title: Possession
author: Demers, Lisa
description: Only Scarlett can lift the Curse. Scarlett Locking can see ghosts. When on the brink of womanhood, she and Luke le Tellier share a terrifying graveyard encounter. He is the only person who believes in her affinity to see the departed. But they part, and years pass. Now widowed and running a dress shop, she supplements her days of hard work with remembrances of when life was simpler: when she was a beloved gentleman's daughter before her station in life sank so low.Luke, a spy, runs into her and requests her help on a mission to catch a counterfeiter, needing to dress as a commoner. The pair uncover a hoard of coins and another ghost. However, a mission of national importance calls him away, and they part on Christmas Day, her birthday.He returns to Telford Hall to discover his father has fallen ill. Luke fears the Earl is dying. During a discussion about the family curse with his cousin's new fiancée, he begins to wonder if the family curse is coming to take his father. A curse that condemns all earls to die by their son's actions. Can his shared past with Scarlett break the curse, despite their class differences?