SPECTRAL EVIDENCE MYSTERIES • BOOK 1

Whispers in the Walls

By Lucian Haverly

A crime scene investigator who trusts only hard evidence. A psychic who's spent his life begging to be believed. And a murder that's been lying in the walls of Whitcomb Manor for thirty years.

Ethan Hale has built his entire career — and his entire identity — on provable facts. As a forensic investigator, he sees the world in evidence and angles, in arc-pitting and moisture patterns. When he inherits a crumbling Victorian manor on the Maine coast alongside a dead contractor and an official story that doesn't add up, he does what he always does: he measures, documents, and refuses to sign off on comfortable lies. What he doesn't account for is the house's other occupant.

Julian Cross didn't plan to knock on the door of a stranger's crime scene. He was simply drawn there — the way he's always been drawn to places where the dead haven't finished speaking. Dismissed as delusional by his family, dismissed as fraudulent by the world, Julian has learned to keep his abilities quiet. But Whitcomb Manor is practically screaming, and the only person who might listen is a skeptical CSI who looks at Julian like he's evidence waiting to be disproved.

Forced into uneasy proximity, the two men begin pulling at the same thread: a decades-old murder, a cover-up stitched into the manor's official records, and a building inspector whose helpfulness has the distinct scent of guilt. As the investigation escalates — hidden documents, forged municipal stamps, arson, and a midnight confrontation that nearly kills them both — the line between forensic fact and psychic truth dissolves in ways neither man can explain away.

But the case has already cost lives. And the closer Ethan comes to believing everything Julian has ever needed someone to accept, the more they both have to lose if the killer decides witnesses are just another form of loose evidence.

A forced-proximity paranormal MM romance with Gothic atmosphere, forensic mystery, and a slow-burn love built on the wreckage of two men finally choosing to be believed.