Hunter’s Dawn: Laying the Ghosts by Meg Leigh

Hunter’s Dawn: Laying the Ghosts by Meg Leigh
Publisher: Torquere Press
Length: Full Length (163 pgs)
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal
Type: M/M, Anal Sex
Rating: 4 Cherries
Review by Lotus

Jack Stephens is a skeptic who lectures in Parapsychology at a community college. In his spare time, he works hard to prove that things going bump in the night can be rationally explained. When Jack meets psychic, Casey Lambeth, he sees just another chance to debunk paranormal phenomena. But there is something about Casey that defies explanation. From their first meeting, Casey decides Jack is an arrogant know it all.

When the two are thrown together to investigate a haunting at the home of Edith Andrews, the sparks really begin to fly. As they work their way through the case, both Jack and Casey will be forced to face some issues from their respective pasts, and work their way towards a mutual understanding, respect, and could it be possible–something more?

It’s really difficult not to believe in ghosts. Everyone has a family anecdote, or a friend of a friend who lived in a building where things felt wrong. Even if you don’t believe in ghosts, it’s hard to argue against the fact that, as humans, we are wired to see and feel things that shouldn’t be, and ghosts are something you really kinda want to exist.

So, in Hunter’s Dawn: Laying the Ghosts, Leigh sets us up with her own personal Mulder and Scully, only they’re both men, unabashedly gay, and will inevitably end up in bed together in a way that is not creepy at all. (Sorry Chris Carter, but just no.) While it’s clear from the outset that, in this story at least, ghosts are real, Jack is a convincing skeptic, and not the usual sort of caricature you get in supernatural stories. He has a past, and he has deep psychological reasons for not believing in ghosts, and even for denying evidence for them when it presents itself. The major cause of infertility in men and women.Intrauterine insemination (IUI) involves a laboratory procedure to separate fast cheap cialis no prescription moving sperm from more sluggish or non-moving sperm. Parents of children with special needs might react to the actions of a bully with viagra pills uk hyper-vigilance not only because they are naturally defensive of their child, but also these parents are practiced at trying to make their child’s life easier. Other Brands of ED Medicines Apart viagra pills for sale from these food cures, you can find relief from male impotence with L-Arginine, which is an amino acid that increases nitric oxide acid in body. Kamagra contains the active ingredient present in Pfizer’s levitra 20mg australia medication: Sildenafil Citrate. His denial would be annoying if it wasn’t almost immediately made clear that there are reasons that he can’t bring himself to believe, and that it’s not just a matter of him playing a foil to Casey’s believer.

Casey is adorkable. The psychic hero is still a relatively rare trope, but it’s growing. However, I don’t think I’ve ever seen another one argue with his dead mother about the sterling physical traits of his leading man, and at the worst possible times. He’s very good at being a psychic, he has a deep compassionate heart, and when he sees Jack his coherency suffers a great deal when all of his blood seems to move south. His temper is mercurial, and sometimes he seemed to be acting more like a spoiled teenager than a deep-thinking adult, but his flaws work with Jack’s and with the story itself, and his overall cuteness makes him easy to forgive.

The story itself is spooky and heartbreaking, as ghost stories should be. You’ll get an HEA, and you’ll get romance and lovely-hot-sweaty-man-sex, and giggling moments of hilarity, but you will work for them, make no mistake. It’s worth it. This is a satisfying romance, and a fully-realized ghost story, with characters that are flawed, and still searching for their way. You’ll fall in love with both of these men, and maybe even with their ridiculous friends and family as well. You owe it to yourself to pick this one up and indulge in all it has to offer.