ENTER THE NIGHTMARE by Jayne Castle

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ENTER THE NIGHTMARE
Jayne Castle

Reviewed by Rosie B
Posted July 7, 2026

Alice Radstone woke up in a hospital for the criminally insane and was told she murdered her husband on her wedding night, but she doesn’t remember anything from that night. Determined to find out what really happened at the Hotel of Dreams, Alice returns to the place where nightmares become reality. This visit doesn’t start off particularly successfully either, considering she’s hiding in a hotel room with a dead body and two men show up to kidnap her again, but things start looking up when a stranger arrives to rescue her.

Owen March knows he’s the reason the people who are after Alice were able to find her, so he’s out to set his wrong right. Arriving just in time to save Alice from being kidnapped again, Owen knows if he doesn’t stick close to Alice and help her find some answers, she won’t be safe for long. In order to do that, Owen convinces Alice to marry him. As things start heating up between Owen and Alice, they find themselves landing in some hot water, and it’ll take both of them, with some help from their dust bunny pal Sebastian, to escape with their lives.

Jayne Castle takes readers back to Harmony and plunges them straight into a house of horrors with ENTER THE NIGHTMARE. Danger leaps off the pages from the get-go and is a constant companion until the end. Castle has done a great job of creating a suspenseful mystery and combining it with romance and humour. As with most of Castle’s Harmony books, Sebastian is the main attraction whenever he shows up. Alice and Owen have plenty of snappy dialogue between them to keep you entertained by their budding relationship. Whether you come for the mystery, the romance, or the dust buddy, or all three, ENTER THE NIGHTMARE will not disappoint readers new and old.

SUMMARY

Nightmares become real when a woman trying to rebuild her life enters the Hotel of Dreams in this exhilarating Harmony novel by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Castle.

Alice Radstone should have known not to return. Her life before the Hotel of Dreams had been the perfectly cloistered world of a teacher at the Ballantine Academy. When the death of her mentor forced her out, she was left to reinvent herself in the big city. Since then, things have not gone well. Ten months ago, after her first trip to the hotel, she woke up in the locked ward of a hospital for the criminally insane, told that she had murdered her husband on their wedding night. She has no memory of the husband or the wedding but after escaping the asylum, one thing is certain—she is never going back.

Unfortunately, Alice’s second reinvented life is also deteriorating rapidly, which is why she finds herself once again at the Hotel of Dreams—this time hiding in the shadows of her room, a dead body in the shower, and two men wearing masks creeping toward the bed to kidnap her. Again.

When the enigmatic and decidedly dangerous Owen March shows up, claiming he’s there to rescue her, she has no choice but to accept his offer—and hope that he doesn’t intend to kidnap her, too.

With Alice and now Owen in the killer’s sights, time is running out. Alice and Owen must trust each other and the electric passion between them if they are to make it out of this hotel alive.