An accountant arranges to have an arranged marriage with a doctor. Their arrangement rules: this is to be a business relationship, she will tend to his books and finances and live separate from him, they will only consummate their marriage to meet the legal requirements, they are to live separate lives essentially. Jane wants a marriage where she does not have to have a romantic relationship and Dr. Augustine Lawrence fits her bill since he is a man who is known to live in a separate home and is shy and handsome. Within about a day of meeting him ( and offering this arrangement, to which he profusely rejects, she strong arms her way into spending time with him to convince him to say yes) and she basically falls in love with him after a day. Augustine warns her that if they are to be married she must understand that this is strictly a business arrangement and she can never stay over at his family home....in which she strong arms her way into doing that after their wedding. Jane essentially goes back on her entire arrangement and is determined to be in love with him and stay at his home. He warns her that his home is not for her and that it is a messed up place.... but she stays. Soon she discovers that he has more secrets and that the house is haunted.

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Here we go: she starts snooping around his house and gets mad at him because he isn’t what she thought of him (mam you married him after meeting him once and basically said yes to everything despite not knowing him, and she feels “ betrayed” and that “he lied to her” yet her attitude coming into the marriage was that this was a business arrangement and she didn’t care. He continuously tries to get her to leave his house but she refuses and then she finds out he had a previous wife named Elodie who had died and now she is even more pissed, and when she confronts him saying he betrayed her he literally says “is it betrayal? or is it jealousy, this fury over Elodie? because you do not own this part of me. I did not offer it in the bargain” and then she goes on to find out that Augustine tried to bring his dead wife back to life by using ritual magic and essentially desecrating her dead body, which it failed and now he is cursed to be haunted by the dead and now jane is seeing Elodie everywhere in the house. Her great idea is to then perform said ritual herself to solve this issue because her stance is “ I can’t leave this guy i am so in love with. He needs fixing and I can fix him” and they both do cocaine and then they both die and then she goes sees some ghosts, goes through the ritual, and tadaahh she comes back from the dead and brings him back too and they live happily ever after.”

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*