The Haunted Hotel

Crawshanks Guide to Mischievous Spectres & Spirits, Book 1

By: Vawn Cassidy

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Have a frightfully good stay…

Morgan Ashton-Drake hasn’t given his ancestral home in Yorkshire a second thought in decades. He has a great life in the States, running his stepfathers hotel empire with his brother. So what if he’s all work and no play? He’s not missing out on anything important.

But when a suspicious death and rather public scandal at his childhood home forces Morgan to return to England for the first time in years, he’s not keen to confront his past. What he didn’t count on was the seriously cute little blonde disaster who seems to be single-handedly running his eccentric grandfather’s hotel.

Ellis Sparks has worked at the Ashton-Drake Manor House Hotel since he was sixteen and he loves it from the bottom of his soul. Always the eternal optimist, he’s never met a frown he can’t turn upside down; that is, until he meets Morgan Ashton-Drake, the grumpy grandson of his employer. With the hotel in danger of closing, and convinced Morgan is the only one who can help to save it, the resident ghosts decide to try their ghostly hand at a little matchmaking. After all, how hard can it be to get a grumpy workaholic to fall in love with a twinky ray of sunshine?

From the creator of Dead Serious comes this hilarious grumpy/sunshine spin off which will leave you wanting to book your own room at The Ashton-Drake Manor House Hotel.

©2024 Wendy Saunders (P)2025 Wendy Saunders

Best Use of the Trope!

I loved everything about this story and cannot wait for the next in the series! Sure, the haunted hotel / b&b / manor house has been done a million times before, but THIS is the way it was MEANT to be done. Vawn Cassidy used the exact right blend of all the usual aspects of the trope to create something that is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s funny, sweet, witty, and generally the perfect story to put a smile on your face. Joel Leslie delivered an epic performance, as always, and really brought the characters to life (or afterlife, as the case may be).

All in all, I was in such a good mood by the time the recording ended that I couldn’t get to the app fast enough to leave a rave review. I need everyone to listen to and enjoy this audiobook, thus ensuring the future of the series so that I can listen to more of what happens at Ashton House (selfish, I know).

Another brilliant book by Vawn Cassidy

Really great book although it does feel like it lacked a little depth but it is the first in a new series so there was a lot of set up. Such a fun read