In GHOST BUSINESS, Jen Deluca returns for the second book in her Boneyard Key series set in the fictional town on the Gulf Coast of Florida. For over five years, Sophie Horvath worked her boring day job while her passion project was leading weekend ghost tours in her haunted hometown of Boneyard Key. Tristan Martin is floored when the cute girl he met while enjoying oysters and a beer at the local bar tells him she runs a ghost tour. He is in town to add Boneyard Key to the locations where his Ghoul’s Night Out ghost tours business will be running. He has until October 1 to prove his business is successful, or his father will pull his investment and crush his dream.
The two tours couldn’t be more different, where Tristan entertains the tourists with a made-up script, and Sophie’s stories are historical accounts of the real local spirits. So, although attracted to each other, they agree that whoever is the most successful by September 30 gets to run ghost tours in Boneyard Bay. But small-town logistics and a looming hurricane will change the relationship between these adversaries. Slow burn, enemies-to-lovers with a backdrop of quirky secondary characters, both mortal and incorporeal.
Clashing ghost tours lead to a sizzling romantic rivalry in the second romance in the new series from USA Today bestselling author Jen DeLuca.
Boneyard Key, Florida, is the only home Sophie has ever known. Her love for its supernatural history has flourished into a career, as she guides the one and only ghost tour through the town’s can’t-miss haunted spots. And while her bank account isn’t full by any means, her heart is. Or at least, it was.
But there's a newcomer in town. The son of a Fortune 500 businessman, former theater kid Tristan has grown his tours from a fraternity fundraiser to a multicity ghost tour conglomerate. It’s doing well, but not well enough—if he can’t prove that he’s solidly in the black by the fall, Dad’s going to pull his funding, spelling the end of his career. Boneyard Key, with its haunted reputation, seems like the perfect place to boost his bottom line.
When the two ghost tours clash, Sophie’s expletive-filled rant goes viral, and the rivals strike up a deal. Whoever has the most successful business by summer’s end stays, while the loser must ghost. But the more Tristan comes to appreciate Boneyard Key, the more Sophie comes to appreciate Tristan, and what starts as begrudging respect becomes something spicier. Can they put their feuding businesses aside to make room for a chance at love, or is Boneyard Key too small for two ghost tours?
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