Asylum Trilogy Box Set (Historical Romance, Contemporary Romance & Paranormal Romance set in a haunted asylum.)Asylum I: Shadows Wait1908, Simple, ColoradoLilly Luna's mother gave birth to her in an asylum for the mad. Growing up in an insane asylum exposed her to horrors few could imagine, and yet her compassion and ability to heal frightens the broken and the healthy alike. Her only wish is to exact revenge on the man she blames for her mother's death.Morgan Healy's father runs the creepy and rumor-maligned asylum. Morgan holds together his crumbling family, hoping to escape his father's legacy and the terrible secret it holds. When Lilly is hired as companion for Morgan's sister, Morgan and Lilly form a reluctant alliance to corral the evil that seeps from Tranquil View and threatens not only the town, but also their growing love.Asylum II: Shadows Rise1918, Simple, ColoradoA time of war, disease and supernatural threat tests the fabric of one woman and one man…Annabelle Dorrenti is ravaged by her experiences in World War I, her body marked by wounds, and her psyche damaged by guilt. To save herself, she becomes a nurse at the asylum and discovers the haunting is just beginning. Perhaps she's imagining the shadows that flicker nearby, waiting. A creeping dread presses in upon her, and she sees signs everywhere that something just isn't right at the asylum. She doesn't want to admit it anymore than she wants to acknowledge her building attraction to a handsome soldier as broken as she is. A man who blames her for his sister's death.Army Captain Cade Hale suffers from shell shock and the terrible fear that the dead haunt his every step. He's determined to lay the blame for his sister's death directly at Annabelle Dorrenti's feet. Yet he knows the asylum harbors evil, and his fear for Annabelle demands he protect her, no matter what the risk, no matter what she's done in the past. When evil and illness manifest, Cade and Annabelle step up to challenge a horror far more insidious than insanity.Asylum III: Shadows FallPresent Day, Simple, ColoradoEvil is spreading beyond previous boundaries, beyond the horrors of the past. Only one man and one woman can stop it.Melissa Allan realizes something is wrong one windy, violent day. People are getting their just deserts. Karma is piling on the punishment, even for small offenses or misunderstandings hardly worth a blink. Owner of the only new age store in Simple, realizes that the air is disturbed, and that the former asylum on the mountain has something to do with strange happenings around town. Sensitive to the paranormal, she helps those in Simple who feel the need for advice beyond the conventional. Forces in town who want things to stay the same are against her, and she knows it.Ex-marine Roarke O'Bannion hasn't seen a freak out like this since he was in war. A search for his missing mother brings him to Tranquil View Condominiums for answers. He's not interested in the paranormal and thinks people who believe in it just need more medication. He thinks Melissa fed his mother's belief in ghosts, and he plans on giving her a piece of his mind. Instead he finds a woman who challenges everything he's believed in, and makes him burn with desire.When Melissa is in danger, he discovers he'll do anything to save her, and together they'll battle the unseen until midnight comes or the evil seething inside Tranquil View consumes them all.
