Auria Jourdain

Lantern at the Gate Auria Jourdain

Would you enter a haunted plantation battling the sins of its past?Five long years... Avery Jackson's waited a long time for the Beaumont House. After her grandmother's death, she has plans for the land: preservation. Apparently, Grammy had another idea-Tulane's handsome Rockstar-historian has inherited the house with her. Even though his chocolate eyes and velvet voice turn her inside out, Avery doesn't want anything to do with the man. Or any man, for that matter. Grant Michaud was the luckiest man alive. Not only is he bequeathed his ancestral home by a rich romance novelist, Tulane offers him tenure if he'll donate the site to the history department. But bringing in a red-haired librarian as his partner wasn't the plan. Sure, the spitfire captivates him, but he's focused on his goal-finishing his historical narrative of the Underground Railroad. With her extensive knowledge about the plantation, he'll finish in record time. Unfortunately, it seems the long-dead residents of the Beaumont House haven't left. The lantern at the plantation's gates illuminates every night without cause, and the spirit of a slave girl befriends Avery, wreaking havoc on their progress. Pressured by the head of the history department to make good on his promise, Grant calls his friend Terrance, a professional ghost hunter, to help. But as the past returns to haunt them with vengeance, it's clear that evil lurks beyond the gates of the Beaumont House. Until they discover the truth, nobody's getting in.