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  • The Twilight Journals by Stephenie Meyer

    The Twilight Journals by Stephenie Meyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Twilight Journals set includes four gorgeous journals packaged in a collectible keepsake tin, inspired by Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn...
  • Whispers of the Walker by E.E. Holmes

    Whispers of the Walker by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Something whispers in the shadows... From E.E. Holmes, author of the award-winning Gateway Trilogy, comes the first in the highly anticipated companion series The Gateway Trackers...
  • And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Man. The Mystery. The Madness.Dex Foray has never been anyone’s fool – until he missed his chance for happiness with Perry Palomino. Broken and alone, Dex has no choice but to rise from the ashes Perry left behind and find his own path to redemption. But nothing in Dex’s life has ever come easily, especially when there’s a dark madness waiting in the wings...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  dark  demons
  • 死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    起初的异样,是家里的猫不让抱了。林秋石发现周围的一切都开始变得充满了不协调感。然后某一天,当他推开家中的门,却发现熟悉的楼道变成了长长的走廊。走廊的两头,是十二扇一模一样的铁门。故事由此开始。阮南烛对林秋石说,当你凝视深渊时,深渊也在凝视着你。林秋石听后陷入沉思,然后对着深渊拉下了裤子拉链……阮南烛:“……你把裤子给我好好穿上!”不皮会死病娇攻X一起皮的沉稳受,双皮奶组合,灵异风格升级流。"Kaleidoscope of Death"It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it...
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    paranormal  ghosts  drama  romance  horror  fantasy  lgbtq  mystery
  • Darkness Exposed by Terri Reid

    Darkness Exposed by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jeannine appeared in the room across from Mary. Her face was streaked with tears and she was visibly trembling. “Mary, I remembered,” she cried. “I remembered and it was awful.”The time has finally come for Mary to investigate Jeannine’s murder...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Daylighters by Rachel Caine

    Daylighters by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    While Morganville, Texas, is often a troubled town, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to coming home. But the Morganville they return to isn’t the one they know; it’s become a different place—a deadly one…Something drastic has happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away...
  • The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 7 by Eiji Mikage

    The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 7 by Eiji Mikage

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the final volume of The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Kazuki makes his last stand against O to fulfill his vow to bring back the "zeroth" Maria-the real Maria. But what does fate have in store for them..
  • Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The dead of night, Jess, I wish they'd leave me alone."Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him every day, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  hauntings  historical  horror
  • The Medium's Tale by Erin Huss

    The Medium's Tale by Erin Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Zoe Lane, and I see dead people.  At least...I used to.    Communications with the "other side" are down, and I have no idea why. This couldn't have come at a worst time because the town's pharmacist, Mr. Sanders, has just been murdered. Police have all but closed the case because the evidence overwhelmingly points to one person...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  crime  fiction  horror
  • To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trent's heart may belong to Tina, but a shadow demon is after his soul…Trent Austin is a successful, big-city lawyer. The last thing he needs is the burden of a run-down house in the suburbs. But when his crazy uncle dies and leaves his estate to Trent, he soon learns he's inherited a lot more than a Victorian mansion...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  demons
  • Evening in the Yellow Wood by Laura Kemp

    Evening in the Yellow Wood by Laura Kemp

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abandoned by an eccentric father on the eve of her twelfth birthday, Justine Cook has lived with her fair share of unanswered questions. Now, ten years later she leaves her life in southern Michigan and heads north to the mysterious town of Lantern Creek after seeing his picture in a local newspaper...
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    drama  paranormal  adult  book  female-author  fiction  horror  magic
  • A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emma Lee Raines, proprietor of a small-town Kentucky funeral home, Eternal Slumber, is a “Betweener,” helps ghosts stuck between here and the ever-after— only murdered ghosts. After Emma Lee solves who murdered them, only then can they cross over to the Great Beyond, Big Guy In The Sky.Emma Lee is up against a cold case that happened before she’d even gotten her “Betweener” gift...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Wolf House - Potter's Story by Tim O'Rourke

    Wolf House - Potter's Story by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "O'Rourke certainly knows how to deliver twists that the reader never sees coming and that will leave him/her reeling for days on end. Five stars." A Book Vacation Book Reviews.As Potter leaves Kiera and his friends to go in search of Luke, he makes a lonely journey across the snow-capped mountains of Cumbria...
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    ghosts  paranormal  angels  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Haunted Ground by Irina Shapiro

    Haunted Ground by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When American Lexi Maxwell buys a derelict mansion in a quaint English village and sets about turning it into a manor-house hotel, it's a dream come true...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  hauntings
  • The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psychic? Check.Haunted by a malevolent spirit who is making life a living hell? Check. In love with a smoking hot Scot, who is the reincarnation of the man creepy malevolent ghost murdered two centuries before? Check.Friends and family think you’re losing your mind? Check...
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    ghosts  paranormal  angst  book  fiction  high-school  horror  magic
  • Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin

    Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Sequel out 2018***“Dangerous. Wrong. She could be so close to finding out who I really am, and I don’t want to think about how badly that could damage her. If I have any conscience,I’ll turn and run. But I can’t let her go.” Presley Hale has no idea the guy she just told off in the school parking lot died in a drowning accident four months ago...
  • 44 Book Eight by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Eight by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It has been six months since Emily Ross disappeared on a cold winter day while walking to her class at the University of Oregon. It has been six months without clues, without leads, without hope.Detective Ellis Frazier is desperate. He knows it is only a matter of time before the investigation ends up as a cold case, dead and forgotten forever...
  • Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Charlie Modine didn’t find any justice in life. And the afterlife hasn’t been much better. Still, Modine’s ghost is more determined than ever to find the cold-blooded murderer who ran his wife down on the streets of New York City. Tortured and tormented, Modine asks for help from the only person who will listen. The only one who knows he’s there. Abby Craig...
  • 44 Book Ten by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Ten by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped between confusing visions and a terrifying ghost, all Abby Craig knows for sure is that she is running out of time. But as a wildfire rages out of control in the mountains west of town, an even larger blaze burns deep within her heart...
  • Haunt Sweet Home by Jarica James

    Haunt Sweet Home by Jarica James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the Spirit Vlog team, home is wherever the haunts take them. But when they visit Lincoln’s family to recover from their ordeal at Realms of Discovery, they can’t resist the allure of small-town charm...
  • Wherever She Goes by ReGina Welling

    Wherever She Goes by ReGina Welling

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What man in his right mind would want to date a blind psychic? For Kat Canton, the answer was none so she turned away from romance completely. Until the day a pair of warm brown eyes suddenly came into focus. Now, she must decide whether to turn toward the light and let love into her life or walk away and remain in darkness...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • 44 Book Six by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Six by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s Christmastime and the nights are far from silent for Abby Craig.She is haunted by a vision unlike anything she has ever experienced before. As a church bell rings out in the lonely night, a young woman is left dying in an alley, her blood staining the snow beneath her...
  • 44 Book Seven by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Seven by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Abby Craig’s worst nightmare has come to life…When an old friend suddenly reappears, a mysterious darkness begins to hound her. Shadowy truths will claw their way to the surface to finally see the light of day. Life and death hang in the balance when a long-buried secret refuses to stay dead...
  • When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Devin Lyle and Craig Rockwell are back, this time to a haunted castle in Ireland where a banshee may have gone wild—or maybe there's a much more rational explanation—one that involves a disgruntled heir, murder, and mayhem, all with that sexy light touch Heather Graham has turned into her trademark style...
  • The Three Wise Guides by Terri Reid

    The Three Wise Guides by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mary O'Reilly is shot in the line of duty and discovers, with the help of three very wise ghosts, what her new gift is all about...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  female-mc  fiction  holidays  horror
  • Boot Points by Ann Charles

    Boot Points by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Listening Length: 1 hour, 11 minutesIt’s not really about the boots … or is it?BOOT POINTS is a set of short tales about Violet Parker’s purple boots. It is set in the story time between the third and fourth books in the Deadwood Mystery series. Each tale not only explains more of Violet’s history, but also shows the role each character plays in Violet’s life...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  alpha-mc  book  cozy  crime  female-mc
  • A Gift of Thought by Sarah Wynde

    A Gift of Thought by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At seventeen, Sylvie Blair ran away from the small town of Tassamara, Florida. She joined the Marines, traveled the world and made a life for herself, but she never forgot what she left behind. Now a close protection security consultant (aka bodyguard) for a spoiled teenager in Washington DC, her empathic gift helps her keep her charge safe, if not out of trouble...
  • The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    How far will she go to save the damned?Keira is caught in a deadly battle. Her ability to help ghosts move on from the mortal world has made her a threat to Artec, a powerful corporation intent on trapping the tortured dead for profit. They've been tracking her for years and now, finally, there's nowhere left for her to run.Artec fears Keira and everything she's capable of...
  • The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A tragic past. An uncertain future...Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Vampire Wake by Tim O'Rourke

    Vampire Wake by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Since escaping from The Ragged Cove and finding herself suspended from the police force, Kiera Hudson is hired by the mysterious Lady Hunt to protect her 16-year-old daughter from a stranger she believes is lurking on the moors. But little does Kiera know that it is she who will need protecting...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  angels  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Prom Night in Purgatory by Amy Harmon

    Prom Night in Purgatory by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Where does before end and after begin? Johnny Kinross is a boy from the 1950s, a boy trapped in time, and Maggie is the girl who loves him. By some miracle and against all odds, Johnny and Maggie are given a second chance at life and love. But Johnny is freed from Purgatory only to find himself in a totally different time and place, in a world full of strangers...
  • The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some places are too evil. Some places should be left alone.Austin Cole has it made. Star of the hit television show Spirit Chaser Investigations, he has become the world’s most famous paranormal investigator...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  demons  fiction  horror  mlm
  • Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Letting go is not an option.In the coastal town of Atlas Cliffs, seventeen-year-old Drew Harlow has a secret. She can see the dead. She’s always seen them, and they’ve always left her alone.Until now.Drew’s final year of high school should have been fun. It should have been carefree. It would have, if not for the accident that took the life of her boyfriend, Shane...
  • Banished by C.J. Archer

    Banished by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An infestation of evil ghosts is too much for spirit medium Cara to handle alone. She summons Quin, and together they attempt to discover where the ghosts came from, and why they refuse to leave this realm. To protect the residents, Cara and Quin must work closely together, leading to old feelings resurfacing between them...
  • Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran

    Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The ghosts of her family's estate on the coast of Maine never troubled Ava Trumble. When she finally inherits the historic mansion, however, there's a small string attached: Ava has exactly one year to solve a 200-year-old mystery of a missing girl, or lose her family's home..
  • Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn’t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie...
  • Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final book in the "Gravity" series. The end is finally here. After being threatened by Phillip Rhodes, Ariel confronts her father and finds out just how deeply the conspiracies in town run. She discovers more about what she is and where she came from. Gathering an opposition against Thornhill, they must stop the cult from performing a final ritual that will plunge the town into Dark, forever...
  • Losing Logan by Sherry D. Ficklin

    Losing Logan by Sherry D. Ficklin

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What if the one thing you never meant to hold on to, is the one thing you can't let go of? Normally finding a hot guy in her bedroom wouldn't irritate Zoe so badly, but finding her childhood friend Logan there is a big problem. Mostly because he's dead...
  • In My Dreams by Cameo Renae

    In My Dreams by Cameo Renae

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The dreams were happening again. It was something seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Hayes thought she’d outgrown. She didn’t want them anymore; detailed premonitions of how people would die. One night, Lizzy’s worst nightmare occurs. She dreams of her boyfriend, Michael Young, and soon discovers his car was found in a river, along with his lifeless body...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  angels  book  death  fiction  horror
  • The Hauntings of Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    The Hauntings of Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Little Mia Cooper’s ability to see the dead made her an outcast in her hometown. Several years later, she has finally managed to blend in, but her hard-won peace is threatened by the arrival of a bumbling team of paranormal investigators...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • 44: Book Five by Jools Sinclair

    44: Book Five by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If Abby Craig can’t see a ghost, does it mean it’s not there?A terrified woman asks her for help with a malevolent spirit that is stalking her, but Abby can’t see anything. Is she just crazy like everyone thinks or is there something more going on?Abby is determined to solve this mystery, but soon finds herself on a dangerous road leading straight into darkness...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  mystery  psychics
  • Uncertainty by Abigail Boyd

    Uncertainty by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last year, Ariel's life was ripped apart. She's finally started to put the pieces together again, and is looking forward to summer break. That's when a dream brings her back to the mysterious Dexter Orphanage...
  • Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Just when she thought her dreams couldn't get any weirder, Ariel Donovan begins having vivid nightmares of a dog that she must follow. It leads her to find an item from her past that she must use to aid her in figuring out the Thornhill Society...but she's not the only one looking for it...
  • A Ghostly Demise by Tonya Kappes

    A Ghostly Demise by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The prodigal father returns—but this ghost is no holy spiritWhen she runs into her friend's deadbeat dad at the local deli, undertaker Emma Lee Raines can't wait to tell Mary Anna Hardy that he's back in Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky, after five long years. Cephus Hardy may have been the town drunk, but he didn't disappear on an epic bender like everyone thought: He was murdered...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  death
  • Forty-Four Book Four by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Four by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the living haunt the dead... It's been several months since Abby Craig was kidnapped and held prisoner on a small island. Several months since Nathaniel Mortimer conducted his experiments, trying to find out why she was the only one of his victims to survive. After returning home, Abby is more determined than ever to have a normal life...
  • Ghost Huntress Book 2: The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    Ghost Huntress Book 2: The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kendall and her ghost hunting team is the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn�t so pleased. Courtney Langdon doesn�t appreciate Kendall�s new popularity or her relationship with Jason, Courtney�s ex.So Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world. At first it�s all a game to draw attention away from Kendall...
  • The MacKinnon Curse by J.A. Templeton

    The MacKinnon Curse by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ian MacKinnon returns to Scotland after two years abroad and discovers the town of Braemar is no longer the safe haven he remembers. As strange events begin to unfold in the forests beyond the castle where he lives, Ian grows concerned about those he cares about the most…and with good reason.THE MACKINNON CURSE (The Beginning) is a 14,500 word novella...
  • Hot Blooded by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié

    Hot Blooded by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you run from? Katelyn had only been in Wolf Springs a short time before she was bitten by a werewolf. And now she carries that creature's curse in her veins. But she's not alone. Wolf Springs is home to a hidden family of werewolves, the Fenners - who swear none of them bit her. Apparently there's a monster on the loose - something wild and uncontrollable...
  • Punished by Kira Saito

    Punished by Kira Saito

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Down in New Orleans, Arelia Larue’s once ordinary life has quickly transformed into something truly extraordinary.As her ability to communicate and work with Les Mysteries (spirits) grows, so does her attraction for Darkwood’s secretive owner Lucus LaPlante.However, Arelia soon discovers that Darkwood’s shiny and seemingly extravagant exterior holds secrets that may put her very soul at risk...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  book  female-mc  fiction  horror  magic  mystery
  • The Haunting of Highdown Hall by Shani Struthers

    The Haunting of Highdown Hall by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Good morning, Psychic Surveys. How can I help?"The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light - or 'home' as Ruby calls it. Not just a job for Ruby, it's a crusade and one she wants to bring to the High Street. Psychic Surveys is born...
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