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    The Curse Breaker
    The Curse Breaker
    The Curse Breaker
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    The Curse Breaker

    By Marla HOlt

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    Who knew that a thunderstorm, a ghost, and a night alone could lead to true love?

     

    Dana's had a crush on her brother's best friend since she can remember, but the most attention Rob ever gave her was driving her home from a Halloween party.

     

    Rob has been denying his feelings for Dana for years, but the more time he spends with her, the less he is able to deny her allure.

     

    When they are stranded together overnight, will they give into their attraction, or will a ghostly visitor change the course of their lives forever?


    The Curse Breaker is a forced proximity, brother's best friend romance with a spooky twist. It is a companion piece to the haunted house romance, Haunted Attraction, and takes place before that novel.

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarla Holt
    Release dateJun 28, 2022
    ISBN9781735926476
    The Curse Breaker
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    Marla HOlt

    Marla Holt believes in second chances, romance, and the radical notion that everyone deserves a happily every after. She's living her own fairy tale, writing contemporary romance novels in her Kansas farmhouse with her husband, three boys, three cats, and flock of imaginary sheep. Follow her at marlaholt.com or on Instagram as @marlaholtauthor

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      The Curse Breaker - Marla HOlt

      Chapter One

      S ome days it’s exhausting watching everyone in this family succumb to that damn curse, Aunt Brigit said as she collapsed into an ancient leather armchair in her living room. 

      Dana dropped her suitcase next to the sofa and slumped back against the cushions. What curse? Dana knew cancer ran in her family, but she’d never thought of it as a curse before. Just, you know, genetics. 

      Her aunt had just picked her up from her parents’ house. They didn’t live far from the ranch, just about a forty-five-minute drive to the west, but Aunt Brigit didn’t visit often. She had always been good friends with Dana’s mom and had taken it hard when she’d been diagnosed. Dana’s mother had grown frail over the last year as her treatments had taken their toll. She moved more slowly, spoke more carefully, and seemed to have aged decades. Her mother was only forty, but the chemo had left deep grooves around her eyes and chin that had her looking like she was closer to her late sixties.  

      The Zimmerman curse, her aunt said, as if Dana should know it just because Zimmerman was her last name.

      I’ve never heard about any curse.

      Aunt Brigit rolled her eyes and snorted. That’s because your dad doesn’t believe in it but think about it. Over the years, how many couples in our family have met young, married young, and died young?

      Dana didn’t have to think about it. Her parents had been together since they were sixteen. Same for her grandparents. She didn’t know much about their family history beyond that, except that it was a trend to have kids early and pass too soon, passing this house down to the next generation when they went. It was enough of a pattern that she and her older brother Matthew had made a pledge when they were in high school, promising each other that they would not become teenage parents to avoid— Well, the Zimmerman curse, she guessed.

      Dana wasn’t sure she believed in it. Maybe her aunt was just tired of watching her family die young. And it wasn’t like Dana blamed her; it wasn’t really a legacy anyone wanted.

      And for weeks, Dana hadn’t been able to escape the conversation on the first day of her internship at the ranch. 

      It’s been everyone for near about a hundred years now, Aunt Brigit said. 

      Except you?

      Her aunt was childless, unmarried, and had never apologized for it. Dana had asked her aunt once why she’d never gotten married, and Aunt Brigit had only shrugged and said, I’m not interested in men or sex. So I didn’t much see the point.

      Dana had been fourteen and still blushed talking about kissing. Red-faced, she’d nodded like she’d understood, but she hadn’t. It had taken her months to type a person who isn’t interested in sex into a search bar and learn about asexuality.

      That . . . was not Dana. She’d been attracted to boys since she remembered noticing them. There was one dark-haired, leather-jacket-wearing boy who’d attracted her in particular. But Dana did her best not to think about him when she could help it.

      When Brigit had picked her up a few weeks ago, Dana had watched her aunt’s smiles grow more forced as they’d lingered over lunch with her mother. She’d thought it had just been because the treatments still didn’t seem to be working. That broke Dana’s heart too, but perhaps there was more to it than that?

      So you think Mom is cursed?

      And Joshua. That was Dana’s father. Brigit’s brother.

      What does that mean? You’re just waiting for dad to get sick?

      Aunt Brigit turned sad eyes on Dana. Or have an accident. They’ll neither one of them see fifty.

      That sentence had pierced the center of Dana’s heart with an electric jolt like lightning. She didn’t want to lose either of her parents, and the idea of losing both so soon had made her reckless. 

      Dana shook the thoughts away and

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