REVIEW: The Haunted Hotel by Vawn Cassidy (Crawshanks Guide to Mischievous Spectres & Spirits #2)

THE HAUNTED HOTEL

Crawshanks Guide to Mischievous Spectres & Spirits - Book One

by Vawn Cassidy

Release Date: August 24, 2024

Review

This book is a cheeky good time. Full of quirky ghosts and staff who make the strangest and most wonderful family.

In the aftermath of a murder-not-murder at the hotel, one in a long line of deaths at the hotel, Morgan, a grumpy workaholic from New York arrives to finally face his grandfather, the hotel's owner. It’s a past he doesn’t remember and he definitely isn’t prepared for this unusual place and the people he meets.

He’s especially unprepared for the adorably sunshiny blond twink, Ellis, one of the hotel’s employees.

A story of finding one's true self and family. A place to belong. People worth fighting for. Ellis and Morgan are perfectly different from one another, which makes them an incredible match. They are going to have a lively and beautiful future.

PS. I adore Morgan’s brother Warren - give me more Warren!

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Synopsis

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?

From the creator of Dead Serious comes this hilarious grumpy/sunshine spin off which will leave you wanting to book your own room at The Ashton-Drake Manor House Hotel.

About Vawn Cassidy

My name is Wendy Saunders, A.K.A Vawn Cassidy which is the pen name I write contemporary & paranormal MM romance under. I'm a British author and I live in Hampshire in the UK with my husband and three children... well... I say children, they're mostly feral teenagers slash almost adults.

I started out as an author back in 2015 writing supernatural & contemporary fantasy as well as romantic suspense and as Wendy Saunders I'm best known for my supernatural series, The Guardians.

My interest in MM started out because I had several same sex couples in my main series and I really wanted to explore their relationships both physically and emotionally, but I wasn't sure how my existing readership would react if I suddenly sprung a gay love story on them.

I started reading within the MM genre and from the first book I was hooked. I absolutely fell in love with the genre and ended up making some wonderful friends, both authors and readers alike. It's been such a warm and welcoming community. I knew then I wanted to write extensively in this genre myself, and ta-dah! my mild mannered, MM obsessed alter-ego Vawn Cassidy was born!

I released my debut novel Suddenly Beck in the summer of 2021 and had such a wonderful response, but it wasn't until I released my second book, Dead Serious that I was absolutely blown away with the way everyone embraced and loved it! by the time we wrapped 2021 both novels had been nominated for four Goodreads Members Choice awards!

There we go, how I got from there to here. So, feel free to come find me and get to know me on social media, you'll quickly learn I love to chat, especially when it involves anything to do with books and writing!

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