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  • Portraits of the Forsaken by E.E. Holmes

    Portraits of the Forsaken by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Deep in the heart of old London town, spirits are drawn to the tempting lure of a lie...As Jess Ballard is struggling to adjust to her new life in London without Finn Carey to watch over her, she has thrown herself into her role as a Tracker, using her gift to communicate with and help as many spirits as she can...
  • Heart of the Rebellion by E.E. Holmes

    Heart of the Rebellion by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A BATTLE LOOMS, AND SHE COULD LOSE EVERYTHING...Again and again, the same dreadful prediction...a remote prison fortress, a fierce battle, an unthinkable outcome...
  • Natural Born Witch by Wendy Wang

    Natural Born Witch by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They looked like the perfect family. Perfect couple with their perfect kids. Perfect darkness lurking within. Day One of her new job and psychic witch Charlie Payne is already in danger. When she and her team are called in to investigate the disappearance of the Cochran family from their home it looks like a straightforward demon abduction...
  • Captive Souls by Wendy Wang

    Captive Souls by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Taken in the night.Kidnapped for her light.Keeley Moore is just trying to survive.After thirteen-year-old Keeley Moore disappears during a camping trip with her parents, psychic Charlie Payne is invited to work the case by the local deputy. But the connection Charlie makes with the girl is a gossamer thread...
  • Enduring Spirits: Witches of Palmetto Point Book 10 by Wendy Wang

    Enduring Spirits: Witches of Palmetto Point Book 10 by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ghosts are really bad at personal boundaries...And so is her familyIt’s been a long year for Charlie Payne…and it’s only April. After her near-death experience a few months ago, she’s on the road to recovery, healing her energy. But reconnecting with the spirit world has its drawbacks. Every needy spirit within a hundred-mile radius seems to show up when she least expects it...
  • The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    For psychic Charlie Payne, gruesome visions of death are just a normal Tuesday—but when she investigates the murders of two green witches, her usual methods lead nowhere. With her options to save the next victim dwindling, she must test a dangerous new form of astral projection to find the killer.Meanwhile, Charlie's cousin Lisa has her own set of problems...
  • The Harbinger: Witches of Palmetto Point Series Book 5 by Wendy Wang

    The Harbinger: Witches of Palmetto Point Series Book 5 by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil comes in many forms. Not all of them are human. They call her the Blue Lady, the harbinger of storms and destruction...
  • Shadow Hunt by Melissa F. Olson

    Shadow Hunt by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    For years now, Scarlett Bernard has counted on two things: her ability to nullify magic, and Shadow, the bargest who guards Scarlett with her life. But after a sudden revelation turns Scarlett’s world upside down, she panics and leaves town without warning, leaving Shadow with her partner, Jesse. In the chaos that follows, the bargest is stolen—and Jesse nearly dies from a brutal psychic assault...
  • Wayward Spirits by Wendy Wang, Amy Melissa Bentley

    Wayward Spirits by Wendy Wang, Amy Melissa Bentley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The dead don’t always rest in peace... ​ Deputy Jason Tate has seen a lot of terrible things in his time, but nothing quite as strange as the case he just picked up. Is it a suicide gone wrong? An accident? Too many things aren't adding up, and some are downright inexplicable. When it gets weird, he calls in psychic/medium Charlie Payne...
  • Toxicity by Robert J. Crane

    Toxicity by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Romeo and Juliet, meet Bonnie and Clyde. June Randall and Elliot “Ell” Lefavre are young bandits on the run, using their powers to commit a string of robberies along the Florida coast when they run up against the long arm of the law in the form of FBI Special Agent Scott Byerly...
  • Bad Omens by Wendy Wang

    Bad Omens by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The dead leave signs...if you know where to look.After recovering from a near-death experience, Charlie Payne's connection to the dead seems to dry up overnight. But that doesn't stop old ghosts from trying to commune with her. Or a clever serial killer from targeting her and the whole witch community...
  • Masks by Robert J. Crane

    Masks by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    What makes a hero?For years, Sienna Nealon has worked with the U.S. government to protect the world against other people with powers beyond those of a normal human. But after several clashes with the current administration, she finds herself with a new employer, an independent agency dedicated to helping stop threats to humanity...
  • Moon Blade by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Moon Blade by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sam doubts Detective Sherbet's new homicide case is the work of a vampire...Until she sees the body.Ever since that night in Hillcrest park so long ago, Samantha Moon knew her life would be far from ordinary. She never expected the weirdest part would be watching Tammy and Anthony turn into adults. Other than her fears of an empty nest, life is as normal and happy as it's ever been...
  • Unyielding by Robert J. Crane

    Unyielding by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In a world of people with powers, Sienna Nealon has long been the one who maintained the order. But now she finds herself on the other end of the law, cast out and abandoned by her friends. On the run, hunted by relentless and implacable foes, she will face her greatest challenge – an enemy who holds a seat of power so great that even Sienna may not be able to stand up to him...
  • Devil's Snare by Wendy Wang

    Devil's Snare by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes the dead need the living to survive. Psychic Charlie Payne has been busy raising her son, helping the local deputy solve the worst of his cases, and accepting her birthright as a witch. When her cousins suggest combining a girl's week in the mountains with her induction into their coven, she jumps at the chance for a break...
  • Hero by Robert J. Crane

    Hero by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Revelen – A mysterious Eastern European country, shrouded in mountain peaks and ruled by a tyrant so forbidding that his legend formed the basis for Dracula. For years, Revelen has interfered in the outside world, causing chaos and sending all manner of trouble Sienna Nealon's direction. Now, at last...she finds herself in the heart of Revelen, and face to face with this greatest of threats...
  • Afterlife by Dannika Dark

    Afterlife by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Another addicting installment of the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series.Only a week after solving their last case, Raven is itching for a new assignment. In her downtime, she’s focusing on the two most important men in her life: her father and Christian. But there’s no rest for the wicked.When an old friend seeks Raven’s expertise on a delicate matter, Viktor reluctantly accepts the case...
  • Boundary Haunted by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Haunted by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Months after her battles in Wyoming, Allison “Lex” Luther is still struggling with the aftereffects of the psychic attack she suffered—and with the new developments in her own magic.Then Lex’s boss, the cardinal vampire of Colorado, passes along a strange request from her counterpart in Atlanta...
  • Hollow by Robert J. Crane

    Hollow by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Sienna Nealon is the most powerful person in the world. She's beaten every enemy that has ever come at her, faced threats of every conceivable kind and bested all of them...
  • Small Things by Robert J. Crane

    Small Things by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “Guy Friday is a hemorrhoidal pain in my a-” Sienna Nealon doesn't need any complications. On the run from the law, trying to carve out as much of a life for herself as she can, the last thing she needs is the idiotic Guy Friday pounding on her door one night, wounded and begging for help...
  • Wicked Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    You are formally invited to the wedding of Ivy Morgan and Jack Harker.Before they walk down the aisle, though, there’s one more mystery to solve.Ivy, who is finishing up the last days of her community service, inserts herself into a tense situation when the alarm at the domestic violence shelter she is working at sounds and she goes off to make sure all the women and children are accounted for...
  • Prisoners by Robert J. Crane

    Prisoners by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Sienna Nealon has dedicated her life to keeping those with powers from breaking the law at will. After years of filling a prison for the powered called the Cube, a Supreme Court decision opens the floodgates and lets all of them out again. Now Sienna finds herself going from hunter to hunted as the US government turns a blind eye while the former inmates target her and her friends for death...
  • 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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    paranormal  psychics  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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    paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • 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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    paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Beachside Burglary by Tegan Maher

    Beachside Burglary by Tegan Maher

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life's a beach, at least until a king's crown goes missing.Destiny's been trying to hunt down a thief for a couple of weeks, but up 'til now, it's been all small potatoes - sometimes literally. Since she's certain it's a local and suspects there's a method to the thievery, she's tried to keep it on the down-low in order to flush the petty criminal out...
  • 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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    paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Dead as a Dodo by Jeannie Wycherley

    Dead as a Dodo by Jeannie Wycherley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the Amazon bestselling author of the Wonky Inn books comes a brand-new magical fantasy witch detective series.Dodo was dead. And there the matter should have rested.At least for DS Elise Liddell.Emotionally burnt out, she considers herself retired from police work...
  • Blood Brothers by R.L. King

    Blood Brothers by R.L. King

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Magic is Thicker than BloodAlastair Stone figures using tracking magic to help Jason Thayer and his new wife Amber find a missing child will be a good diversion. At least it will take his mind off a summer that, without Verity around, is shaping up to be a lot less eventful than he’d hoped...
  • Dragon by Robert J. Crane

    Dragon by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After a forced job transfer, a kidnapping incident in Northern Virginia sends FBI Agent Sienna Nealon along a dark path, trying to unravel the mystery. But kidnapping gives way to murder, and soon Sienna is racing against time, fighting against diplomats and Washington DC bureaucrats, trying to stop a power that may finally outmatch her own...
  • Apex by Robert J. Crane

    Apex by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She was going to be called “Big E” like her predecessors, though Eric Simmons didn’t know that. All he knew was what he could see, what he could hear, and what he could taste … and that was mostly fear.He could almost feel it oozing out of every pore, hard-spiked adrenaline on his tongue as he walked toward the big graving dock where they were building the ship...
  • The Witches Ladder: Witches of Palmetto Point Book 4 by Wendy Wang

    The Witches Ladder: Witches of Palmetto Point Book 4 by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Some Spells Should Never Be Cast Charlie Payne has been busy learning to master her magical abilities with mixed results. Unfortunately, there’s no time to get discouraged because a rash of ghosts keeps showing up looking for Charlie's help when she least expects it...
  • 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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    paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts
  • Tooth and Nail by Chris Underwood

    Tooth and Nail by Chris Underwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A murdered vampire. No witnesses. A blood feud ignited.Some folks say the only good vampire is a dead vampire. But when the murder of a vampire threatens the fragile peace between vampires and ogres, someone has to wade into the fray to sort the truth from the lies.Guess who gets that job.But there's more to this murder than an ancient blood feud...
  • Into the Abyss by Dale Mayer

    Into the Abyss by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life is never easy but when her family is killed by a serial killer — one who is never caught — it becomes almost impossible. As she grows up, Tavi works to appear normal while hiding in law enforcement, determined to get answers and if she can — extract revenge. Jericho is a hunter. Now he's caught the scent of an old prey, a serial killer he's been one step behind the whole way...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  psychics  suspense  adult  book  fiction  killer  mystery
  • Grave Concerns by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Concerns by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maddie Graves and Nick Winters are officially living together. Life couldn’t look much brighter. They have a week off to spend together, and Nick’s idea of a relaxing vacation involves staying home and doing absolutely nothing...
  • Blood Bond: 9 by Helen Hardt

    Blood Bond: 9 by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Erin Hamilton and Dante Gabriel are living together and are more in love than ever, but the mysteries surrounding them continue to evolve. When two more women go missing—Dante’s sister and Erin’s best friend—they dive in more deeply, recruiting Erin’s brother to help. Despite his quest for information, Dante resists falling prey to his former captor’s drive to control his mind...
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    paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • Blood Bond: 7 by Helen Hardt

    Blood Bond: 7 by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Breaking into a cemetery isn’t anything Dante Gabriel ever thought he’d do, but he has no choice. He must recover his father’s body so he can claim his estate. Help arrives from two unexpected sources, but their plan is interrupted. Erin Hamilton’s best friend is a wolf shifter. The man she loves is a vampire. His father is a ghost. She can deal with all of that, but new worries have surfaced...
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    paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  book  fiction  mystery  steamy
  • Blood Bond: 8 by Helen Hardt

    Blood Bond: 8 by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dante Gabriel has developed some abilities never before seen in a vampire his age. Without Erin Hamilton, he’d be on the brink of insanity, but she’s always there, always willing to give him what he needs, and he’s determined to keep her safe from the vampire thugs who want her. His questions are still unanswered, and he considers turning to an evil source for results...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  book  fiction  mystery  steamy
  • Determined is Her Path by Judith Berens

    Determined is Her Path by Judith Berens

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What do a few stolen books have to do with the end of life as we know it? More than you would think.Drow princess Alison Brownstone begins her senior year ready to finally graduate and start her new life, fully trained and ready to kick ass...
  • Boundary Broken by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Broken by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Years ago, boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther made a promise to an alpha werewolf. Now, just when the supernatural community in Colorado is enjoying a period of hard-won peace, the alpha turns up at Lex’s door to call in his marker. Two of his pack members have disappeared in the Colorado sand dunes, and he needs safe passage to hunt for them...
  • Wicked Honeymoon by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Honeymoon by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Jack Harker and his new wife Ivy have beaten the odds, and with that comes a little rest and relaxation. They have a two-week honeymoon planned, and the first leg involves a glamping trip down the river.Jack has never been one for camping, and the truth is, he would’ve preferred anything but what they’ve got planned. Ivy, however, is desperate to prove that camping can be fun...
  • Blood Gamble by Melissa F. Olson

    Blood Gamble by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    If there is one city that Scarlett Bernard hates, it’s Las Vegas. But when the cardinal vampire of Los Angeles convinces her to go investigate a new vampire-themed stage show, Scarlett quickly finds herself shoulder-deep in sequins, slot machines, and Old World intrigue.The show’s creators are vampire celebrities Arthur and Lucy Holmwood, who once inspired characters from the original Dracula...
  • Second Guess by Robert J. Crane

    Second Guess by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finally free of the Network's control, Sienna Nealon returns to her hometown of Minneapolis. But a long-awaited reunion with her friends doesn't last long, because a new threat is rising, one that may conclude with the world itself coming to an end...
  • Powerless by Robert J. Crane

    Powerless by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Sienna Nealon finally comes home to Minnesota, she finds old enemies returning and new ones rising...
  • 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...
  • Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi

    Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “Quick, clean action, solid character work and pacing. This series is worth your time.” — Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden FilesAnother day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying...
  • Wicked Season by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Season by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ivy Morgan is convinced life couldn’t get better. She’s happy, in love and since fall is her favorite season she’s having a great time with the shifting weather. All of that changes when her boyfriend’s mother and sister show up out of the blue and cast her life into disarray. Jack Harker has never been happier, and even though he loves his mother and sister he’s not thrilled with their arrival...
  • Spirit Legacy by E.E. Holmes

    Spirit Legacy by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “The Gateway is open...”These cryptic words wake college student Jess Ballard from a terrifying dream into an even more terrifying reality. Jess' life has never been what anyone would call easy; doing damage control in the wake of your nomadic, alcoholic mother doesn't exactly make for a storybook childhood...
  • Masquerading in the Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Masquerading in the Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forty and fanged.That’s only half of who Hailey Whitfield is. She’s also a bounty hunter and the true mate to the vampire master who made her. The latter is something she isn’t sure she is ready for. She’d previously sworn off marriage. Never again...
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