Phantom, by H. D. Carlton | Free Audiobook

The married woman of the manor. The stranger outside.

In Phantom, H. D. Carlton pulls you into 1944 Seattle where war rages overseas and a different kind of battle unfolds inside Parsons Manor. Genevieve Parsons, called Gigi by those who think they know her, is suffocating in a marriage that crumbles more with each hand her husband John loses at the gambling table. His debts pile higher than the manor walls, and when those debts fall into the hands of the Salvatore crime family, Gigi becomes collateral she never agreed to be.

Ronaldo Capello is a ghost in expensive suits, a mob enforcer who kills without hesitation and watches Gigi with an intensity that should terrify her. He pays John's debts in silence, pulls strings to keep her safe from the violence her husband invited in, and becomes the phantom she cannot stop thinking about even when she knows the cost of his attention. What begins as surveillance turns into obsession, and what should remain forbidden becomes the only thing that feels real in a life built on pretense and decay.

Dual narration by Summer Morton and Stephen Dexter captures the push and pull between duty and desire. Morton delivers Gigi's internal war between the woman she was raised to be and the one Ronaldo sees when he looks at her through manor windows. Dexter brings Ronaldo's calculated menace and unexpected tenderness to life, making every stolen moment between them electric with danger. This prequel to the Haunting Adeline series shows you where the ghosts in the manor came from and proves that some hauntings start with a heartbeat, not a grave.