Lucky circumstance did most of the work, but seeing the earliest shades of the Spirit-Hunters’ teamwork was fantastic, because it’s clear from the start that they work well together. HarperTeen Impulse is a digital imprint focused on young adult short stories and novellas, with new releases the first Tuesday of each month. We also learn exactly how Danny ended up a Spirit-Hunter, which is enough of an odd job that it had to be explained at some point. But when he discovers that the ghosts are linked to a dangerous curse whose caster wants everyone on board dead, Daniel will come face-to-face with an evil so dark, so wicked, that it will change the course of his life forever. And with Cass's fatally-ill sister in need of expensive medical help, Daniel is more determined than ever to save the ship. Enlisting the help of a short-tempered Chinese boy named Jie and a Creole gentleman named Joseph, the three attempt to rid the boat of the ghosts - for if they don't, the Sadie Queen will be put out of business. Before Eleanor Fitt came into his life Daniel Sheridan was an engineers apprentice on a haunted Mississippi steamer known as the Sadie Queen.

Their stolen, sometimes steamy moments have Daniel feeling something he never thought possible: love. Though they started as best friends, their relationship has grown into something more intense. Gorgeous and stubborn to a fault, apprentice pilot Cassidy Cochran is the one thing keeping Daniel on board. Teeming with ghosts that plague the crew with horrific nightmares, this ship is more trouble than it's worth to Daniel. With a checkered past like Daniel Sheridan's, landing an apprenticeship aboard the Sadie Queen was just the fresh start he was looking for.

He has stolen Eleanor Fitt's heart, but who was Daniel Sheridan before he became a Spirit-Hunter? In this suspenseful 100-page digital-original romance novella from Something Strange and Deadly author Susan Dennard, Daniel's past - and his first love - will be exposed.

A Dawn Most Wicked by Susan Dennard