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  • It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Midlife is madness—magical, messy and one freaking crisis after another.With a new job I didn’t apply for and an extended family I didn’t know I had—midlife has become somewhat problematic. Gluing ghosts back together is easy compared to my new celestial occupation.The Grim Reaper wants to put a ring on it. Tim wants to be a father...
  • You Light Up My Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    You Light Up My Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Midlife is definitely a journey. The road has massive potholes.And the crisis… it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Being forty is supposed to be freaking fabulous not fatal. Taking on a daunting new job minus the description isn’t the smartest move I’ve ever made, even if it was to save a friend. Hopefully, it doesn’t turn out to be the stupidest… or deadliest...
  • Jon's Helter Skelter Cold Case by A.J. Sherwood

    Jon's Helter Skelter Cold Case by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jonathan Bane and Donovan Havili cordially invite you to their wedding.They just have to prove a man’s innocence and get him out of prison first.Not to mention prove Solomon completely inept (not hard), and fired from being a detective.Oh, and train Jon’s new apprentice.They can probably get married this year. Probably...
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    paranormal  crime  cozy  ghosts  humor  suspense  romance  mlm
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  humor  suspense  cozy  crime  ghosts  romance  mystery
  • Midnight Labyrinth by Elizabeth Hunter

    Midnight Labyrinth by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    He's one human caught in a tangled maze of theft, politics, magic, and blood.
In other words, it's just another night.Benjamin Vecchio escaped a chaotic childhood and grew to adulthood under the protection and training of one of the Elemental world's most feared vampire assassins. He's traveled the world and battled immortal enemies.But everyone has to go home sometime...
  • Charms & Witchdemeanors by Amanda M. Lee

    Charms & Witchdemeanors by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tillie Winchester’s past is about to come back to haunt her, and what she sees as fun and games someone else sees as a recipe for murder. When a local woman is poisoned at Hemlock Cove’s senior center, Aunt Tillie is the prime suspect. Bay, Thistle and Clove don’t believe their great-aunt is guilty – although Thistle is fine if the police want to haul her away for a long weekend...
  • Ghostly Serenade: by Colleen Helme

    Ghostly Serenade: by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An unsolved murder, a mob boss out for revenge, and a message from a ghost? Just another day in the life of Shelby Nichols. Shelby's family trip to meet the New York Manettos is not turning out to be the enjoyable break she'd hoped for...
  • Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If she fails, her whole team could be destroyed.Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is more than ready for her marriage with ex-SEAL Striker Rheas. But getting her happily ever after is fraught with hurdles when her psychic abilities start going haywire, giving her vague warnings of impending danger.As it turns out, identifying threats can be overwhelming when everything and everyone is the potential source...
  • Dead Serious Case #3: Mr Bruce Reyes by Vawn Cassidy

    Dead Serious Case #3: Mr Bruce Reyes by Vawn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tristan Everett was finally getting used to the strangeness that was his life. Being able to see the dead and helping them solve their unfinished business and cross into the light wasn’t so bad after all, especially when he was accompanied by his best friend, dead drag queen Dusty Le Frey...
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    paranormal  ghosts  humor  suspense  cozy  crime  romance  mlm
  • Unsuspecting Trouble by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    Unsuspecting Trouble by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Father Time is depending on you to save his butt, you don’t ask questions.Thankfully Paris Beaufont has had her questions answered.She finally knows who she is.More importantly, she knows what happened to her parents and who is after her.But that’s only the beginning…To save Papa Creola, her parents and pretty much love itself, that’s going to take a lot of work...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  ghosts  cozy  suspense  humor  female-mc  romance  fantasy
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She had her life all planned out; fate had other ideas.How did an accomplished Southern businesswoman, wife, and mother end up living on California’s Central Coast, working for a stubborn wine-maker, newly divorced, and wrestling with sudden psychic powers?Megan Carpenter asks herself that same question nearly every day...
  • Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She had her life all planned out; fate had other ideas.How did an accomplished Southern businesswoman, wife, and mother end up living on California’s Central Coast, working for a stubborn wine-maker, newly divorced, and wrestling with sudden psychic powers?Megan Carpenter asks herself that same question nearly every day...
  • Beguiled by Darynda Jones

    Beguiled by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Newly indoctrinated witch, Defiance Dayne discovers there’s more to life after forty than she'd ever imagined possible. Especially if one is a charmling, one of only three in the world, with enough magics to make her a target for every power-hungry warlock out there. When one of them sends a hunter to town, she knows it’s time to take her talents seriously before the hunter takes her life...
  • Something to Witch About by Amanda M. Lee

    Something to Witch About by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Life's a witch ... and then you die. It's the dying part vexing Bay Winchester these days. She may be a long-suffering daughter, thankless newspaper editor, and keyed-up girlfriend, but she's barely holding off a royal freakout Landon's family is visiting the inn -- and they're not exactly open minded...
  • Witch Me Luck by Amanda M. Lee

    Witch Me Luck by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hemlock Cove is celebrating a magical birthday, and familiar faces from different places are descending on the town to participate in the party. Everyone is looking forward to the festivities except Bay Winchester, who would rather be hiding from her high school nemesis than chatting her up in the town square. Lila Stevens hasn’t changed since graduation, and Bay remains her favorite target...
  • Deathtrap by Dannika Dark

    Deathtrap by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe explosive third installment in the Crossbreed Series by USA Today Bestselling author Dannika Dark. For Raven Black, hunting criminals is second nature. So is denial. It’s not easy moving forward with one foot stuck in the past...
  • Fated for Felony by Victoria Laurie

    Fated for Felony by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Victoria Laurie’s newest Psychic Eye Mystery, Abby is after a serial killer who’s simply fated for felonies...
  • Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He takes care of other people's kids ... but he craves a family of his own.Enter a single mom waitress with a broken heart and a whole lot of trouble behind her.Army vet Dan is still figuring out how to deal with being a three-legged bear, but it turns out kids don’t care how many limbs he has as long as he’s willing to be a climbing frame...
  • Deep In Death by Colleen Helme

    Deep In Death by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Running “errands” for her mob-boss employer, Joey “The Knife” Manetto, often ends with Shelby in trouble, making her cautious about continuing her association with him. Instead, she focuses on a new client who hires Shelby to find her missing mother. What seems like a routine case turns into something more sinister and deadly than she ever imagined...
  • Witching For Moxie by Deanna Chase

    Witching For Moxie by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Iris Hartman thought she’d finally gotten everything she’d ever wanted. She had her dream job of mayor of Premonition Pointe and was married to a handsome, charismatic man who adored her. But after finding out her husband was involved with a local drug dealer, she suddenly found herself single and forced to step down as mayor. Now she’s starting over...
  • Spellcasting with a Chance of Spirits by Mandy M. Roth

    Spellcasting with a Chance of Spirits by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I can see and hear the dead. I can also talk to animals. As a natural-born witch and medium, I can do a lot of odd things. In most people's eyes, that makes me a loon. I like to think of it as being unique and eccentric. Plus, now that destiny has brought me back to the town I was born in, I'm not all that different from the supernatural residents of Grimm Cove...
  • Secrets That Kill by Colleen Helme

    Secrets That Kill by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As a “favor” to Uncle Joey, Shelby must deliver a letter to his associate in Orlando where she has been vacationing with her family. When things go terribly wrong, Shelby finds herself being pursued by a Florida Kingpin for the information he thinks she stole. On her own and in trouble, Uncle Joey sends Ramos to her rescue...
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    cozy  paranormal  humor  suspense  crime  romance  mystery  audiobook
  • The Independent Fairy by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    The Independent Fairy by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not all who want love, want it for the right reasons.Some just want power.However, Paris Beaufont won’t allow bullies to ruin love for selfish reasons.Even if she doesn’t want romance for herself.Paris’ heart is being healed, but that’s just the beginning.There’s so much more of her story to unravel.And with it, there are many layers to the Fairy Godmother Agency to understand...
  • Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score

    Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Length: 14 hrs and 56 minsA nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she’s diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they’re clairvoyant visions...
  • 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...
  • Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 30 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...
  • My Midlife Crisis, My Rules by Robyn Peterman

    My Midlife Crisis, My Rules by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    My midlife crisis. My rules. And if it doesn’t put me six feet under, I plan to live it up in style—possibly for the rest of eternity…After a Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader moment, I discovered I do indeed have a father. He comes with a hell of a lot of baggage, but I’ve decided to keep him. Not only do I have a father, I have a kickass new sister, a ghostly family, and super powers to boot...
  • Thirty and a Half Excuses by Denise Grover Swank

    Thirty and a Half Excuses by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Life in Henryetta, Arkansas is turned upside down with the arrival of a televangelist, but it’s the death of a little old lady on Rose’s street that catches her attention. The Henryetta police deem her death natural causes, but Rose suspects foul play and so does an unlikely supporter — the president of the Busy Body Club, her eighty-two year old neighbor Mildred...
  • Resurrection in Mudbug by Jana Deleon, Johanna Parker

    Resurrection in Mudbug by Jana Deleon, Johanna Parker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Jana DeLeon, Resurrection in Mudbug, aka The Return of Helena Henry!Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the bayou…Jadyn St. James is excited to start her job as game warden in Mudbug, Louisiana, and hopes it is the beginning of a new and improved life...
  • Witching for Clarity by Deanna Chase

    Witching for Clarity by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Clarity “Gigi” Martin moved to Premonition Pointe for a fresh start. And that’s exactly what she got when she found a house that was connected to her ancestors and a group of witches who welcomed her into their fold. It’s not easy starting over at forty, but she’s determined to do it on her own terms with her past left firmly behind her… until Sebastian Knight walks back into her life...
  • Dead Serious Case #2: Mrs Delores Abernathy by Vawn Cassidy

    Dead Serious Case #2: Mrs Delores Abernathy by Vawn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the business of unfinished business...It’s been over six months since a freak accident left pathologist Tristan Everett able to see ghosts, something he has yet to confess to his boyfriend...
  • Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy

    Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Inspector Danny Hayes has something very important to ask his boyfriend Tristan Everett. Over the past six months they’ve survived reapers, chaos monsters, and biblical storms, not to mention averting an apocalypse. So, what’s left to do but pop the big question?Tristan is ready for a break from world-saving, spectral crises, and most definitely from ghosts...
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    paranormal  ghosts  humor  crime  suspense  cozy  romance  mlm
  • Crossing Danger by Colleen Helme

    Crossing Danger by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shelby Nichols isn’t your average soccer-mom turned private investigator. She’s more on the quirky side with a little wild thrown in. That’s because a near-fatal gunshot wound to the head left her with the ability to read minds. This lands her in all kinds of trouble, and this time is no exception. Helping a reporter, Billie Jo, get the low-down on a case is just the tip of the iceberg...
  • Deadly Circumstances by Terri Reid

    Deadly Circumstances by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The bedroom door flew open with a powerful crash. “What the...?” Mary exclaimed. Mike nodded. “Yeah, well see, that’s the problem,” he said with a sigh. “You brought someone home with you tonight.” “What?” “And it looks like she’s not real happy about your relationship with Bradley,” he said. “I have a jealous ghost in my house?” Mary asked, astonished. Mike shook his head apologetically...
  • 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...
  • Airships, Crypts & Chocolate Chips by Erin Johnson

    Airships, Crypts & Chocolate Chips by Erin Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A bewitched prison. A brother with a deadly request. Can a magical baker launch a jailbreak and still keep her prince in the process?Imogen’s magical bakery is thriving and she loves the company of the Water Kingdom’s dashing prince. But she’s not so enamored with the time she’s forced to spend with his awful Royal Family...
  • Eclairs, Scares & Haunted Home Repairs by Erin Johnson

    Eclairs, Scares & Haunted Home Repairs by Erin Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A bakehouse in the making. A dangerous ghost in the tower. Will their welcome to the neighborhood be short-lived?Imogen wants nothing more than to complete her sweet dream. With her adoring fiancé Hank at her side, the witch and her friends dive into renovations for their new home and soon-to-be bakery...
  • The Marvelous Ms. Medium by Erin Huss

    The Marvelous Ms. Medium by Erin Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My name is Zoe Lane, and I see dead people.I thought I was getting pretty good at this whole medium gig ... until today. Have you ever been kissing the man of your dreams when his dead ex-girlfriend appears?No?I have, and let me tell you it's a total mood killer.Her name is Vanessa Tobin, and she's a journalist with a passion for truth and justice and self-help books...
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    paranormal  cozy  humor  ghosts  crime  female-mc  romance  mystery
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation...
  • Brent by Milly Taiden

    Brent by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wolf shifter Marie Lavine left her life in the military behind and is settling into her new role as bodyguard nicely. Though her past left her with PTSD, she’s excited to move forward and see what awaits at her new job. What she didn’t expect was to sniff out the scent of her mate. A cute nerdy human that made her wolf instantly hot...
  • 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...
  • Bitter Pill by Jordan Castillo Price

    Bitter Pill by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s a new drug on the streets called Kick. The side effects are so brutal, most folks only try it once…unless they’re psychic. Then they do it until it kills them.Psychic medium Victor Bayne is well acquainted with pharmaceuticals, from the Auracel that blocks his ghosts to the Seconal that offers him a blissful nights’ sleep. But he’s managed to steer clear of street drugs…so far...
  • Instigator by Fiona Quinn

    Instigator by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In This USA Today Bestselling Novel, A Deadly Game Gambles American LivesA hardened war hero, Gator Aid Rochambeau is on a collision course with fate. Retired Marine Raider, Gator Aid Rochambeau is now an Iniquus elite security operative. He's been assigned to the Davidson mission. As the job gets underway, he is unprepared for the psychic confusion that swirls through his system...
  • A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 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...
  • Summoned to Thirteenth Grave by Darynda Jones

    Summoned to Thirteenth Grave by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones’ New York Times bestselling paranormal series!Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. She’s been kicked off the earthly plain for eternity – which is the appropriate amount of time to make a person starkraving mad...
  • Close Encounters of the Witchy Kind by Amanda M. Lee

    Close Encounters of the Witchy Kind by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The truth is out there … probably. Hemlock Cove may be a town where real witches are pretending to be humans pretending to be witches, but something legitimately strange is afoot. What looks to be an aircraft of some sort goes down in Potter’s Field and, of course, every looky-loo in the area turns out to watch it burn...
  • Witching For Joy by Deanna Chase

    Witching For Joy by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number! Joy Lansing is at a crossroads. Her kids have all flown the nest and just when she thought she was going to spend her golden years with her husband of thirty years, she finds herself single again and looking to rebuilt a life she no longer recognizes...
  • Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones

    Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper Extraordinaire, is back in this sexy, suspenseful novel of supernatural shenanigans When Charley is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by her best friend who tells her to get dressed quickly and tosses clothes out of the closet at her, she cant help but wonder what Cookies up to...
  • That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

    That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Crossroads, noun: 1. A place where two roads cross.2. A place where bargains can be made.3. See also “places to avoid.”Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings, and cousins to help her out when she’s in a pinch—until now. After fleeing from the Covenant of St...
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