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V roce 1918 si v kalifornském San Diegu vybírají svou daň smrtící chřipka a první světová válka. Šestnáctiletá Mary Shelley Blacková, pojmenovaná po slavné autorce románu o Frankensteinovi, dívka s přírodovědným nadáním, která se ocitla bez rodičů, odjíždí ke své tetě z Portlandu v Oregonu do San Diega. Zděšeně sleduje, jak se zde zoufalí pozůstalí hrnou na seance a k fotografům duchů, kde hledají útěchu. Jedním z takových fotografů je i bratr jejího milého Stephena Emberse Julius, jehož Mary Shelley považuje za podvodníka. Po Stephenově smrti na válečné frontě ve Francii se Mary Shelley vystaví v bouři bleskům, je zasažena a nakrátko umírá. Když se vrátí mezi živé, má zvláštní schopnost – cítit chuť emocí. Stephenův duch se k ní v noci vrací a prosí ji o pomoc – nemůže odpočívat v pokoji, protože ho mučí tajemní obrovští černí ptáci. Uvěří Mary Shelley v existenci duchů? A podaří se jí odhalit důvod Stephenova utrpení a pomoci mu?

USA Today Best Selling Author, Willow Winters, brings you an all-consuming, sizzling romance featuring an epic, anti-hero you won't soon forget. Some love stories are a slow burn. Others are quick to ignite, scorching and branding your very soul before you've taken that first breath. You're never given a chance to run from it. That's how I'd describe what happened to us. Everything around me blurred and all that existed were his lips, his touch... The chase and the heat between us became addictive. Our nights together were a distraction; one we craved to the point of letting the world crumble around us. We should have paid attention; we should have known that it would come to this. We both knew it couldn't last, but that didn't change what we desired most. All we wanted was each other...

From USA Today bestselling author W Winters comes an emotionally captivating and thrilling, romantic suspense. He holds a power over me like no one else ever could. Maybe it's because my heart begs to beat in time with his. Maybe it's because my body bows to his and his alone. Maybe it's because he thought he loved me before he even laid eyes on me. He thought wrong, it wasn't me he thought he loved, and nothing has made me suffer like that little secret has. He thought I belonged to him, but he was wrong. It was never supposed to be me. Our memories are deceiving, but I know what I want now. What I need more than anything. I won't rest until he's as much mine as I am his. It's always been him.

Twenty-five year old Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck by the flu, only to discover the world has been torn apart in just a few short days. But Ivy's life-long gift--or curse--remains. For she sees the uninvited ones--ghosts of loved ones who appear to her, unasked, unwelcomed, for they always herald impending death. On that October evening in 1918 she sees the spirit of her grandmother, rocking in her mother's chair. An hour later, she learns her younger brother and father have killed a young German out of retaliation for the death of Ivy's older brother Billy in the Great War. Horrified, she leaves home, to discover the flu has caused utter panic and the rules governing society have broken down. Ivy is drawn into this new world of jazz, passion, and freedom, where people live for the day, because they could be stricken by nightfall. But as her 'uninvited guests' begin to appear to her more often, she knows her life will be torn apart once more, but Ivy has no inkling of the other-worldly revelations about to unfold.