The Night Shift Librarian: A Queer Paranormal Cozy Romance

Some connections transcend death itself.

Jordan Reese works the night shift at a university library, seeking solitude in the quiet hours after losing their best friend. When their service dog alerts them to a presence in the stacks, Jordan discovers Casey Orin—a graduate student who died in the library in 1987 and has haunted it ever since, unseen and alone.

As Jordan learns to communicate with Casey through a shared notebook, an impossible bond forms between them. Casey begins to strengthen, to become more visible, to remember what it feels like to matter to someone. But their growing connection raises difficult questions: Can a ghost truly live again? Should Casey try to move on, or is staying an act of courage rather than cowardice? And what does it mean to fall in love with someone who exists on the other side of death?

When Casey begins to fade, Jordan must gather everyone touched by the ghost’s quiet kindness to anchor them to the living world. But even if they succeed, Jordan and Casey must face the hardest truth: that love doesn’t always look the way we expect, and sometimes the most profound connections are the most impossible ones.

A tender, haunting story about grief, hope, and the spaces between living and dead where love still finds a way.