Haunting Adeline
H.D. Carlton, 2021
Romance Mystery, thriller & crimeYoung adultFantasy
A writer moves into her great-grandmother's haunted manor and attracts a stalker who knows the house—and her—better than she does.
Feels like dread, longing and tenderness. About love, power and memory.
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The strange comfort of never being able to escape someone.
What you’re seeing now is what I see every day. No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you—you’re everywhere I go. You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I’ve never felt so at home while being so lost inside you. H.D. Carlton.Carlton self-published the novel in 2021 after building an audience online; BookTok turned it into a bestseller, and a sequel, Hunting Adeline, followed.
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- Feels like dread, longing and tenderness. About love, power and memory.
- What should I read after Haunting Adeline?
- If you liked Haunting Adeline, try Fifty Shades Darker (E.L. James), Phantasma (Kaylie Smith) and Lightlark (Alex Aster).
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Some attractions come with the warning already built in.
Christian nods as he turns and leads me through the double doors into the grandiose foyer. I revel in the feel of his hand and his long, skilled fingers curled around mine. The familiar pull is there—I’m drawn, Icarus to his sun. I’ve been burned already, and yet here I am again.
Fifty Shades Darker · E.L. James
What tenderness looks like after it has learned to bite back.
Soft hearts don’t survive here.” “What kinds of hearts do?” He leaned down until their eyes were level. “Hearts with teeth.” He reached out and gently gripped her chin in his hand, rubbing the pad of his thumb across her full, bottom lip. She was frozen in place. “C’mon, angel, show me your teeth.
Phantasma · Kaylie Smith
What it sounds like when someone could ruin you and chooses not to.
I could open a black hole that would swallow the beach. I could turn the sea dark as ink and kill everything inside of it. I could demolish the castle, brick by brick, from where we stand. I could take you back to Nightshade lands with me right now.” His voice was deep as dreams, dark as nightmares. “I could do all of those things.” His lips pressed against the top of her ear, for just a moment. “And I might—if I didn’t think you would hate me for it.
Lightlark · Alex Aster
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