Cory is the sweetest man Beau Chance has ever communicated with. He’s smart and funny, and makes Beau feel like he’s the center of the universe. They’ve been talking for months, and now that their first date is rapidly approaching, Beau can’t help but feel the pressure to get everything just right. New outfit? Check. Romantic dinner reservations? Check. Visit to the local occult shop? Mandatory.
But Beau isn’t going for a love potion or a good luck charm. No, Beau needs a Halloween miracle if he’s going to make it past the first date. The way Beau sees it, when the man of your dreams has been dead since the 1980s, you’ll stop at nothing to make sure the one night of the year he gets to walk the Earth is the best night of his afterlife.
Chapter 1: First Date JittersBeau Chance was a live wire. He had tried to remain calm during most of his planning and preparations, but tonight was going to be a Big Deal. Capital letters. Bold print. Underscore. Exclamation point. Tonight was the night he was having an honest-to-goodness first date with a man he thought about day and night. Just allowing his brain to process those words made him sick with anxiety. So much was on the line and if this didn’t work out, he had no Plan B. He had been on dates before, of course. Well, “dates” might be stretching it. He had gone on a few dates—even a blind one once. He had had a couple of hook-ups and one friendship whose waters got uncomfortably muddied. He had definitely been stood up a time or twelve. But if this went sideways, come tomorro