This is an interesting story based on the history of Indian boarding schools in Alaska. I wrote my Masters dissertation about a local ‘lunatic asylum’ and the people associated with it in the late 19th century, and I am always interested in fiction based on any sort of institution, so this was going to be a winner with me regardless.
This story involves the controversial opening of a long closed boarding school as a hotel and museum. It was thought to be haunted by a young girl who had died there in mysterious circumstances.
The main characters Mare, a journalism student, and Kat, a former member of a dance group with her sisters who found fame on TikTok, are employed there as a receptionist and kitchen assistant when it opens. There is some friction between them at the beginning as they were allocated their roles on who arrived first. So it is a little enemies to lovers.
They aim to find out the truth behind not only the haunting but there are also mysterious goings on that they witness. Determined to find the truth they are drawn to each other.
Needless to say in getting to the truth they enter into a relationship – each unsure of the attraction of the other.

There is quite a bit of research in this story –
the story of the Indian children removed to boarding schools for ethnic cleansing, eugenics and to assimilate them
Alaska
Spiritualism post WW1 (an extremely interesting phenomenon)

The romance in this book is woven into the story and both work well.