SOUL SEARCHING by Lyla Sage

Collins Cartwright, a once-celebrated photographer, has lost her job, her creative spark, and her unique gift, the ability to communicate with the ghosts. The ghosts are her muse, and she cannot photograph without them. Defeated, she retreats to Sweetwater Peak, a small town in the middle of Wyoming. To avoid her parents, her twin sister, and her family’s crumbling antique store, she agrees to work at an upholstering store.

Brady Cooper, a former software engineer turned upholsterer, offers Collins a job and a room in his haunted home. But the spirits that crowd Brady’s shop and house remain eerily silent around Collins, as if intentionally avoiding her. As Collins and Brady grow closer, they begin to unravel why the ghosts are ghosting her and whether their unexpected meeting was destined all along.

SOUL SEARCHING is the first book in the Sweetwater Peak series by Lyla Sage. After charming readers with her beloved Western small-town romance Rebel Blue Ranch series, Sage ventures into new territory with a paranormal romance set in a small town.

The book is set in the charming and haunting Sweetwater Peak. Sage paints the setting with vivid, heartfelt detail, making the town itself feel like a living, breathing character. Along the way, readers meet a cast of memorable locals. They all have their own secrets and stories, which promise to return in future installments of the series.

While both protagonists are compelling on their own, the chemistry between them could have been developed more deeply. Their individual journeys are engaging, but their connection feels a touch underexplored. SOUL SEARCHING is a story that could easily have held another fifty pages, and I would have gladly read every one of them.

Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series returns with a brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt . . . and the supernatural forces that bring them together.

Collins Cartwright does not want to go home. Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming, was supposed to be in her rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parents’ antiques shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice—at least, that’s what she tells her family. They don’t need to know she’s lost her job and is out of money. Or that the ghosts who have always been her companions have recently gone silent.

But just because she’s returned home doesn’t mean she has to stay with her parents or crash on her twin sister’s couch. Lucky for her, the new-to-town upholsterer has a room for rent above his store. Unluckily, it is absolutely crawling with more ghosts who are freezing her out. And Collins hates being ignored.

Brady Cooper is absolutely and totally fine. Seriously, there’s no secret reason why he decided to uproot his life and suddenly move to Sweetwater Peak. He just needed a change of pace. At least that’s what he tells himself. And everyone else.

When he agrees to let the elusive Collins Cartwright stay in his spare room, he doesn’t know that she’s absolutely bonkers—constantly talking to herself and having conversations with no one—or that she looked like that. But as they begin to get closer, the lines between them start to blur, leaving both of them—and the ghosts who have been pushing them together—wondering whether their temporary arrangement could be something more permanent.

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