Reviewed: September 10th, 2024
Released: August 24th, 2024
Genre: MM Fantasy Romance
Have a frightfully good stay…
Morgan Ashton-Drake hasn’t given his ancestral home in Yorkshire a second thought in decades. He has a great life in the States, running his stepfathers hotel empire with his brother. So what if he’s all work and no play. He’s not missing out on anything important
But when a suspicious death and rather public scandal at his childhood home forces Morgan to return to England for the first time in years, he’s not keen to confront his past. What he didn’t count on was the seriously cute little blonde disaster who seems to be single-handedly running his eccentric grandfather’s hotel.
Ellis Sparks has worked at the Ashton-Drake Manor House Hotel since he was sixteen and he loves it from the bottom of his soul. Always the eternal optimist, he’s never met a frown he can’t turn upside down; that is, until he meets Morgan Ashton-Drake, the grumpy grandson of his employer.
With the hotel in danger of closing, and convinced Morgan is the only one who can help to save it, the resident ghosts decide to try their ghostly hand at a little matchmaking as an incentive to get him to stay. After all, how hard can it be to get a grumpy workaholic to fall in love with a twinky ray of sunshine?
Helen’s Thoughts: 4/5
A spin off from Cassidy’s succesful Dead Serious series, and I think you need to read at least the fourth book of that series before this one, as the author does assume you know who Ellis and the ghosts are to begin with.
Ellis is an adorable, multi-tasking ray of sunshine, who has adopted alll the ghosts in the hotel as part of his family. Morgan is a grumpy workaholic trying to prove himself, and they are a perfect match. It is lovely to see Morgan relax into he is supposed to be.
I did think this book felt a bit rushed. There could have been a lot more made of the hotel inspector and the shenanigans of the ghosts, and the troubles it could have caused Ellis and Morgan, throwing them together to resolve it, and I think that was a missed opportunity.
Cassidy’s characters are always well developed and lovable. I’m still waiting for the the next Belong to Me book!
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