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Spellbound Romances, New Orleans Style, with a Bit of Steam and Love Bites Back!
Behind the byline
Anya Bayne writes from the shadows — paranormal romance steeped in New Orleans magick, with gears and steam curling in at the edges. A native of New Orleans, she grew up surrounded by a family history of witches and natural medicine, cutting her teeth on Ouija boards long before she ever picked up a pen. Vampires, werewolves, voodoo, ghosts, and spellwork all find their way into her stories — along with a steampunk sensibility that's crept in and refused to leave.
Halloween is her favorite day of the year! She always keeps a broom and a seed jar by her back door, just in case. When she's not writing, she's chasing down the things that go bump in the dark.
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Death was the easy part. Dating is going to kill her all over again.
Ella has been dead for over a century and a half, and the afterlife just lost her paperwork.
Somewhere between the Department of Haunting and the D.P.R., her file vanished, leaving a stubborn Southern belle stranded in a modern world she doesn't understand. Elevators trap people. Tiny people live inside televisions. And nobody seems to know what a proper lady is owed.
Enter Kyle, a sharp-tongued ghost with a secret name, a scowl, and zero patience for a woman who calls him "sir" like it's an insult. He calls her "Scarlett." She calls him insufferable. Neither of them is wrong.
But the longer they're stuck together, the harder it gets to remember why they're fighting. Ella can't recall how she died. Kyle won't say who he used to be. And someone in the ghostly bureaucracy may have a very good reason for keeping her lost.
Some people find love after death. Ella might just start a business out of it.
Dead-N-Dating is a laugh-out-loud paranormal rom-com with heart, heat, and a whole lot of red tape.

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