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With only minutes of access and no cash, she is interrupted by a phone call and a tense exchange with a stranger. The scene establishes survival stakes, guarded interactions, and the groundwork for a looming supernatural romance dynamic and escalating danger.","THE GEEK AND THE GHOST Copyright © 2026 CAMBRIA HEBERT  \nAll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form without written permission except for the use of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.  \nPublished by Cambria Hebert  \n[http://www.cambriahebert.com](http://www.cambriahebert.com)  \nInterior design and typesetting by Devoted Pages Cover design by Cover Me Darling Character art by David DaSilva Edited by Cassie McCown Copyright 2026 by Cambria Hebert  \nNO AI TRAINING  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBLURB  \nThe Geek and the Ghost  \nI’m about thirty seconds from a toe tag and my own freezer at the mortuary when he materializes from the shadows and fights like hell to keep me  \nbreathing.  \nI had no idea homeless disasters like me got guardian angels—or that guardian angels punch people and smoke—but suddenly, there he is: a hero dressed all in black who ghosts me so hard I consider calling a medium.  \nBut that would be a waste of money I don’t have.  \nI thought I’d never see him again, but just as I’m about to eat a bullet, he appears, using his body to protect mine. I might have swooned—okay, fine, I do but only on the inside—if it weren’t for the fact he thinks bleeding is an adequate apology for implying I’m a prostitute and running off with my  \nheart.  \nSpoiler alert: It’s not.  \nNow the man with a PhD in vanishing, a tattoo that totally offends me, and eyes with their own force of gravity is suddenly stuck to me like glue and  \nbeing wildly inconvenient about it.  \nAnd he won’t stop calling me a pipgeek. What even is that? He insists I trust him, but I can’t trust anyone, not even my own body. Unfortunately, when the resident drug lord calls in that favor I foolishly owe, things go from bad to catastrophic with alarming enthusiasm. On the upside, having a villain with a hero complex for a stalker means  \nstaying alive will be easy.  \nBut not getting hurt again is a whole other story.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Nathan. You inspire me, and I’m proud of you.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nEpilogue  \nBonus Scene  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER  \nONE  \nR ett  \nTwo Years Ago…  \nI wasn’t sure what was worse: the copious amount of bonechilling flakes tumbling from the ashen sky or the skin-numbing wind accompanying them.  \nPerhaps it was the combination of the two. After all, wasn’t two better than one?  \nI wouldn’t know because I was chronically on my own, but the tag team this winter weather created sure convinced me.  \nSnow wasn’t exactly a surprise in Buffalo, New York, but it did make me wonder about my life choices. When I’d hopped a bus a few months ago, what had possessed me to get off here? I should have kept going south, crossing state lines until I reached a place where the sun kept blizzards at bay.  \nMaybe if I had, my fingertips wouldn’t be stinging painfully, my knees stiff and cheeks peeling off my face. The fact that I could only afford a bus ticket so far seemed like a worthless excuse now.  \nTucking my chin into my chest, I burrowed into the nicest thing I owned—a black North Face coat—and made my way down the block and aroun","cbCaiqyvENPS7u9m","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqyvENPS7u9m","pdf",2451983,4,356,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30\n## Chapter 31\n## Chapter 32\n## Chapter 33\n## Chapter 34\n## Chapter 35\n## Chapter 36\n## Chapter 37\n## Epilogue\n## Bonus Scene\n## Author's Note\n## About the Author","[{\"question\":\"What triggers the first major interaction in the café?\",\"answer\":\"A phone call near her startles her and leads to a tense conversation with the man at the nearby computer, changing her immediate circumstances.\"}]","The Geek and the Ghost - Chapter 1 - Two Years Ago - A Retelling Begins | PDF",1785477038,548,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":78,"head_meta":80,"extra_data":82,"updated_unix":28},"the-geek-and-the-ghost-chapter-1-two-years-ago-a-retelling-begins","",{"@graph":36,"@context":77},[37,53,68],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,48,51],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":47},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":49,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":50},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":52,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-geek-and-the-ghost-chapter-1-two-years-ago-a-retelling-begins/115807/",{"url":52,"name":13,"@type":54,"author":55,"headline":13,"publisher":57,"fileFormat":60,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":61,"datePublished":62,"encodingFormat":60,"isAccessibleForFree":63,"interactionStatistic":64},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":56},"Person",{"url":41,"name":58,"@type":59},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-08-23","2026-07-31",true,{"@type":65,"interactionType":66,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":67},"ViewAction",{"@type":69,"mainEntity":70},"FAQPage",[71],{"name":72,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":74},"What triggers the first major interaction in the café?","Question",{"text":75,"@type":76},"A phone call near her startles her and leads to a tense conversation with the man at the nearby computer, changing her immediate circumstances.","Answer","https://schema.org",{"og:url":52,"og:type":79,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":58,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":81,"canonical":52},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":84},[85,88,92,96,101,106,111,116,121,124,128],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":86,"slug":87},90,"story-novel",{"id":47,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":89,"show_sort_weight":90,"slug":91},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":97,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":98,"show_sort_weight":99,"slug":100},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":102,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":103,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":105},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":107,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":108,"show_sort_weight":109,"slug":110},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":112,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":113,"show_sort_weight":114,"slug":115},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":118,"show_sort_weight":119,"slug":120},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":122,"show_sort_weight":119,"slug":123},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":126,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":127},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":129,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":130,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":131},19,"General","general"]