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  • My Big Fat Witch Wedding by Amanda M. Lee

    My Big Fat Witch Wedding by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The big day is finally here.Bay and Landon’s wedding day has arrived.Unfortunately, a tragedy stands in the way of their happily ever after, and it comes in the form of reports of an armed gunman at the local high school. Bay, ghosts at her side, braves the scene to save the kids … and uncovers something horrific.She. The boy with the gun says he needs to find her...
  • Only the Buried by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Buried by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Izzy Sage was looking for answers when she took a job as keeper of the death gate in Detroit. Unfortunately, the answers being delivered aren’t what she was hoping for. Personal worries have to take a backseat, though, because the reaper world is in an uproar...
  • Freaky Mage by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Mage by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The members of Mystic Caravan have Georgia on their minds as they land in Savannah … and immediately find trouble.In a city full of ghosts, Poet Parker expects a few magical things to happen, but when an evil cult sacrifices a young woman on the beach next to their camp, things take a turn nobody was expecting. Thankfully, she’s not alone for this fight...
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    ghosts  law-enforcement  paranormal  psychics  adult  book  cozy  fae
  • Freaky Reapers by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Reapers by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Poet Parker put the past behind her. At least she thought she did. Life on the streets wasn’t what she had in mind for her forever and she jumped at the chance to join Mystic Caravan Circus when an invitation was extended. She didn’t look back. That was ten years ago, and now Poet is going back to the exact area she used to haunt … and she’s nervous. The friends she left behind are scattered...
  • Long, Hot, Witchy Summer by Amanda M. Lee

    Long, Hot, Witchy Summer by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 27 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...
  • Great Hexpectations by Amanda M. Lee

    Great Hexpectations by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • Dark Secrets Resurgence by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Secrets Resurgence by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On a sabbatical from his Stanford teaching position, Professor David Levinson finally has time to write the sci-fi novel he’s been thinking about for years.The phenomena of past life memories and near-death experiences are too controversial to include in his formal psychiatric research, while fiction is the perfect outlet for his esoteric ideas...
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    ghosts  paranormal  psychics  adult  angels  book  demons  fated-mates
  • Dark Secrets Unveiled by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Secrets Unveiled by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Professor David Levinson accepts a friend’s invitation to an old Scottish castle, what he finds there is more fantastical than his most outlandish theories. The castle is home to a clan of immortals, their leader is a stunning demigoddess, and even more shockingly, it might be precisely where he belongs...
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    ghosts  paranormal  psychics  adult  angels  book  demons  fated-mates
  • Dark Haven Illusion by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Haven Illusion by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to Safe Haven, where not everything is what it seems.On a quest to process personal pain, Anastasia joins the Safe Haven Spiritual Retreat.Through meditation, self-reflection, and hard work, she hopes to shed the shackles of society, free herself of her father’s crippling expectations, and most importantly, make peace with the voices in her head.This is where she belongs...
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    ghosts  paranormal  psychics  adult  angels  audiobook  book  demons
  • The Witch is Back by Amanda M. Lee

    The Witch is Back by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Bay Winchester is living the high life. She’s engaged, owns her own business, and is undergoing a magical transformation, complete with growing powers at every turn. All that changes when a local teenager goes missing at a festival and nobody knows who took her.The girl’s friends saw the abduction but the description they provide doesn’t match anybody in town...
  • Marked for Murder by Colleen Helme

    Marked for Murder by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 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...
  • Grim Rising by Amanda M. Lee

    Grim Rising by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Aisling Grimlock should be happy.She’s living with and engaged to the man of her dreams, her mother isn’t eating people … at least out in the open, her best friend is distracted by wedding details … mostly, and there are zombies running around Detroit.Yeah, it’s that last one that’s driving her crazy … especially because no one in her family believes her when she spouts the tall tale...
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    ghosts  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  dark
  • Laced In Lies by Colleen Helme

    Laced In Lies by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meet Shelby Nichols, mind reader extraordinaire.A typical day in the life of Shelby Nichols involves cheating husbands, solving the hardest cases for the police, and working for a big time mob-boss, all because of her little secret that she can read minds. It can get complicated, especially considering she has a husband and two kids...
  • Hidden Deception by Colleen Helme

    Hidden Deception by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book 9 in the Shelby Nichols Adventure Series Just back from Paris, Shelby barely has time to get over her jet lag before she is right back in the thick of things. Uncle Joey, the local mob boss, needs her help to find out what his son is hiding from him. Detective Harris, AKA Dimples, has an unsolved homicide on his hands, along with a missing engagement ring...
  • Devil Days in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Devil Days in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Violet Parker knows better than to play with devils. They always cheat, especially when lives are at stake. Deadwood’s charming, troublemaking, and soul-sucking devils are no different, and they’re biting at her heels.But the clock is ticking and Violet has no choice—she must risk her life to save her treasured Aunt Zoe...
  • The Chupacabra Catastrophe by Amanda M. Lee

    The Chupacabra Catastrophe by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes has a new life and it’s not exactly what she thought it would be.She’s psychic, telekinetic and eager to learn from her knowledgeable co-workers at The Legacy Foundation. She’s also nervous, frightened and on edge … mostly because she’s exactly the sort of oddity the group is looking to study and she’s desperate to keep her secret from the very people who are searching for her...
  • Never Say Sever in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Never Say Sever in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All Violet Parker wants is a day off. Better yet, just a “normal” day. But things never go as planned, especially in Deadwood.Someone—or rather something—broke into the local taxidermy shop and took bites out of the critter displays before racing off into the dark. But this is no random crime and Violet knows it...
  • Grim Expectations by Amanda M. Lee

    Grim Expectations by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Aisling Grimlock is living a charmed life … kind of. Things are going well for Michigan’s favorite grim reaper, though. She’s moving in with her boyfriend Griffin Taylor, her best friend Jerry is doing his best not to melt down and her back-from-the-dead mother doesn’t appear to be munching on the unsuspecting populace. Er, well, maybe...
  • Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This desert oasis has gone to the dogs, and Vista de Lirio is about to get bloody.(Not the dogs though. The dogs are fine.)Comedian Evy Lane thought she’d done it all, but taking on the role of mistress of ceremonies for the Desert Fancy Dog Show may be her most challenging gig yet...
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    ghosts  paranormal  psychics  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Wicked Ever After by Gina LaManna

    Wicked Ever After by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this dramatic conclusion to The Hex Files series, Dani DeMarco comes face to face with the person she’s been hunting for months. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Detective DeMarco has lost almost everything. But only one can win at this deadly game.Dani is determined this will be the wicked end—one way or another...
  • Mack's Perfectly Ghastly Homecoming by A.J. Sherwood

    Mack's Perfectly Ghastly Homecoming by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mack’s over the moon to not only have Brandon but to finally be done with all their training. With the official FBI stamp of approval, they are ready to start ghost busting. The very last place he wants to be sent to is his hometown of Opelousas, Louisiana, however. But a child is being terrorized, and when he discovers it’s his favorite cousin, all reluctance is forgotten...
  • Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 by Jordan Castillo Price

    Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…will keep a PsyCop from his duty. Because ghosts don’t take snow days.Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 contains four novelettes and fourteen short stories. This all-new, novel length collection begins right where PsyCop 12, Other Half, left off...
  • Ghostly Despair by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Despair by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Almost six years ago, Harper Harlow’s boyfriend was involved in a car accident and walked away from the scene. Severely injured, law enforcement believed him dead and gave up looking. It seems they were wrong. Quinn Jackson is back … and he’s very much alive. His memory isn’t what it used to be, but he’s quickly putting things together...
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    ghosts  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  book  comedy  cozy  fiction
  • Ghost House by Pandora Pine

    Ghost House by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Be careful what you witch for… Ghost Detective Jude Byrne is missing the excitement of the high-profile investigations he and his partner have been handling. Every time the bell jingles over the shop door, he finds himself hoping it’s their next big case...
  • Detached by Elicia Hyder

    Detached by Elicia Hyder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She robbed her brother of his destiny. Now she’s stuck with a dangerous power she can’t ignore, can’t control, and frighteningly—can’t resist.I was born on the wrong side of the law—literally delivered on the floor of the state women’s prison.My mother sees spirits. My father could become one at will. Together, they were among the most dangerous crime couples in history...
  • Dead Man Walking by Pandora Pine

    Dead Man Walking by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cold Case Detective, Ronan O’Mara is stunned to see the breaking news that a well-known mobster he helped to put behind bars, Vito “The Dragon” Dragonni, has been released from prison after his life sentence is overturned on a technicality. When prominent members involved in the original case against The Dragon start turning up dead, Ronan starts to wonder if he’s next...
  • Dead to the World by Pandora Pine

    Dead to the World by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Since the death of his former partner, Tony Abruzzi, at the hands of mob boss, Vito “The Dragon” Dragonni, Cold Case Detective, Ronan O’Mara, has been a shell of his former self. Other than working his shifts at the police station, Ronan is going through the motions of life. The once vital and active cop is reduced to binge-watching trashy shows on Netflix to cope with his loss...
  • Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers...
  • Ghostly Wrecks by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Wrecks by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The dog days of summer are here and the heat isn’t the only thing oppressing the populace in Whisper Cove. No, it seems that feelings – the big L-word, to be exact – are weighing heavily on Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe. Both halves of Whisper Cove’s favorite couple are both desperate and terrified to say it...
  • Dead Ringer by Pandora Pine

    Dead Ringer by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cold Case Detective and newlywed, Ronan O’Mara, is sitting on top of the world. When he returns to work after his honeymoon, he finds more waiting for him than a stack of dusty cold case files. Hidden in the mail on Ronan’s desk is a letter from Tank Hutchins, aka The Riverside Ripper...
  • Brotherhood of Dragons by Sarah J. Stone

    Brotherhood of Dragons by Sarah J. Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My life is in grave danger. And he’s the only one who can save me. Jason Crane. A high-profile bodyguard. Strong, mesmerizing, and hard as steel. I want to run my fingers all over his chiseled chest. On paper, he’s perfect. Normal. But he has a secret. He’s been alive for over four centuries. A dragon shifter. And I’ve been thrown into a safe house with him...
  • Ghostly Worries by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Worries by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • Ghostly Ordeal by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Ordeal by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Harper Harlow has everything she wants. She has a new house … a new fiancé … and some time off work because the stretch after the holidays is generally slow. All that changes when she gets a call from her mother during a storm. Gloria Harlow has a lot of attitude and it’s on full display when Harper and her betrothed, Detective Jared Monroe, show up on the scene of a murder...
  • Welcoming Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Welcoming Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rowan Gray is a former photojournalist starting a new life on The Bounding Storm, one of the Atlantic Ocean’s most decadent cruise ships. She’s friendly and excited for her new career … but she’s also hiding a secret. Quinn Davenport left a career in the military to become head of security on The Bounding Storm...
  • Wicked Warning by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Warning by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Harker and Ivy Morgan are happy. Actually, they're more than happy. They're also content. Nothing can get in their way.That all changes when a disheveled teenager shows up at Shadow Lake's weekly dance. The girl is dirty, disoriented, and traumatized. That means Jack and Ivy are on the case, and the truth of one girl's horror may bring the entire Shadow Lake community to its knees...
  • Sense and Scent Ability by Renee George

    Sense and Scent Ability by Renee George

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My name is Nora Black, and I'm fifty-one-years young. At least that's what I tell myself, when I'm not having hot flashes, my knees don't hurt, and I can find my reading glasses.I’m also the proud owner of a salon called Scents & Scentsability in the small resort town of Garden Cove, where I make a cozy living selling handmade bath and beauty products. All in all, my life is pretty good...
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence...Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
  • Wicked Delight by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Delight by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Ivy Morgan and Jack Harker don’t have many complaints. Things are good, life is quiet, and the only big thing on their to-do lists is picking a date for their wedding, which is exactly what they’re doing when a local celebutante approaches with an offer for Jack to be on a dating show...
  • Vanished: Safe House / Sanctuary by Meg Cabot

    Vanished: Safe House / Sanctuary by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ever since Jess was struck by lightning, she’s had the power to find missing people. And everyone wants a piece of her powers.... In Safe House, Jess and her psychic abilities are being blamed for the murder of Amber, a beloved cheerleader. But when more cheerleaders start disappearing, Jess may be able to save her reputation by finding the murderer—before it’s too late...
  • Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 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...
  • Freaky Seas by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Seas by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is heading to Charleston and – per usual – trouble is not far behind.For Poet Parker, who is grappling with saying goodbye to her assistant, she’s looking forward to quiet nights on the beach and quality time with her boyfriend. All that changes when the sea starts giving up its dead … and they appear to be hungry.Under normal circumstances, zombies wouldn’t be a big deal...
  • Glow by Darynda Jones

    Glow by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Glow is the sultry short story, Shimmer, as told through the eyes of Reyes Farrow. It is available on the author's website for free...
  • Wicked Games by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Games by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ivy Morgan knew she was in for a world of hurt when she was sentenced to community service. She had no idea just how bad things were going to be, though. On her first day of picking up trash along the roadside, one of her crew members stumbles over a body, and it happens to belong to someone she knows...
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    ghosts  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  humor
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
  • Love & Omens by Carrie Pulkinen

    Love & Omens by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 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...
  • From the Ashes by Dale Mayer

    From the Ashes by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the 16th Psychic Visions Novel from USA Today Bestselling author Dale Mayer.Born and raised in a cult with a fanatical father who believed she was destined for greater things, Phoenix endured a childhood of pain and torment. Not only was her father preparing her for the future he saw, he hated that she was stronger, better than he was...
  • Blowin' Up a Murder by Tonya Kappes

    Blowin' Up a Murder by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love and marriage go together like grits and gravy...or do they?Welcome to the little town of Cottonwood, Kentucky, a charming town with fun business names like Tiny Tina’s Hair Salon and Cowboy’s Catfish.Sheriff Lowry becomes public enemy number one when she shuts down a wedding reception when one of the catering waiters ends up dead impaled with a wedding umbrella...
  • Grave Shelter by Kate Allenton

    Grave Shelter by Kate Allenton

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some secrets are worth dying to protect.Twenty years ago, a woman with a secret vanished only to turn up murdered a year later on the same shoreline where she’d disappeared.And now it’s happening again.Psychic Ryley St. James has found a killer’s dumping ground. Six dead bodies took their secrets to a watery grave. And now Ryley’s name has been added to the killer’s hit list...
  • Wicked Ghosts by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Ghosts by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s vacation time for Harper Harlow and her boyfriend Jared Monroe. They have big plans to head to northern Lower Michigan for a wine tasting event – which happens to be close to a small town called Shadow Lake – and they’re even taking Zander and Shawn along for the ride. In Shadow Lake, Ivy Morgan finds herself in a good mood...
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    ghosts  law-enforcement  paranormal  psychics  adult  book  cozy  crime
  • Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 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...
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