{"title":"Colby Wilkens","description":"\u003cp\u003eColby Wilkens crafts deeply emotional romances that explore the complexities of love, loss, and healing. With a tender, poignant voice, these stories delve into the bittersweet moments that shape relationships, offering readers heartfelt narratives that linger long after the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a blend of vulnerability and resilience in Wilkens’ work, where characters navigate both joy and heartbreak. These novels invite you to embrace the imperfect, beautiful nature of love in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"if-i-stopped-haunting-you-by-colby-wilkens-9781250292902","title":"If I Stopped Haunting You","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf I Stopped Haunting You\u003c\/em\u003e by Colby Wilkens offers a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance with the spine-tingling chill of a haunted-house horror. As Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWith Love, from Cold World\u003c\/em\u003e, enthuses: \"I blazed through this book in one sitting because I just couldn't wait to find out what would happen next!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn enemies-to-lovers romance with a spooky twist, it follows two feuding writers who end up on a writers' retreat together at a haunted castle in Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's been months since horror author Penelope Skinner threw a book at Neil Storm. But he was so infuriating with his sparkling green eyes and his bestselling horror novels that claimed to break Native stereotypes. Now, she's a publishing pariah and hasn't been able to write a word since. So, when her friend invites her on a too-good-to-be-true writers' retreat in a supposedly haunted Scottish castle, she seizes the opportunity. Of course, some things really are too good to be true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeil wants nothing less than to be trapped in a castle with the frustratingly adorable woman who threw a book at him. She drew blood! Worse still, she unleashed a serious case of self-doubt! Neil is terrified to write another bestselling \"book without a soul,\" as Pen called it. All Neil wants is to find inspiration, while completely avoiding her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as the retreat begins, Pen and Neil are stunned to find themselves trapped in a real-life ghost story. Even more horrifying, they're stuck together, and a truly shocking (extremely hot) almost-kiss has left them rethinking their feelings. Maybe they shouldn't have been enemies at all? But if they can't stop the ghosts pursuing them, they may never have the chance to find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull of spooky chills and even more sexy thrills, \u003cem\u003eIf I Stopped Haunting You\u003c\/em\u003e by Colby Wilkens is the funny, fast-paced romp romance readers have been waiting for!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I didn't realize I needed a romance book married to cozy horror, but now I'm wondering where this particular mashup has been all my life. 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Forced to return home after struggling to write his latest book, his sister Louise drags him aboard a replica of the renowned pirate ship \u003cem\u003eShe Deceitful\u003c\/em\u003e that sank in 1718, and he can finally see all the pieces of his book coming together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOvercome with wonder, he's drawn to the captain's cabin where he finds a blue wool coat. He pulls it on, only to travel 300 years in the past—this time with a knife to his throat at the hands of the handsome Captain Silas Night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLaszlo thinks the jacket might be his way home, but as he grows increasingly attracted to the magnetism of Silas, he must choose between returning alone, more heartbroken than before he arrived, or staying with the love of his life, knowing how, when, and where it all ends...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf I Go Down With This Ship\u003c\/em\u003e by Colby Wilkens is a daring, adventure romcom about taking a chance on love to defy impossible odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48253500391660,"sku":"9781035066438","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035066438-if-i-go-down-with-this-ship-1.jpg?v=1788231153"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/colby-wilkens.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}