Southern Gothic Paranormal
Wren Prescott
Where Southern hospitality means a room for every spirit
The Spirit Boarding series follows a woman who inherits a historic Louisiana inn—along with its permanent residents who never checked out. Wren Prescott writes Southern Gothic paranormal where Spanish moss drapes over secrets, where hospitality extends to guests both living and dead, and where running a bed and breakfast means accommodating spirits who've overstayed their welcome by a century or two. Her protagonist serves sweet tea and solves supernatural problems, learning that the best innkeepers know how to make everyone feel at home—even those who can't leave. These aren't horror stories. They're warm tales of found family, Southern charm, and the ghosts we choose to live with.
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Spirit Boarding
Inn Good Spirits: Spirit Boarding Book One
She inherited an inn. The ghosts were not mentioned in the will. When Delilah Monroe inherits her great-aunt's historic bed and breakfast in rural Louisiana, she expects crumbling infrastructure and decades of deferred maintenance. She doesn't expect the permanent residents—a Civil War soldier who refuses to accept the South lost, a flapper who died on her wedding night, and a jazz musician whose music only plays at midnight. Delilah's plan was simple: fix up the inn, sell it, and return to her normal life. But 'normal' becomes impossible when she discovers she can see, hear, and unfortunately argue with every ghost who's ever checked into the Magnolia Inn and never checked out. When a guest arrives claiming he can help her 'clear' her supernatural squatters, Delilah must decide: evict the spirits who've become family, or embrace a gift she never wanted and a home she never knew she needed.
Extended Stay: Spirit Boarding Book Two
Some guests never leave. Some guests you don't want to. Delilah has made peace with her ghostly tenants and embraced her role as the Magnolia Inn's living hostess—emphasis on living. Business is good, her spectral family has mostly stopped rearranging the furniture, and she's definitely not developing feelings for the paranormal investigator who keeps finding excuses to extend his stay. But when a new ghost arrives at the inn—one with no memory of who she was or how she died—Delilah's quiet afterlife gets complicated. Someone murdered this spirit, and whoever did it is still alive, still dangerous, and very interested in making sure no one discovers the truth. As Delilah investigates a decades-old crime with help from both the living and the dead, she learns that some guests check in looking for more than a room. They're looking for justice. And the Magnolia Inn always takes care of its own.
Turndown Service: Spirit Boarding Book Three
The bed has been made. The chocolates are on the pillow. The murderer is in the parlor. Delilah's Magnolia Inn has earned a reputation—among both the living and the dead—as the place to be for spirits seeking rest and humans seeking the unusual. So when a famous medium books the entire inn for a weekend séance retreat, promising to 'clear the spiritual energy,' Delilah knows there's going to be trouble. Her ghostly residents don't want to be cleared. They want to stay. And they'll do anything to protect their home. But when the medium's assistant is found dead under circumstances that look suspiciously supernatural, all eyes turn to Delilah and her spectral family. Now she must solve a murder while keeping her ghosts hidden, her human guests calm, and her increasingly complicated love life from imploding. Because at the Magnolia Inn, turndown service comes with a side of paranormal chaos.