Grave Expectations

Army veteran Jason Flores came to Hallowmill for quiet. Instead, his new cemetery job comes with opinionated ghosts, impossible town maps—and Lavinia Mason.

Lavinia has been dead for nearly a century and a half. She remembers her family, the farm where she grew up, and the life she once expected to have. What she doesn't remember is how she died—or why she woke in Hallowmill Cemetery with no choice but to stay.

Then a gravestone rises from an empty patch of earth.

It bears Lavinia's name, a date that hasn't happened yet, and an hourglass already running out.

When Lavinia touches the stone, she becomes solid for the first time in a hundred and forty years. Warm. Breathing. Alive. But the miracle comes with rules neither of them understands, and every night the time she is given grows shorter.

Jason can record the pattern. Lavinia can refuse to be afraid. Neither of them can explain why his touch seems to hold her closer to the living world.

And the closer the deadline gets, the harder it becomes to pretend they're only trying to solve a mystery.

Because Lavinia has already lost one life. Jason has spent years avoiding anyone with a plan for his. And Hallowmill is about to ask both of them what they're willing to choose when time runs out.

Grave Expectations is Book Two in Hallowmill After Dark, a cozy supernatural romance series set in the strange little town of Hallowmill, Vermont. Each book follows a new couple through one impossible month—and ends with a complete happily ever after.