She’s spent her life avoiding ghosts. This one refuses to be ignored.
The small theatre where college student Elise has landed a job is definitely not haunted. She would know—she can see ghosts.
That makes joining the backstage crew for The Sound of Music the perfect summer escape: a rare paying theatre gig, valuable résumé experience, and plenty of chaos to keep her busy. Most importantly, there are no dead people demanding her attention. For once, Elise can focus on keeping wigs pinned, actors ready, and her supernatural secret safely hidden.
Then Kevin arrives.
Kevin is restless, opinionated, and also dead. He’s got a problem he needs Elise’s help with: his precious pocket watch is being used as a prop by the production’s accident-prone leading man. With opening night approaching and Kevin’s increasingly disruptive attempts to recover it threatening to expose them both, Elise reluctantly agrees to intervene.
Now she must manage a persistent ghost alongside missed cues, quick changes, cast drama, and everything else going wrong behind the scenes. But the more time Elise spends with Kevin, the less he feels like another supernatural problem to solve—and the harder it becomes to imagine sending him away.
Warm, eerie, and full of theatrical mischief, A Ghost in the Wings is a spooky-cozy novella and a love letter to haunted spaces, backstage places, and finding connection where you least expect it. A standalone prequel to Specters & Spotlights, it can be read before or after the novel.
