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  • Long, Hot, Witchy Summer by Amanda M. Lee

    Long, Hot, Witchy Summer by Amanda M. Lee

    14 ratings
    Life couldn’t be going much better for Hadley Hunter. She’s living the dream on Moonstone Bay with her boyfriend Galen Blackwood, plotting her next move as a witch for hire, and basically basking in happiness.That all changes when a summer afternoon on the beach turns into a nightmare, an odd creature from the depths of the ocean surfacing and attacking Hadley on the beach...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • Great Hexpectations by Amanda M. Lee

    Great Hexpectations by Amanda M. Lee

    14 ratings
    Hadley Hunter thought she was getting a grip on the paranormal world she never knew existed until recently. She was wrong. In the shadow of a massive shifter retreat, she finds she knew absolutely nothing.Her live-in love Galen Blackwood has his hands full with the conference...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book
  • To Spell with It by Amanda M. Lee

    To Spell with It by Amanda M. Lee

    14 ratings
    Hadley Hunter thinks she’s seen everything – okay, maybe not everything but a lot of things – but she’s never seen a cupid convention.When her good friend Booker’s fellow cupids descend on Moonstone Bay, she thinks it’s going to be fun and games. Instead, it’s mayhem and mystery when a rash of suicides and attempted suicides hit random island residents...
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    cozy  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Breath of Witchy Air by Amanda M. Lee

    A Breath of Witchy Air by Amanda M. Lee

    16 ratings
    Hemlock Cove is mired in a cold snap, which means the town is calm and quiet. That all changes in an instant when a beer truck tips over on the highway and half the town shows up to get drunk. Bay Winchester is about to be the sole owner of the town newspaper so she heads out to take photos … and accidentally stumbles over several bodies...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book
  • Witching on the Job by Amanda M. Lee

    Witching on the Job by Amanda M. Lee

    12 ratings
    Hadley Hunter came to Moonstone Bay to find herself. That included finding her passion in life. She just didn’t think it would involve becoming mayor.She has no qualifications, other than being a powerful witch.Half the town is rooting against her.The other half is just sitting back to see what happens.Only a handful of people are rooting for her, but they’re the only ones who matter...
  • Semi-Psychic Life by Elizabeth Hunter

    Semi-Psychic Life by Elizabeth Hunter

    18 ratings
    Who says you can’t live the rock and roll life after forty?You just need a lot more vitamins and a bigger bottle of aspirin.Valerie Costa was pretty sure she was rocking her forties. She had an amazing coffee shop, two cool teenagers, and a new superpower that gave her insight into any random object she touched.Okay, she wasn’t thrilled about that last one...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult
  • Bedtime Fury by Annabel Chase

    Bedtime Fury by Annabel Chase

    14 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight There's been a discovery of demons.Again.The appearance of a strange plant on the Taskers' farm sends Neville and I straight to the Federal Bureau of Magic database, where we discover that deadly demons are snatching bodies all over town...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  animals
  • A Witch Before Dying by Amanda M. Lee

    A Witch Before Dying by Amanda M. Lee

    16 ratings
    Hemlock Cove is bustling with activity.FBI Agent Landon Michaels has officially moved in with his girlfriend Bay Winchester, Mrs. Little is planning an impromptu festival and there’s a new witch in town. The question is: Is Scarlet Darksbane a real witch?Bay is in the middle of all of it...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter

    Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter

    16 ratings
    She’s feeling the heat. Or it might be a hot flash. Sometimes it’s really hard to tell.It’s been four years since Monica lost the love of her life to a sudden and devastating heart attack. She’s held her family together and picked herself up with the love and help of her two best friends. Now Monica has a new business, a new wardrobe, and a new vision for the future.As in actual psychic visions...
  • Marked for Murder by Colleen Helme

    Marked for Murder by Colleen Helme

    10 ratings
    Trouble follows Shelby Nichols Why wouldn't it?She works for a mob boss.And the police.A desperate call from a friend in need turns Shelby’s life upside down. Someone is out to prove that Shelby is a fake, marking her for murder. How far will they go?As the clock ticks down, she realizes no one is safe, and it’s up to her to stop them. Will she succeed? Let’s hope so, because time is running out...
  • Every Picture Tells a Fury by Annabel Chase

    Every Picture Tells a Fury by Annabel Chase

    12 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.When an artist in Chipping Cheddar disappears under mysterious circumstances, Chief Fox enlists my help to solve the case. An inspection of the artist's most recent paintings reveals there's magic at work and I have to get in touch with my inner Rembrandt in order to access it...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  animals
  • Wicked Season by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Season by Lily Harper Hart

    12 ratings
    Ivy Morgan is convinced life couldn’t get better. She’s happy, in love and since fall is her favorite season she’s having a great time with the shifting weather. All of that changes when her boyfriend’s mother and sister show up out of the blue and cast her life into disarray. Jack Harker has never been happier, and even though he loves his mother and sister he’s not thrilled with their arrival...
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    cozy  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Witch Out of Water by Amanda M. Lee

    Witch Out of Water by Amanda M. Lee

    14 ratings
    Hadley Hunter is the new witch in a town overflowing with paranormal beings. She’s ready to settle, but odd things keeping cropping up and knocking her off her game. In addition to dating Moonstone Bay’s sheriff Galen Blackwood, Hadley has her hands full when she helps discover a body at a local festival and uncovers a decades’ old feud between two warring families...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Dirty Coven by Lily Harper Hart

    The Dirty Coven by Lily Harper Hart

    14 ratings
    Hannah Hickok is at a crossroads in her life. She’s single, out of a job, and living in an apartment she absolutely hates in a suburb of Detroit. All that changes when she receives a registered letter and finds out she’s inherited a performance town.Casper Creek is located in Kentucky, on top of a small mountain, and is fashioned after notorious towns from the old west...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  audiobook  book
  • Grim Discovery by Amanda M. Lee, Karen Krause

    Grim Discovery by Amanda M. Lee, Karen Krause

    14 ratings
    Aisling Grimlock’s life is a mess. Her mother might be back from the dead. Wraiths appear to be after her again. Her father is definitely up to something. Michigan’s most calamity-prone grim reaper is in a pickle, and the only one she can trust with a haunting secret is her boyfriend Griffin...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Grim Reunion by Amanda M. Lee, Karen Krause

    Grim Reunion by Amanda M. Lee, Karen Krause

    14 ratings
    Aisling Grimlock has a lot going on. Her boyfriend is keeping a secret … with her brother. She’s finally on her own collecting souls for the family reaping business. Oh, and her mother is back from the dead and may be eating people to keep herself alive. When trouble comes knocking and someone Aisling adores is left injured in the crossfire, she’s out for blood and vengeance...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Whisk and Reward by Nancy Warren

    Whisk and Reward by Nancy Warren

    8 ratings
    Murder, deceit and baking... It’s the big finale of the Great British Baking Contest. Who will win? Who will fall flatter than an eggless soufflé? And will amateur baker and witch Poppy survive to find out?Dark forces are at work in the picture-perfect village of Broomewode in Somerset...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  animals
  • Witchin' USA by Amanda M. Lee

    Witchin' USA by Amanda M. Lee

    16 ratings
    Hadley Hunter has lived a normal life, in a normal suburb, with a normal job and a normal father. All that changes when a grandmother she didn’t even know existed dies and leaves her a fabulous lighthouse on Moonstone Bay Island. Hadley, ready for an adventure, decides to check things out and finds herself plunged into a world she never envisioned...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult
  • Secret Hollows by Terri Reid

    Secret Hollows by Terri Reid

    16 ratings
    The man smiled at Timmy. “That would be nice of you. Why don’t you lead the way?” Timmy moved past the man and started back up the hill. He heard the whoosh of something moving quickly through the air, but it hit him before he had time to react. He felt the impact against his head and his whole body flew sideways through the air...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book
  • Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    18 ratings
    When you're a witch, being wicked comes naturally. For the Winchester witches, though, being wicked is only half the fun. After a long winter, spring has finally hit Hemlock Cove and Bay Winchester thinks things are finally settling down in the town – and with her family. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true...
  • Mack's Rousing Ghoulish Highland Adventure by A.J. Sherwood

    Mack's Rousing Ghoulish Highland Adventure by A.J. Sherwood

    10 ratings
    Mack did not sign up for hunting unknown ghost-eating creatures.But that’s what he gets when he and Brandon arrive to help Eli and husbands at an old inn situated in the Scottish Highlands. Now he’s surrounded by terrified ghosts on the run, zombie-ghosts that look eaten, and no one knows what the baddie is...
  • Wicked Fog by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Fog by Lily Harper Hart

    12 ratings
    Fall is here and Ivy Morgan is excited. Halloween is her favorite time of year and all she wants is to share her good mood – and three little words – with her boyfriend Jack Harker. That all changes when Jack and Ivy discover a body in a corn maze and Ivy is overcome by a dark foreboding that renders her unconscious. After sitting vigil, Jack is relieved when Ivy opens her eyes...
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    cozy  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Ghostly Worries by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Worries by Lily Harper Hart

    14 ratings
    Whisper Cove is stuck in a heat wave, although it’s nothing compared to the fire stoking between Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe. They’re happy and enjoying themselves … until a face from the past resurfaces.Jason Thurman and Harper had a brief fling in high school, and when he returns to town to open a restaurant he’s hoping they can revisit their relationship as adults...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  book
  • Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    14 ratings
    Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood … the mystery and mayhem continue. Between the butchered body parts, creepy killers, dogged detectives, ghoulish ghosts, and ever-present TV cameras, Violet Parker’s purple boots are itching to skedaddle.But there is no escaping another murder investigation or her new deadly reputation. Not even if both risk the lives of those she loves most...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  alpha-mc
  • Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino

    Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino

    16 ratings
    Stacy Justice is a young reporter who lives in Chicago, far away from the kooky small town of Amethyst, Illinois, where she was raised by a family of witches. She’s perfectly content with her career, her cat, and her lack of a love life until her cousin informs her that their grandfather is deathly ill...
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    cozy  crime  magic  paranormal  psychics  animals  audiobook  book
  • Darkness Exposed by Terri Reid

    Darkness Exposed by Terri Reid

    16 ratings
    Jeannine appeared in the room across from Mary. Her face was streaked with tears and she was visibly trembling. “Mary, I remembered,” she cried. “I remembered and it was awful.”The time has finally come for Mary to investigate Jeannine’s murder...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Every Witch Way But Wicked by Amanda M. Lee

    Every Witch Way But Wicked by Amanda M. Lee

    18 ratings
    Where there’s a witch, there’s a way! Where there’s a whole family of them, there’s trouble. Bay Winchester, editor of Hemlock Cove’s small weekly newspaper, thinks her small hamlet’s upcoming murder mystery weekend is going to be all about fun, food and frolicking...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • Sunken Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Sunken Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    The Bounding Storm is racing toward adventure … and this time it’s something completely out of the ordinary. Rowan Gray still can’t wrap her mind around the fact that an old shipwreck – one that could make salvagers rich beyond their wildest dreams – is going to be The Bounding Storm’s main focus for a full week...
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    cozy  crime  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  amateur-sleuth  book
  • Churning Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Churning Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Rowan Gray is a bundle of nerves. She’s waiting for word on her father – a man who supposedly died ten years before – and the only thing that can shift her focus is a fraught rescue at sea, one that forces The Bounding Storm to evacuate a group of oil rig workers during a tumultuous storm...
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    cozy  crime  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  book  comedy
  • Choppy Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Choppy Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Rowan Gray has a lot on her mind. Between her uncle dropping a bomb about the father she believed dead actually being alive and a mountain of feuding cheerleaders descending on The Bounding Storm, Rowan can’t quite seem to get a handle on her emotions...
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    cozy  crime  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  amateur-sleuth  book
  • Murky Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Murky Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Rowan Gray has a new job, home and potential boyfriend. Things should be going swimmingly, especially given the fact that she now calls a cruise ship home. All of that changes when a group of feisty women from a cosmetics company take over the Bounding Storm for a week of sun, fun and murder. For Quinn Davenport, things aren’t at all what he expected...
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    cozy  crime  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book
  • Moonshine & Mayhem by Kathleen Brooks

    Moonshine & Mayhem by Kathleen Brooks

    10 ratings
    Zoey Mathers was a witch. Not on purpose. It had happened accidently. But as Zoey was finding out, maybe this had been her fate all along. Luckily the potential witch hunter, Slade, had turned out to be on her side and had found a place in her heart. With the War of the Witches heating up, it's not just Zoey's life on the line, but all the witches fighting for good...
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    cozy  crime  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  comedy
  • Karma's Spell by L.A. Boruff, Helen Scott

    Karma's Spell by L.A. Boruff, Helen Scott

    10 ratings
    No one ever told me what to do if I ended up forty-something, divorced, and jobless.When my ex knocks at my door with his new girlfriend I somehow manage to turn them into toads. But that’s not possible, right?Still, my ex-husband’s car is in the driveway, and he’s nowhere to be found. Which doesn’t look great for me...
  • The Ghost and Little Marie by Bobbi Holmes

    The Ghost and Little Marie by Bobbi Holmes

    10 ratings
    The family of Adam Nichols show up in Frederickport when Marie ends up in a nursing home with a broken hip. Yet unlike Adam, who is trying to get his grandmother home, the new arrivals are more concerned with selling off her assets and keeping her in the questionable facility...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    10 ratings
    She thought she could see everything. Time is proving her wrong.Ten years ago, Natalya’s ability to remember the future cost her the life she wanted when her vision of her fiancé’s death tore them apart. Ever since, she's considered her precognition more of a curse than a gift...
  • Don't Let it Snow in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Caroline Shaffer

    Don't Let it Snow in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Caroline Shaffer

    12 ratings
    "I laughed (a lot), cried (a little), and wanted to stab a certain family member. This story brings all the feels!” --Renee George, USA Today Bestselling Author It’s Christmas Eve and Violet Parker has one request on her list for Santa—to make it home to her kids. Unfortunately, “home” is also the lair of her life-long nemesis, her sister Susan (aka the devil’s concubine)...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Grace Under Fury by Annabel Chase

    Grace Under Fury by Annabel Chase

    14 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sightResidents are sneezing and coughing all over town and it seems like a brutal allergy season is upon us--until someone dies. When Dr...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  animals
  • Murder on the Sugarland Express by Angie Fox

    Murder on the Sugarland Express by Angie Fox

    14 ratings
    Ghost hunter Verity Long is overdue for a little R&R (rest and romance) with her boyfriend, Ellis, and a vintage train trip through the Tennessee mountains seems like just the ticket. The Sugarland Express carries history and nostalgia in every compartment, and Verity is determined to enjoy it—without ghostly interference...
  • Shadows of Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

    Shadows of Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

    14 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author, Deanna Chase, the fifth book in the Jade Calhoun series. Starting a new job is tough...especially when your boss thinks nothing of interrupting your wedding. After a year of battling ghosts and demons, white witch Jade Calhoun is finally marrying the man of her dreams...
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    cozy  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  angels
  • Wicked Dreams by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Dreams by Lily Harper Hart

    14 ratings
    Detective Jack Harker is living in his dreams – only they’re really nightmares.Ivy Morgan wants to help, especially since she’s become a frequent visitor in his subconscious – only she doesn’t know how.When a battered teenage girl shows up in Ivy’s greenhouse, the duo must put aside their misgivings and constant miscommunication so they can try and help...
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    cozy  crime  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Wicked Times by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Times by Lily Harper Hart

    14 ratings
    Detective Jack Harker and Shadow Lake’s resident witch Ivy Morgan are finally on the right romantic track – and they’re officially going on their first date. While eating dinner in a neighboring town, a police officer is shot and killed on the street – and when the ballistics come back, Jack realizes his tortured past is still part of his tumultuous present...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book
  • Witch at Heart by Juliette Harper

    Witch at Heart by Juliette Harper

    14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereJinx Hamilton has been minding her own business working as a waitress at Tom’s Cafe and keeping up with her four cats. Then she inherits her Aunt Fiona’s store in neighboring Briar Hollow, North Carolina and learns that her aunt has willed her some special “powers” as well. They say admitting you have a problem is the first step and Jinx has a major problem...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  book
  • Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    16 ratings
    Wedding bells are ringing for psychic Abigail Cooper. But her senses are tingling that her fiancé, Dutch, is in danger. And he’s not the only one.…ON HER WEDDING DAY, ABBY’S A TICKING TIME BOMB.   It’s said to be good luck if it rains on your wedding day, but Abby sees something darker than storm clouds on the horizon. She’s just had a disturbing premonition of her fiancé’s murder...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult
  • Shimmer by Darynda Jones

    Shimmer by Darynda Jones

    16 ratings
    Shimmer is a Charley Davidson Christmas Short Story. For more, the author released Glow, which is the same story but through they eyes of Reyes Farrow...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  alpha-mc
  • Bold Mercy by Laken Cane

    Bold Mercy by Laken Cane

    17 ratings
    It's hard to concentrate on work when you've just moon-shifted with your alpha...But the council that recruited me doesn't waste any time handing me my first assignment--and it just happens to be personal to me.I have to slay the warped evil that is Avis Vine--a human servant so twisted and changed by her former master's bad blood magic that she's no longer really human...
  • Love & Omens by Carrie Pulkinen

    Love & Omens by Carrie Pulkinen

    6 ratings
    She sees the future.He reads the past.The present could kill them both.Knowing how things will end before they even begin is a curse New Orleans tour guide Sydney Park has endured since she was a child. Her premonitions make surprises few and far between, and dating…What's the point?Reading the past in objects has caused more trouble for Blake Beaumont than he cares to admit...
  • To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    6 ratings
    Trent's heart may belong to Tina, but a shadow demon is after his soul…Trent Austin is a successful, big-city lawyer. The last thing he needs is the burden of a run-down house in the suburbs. But when his crazy uncle dies and leaves his estate to Trent, he soon learns he's inherited a lot more than a Victorian mansion...
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    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Love and Ghosts by Carrie Pulkinen

    Love and Ghosts by Carrie Pulkinen

    8 ratings
    He sees dead people.She refuses to believe they exist.Psychic medium Sean LeBlanc runs the most popular haunted tour company in the French Quarter. When the toughest skeptic he’s ever met turns out to be the woman of his dreams, he makes it his mission to win her heart and dispel her disbelief.Communicating with the dead is easy. Convincing her his ability is real?Not so much...
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    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    8 ratings
    Cold cases, old enemies, ex-lovers, and vengeful spirits are making life dangerous for psychic medium Simon Kincaide and his boyfriend, homicide detective Vic D’Amato. The ghosts of Myrtle Beach are restless, trapped by love, secrets, scandals, and spells, keeping Simon busy protecting the living from the unhappy dead...
  • Queso de los Muertos by Nova Nelson

    Queso de los Muertos by Nova Nelson

    8 ratings
    A town cook-off has never been so life-or-death.When it comes to Eastwind's annual cook-off, witch Nora Ashcroft is in it to win it.It's the perfect opportunity to introduce her delectable queso recipe to the magical town of Eastwind, and she'll do whatever it takes to keep Donovan from beating her...
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    cozy  crime  ghosts  magic  paranormal  psychics  adult  animals
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