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Lily Morton

The Sceptic Kindle Edition

by Lily Morton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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As the best friend of a psychic, Will Buchanan can’t help but believe in the dead. It’s the living that he finds to be problematic. However, after a spate of betrayals, he finally has the chance of a new life within his grasp, and he’s not going to risk it for anyone or anything. Staying safe is the name of Will’s game.

Jem Dawson defines the word temporary. A talented cameraman, he’s here today and will undoubtedly be gone tomorrow chasing adventure and danger. But, while he’s in York, he’s made it clear he wants Will, and Will can’t help liking the charming daredevil.

This inconvenient attraction results in Will accompanying Jem to the site of a notorious poltergeist outbreak. A malevolent spirit has targeted a family, and now the ghost hunting team for whom Jem does camerawork are going to be locked down in the house for three days.

The house is strange and filled with sinister and violent undercurrents. One by one, the group experiences threatening incidents, and as events escalate, Will has to ask himself if he's risking not just his heart but also his life with this impulsive gesture.

This is the first book in the Arcana Books series featuring characters from the bestselling Black and Blue series.

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26 May 2022
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09ZVBKSTF
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3465 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 365 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 15,781 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 97 in Paranormal Ghost Romance (Books)
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Lily Morton

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Lily is a bestselling gay romance author. She writes love stories filled with heat and humour.

She lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven't had a proper conversation with her since she got her Kindle.

Lily has spent her life with her head full of daydreams, and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing, because how else would she get to spend her time with hot and funny men?

She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations - Chocolate Baileys!

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Not really my cup of tea.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2022

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Lily Morton is a truly exceptional writer. She’s one of my all time favourites and I’ve read most of her books on repeat over the last few years. She excels at writing smart, professional, witty men, fascinating locations, interesting plots, great side characters and beautiful emotional connections. However, I find these ghost story plots overshadow what she’s really good at. Instead of revelling in the delicious push and pull of attraction and a slow burn story I have to try to focus on a lot of ghostly stuff that just doesn’t interest me, and I feel like I’ve read before in novels by other authors with half her talent.
I often read a Lily Morton book in a single sitting but I found this a bit slow going. Sorry, I don’t mean to be critical. I’ve just tried to explain how I feel about it after finishing. The world would be a dull place indeed if we didn’t try new things and I hope Lily Morton had a lot of fun researching and writing this. She is superb at researching her subjects. I’m also sure TONS of people will love it, so my musings are probably the exception. And I’m still going to read everything she ever writes, ever. :)

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RF

A fun and creepy read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2022

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4.5*
This was a really fun and gripping read, with characters that had excellent chemistry, and some tense moments that really kept me on edge!

A spin-off from the Black and Blue series, that also works as a standalone, this book covers the development of a relationship between Will and Jem, two men both more accustomed to moving on than settling down, whilst also solving the ghostly mystery in a family's home.

I really liked the relationship dynamics, especially the way in which their mutual attraction was made very clear to both of them from the off, but they managed to maintain the tension and buildup.

The ghostly parts had some genuine tension, where I found myself shouting at the characters to get out!

My only real quibble was that there were a few elements where I had to work hard to ignore somethings that seemed incongruous to me (why Will was so resistant to recognise obvious ghostly signs to himself or Jem when he has such experience with ghosts bewildered me, and there were moments when Jem explained something to Will in one chapter but two chapters layer had the exact phenomenon explained *to* him by Will).

Overall an excellent story, and with hints about future stories...

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Amazing read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2022

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Lily Morton is one of the best authors out there and her paranormal romances simultaneously terrify me and make me all mushy!! Will and Jem both appear in the Blue Billings series and both were interesting enough to make this an immediate buy. I LOVED getting Will's back story - my heart breaks for him and Blue and their past but I love seeing them grow and move on. I also love reflecting back on all the favourite old characters - Levi, Tom, Tarquin and Blue. They're all still hilarious and wonderful and at the end I had a wee cry and would think that any of Lily's regular readers will be the same.......

Now onto the storyline. It was unpredictable and did not go down the avenue I expected at all! It was also pretty scary and I regretted binge reading it in one night when I was away from home - there was a lot of peering into the corner of the hotel room and imaging flickering lights........ But it is a definite keeper and re-read book. I'm off to order my hardcopy (a rare occurrencere, only awarded to the books I would regret losing if the world lost the function to buy electronic versions).

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2022

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I was hooked at the first book when we were introduced to Blue and it was lovely to once again meet up with Tom and Tarquin., but this book centres on Will out gentle giant as Blue calls him. Damaged without any self esteem whatsoever he goes along to help Jem and a group of people who are trying to help a family that think they’re being targeted by a poltergeist. Will is attracted to Jem, but Will being Will feels that Jem would never even consider someone like him, but as he and Jem spend time together in the problem house the two get ever closer and Jem tries hard to make Will see that’s he deserves the very best in life. Beautiful story and I loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 May 2022

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I thought the plot was obvious from the get go, as well as the epilogue. I liked the flirting in the first chapter, but then Ben and Will went from flirting to the usual snark, which sometimes is funny, most times it takes me out of the story because people just do not speak like that, there wasn’t as much as the last two books, thank goodness, as I didn’t enjoy them. I find the snark at times when they were scared or perceived themselves in danger to be downright odd and off putting. I do like this series, the story wasn’t bad and I’m sure I’ll still read the next book in the black and blue series

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Kate Wood

No scepticism needed!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2022

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I love most of Lily Morton’s books, but the Black and Blue books were quick favourites because of the amazing way a beautiful romance was blended with genuinely chilling paranormal horror. The sceptic has carried on the tradition, with a lovely gradual development of the romance between Will and Jem, as well as a poltergeist storyline that made me more than a bit creeped out.

This is a great start to a new series and I’ll be eagerly awaiting the next!

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Mandy Tunstill

Absolutely Brilliant 💚

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2022

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Oh WOW......simply amazing hooked from the start I could not put it down and was taken along on a journey of the paranormal it's creepy, scary and spine tingling. Love Will & Jem perfect together the chemistry between them the banter is something special throw in a poltergeist and ghost hunters so perfect recommend so much. 💚

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2022

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Absolutely amazing book! Creepy, funny, erotic and incredibly British! As a Brit myself I got each and every single reference in this book and I enjoyed it immensely! I felt completely creeped out and then incredibly happy all at the same time. It reminded me of a romantic Paranormal Activity. LOVED IT!

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