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  • The Witch's Tree by Elena Collins

    The Witch's Tree by Elena Collins

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A tale as old as time. A spirit that has never rested.Present dayAs a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dreams for her future, artist Selena needs a retreat. The picture-postcard Sloe Cottage in the Somerset village of Ashcombe promises to be the perfect place to forget her problems, and Selena settles into her new home as spring arrives...
  • The Lady of the Loch by Elena Collins

    The Lady of the Loch by Elena Collins

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ‘Although I believe I will die here in this castle, my spirit will never be silent.’Ravenscraig Castle, Scotland. 1307When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to escape north of Inverness to throw herself at the mercy of the Lord and Lady at Ravenscraig Castle...
  • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

    Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free...
  • Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dex & Perry return in Book #10 of the Experiment in Terror series.A lot can change in three years.For Perry and Dex Foray, it’s been a step in the right direction, a step toward living a normal life. They’re happily married, they have their own media company, they’ve done what they can to leave their sordid and scary past behind them.But something has changed recently...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  adult  age-gap  book  dark  female-author
  • The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White, Aimée Bruneau

    The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White, Aimée Bruneau

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    >Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton returns-only to be greeted by a house full of lost souls. Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton is still restoring her Charleston house and doesn't expect to have a new houseguest, a teen girl named Nola. But the girl didn't come alone, and the spirits that accompanied Nola don't seem willing to leave..
  • Psychopomp by Angela Roquet

    Psychopomp by Angela Roquet

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In war, everyone loses...Reaper Lana Harvey is finding out the hard way. When Jenni Fang recruits her for a special mission, the biggest victory over the rebels is followed by a crushing and immediate reprisal. The rebels have a new general working in the shadows of Limbo City, luring gods, reapers, demons, and souls to the dark side...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  myths  paranormal  adult  angels  audiobook  book  dark
  • Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Facing her future as a single mother, psychic Realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether she likes it or not.… Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack’s marriage proposal...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  crime  fiction  horror
  • Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

    Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts.To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys...
  • Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier

    Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A brand new novel in the beloved world of Sevenwaters, a fantasy series that should appeal to "Lord of the Rings" fans (VOYA). The chieftains of Sevenwaters have long been custodians of a vast and mysterious forest. Human and Otherworld dwellers have existed there side by side, sharing a wary trust...
  • Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest...
  • Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch

    Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "I cowered away from him, unable to formulate a coherent sentence. Questions ran through my mind though none made it past my lips. I wondered how this could be happening, what he wanted, and what major injustice I'd brought against the universe to bring a fate such as this upon me.Perhaps being born was reason enough...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  myths  paranormal  book  dark  fiction  gods  graphic-violence
  • The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman

    The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters.The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change...
  • Styx & Stoned by Boone Brux

    Styx & Stoned by Boone Brux

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Las Vegas! All expenses paid! Normally, a trip like that would be a dream come true for a widowed, mother of three, who just happens to be grim reaper. Here’s the thing though, situations rarely work out as I imagine they should. And usually not in my favor. This time isn’t any different...
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  myths  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  female-mc
  • 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...
  • The Harder the Fall by Lauren Barnholdt

    The Harder the Fall by Lauren Barnholdt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kendall has a crush - and the ghost of his mother has something to say about it. The second book in a hilariously haunting tween series.Kendall Williams talks to dead people all the time. Like it or not, it's kind of her thing - the ghosts need her help resolving issues from when they were alive, and she's good at figuring out their problems...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Guardians of the Haunted Moor by Harper Fox

    Guardians of the Haunted Moor by Harper Fox

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 5 in the Tyack & Frayne Mystery seriesThe wedding is just the beginning…Gideon and Lee have spent a year in chaotic married bliss, with all the trimmings – a dog, tricky in-laws, and a baby girl they both adore. But even the best of lives can be fragile, and a shocking family loss hits their new world like a demolition ball...
  • 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...
  • Secret of McKinley Mansion by K.F. Breene

    Secret of McKinley Mansion by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was a dark and stormy night...But then, it was always stormy when she came. Beckoning. Calling to her followers. And follow her they did - never to be seen or heard from again. ~ * ~ * ~
Larkin, MO is not the cute, sleepy town it appears to be. Beneath the quaint façade lurks a secret - a secret everyone knows, but no one will talk about.Everyone knows to keep curfew...
  • Lost Souls by Kelley Armstrong

    Lost Souls by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  myths  paranormal  audiobook  book  contemporary  fae  fiction
  • Long Ride Home by Elizabeth Hunter, Liisa Ivary

    Long Ride Home by Elizabeth Hunter, Liisa Ivary

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The first story in the new paranormal series by Elizabeth Hunter, acclaimed author of the Elemental Mysteries. Welcome to Cambio Springs.In this small desert town, secrets bubble up from the desert floor, and history is written on the canyon walls. Seven friends will gather at the crossroads, because in Cambio Springs, everything—and everyone—changes.Jena Crowe escaped the Springs ten years ago...
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  myths  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss

    Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before...
  • Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts

    Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The breathtaking conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Jewels of the Sun and Tears of the Moon...Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate, the magic of legend... and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away - into a world filled with glamour and adventure, and the exotic life that is her destiny..
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  myths  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Twisted Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Twisted Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Keira is ready for her life to return to normal. Though, to be fair, normal is a tall ask when your ability to see ghosts has landed you the job of groundskeeper in a small town’s cemetery.When Keira receives an invitation to dinner at Dane Crispin’s crumbling ancestral estate, she knows she can’t refuse. The last living descendant of the Crispin family is reclusive...
  • The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden

    The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seven girls tied by time.Five powers that bind.One curse to lock the horror away.One attic to keep the monsters at bay.After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal...
  • The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine

    The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Before you follow the path into your family’s history, beware of the secrets you may find…The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career and now the death of her father. She is now faced with the daunting task of clearing his house...
  • The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures...
  • The Guests on South Battery by Karen White

    The Guests on South Battery by Karen White

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKaren White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston in her fifth Tradd Street novel, where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by, and restless spirits refuse to fade away..
  • Guardian Spirits by Jordan L. Hawk

    Guardian Spirits by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Psychic medium Vincent Night and his lover Henry Strauss have spent months striving to uncover the dark secret harbored by Vincent’s dead mentor, James Dunne. Their only clue comes from a journal: Dunne was seeking to restore the Grand Harmonium, an artifact meant to breach the walls between life and death...
  • Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In Victorian England, a young woman inherits her father’s curiosity shop and all its ghostly secrets in a bewitching novel by the author of Salt & Broom.It’s 1851 in old York. Lizzy Grimm struggles to save her late father’s charmingly creepy yet floundering antique shop, Grimm Curiosities. Then, during a particularly snowy December in this most haunted city in England, things turn…curiouser...
  • Mistletoe and Mireworth: A Manners and Monsters Christmas Novella by Tilly Wallace

    Mistletoe and Mireworth: A Manners and Monsters Christmas Novella by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will Mireworth yield her secrets to her new mistress...? The family gather at Mireworth for their first Christmas and Hannah is determined to unravel the secrets within its walls. Why did Wycliff's ancestor hide the tower, and what grip did the long ago shadow-mage cast over his family? With Barnes as her assistant, Hannah sets out to discover the truth...
  • Her Loving Husband's Return by Meredith Allard

    Her Loving Husband's Return by Meredith Allard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Three of the bestselling Loving Husband Trilogy - "A perfect ending to this trilogy!" (Nicole L. Vermilya)What would you risk to return to the one you loved?James Wentworth's paranormal secret is no longer a secret, and now he and his beloved wife, Sarah, have been separated...
  • Carnival of Bones by Penn Cassidy

    Carnival of Bones by Penn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bienvenue à la maisonThe song beckons me. Haunting, tragic and utterly lovely. It calls me to a place deep in the Louisiana Bayou, where impossible things creep in the shadows.Following the voice on the wind, I scratch at the blood coating my skin and dance along the swamps with the crickets. Hands caress my arms and lips coax at mine, begging for me to let them inside. Begging me to surrender...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  ghosts  spooky  romance  reverse-harem  fantasy  dark  gods
  • 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...
  • Crossing Over by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

    Crossing Over by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when ghosts take a road trip?One year older and a whole lot wiser, medium-in-training Kat Roberts finally seems comfortable healing the living dead. But when her free-spirited mother (aka professional medium) volunteers to chaperone her eighth-grade class trip to Old Montreal, Kat's problems become dead serious...
  • The Devil's Bible by Dana Chamblee Carpenter

    The Devil's Bible by Dana Chamblee Carpenter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Devil’s Bible. Once considered an eighth wonder of the world, the ancient book is shrouded in mystery. No one knows who wrote it or where it was written. Even dry-boned scholars whisper about the secrets hidden in the book: How it calls to the power-hungry. How it drives people mad. How it was written in the shadows by the hand of the devil himself...
  • 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...
  • Sisters of Salt and Iron by Kady Cross

    Sisters of Salt and Iron by Kady Cross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sisters of Salt and Iron by Kady Cross released on Feb 28, 2017 is available now for purchase...
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  myths  paranormal  spooky  abuse  book  bullying
  • Her Loving Husband's Curse by Meredith Allard

    Her Loving Husband's Curse by Meredith Allard

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How far will you go to protect the one you love?Finally, after many long and lonely years, James Wentworth’s life is falling into place. Together with his wife, Sarah, the only woman he has ever loved, he has found the meaning behind her nightmares about the Salem Witch Trials, and now they are rebuilding the life they began together so long ago.But the past is never far behind for the Wentworths...
  • Ghost Girl by C.J. Archer

    Ghost Girl by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cara Moreau is dying from a supernatural curse. Her only chance of survival lies with the warrior, an enigmatic man who comes from a realm "in between." Quin St. Clair lived hundreds of years ago, but now exists solely to protect the world he once called home. That's all he will tell Cara, the woman he must keep alive by remaining close to her. Very close...
  • Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After finally learning who was behind her mother's death, Calla still doesn't understand why it happened. Somewhere out there, someone seems to share the powerful psychic abilities that allow Calla to see not only into the past, but to the Other Side-someone who apparently doesn't want to be found...
  • Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unsettling. There's no better word to describe Miranda Barnes's ability to hear the cries of the dead, feel the wind move her hair when they run by, and - dare she look into a mirror - see the reflection of a ghostly woman behind her. There's only one person to turn to for support: Etienne. As sexy as he is mysterious, Miranda can't help but be drawn to him. He believes her; he wants to help her...
  • 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
  • I So Don't Do Spooky by Barrie Summy

    I So Don't Do Spooky by Barrie Summy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Someone’s out to get Sherry’s stepmom. . . .Can she save her before it’s too late?Did you know that the main campus of the Academy of Spirits is at a Dairy Queen in Phoenix? Me either. Until now. Some weird stuff has been happening to my stepmother, Paula, and the Academy has asked me, Sherry Holmes Baldwin, to get to the bottom of it. They think someone’s trying to hurt her...
  • 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...
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