Book excerpt: All Allegra Rossi needs is her beauty, expensive champagne, designer clothes, and enough souls to keep her succubus appetites satisfied. Everything seems to be in place until a photo shoot at New Haven's prestigious — and supposedly haunted — Garden Hotel sets her dreams for a perfect life crumbling. Not only has her handsome, charismatic boss captured her interest, threatening the careful restraints she's placed around her succubus nature, but the hotel's reputation turns out to be true. Worse: the specter has targeted Allegra as its next victim If Allegra wants to stay alive and keep her heart intact, she will have to unleash her demonic instincts to shed light into the darkness before the shadows consume her.