Head Over Heels for the Headless Horseman

She came to Merrow Falls to unmask a legend. She didn't expect to catch his head.

Nora Vance hosts Bunk, the history podcast that kills legends for a living. She's rented a creaky 1790s inn in tiny Merrow Falls, Vermont, for the whole month of October. Her plan is to debunk the town's famous Headless Horseman and land the network deal that will finally make her career.

On her very first night, a man on a giant black horse rides out of the fog. His head falls off. Nora catches it. And the head says, very politely, "Could you not drop me."

Silas Thorne has been the inn's caretaker for two hundred and thirty-four years. Every October night he rides the river road lighting lanterns so no traveler goes into the water. His head comes off when he's startled or embarrassed, or when he feels too much of anything at once. And the prickly, fearless woman with the recorder is making him feel a great deal.

One question a day. One ruined ballroom to restore before the Halloween festival. One stopped clock, one very opinionated horse named Pumpernickel, and a town full of meddling grandmothers. Now Nora has the best audio of her life, and a network executive is on his way to town to use it.

Head Over Heels for the Headless Horseman is a cozy, laugh-out-loud Halloween monster romcom with:

• A skeptic heroine and a shy, gentle hero who literally loses his head over her

• Enemies to lovers with forced proximity in a haunted inn

• Foggy lantern rides, pumpkin carving, and a first kiss in a clock tower

• A small Vermont town that loves its monsters

• A closed door and a guaranteed happily-ever-after