Shadows Rise (Asylum Trilogy Book 2) - Asylum Trilogy

(Paranormal Historical Romance set duing World War i & Spanish Flu Epidemic)1918, 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 knows that danger terrorizes the earth, but he also feels Tranquil View could cure him of addiction and grief over his sister's death. He's determined to lay the blame for her death where it belongs, directly at Annabelle Dorrenti's feet. Drawn down to his soul to Annabelle, he hates their attraction and struggles against it. 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.