Hearts Unloched: A Haunted Voices Novel

***Winner 2016 New York Book Festival***

A psychic interior designer reluctantly agrees to renovate a sexy investor’s abandoned hotel on Loch Sheldrake, a lake rumored to have once been the mob’s body dumping ground.

Interior designer Kate Bardach loves her single girl’s lifestyle, living in Manhattan and spending weekends at her lake house. She’s passionate about her career, too-reinventing old buildings. But there are some projects she can’t take on because of the spirits trapped inside. Kate is psychic-she sees dead people.

Marco Lareci is one of Wall Street’s most successful-and sexy-investment brokers who’s achieved all of his life’s goals. Except for finding his soulmate. His latest project, an abandoned resort on Loch Sheldrake, needs a savvy designer to transform the crumbling complex into a boutique hotel.

When Marco meets Kate, he can’t believe his luck. She’s the perfect match for his business and his heart. Marco’s body excites Kate even more than does his renovation project. But he wants more than a casual relationship, and she’s not willing to give up her freedom. Plus, the haunting at Marco’s resort, a bonafide poltergeist, affects her on an intensely personal level. Kate’s aunt disappeared from the place fifty years ago.

If you love intense romantic novels, and elements of romantic suspense and paranormal romance, you will love Hearts Unloched.

Claire Gem writes intensely emotional romantic novels. Her vision is to transport her readers into another place and time, creating characters so real, readers miss them when the book is closed. Always fascinated by the paranormal, she holds a Certificate in Paranormal Studies from Duke University’s Rhine’s Research Center. When she ran out of paranormal romance novels to read, she decided to start writing her own. Throughout her life, Claire has experienced ＂moments＂ - unexplained flashes of premonition, or what she believes were genuine contacts with people who had crossed over. Not always a family member, sometimes these conversations occurred with people she had never met, but simply admired. Can we make telepathic connections with spirits of those who’ve left our realm? Claire Gem believes so. So she loves writing paranormal romance with ghosts. Whether they are trapped entities, spirits that have truly crossed over with a mission still pending in this life, or residual energies, ghosts infuse Claire’s life with the tantalizing scent of mystery - thus many of her romance novels also qualify as romantic suspense. Claire also writes contemporary romance and women’s fiction under the Claire Gem Contemporary line. If you are looking for an intensely romantic novel, with or without ghosts or paranormal elements, you’ll love Claire Gem.