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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: 11,583 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 70 in Paranormal Ghost Romance (Books)
- 73 in Paranormal Ghost Romance (Kindle Store)
- 121 in Gay Romance (Kindle Store)

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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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Dawn Barrell

A Brilliant Hair Raising Ghost Story and Love❤️

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2022

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Lily Morton does it again! This is book 1 in the Arcana series a spin off of the Amazing Blue Billings books and I absolutely loved it, couldn’t put it down and read it until 03:30 which might not have been the best idea as I think the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end for half of the book! The ghostly goings on in the haunted house were so well written I thought I was in the nightmare.

Will and Jem first appeared in the Blue books, Will is Blue’s best friend and they share so much history from being homeless and living on the streets and in squats for ten years, Will always watching over Blue, they are more like brothers.

With Blue now settled with the lovely Levi, Will feels a bit redundant and decides it is his time, to live his life and find himself. He is a gorgeous gentle giant of a man with a huge heart and is so loyal but he is insecure, an introvert and his self esteem is low after his parents threw him out at 17 for being gay and his boyfriend Jason treated him very badly. He has now got a job in the occult bookshop owned by the Viscount Ingram which is joined to old Tom’s bookshop, Blue’s psychic mentor. Will decides he will finish his degree and become an accountant.

Jem is an outgoing confident guy with a sunny disposition who has had a thing for Will since he joined a ghost tour of York and Will, standing in for Blue, was the guide. He travels the world as an in demand wildlife cameraman but whenever he is home he likes to visit the bookshop to flirt with Will who acts like a tongue tied idiot around Jem.

Jem has a proposition for Will. He wants Will to accompany him on a job with some ghost hunting friends in a haunted house. The family are at their wits end and the danger levels are ramping up.

And so begins a beautiful romance in the midst of a nightmare👻

I highly recommend this book.

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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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Give me all the books

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

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