by Shade Zarling
Community rating: 4/5 from 1 rating.
Elise has always seen ghosts. She's just gotten very good at pretending she doesn't. As the wig mistress for a national touring production of Pride & Prejudice: The Musical, Elise knows how to survive backstage chaos: keep the curls pinned, the actors calm, and the dead firmly in the background. Every theatre has its ghosts, after all, and most of them are harmless enough. Especially with Kevin, her sassy spectral familiar, offering commentary from the wings. Joining a new company is supposed to be a fresh start. Instead, Elise finds herself pulled into a cast full of big personalities, old tensions, and more supernatural activity than she bargained for. Then there's Graham, the reserved leading man playing Mr. Darcy, who seems determined to see past her carefully constructed walls. But when something darker begins following Elise from theatre to theatre, the ghosts are no longer content to stay quiet. Strange accidents, missing cast members, and dangerous magic threaten to spill from the wings into center stage. To protect the people she's beginning to love, Elise will have to stop hiding from her gift, and confront the past that has been haunting her all along. Warm, witty, and gently spooky, Specters & Spotlights is a contemporary fantasy romance about haunted theatres, found family, slow-burn romance, and the courage it takes to step into the spotlight.
ISBN: 9798996355204
Published: 2026-09-15