Smoke & Spirits

A Steamy MM 1920's Historical Paranormal Romance

He sells lies to the grieving. The other sees the truth that could get them both killed.

New York City, 1925.

Dorian Finch is a master of the confidence game. Under the guise of "Elliot Vance," mystic to the elite, he peddles comfort to wealthy widows using cold reading, phosphorus, and a silver tongue. To Dorian, the spiritual world is a stage, and he is the director. It’s a lucrative racket—until a stoic shadow walks into his life.

Marcus Sterling is a private investigator with a limp from Verdun and a mind built for facts. Hired to expose Dorian as a fraud, Marcus is a man of logic fighting a private war against his own demons. He calls it shell shock, but his grandmother called it the Sight. Marcus sees the "Blue Flames"—the restless spirits of the dead—and he’s spent years trying to ignore them.

A con man. A skeptic. A murder that frames them both.

When a wealthy British lord drops dead at a Harlem jazz club, Dorian and Marcus are caught in the crosshairs of a corrupt police force and a shadowy occult society known as the Azure Circle. Forced on the run, the grifter and the detective must rely on each other to survive the winter streets.

As they peel back the layers of a high-society conspiracy involving a missing woman and a vengeful spirit known as a Plat-eye, the friction between them ignites into a desperate, searing passion. But the real magic isn’t in Dorian’s parlor tricks. It’s in Marcus’s blood—and a ruthless collector intends to break him open to harness it.

To clear their names, they have to pull off the ultimate con: giving a murderer exactly what he wants, and praying the dead are on their side.

Smoke & Spirits is a steamy M/M historical paranormal romance set in the Roaring Twenties. It features a grumpy/sunshine dynamic, forced proximity, hurt/comfort, and a HEA.

For fans of:

• Gay Historical Romance
• Paranormal Mystery
• 1920s / Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties
• Opposites Attract / Grumpy & Sunshine
• Private Investigator & Con Artist
• Harlem Renaissance
• Interracial Romance
• Ghost Hunter / Supernatural Thriller