Dancing With a Ghost

Toby

Being an event planner, working at my parents’ exclusive country hotel wasn’t at the top of my career list. 

Quite frankly, it wasn’t even on it, but when my latest venture, starting my dance studio went pear-shaped, it was suggested I give up my dream and join the family business.was bearable. The commute was short, but pandering to the rich and famous, finding only the best for their wedding or wake, I was getting itchy feet. In both senses of the word.

But things are going awry, I’m finding things in the weirdest of places and just sometimes, I feel like I’m not really alone.

Is it wishful thinking or is there something else going on here? Something I’m not sure I want to know the answer to.

Matthias

He’s just my type, the guy with the smart suits and the dancing feet. Well, he would be if I wasn’t dead!

I’ve watched him for a while now, though, trying to get his attention. Sometimes I think it’s working, but haunting, that’s hard work right there, and trying to get him to notice me. It's proving a little difficult, considering he can’t see me.

I have to find a way to fix that, because I want him to see me, I want to join him as he waltzes across that majestic ballroom.

Most of all, I want to be with him. Easier said than done, but somehow I have to find a way.

 Perfect Shores Funeral Parlour: Where we bury the bodies and reap the SOULS!

Mal

Perfect Shores Funeral Parlour, the family business; we bury the bodies and reap the souls, it’s what we do.

“Be nice to the humans, Mal.” My father insists. “Humans are our business.”

I don’t do humans. I don’t like humans. They’re tedious, but I'm cold and unfeeling. They mean nothing to me.

But then he walks in; sad eyes, sallow skin, a man grieving for his lost love. It’s all I can do not to hide him away and take care of him.

This wasn’t supposed to happen. He wasn’t supposed to happen; now I don’t know how to handle these feelings.

Doesn’t he know I’m a demon, not a lover?

Jason

“It’s time to move on, Jase.” Kristine’s words ring in my ears as I enter Perfect Shores Funeral Parlour, but that isn’t what I have in mind.

You see, I’ve heard of a man that can bring him back from the dead and I’ll do anything to hold him in my arms again. Kieran was my world until his ended.

But then there he is. Tall, dark and brooding, but he’s not the one I’m here to see. He’s not the one that can bring Kieran back to me.

Something about him, though. I can’t explain how he brings a long-forgotten smile to my face, how my stone-cold heart beats a little faster.

This wasn’t supposed to happen. He wasn’t supposed to happen.

But he’s a demon, not my dead lover.

You may think that you've won, that the odds are always in your favour. But remember this - house always wins. 

Dante

That cheating low life. I swore when I got my hands on him, his life wouldn’t be worth living.

How dare he steal from me? Doesn't he know who I am?

Only coming close to him, seeing him shudder at my touch. I'm drawn to him in ways I never imagined.

He's an enigma and not at all what he seems.

But what I made him do. He'll never forgive me, he'll hate me, but if that's all he can give me... I'll take it.

Austin

He was filthy rich! He didn’t need the money, probably wouldn’t even miss it.

How wrong could I be?

Now here I am, unable to flee and I hate him for what he made me do.

But I can't help myself. I crave his touch and attention. I need everything he can give me.

I think I love him, but if this is all he can give me… I’ll take it, gladly.

DEVIL'S DILEMMA IS A STANDALONE MM ROMANCE NOVEL AS PART OF THE MULTI-AUTHOR COLLABORATION TALES FROM THE TAROT. THIS BOOK IS BASED ON THE MAJOR ARCANA CARD THE DEVIL.

HEA GUARANTEED.

TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR VIOLENCE, CAPTIVITY, KIDNAPPING AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

A fateful assignment leads to one fated mate! 

Zeke

My brother Mal might have been happy to bury the bodies and reap the souls, but it wasn't for me.

I was bored, looking for my next adventure when by chance, I heard about a job paying ONE MILLION F*CKING EUROS. I'd have been stupid to turn it down.

Only now, I'm sitting on my motorbike in rainy London, being paid to spy on a man I think is my mate.

Me with a mate? That's a joke. I'm a player, a Romeo, a lover. I don't have time for that.

But I guess now I'm putting love before wealth, and bang goes my one million euros.

Because someone wants him gone and I can't have that. Revenge will be sweet, of that I have no doubt.

No one crosses a demon and gets away with it.

Rory

I'd do anything to protect my daughter, including moving from Italy to London to protect her from her grandfather, a man I loathe with a passion.

I couldn't let him take Carlotta from me. Mia would never have forgiven me. Mia, my dead wife and love of my life.

But who's spying on me? He thinks I can't see him, He thinks he's invisible.

Newsflash!

I see him, I feel him, I need him.

When trouble comes calling, he's my knight in shining armour riding in on a black Ducati.

The pull I feel is undeniable, though, and I'll not deny him or me.

It's time to put the past behind me and consider my future with the dark-haired, leather-clad demon with the yellow eyes.

n MM standalone, The Demon Bodyguard features a demon who definitely doesn’t want a mate, a human who really doesn’t want a mate and a meddling twelve year old daughter. Did someone say hot times on a motorbike?

The Demon Bodyguard can be read as a standalone but it may be advantageous to read The Demon Undertaker first.

TW for death of a loved one and mild violence