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  • The Trailwalker by J.L. Bryan

    The Trailwalker by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The old campground in the mountains has a shrouded history wrapped in legend. Located by the mysterious mounds of a vanished people, it was once a popular summer destination for children, but closed long ago under tragic circumstances.Josh and Allison Conner have moved out from the city, inspired to create a retreat for children in need, a place to build skills and character...
  • The Lodge by J.L. Bryan

    The Lodge by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    More than a century ago, the Sea Islands of Georgia's coastline were the playground of the ultra-wealthy. Carnegies, Morgans, Rockefellers and other aristocrats of the Industrial Age built luxurious southern beach retreats on islands like Cumberland and Jekyll to escape the icy winters of New York...
  • Gone Haunting in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Gone Haunting in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trespassers will be gutted and hung!—Slagton’s Town Motto Normally, not even drunk on a bet would Violet Parker go to Slagton, a creepy ghost town inhabited by those too stubborn—or deranged—to leave. But a certain bullheaded Deadwood detective has a problem—his informant from Slagton has gone missing...
  • The Ghost and the Halloween Haunt by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Halloween Haunt by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Turning the one-time seaside B & B into a Halloween haunted house for a local fundraiser seems like a good idea. After all, Eva and Marie’s ghosts are willing to help. However, the two spirit friends of Marlow House are not the only ghosts to stop by...
  • House of Whispers by J.L. Bryan

    House of Whispers by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The luxurious Lathrop Grand Hotel is a Savannah institution that has entertained guests for more than a century and a half, offering some of the finest accommodations in the city. Famously haunted, the hotel draws tourists from around the world eager to encounter its numerous ghosts...
  • Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Close your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out to see you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago...
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mysterious death. A vicious gang. And a spectre whose presence foreshadows a horrific fate.When the Wynne family inherits a house from a deceased family member, they didn’t expect a ghost to come with it.The frightening figure of a skeletal, wild wraith with a bloodcurdling scream leads the Wynnes to seek the help of psychic private investigator, Sully Gray. Rarely does Sully land simple cases...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A dark magic seeks to rise even as the dust settles...It's been more than a year since Jess and Hannah Ballard fought to return the power of the Gateways where it rightfully belongs, and the Durupinen world is slowly adjusting to its altered relationship with the spirit world...
  • Descension by Shani Struthers

    Descension by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Descension is the fifth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!This is what we're dealing with here, the institutionalised..Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them...
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
  • The Garden by Alexie Aaron

    The Garden by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The PEEPs team (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners) has finally taken on a paying investigation. The owner of an isolated mansion wishes to donate the lease of the property to be used as an abuse shelter. There’s only one problem, it’s haunted. From the maids perpetually making up the beds to a banshee screaming in the upper hall, this house is more than hot with activity, it’s boiling...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Lullaby by J.L. Bryan

    Lullaby by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life is more difficult than ever at Savannah's only ghost-hunting detective agency. While Ellie copes with her mentor's departure and other unwelcome developments, she also worries about the supernatural injuries keeping her boyfriend caught in an endless slumber. At the same time, Ellie and Stacey are called in to investigate an eerie entity haunting a baby's nursery room...
  • The Tower by J.L. Bryan, Carla Mercer-Meyer

    The Tower by J.L. Bryan, Carla Mercer-Meyer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ellie's new case takes her far out of town to a historic but crumbling 19th-century skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. The reclusive, once-prominent family living at the top of the tower are experiencing paranormal disturbances that grow more threatening by the day...
  • Terminal by J.L. Bryan

    Terminal by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ellie Jordan and her apprentice Stacey investigate a house in an elaborate planned community that was only half-built before it went bankrupt, leaving an instant ghost town with only a few residents. The entity haunting this house is a banshee that feeds on sadness and misery...
  • The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ghost removal specialist Ellie Jordan must face a dangerous, shape-shifting entity that she and Calvin have encountered once before, with tragic results. The spirit has the power to reach into the minds of living and feed on their fears, taking the shape of their worst nightmares, and it has awoken in search of new victims...
  • Maze of Souls by J.L. Bryan

    Maze of Souls by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's October, and down at newly opened Pine Hollow Farm, the ghosts are running wild!. This “genuine” old-time family farm offers a big heap of fun fall activities. You can drink cider fresh from the orchard, enter a pumpkin-carving contest, and explore the five-acre corn maze...
  • Shadow Child by Wendy Wang

    Shadow Child by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A wish is the strongest form of magic. It's also the most dangerous.For psychic Charlie Payne being haunted is an everyday experience. When Charlie agrees to help her cousin forage for furniture at an auction she expects to steer her cousin clear of any lingering spirits. But a child's wish makes that impossible...
  • NOLA by Alexie Aaron

    NOLA by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Favors, be careful asking for them, because they have to be repaid. Repaying her debt Gerald Shem has sent Mia to New Orleans, Louisiana to be part of a team of sensitives and psychics who were coming together to aid in the crossing of lost spirits. Mia assumed that she was just replacing a team member that had fallen ill, but there is more at stake in the Big Easy than it appears...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Checking Out PEEPs Lite 9.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Checking Out PEEPs Lite 9.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re back. PEEPs Lite – More story, less filling. Some stories just need to be told; anyway, that’s what the voices in my head keep telling me. As I prepare for the next full length “Haunted Series” novel (available in the Spring of 2014), I can’t help wanting to tell you a couple stories in between. These novellas fall after “Something Old” the ninth novel in the “Haunted Series...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Things that Go Bump in the Night by Alexie Aaron

    Things that Go Bump in the Night by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ladies and Gentlemen, The Jewel Theater proudly presents for your reading enjoyment “Things that Go Bump in the Night,” starring Cherry O’Kelly, a burlesque performer whose career was cut short in her prime. A consummate professional, Cherry doesn't let a little thing like death get in the way of a good bump and grind...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Ice and Steel PEEPs 9.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Ice and Steel PEEPs 9.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re back. PEEPs Lite – More story, less filling. Some stories just need to be told; anyway, that’s what the voices in my head keep telling me. As I prepare for the next full length “Haunted Series” novel (available in the Spring of 2014), I can’t help wanting to tell you a couple stories in between. These novellas fall after “Something Old,” the ninth novel in the “Haunted Series...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Unfinished business, we all have it. Projects left undone, a garden yet to be weeded, an email needing to be sent. In Mia’s case, it’s Cold Creek Hollow. It has been two years since the horrors there were successfully dealt with...
  • Old Bones by Alexie Aaron

    Old Bones by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every family has a few skeletons in their closet.Meeting the future in-laws has Mia in a panic. She’d rather face a hoard of marauding ghosts than make polite conversation with the 150 relatives and friends that have arrived to check her out."If you are reading this then I, Giuseppe Basso, am dead. I have been murdered...
  • Puzzle by Alexie Aaron

    Puzzle by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A group of teenage boys enter an abandoned middle school with larceny on their minds. The tables are quickly turned when an entity of great power locks them in and forces them to play his puzzle games. Dave (Sand Trap), who is violently tossed out because he can see the ghost, calls Mia for help, fearing police involvement...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • The Siege by Alexie Aaron

    The Siege by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The dropping temperatures herald the coming of the holidays in northern Illinois. There are trees to be trimmed and packages to be wrapped. Mia is taking it easy while the PEEPs struggle with an infestation of poltergeists. Meanwhile, Big Bear Lake braces for the approach of the first winter storm. Two feet of snow is expected...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s do-it-yourself season and the DIY projects are in full swing with enthusiastic homeowners tearing down walls, sanding old floors and waking up ghosts. “It should be called DYI for do-yourself-in,” Mia commented as the calls for PEEPs flood the switchboards and crash their computers. Or did something else crash them? Meanwhile, Angelo searches for the soul of his lost friend...
  • Mind Fray by Alexie Aaron

    Mind Fray by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a quiet street in the suburbs of Chicago sits an ordinary ranch home built in the sixties. Inside, a young couple rests comfortably until there is a scratch at the door…Something inhabits the Madisons’ home. It feeds off of memories and produces hallucinations that will isolate and confuse the ghost hunters until it can get its hands them...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not all sand traps occur on the links. Some may be found on a popular beach or lonely stretch of highway. A sensitive and two ghost hunters walk into a bar. The barman is silent and the barflies long dead. Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. An active haunt in a derelict biker bar on Route 66 is a dream come true for the PEEPs team until it turns violent...
  • The Counseling by Marley Gibson

    The Counseling by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kendall has just discovered who Emily really is, lost her boyfriend, and nearly died doing the thing she loves most--ghost hunting. It's time to take a break and try to reconcile all the changes she's going through. So Kendall heads to the Sierra Mountains, where there's a camp especially for young people with gifts such as hers. It's a time for reflection and self-discovery...
  • Rise to Me by Shani Struthers

    Rise to Me by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “This isn’t a ghost we’re dealing with. If only it were that simple…” Eighteen years ago, when psychic Ruby Davis was a child, her mother – also a psychic – suffered a nervous breakdown. Ruby was never told why. “It won’t help you to know,” the only answer ever given...
  • Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman in black stares at the sea, her body transparent, eyes brimming with tears. Hoping to get a better look at the woman, psychic medium Addison Lockhart leans out over the manor’s windowsill, gasping when she feels an intense pressure pressing down on her back—someone thrusting her forward. She grabs the side of the window to brace herself, but it’s too late. She’s already falling...
  • Vultures by Chuck Wendig

    Vultures by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the sixth and final thriller of the “wildly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) Miriam Black series, Miriam tries to break the curse of her powers, but first she must face The Trespasser a final time...
  • Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan faces a difficult new case. Her new clients are a family haunted by multiple ghosts and a poltergeist that wrecks their home at night. Their seven-year-old son's invisible friends may not be imaginary at all, but the restless spirits of dead children...
  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • The Raptor & the Wren by Chuck Wendig

    The Raptor & the Wren by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Official Amazon description:In the fifth book of the “wildly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) Miriam Black series, Miriam continues her journey to find answers on how to change her fate and begin to make right some of what she’s done wrong...
  • The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A young girl slaughters her entire family in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The police say she snapped, but Soren Chase knows the truth...
  • Rocks & Gravel by Catie Rhodes

    Rocks & Gravel by Catie Rhodes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peri Jean Mace knows ghosts create chaos in her life. She also knows the Mace Treasure spawns blood, death, and sorrow. They’re both trouble and she wants nothing to do with either one.When a ghost steals secrets about the cursed fortune, Peri Jean is dragged kicking and screaming into the dangerous world of the treasure and the people who hunt it...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction
  • The Ghosts of Phoenix No 7 by M.L. Bullock

    The Ghosts of Phoenix No 7 by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After the devastating loss the team experienced on their last investigation, Midas is hesitant to return to the paranormal field. However, a desperate phone call from a local fire chief and a terrifying experience at an old Mobile fire station draws the leader of Gulf Coast Paranormal back to find answers for the chief and the firefighters...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • A Haunting at Dixie House by M.L. Bullock

    A Haunting at Dixie House by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Gulf Coast Paranormal Team Investigates Dixie House!What will their investigation reveal? The Gulf Coast Paranormal team's new client is someone the team knows! Sierra and Joshua have surprising news, and Cassidy and Midas aren't letting anything come between them...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Living. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade...
  • The White Night by Desmond Doane

    The White Night by Desmond Doane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Yes, you should be afraid of the dark…A mighty demon sits at the right hand of Satan, and he knows paranormal investigator Ford Atticus Ford by name. Mike Long, too, but what the vile creature covets most lies with little Chelsea Hopper.As Ford wrestles with the uncertain nature of his future, a different kind of evil storms into his world, proving that not all demons are inhuman...
  • The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She is someone’s darkest desirePlaying the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Finley Stirling, the FBI agent working the case...
  • The White Gold Score by Craig Schaefer

    The White Gold Score by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When a high roller dies in his Vegas penthouse suite, that's a problem. When his ghost refuses to leave, that's a bigger problem. Daniel Faust is the solution. Called in to clean up the casino's mess, the modern-day sorcerer soon learns that the restless spirit isn't going down without a fight...
  • The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

    The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They aren’t allowed to leave the property or show themselves to anyone...
  • The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He'll never let go...Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on—and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved.Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  gothic
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