Jaded travel columnist Nathaniel Graves has spent his career debunking rumored "haunted" locations. On the night a tragic mistake resulted in the death of his family, he swore never to believe in a world where the supernatural could exist. Assigned to cover Newport, Rhode Island's Haunted Happenings Festival for a prestigious travel magazine, Nathaniel expects another gimmicky tourist trap. Instead, he finds himself trapped between the ghosts of the past and an undeniable attraction to the woman forcing him to question everything.

Free-spirt Mia Sousa is a goth-clad creative writing student with an obsession with macabre. The mastermind behind the Haunted Happenings Festival held at the notorious Belcourt Castle, Mia chaperons Nathaniel through a weekend full of mystical encounters and challenges Nathaniel's rigid disbelief leaving him Haunted by Desire.