Gatekeeper by Debra Glass is the 1st in her Phantom Lovers series of paranormal erotic romances with 5 full flames on the ARE heat index, this one of which is also a romantic suspense story with a criminal profiler and a guardian ghost (together, they
fight crime! have hawt sexyfuntimes! solve a kidnapping), free courtesy of publisher Ellora's Cave.
Currently free @
B&N and
Amazon (available to Canadians but not in the UK). It should shortly be free to everyone around the world in multiple formats without DRM directly from the publisher's website once whoever's in charge of it wakes up and does the pricing updates.
(ETA: I should probably mention that if you end up liking this one, the sequels in the series are
priced between 99 cents and $1.99 as part of Ellora's Cave's Values from the Vault sale when you buy directly from them.)
Description
Evil shadow ghosts known as soul collectors haunted her childhood nightmares, so Nashville PD criminal profiler, Jillian Drew, did everything possible to turn her back on her psychic abilities. But now her eccentric sister has been abducted and nothing in her criminology background has prepared Jillian for that tragedy - or for Benton Smith, the powerful and devastatingly attractive ghost of a Civil War officer and the only witness to Amy's abduction.
Fearful of the brazen specter, Jillian nevertheless needs him. Benton is her Gatekeeper, a spirit sworn to protect her from the soul collectors, who attack each time she unleashes her long-dormant psychic senses in an attempt to find her sister.
Yet she must somehow keep the devilishly seductive spirit at arm's length, for Benton's soul is at stake - and succumbing to his desires could have dangerous consequences for them both.