After losing his best friend Hikari, Ren Takamori travels to Japan to fulfill the promise he made to her. But what begins as a bittersweet trip soon turns into a nightmare when Ren starts seeing spirits, hearing impossible voices, and crossing paths with things that should not exist.

Then he meets Yuri Saionji, and for the first time since Hikari’s death, Ren feels something real beginning to open in his heart again. But love and the supernatural are about to collide. With a mysterious black cat at his side, a shrine maiden guarding dangerous secrets, and a dark presence waiting beyond the torii gates, Ren is pulled into a world of haunted shrines, restless spirits, and shifting boundaries between life and death.

The Spirit Beside Me is a paranormal horror romance filled with grief, mystery, first love, and the darkness that waits just beyond memory.