of hauntings. Instead, the society humiliates and blacklists him. His confidence shaken, he can't bring himself to admit the truth to his lover, the handsome medium Vincent Night.Vincent's new life in Baltimore with Henry is disrupted when a friend from the past asks for help with a haunting. In the remote town of Devil's Walk, old ties and new lies threaten to tear the lovers apart, if a fiery spirit bent on vengeance doesn't put an end to them first. Jordan L. Hawk is a trans author from North Carolina. Childhood tales of mountain ghosts and mysterious creatures gave him a life-long love of things that go bump in the night. When he isn't writing, he brews his own beer and tries to keep the cats from destroying the house. His best-selling Whyborne & Griffin series (beginning with Widdershins) can be found in print, ebook, and audiobook. A scientist and a spiritualist medium join together to hunt things that go bump in the night.

Psychic medium Vincent Night and his lover Henry Strauss have spent months striving to uncover the dark secret harbored by Vincent's dead mentor, James Dunne. Their only clue comes from a journal: Dunne was seeking to restore the Grand Harmonium, an artifact meant to breach the walls between life and death.Fate seems to intervene when Henry and Vincent are offered a job investigating the haunted orphanage where Dunne lived as a youth. But the ghosts of the orphanage don't rest easily, and the lovers soon find themselves in a battle to locate the Grand Harmonium before it falls into the wrong hands and unleashes evil upon the world.

A stuffy scientist A psychic medium with a tragic past Victorian ghostbusters Inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. Vincent Night, psychic medium, is haunted by his failure to save his mentor from a dangerous ghost. The two men's world's collide during a contest pitting science against spiritualism, and the friction between them threatens to burst into passionate flames...so long as they can contain the ghosts and keep themselves in the land of the living.