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  • Final Fury by Annabel Chase

    Final Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.I foolishly believed this day would never come, that life in charming Chipping Cheddar would always be pleasant and somewhat predictable—but all good things must come to an end.And it seems the dormant portal is no exception...
  • Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past by Lucy Score

    Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Riley Thorn and her hot, tattooed, private investigator boyfriend are all moved into their new fixer upper. Not only do they finally have their own place, they also haven’t found any new dead bodies on the premises.Yep. It looks like summer is over and so is Riley’s bad luck...
  • A Cursed Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    A Cursed Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Necromancer trainee, bookseller, novel writer Ava Harper is settling into her new life with friends and her houseguests. And she definitely isn’t thinking about a certain hunky sheriff who pops in unannounced at every turn. And mostly ignoring her devilish new neighbor, a lingering Christmas present from herself.She has bigger things to worry about. Like learning her newly woken powers...
  • Lowcountry Boughs of Holly by Susan M. Boyer

    Lowcountry Boughs of Holly by Susan M. Boyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but Private Investigator Liz Talbot is struggling to feel festive. She hasn’t seen her best friend, Colleen, in weeks and fears she may never see her again in this life. Meanwhile Nate, Liz’s husband and partner, is spending money like he prints it in the attic on a mysterious family Christmas celebration...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  ghosts  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

    The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare.Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death...
  • The Song of David by Amy Harmon

    The Song of David by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    She said I was like a song. Her favorite song. A song isn’t something you can see. It’s something you feel, something you move to, something that disappears after the last note is played. I won my first fight when I was eleven years old, and I’ve been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. Some people describe heaven as a sea of unending white...
  • Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter...
  • Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter

    Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 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...
  • Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sarah is looking for love under the covers...of a good book!As a small-town librarian, Sarah has her hands full with projects that range from running an in-library day care to planning her best friend's wedding. Romance is a complication she doesn't need...until he walks in...
  • Homecoming by the Sea by Kathi Daley

    Homecoming by the Sea by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Homecomings can be murder. When Amanda Parker returns to the small seaside town where she lived for two years while in witness protection she finds that she left a piece of herself behind. Literally. A ghost image of her alias, Alyson Prescott, has been living in her house for the past decade waiting rather impatiently for her return...
  • 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...
  • Wings and Broken Things by Trixie Silvertale

    Wings and Broken Things by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A crime with no eyewitnesses. A determined psychic sleuth. Will her search for clues take her where angels fear to tread?
Mitzy Moon is eager to test her expanding abilities. Although she’d love to look into the hit-and-run that struck down her favorite veterinarian, leads are slim to none...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  ghosts  humor  female-mc  cozy  mystery  fantasy  audiobook
  • Safe Harbor by Christine Feehan

    Safe Harbor by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    One of seven daughters in a line of extraordinary women, Hannah Drake has been the elusive object of affection for Jonas Harrington for as long as the rugged sheriff can remember. If only the stunning supermodel was driven by a passion other than her career. But Jonas isn t the only one with desires for Hannah...
  • A Ghoulish Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    A Ghoulish Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Moving home isn’t in the game plan.Ava Harper had aspirations for her forties. None included using her Necromancy powers to solve murders.As much as she doesn’t want to move back to Maine, she can’t spend another day in the empty, depressing house with the memory of her dead husband. It’s time for a new plan. Time to start over and learn to live again...
  • Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I've been told I'm a force to be reckoned with. That I blow onto the scene like a tornado.At age forty I've stopped caring if that's a compliment or a dig. Now I just wear it like a badge of honor. So when life threw me a curveball and I ended up going from a cushy job in New York City to the tiny Southern town of Grimm Cove I thought I was ready for anything.Ha! Not quite...
  • Sweet Tea and Spirits by Angie Fox

    Sweet Tea and Spirits by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Southern girl Verity Long is about as high society as her pet skunk. Which is why she’s surprised as anyone when the new head of the Sugarland social set invites her to join the "it" girls. But this is no social call. Verity’s new client needs her to go in undercover and investigate strange happenings at the group’s historic headquarters...
  • Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

    Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating love story filled with suspense and mystery.When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past...
  • Fire Bound by Christine Feehan

    Fire Bound by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sea Haven novels returns to the circle of the six sisters of the heart, bound by the elements—and to one who possesses the power to inflame the most dangerous passions of all. Flame-haired Lissa Piner is a skilled glass blower whose delicate gift conceals a burning inner strength that can destroy as exquisitely as it can create...
  • Every Witch Way But Wicked by Amanda M. Lee

    Every Witch Way But Wicked by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 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...
  • The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **USA Today Bestselling series!**From New York Times bestseller Angie Fox, the second book in the Southern Ghost Hunter mysteriesA haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime...
  • A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's holiday time in Firefly Junction but not everything is sweet sugarplums and glittery tinsel.Sunni Taylor has been too busy to get into the holiday spirit, even with her mom coming to town for a visit. Her festive spirit gets a spark when Detective Brady Jackson asks her to attend the town's production of A Christmas Carol...
  • Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.BEING CONNECTED TO DAEMON BLACK SUCKS… Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems...
  • Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...Sense of Evil...
  • Ax To Grind by Tonya Kappes

    Ax To Grind by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Southerners keep their secrets swept under the rug, but what happens when that rug goes up for sale? Bestselling author Berlye Stone, the most famous citizen to ever come out of Cottonwood, Kentucky, has died and put all her worldly possessions up for auction, but not without leaving one more manuscript behind. A hidden tell-all about Cottonwood that’s got more gossip than a ladies’ luncheon...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  animals  audiobook  book
  • Witch Way to Murder & Mayhem by Jane Hinchey

    Witch Way to Murder & Mayhem by Jane Hinchey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To call Gran eccentric is somewhat of an understatement. She has questionable fashion sense, cough, can anyone say bedazzled Ugg boots and a tutu? But my Gran? She is awesome. So when she suggested I buy The Dusty Attic Bookstore I was all in, after all, what could go wrong?Try finding my high school nemesis dead on the floor of my newly acquired store for starters...
  • Sea Swept by Nora Roberts

    Sea Swept by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' stunning Chesapeake Bay Saga, where the Quinn brothers must return to their family home on the Maryland shore, to honor their father's last request...A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn traveled the world spending his winnings on champagne and women...
  • Runaway Fate by Elizabeth Hunter

    Runaway Fate by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It's paranormal women's fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in.)Katherine wasn't looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove...
  • Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts

    Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    In her new trilogy, New York Times #1 Best Selling author, Nora Roberts returns to the lush, green hills of Ireland, where love is forever touched by magic - And where the Gallagher siblings explore the depth of their fiery hearts...
  • Nine of Wands by Mark Hayden

    Nine of Wands by Mark Hayden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gold. Beautiful and Deadly. And doubly deadly when you mix it with magick. Conrad and Mina take a time-out from trouble in Spain. It’s their own little Garden of Eden, until a Tarot reader tells him that his troubles have barely begun. Expelled from Paradise, Conrad and the team have to chase the trail of a new source of Alchemical Gold...
  • Tattoos and Clues by Trixie Silvertale

    Tattoos and Clues by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A beachside stroll. A deadly discovery. Will this psychic sleuth swim or sink?Mitzy wishes she could turn a blind third-eye to her hit-or-miss powers. Instead, while taking her fiendish feline for a walk, they make a stomach-churning find on shore. Despite her loss of appetite, she can't help but get a closer look at the unique ink etched into the corpse..
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  ghosts  humor  female-mc  cozy  mystery  fantasy  audiobook
  • Dance Upon The Air by Nora Roberts

    Dance Upon The Air by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband --and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago. But even in this quiet , peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease...
  • Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors by Molly Harper

    Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors by Molly Harper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Just as Jane Jameson's unlife seems to be stabilizing, fate sinks its fangs firmly into her butt. Despite her near-phobia of wedding planning, her no-frills nighttime nuptials to her sexy boyfriend, Gabriel, are coming along smoothly. That is, until she turns a fatally wounded teenage acquaintance, and the Council pronounces her responsible for the newborn vamp until he can control his thirst...
  • Ghostly Issues by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Issues by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Harper Harlow has the world at her fingertips, and the weight of the world on her shoulders. Whisper Cove’s resident ghost hunter finds that her professional life is soaring – while her personal life is floundering. She’s on a man diet – and nothing is going to tempt her, or so she swears...
  • The House on Blackberry Hill by Donna Alward

    The House on Blackberry Hill by Donna Alward

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Family secrets, a ghost from the past, and new love will draw readers into this compelling story, first in the Jewell Cove series by NYT Bestselling Author, Donna Alward. Abby Foster arrives in Jewell Cove to take possession of the family mansion she’s inherited from a relative she never knew existed. Her plan is to refurbish it, put it on the market, and head back to Nova Scotia...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  cheating
  • The Witch and the Dead by Heather Blake

    The Witch and the Dead by Heather Blake

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Darcy moved to Salem, Massachusetts, she never expected her life to change as drastically as it did. But within a short time, the Enchanted Village has become her home, its mystical residents have become her family, and As You Wish, the personal concierge business formerly run by her Aunt Ve, has become her calling...
  • Born in Fire by Nora Roberts

    Born in Fire by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Three modern sisters bound by the timeless beauty of Ireland...The eldest Concannon sister, Maggie, is a reclusive, stubborn and free-spirited glassmaker—with a heart worth winning.Margaret Mary is a glass artist with an independent streak as fierce as her volatile temper...
  • una dolce scoperta by Nora Roberts

    una dolce scoperta by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces you to the Montgomery brothers - Beckett, Ryder, and Owen - as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown.Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out - with a tough-as-nails outside and possibly nothing too soft underneath...
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M. Roth, Allyson Voller

    Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M. Roth, Allyson Voller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance Novel (PWF) When it rains, it pours... On the eve of my fortieth birthday, Fate has given me a second chance at the happiness I once knew in the odd Southern town of Grimm Cove. But only if I can come to terms with some rather eye-opening revelations. Supernaturals are a real thing. I'm a witch...
  • Deader Homes and Gardens by Angie Fox

    Deader Homes and Gardens by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Southern belle Verity Long is back in business--as a ghost hunter. Now all she has to do is visit the town's creepiest mansion and exorcise a family of vengeful spirits. Piece of cake. After all, ghosts love her and need her...that is until she meets the ghosts of Rock Fall mansion...
  • Witch Doggone Killer? by Paula Lester

    Witch Doggone Killer? by Paula Lester

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You know you’re in for a doozy of a work day when your first appointment is dead when you get to the exam room.Willow Morgan lives a quiet life in Superior Bay. Winter lasts for up to nine months there, and the biggest event of the year is the summer dog show. People come from all over to attend. It brings money and prestige to town...
  • Fortune Favors The Witch by Ani Gonzalez

    Fortune Favors The Witch by Ani Gonzalez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fortune teller Luanne LaRue is trying to build a new life in the haunted town of Banshee Creek and the last thing she wants is a conflict with super-sexy Sheriff Sean Stickley. But when a mysterious fraud spreads through town (along with a dead body) she has no choice. She has to find the culprit and clear her name fast before her new life (and new love) is destroyed...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Circumstantial Evidence by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Circumstantial Evidence by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Selected as a Best of 2015 by All About Romance Book Blog As Chief of Police in Sweetwater, South Carolina, Will Hawbaker has seen more than his share of violent crime. But none of it has prepared him for the aftereffects of a young boy dead at the hand of his mother’s boyfriend. And when the suspected killer turns up dead himself, it raises more questions...
  • Little Pink Taxi by Marie Laval

    Little Pink Taxi by Marie Laval

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Take a ride with Love Taxis, the cab company with a heart—in a contemporary Scottish romance that will transport you.   Rosalie Heart is a well-known face in Irlwick—well, if you drive a bright pink taxi and your signature style is a pink anorak, you’re going to draw a bit of attention. But Rosalie’s company Love Taxis is more than just a gimmick...
  • Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    Starting over sucks.When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring...until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up. And then he opened his mouth. Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all...
  • The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some intruder – earthly or not – is threatening the youngest LeBeau sister, back to claim her inheritance. And though Danae keeps her distance from the sexy hired hand, he falls for her in a heartbeat...
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  death
  • The Pink House by Cindy Kirk

    The Pink House by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deep in the forest, on a sun-drenched patch of lush green grass, surrounded by lily-of-the-valley, sits a pink house. With turrets towering like neighboring trees, and a wide welcoming front porch, the old Victorian is impossible to miss. Except that everyone in town has—everyone but Hannah Danbury...
  • Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Mia Devlin knows what it is like to love with your whole heart—and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared—and determined to live without love...
  • Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts

    Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them - which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her, and though she tries hard to hide them, she can't get them under control...
  • Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Seth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, Seth had been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love...
  • Rising Tides by Nora Roberts

    Rising Tides by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Ethan Quinn shares his late father's passion for the ocean, and he's determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But as well as looking out for his young brother Seth, the strong but guarded Quinn is also battling some difficult home truths.Grace Monroe, the woman Ethan has always loves but never believed he could have, is learning that appearances can be deceptive...
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