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Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLove can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary... -
The Haunted Homecoming (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries #10) by Angie Fox
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsApple cider, bonfires, football, and—ghosts. It’s homecoming weekend in Sugarland, Tennessee and ghost hunter Verity Long is tickled to see so many souls—living and dead—back in town to celebrate. But not all reunions are happy ones, and when Verity stumbles upon a dead body by the football field, it appears someone has already evened the score... -
Between Family by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen someone tries to threaten me by telling me they know my name, I take that personally.G’day. I’m not really a pet anymore, but you might as well keep calling me Pet. It’s not like I’m gunna tell you my name anyway. And if I sound stroppy, well, I am. First, I was threatened. Now, someone has cut off my house from the human world and left my emotional support vampire on the human side... -
Something to Witch About by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLife'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... -
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The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Two of their hit podcast, featuring a foreword by the authors, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations... -
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems... -
Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSome comebacks can be murder . . .Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill. The obvious question of how he ended up in the sky in the first place has no obvious answers, which is where The Stranger Times come in... -
Mostly Void, Partially Stars by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season One of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations... -
Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen 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... -
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... -
Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThousands sold. Millions of pages read. Get your badge today! *INCLUDES BOOKS 1-5* Nearly 900 pages of action-packed adventure. Blood Crossed (Book 1) Meet Piper Shaw. She's one of the Netherworld Paranormal Police Department's toughest. She's also an immortal, and she's got one hell of a chip on her shoulder. Meet Reaper Payne. He's an actual reaper. Yes, one of those guys who ferries the dead... -
Bloody Acquisitions by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe third book in Drew's outrageously adventurous and satirical series, including THE UTTERLY UNINTERESTING AND UNADVENTUROUS TALES OF FRED, THE VAMPIRE ACCOUNTANT (Book 1) and UNDEATH & TAXES (Book 2).With a thriving parahuman accounting practice, a steady relationship, and a circle of trusted friends, Fred’s undead life has become more enjoyable than his normal one ever was... -
Blood Debts by Shayne Silvers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.A Wizard, an Angel, and a Horseman of the Apocalypse walk into a bar…The ancient pact between mankind, Heaven, and Hell has been broken. And Nate Temple’s quest for vengeance may have just kicked off Armageddon. So, time to grab a stiff drink…or maybe four... -
Twilight by Meg Cabot
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThis time it's life or death.Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak... -
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Undeath and Taxes by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe sequel to the Amazon bestseller THE UTTERLY UNINTERESTING AND UNADVENTUROUS TALES OF FRED, THE VAMPIRE ACCOUNTANT. After discovering just how filled with magic, intrigue, and adventure the parahuman world of being an Undead American can be, Fredrick Frankford Fletcher did exactly what was expected--he became a certified parahuman accountant... -
The Accidental Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsEver since an accident turned her into a knockout vamp, Elvi Black's been catching her z's in a coffin, staying out of the sun, and giving up garlic. She knows there's more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula, but she can't very well ask her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette... -
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsPeter Grant—cop, magical apprentice, and Londoner to the core—is being forced out of his comfort zone and into the English countryside. His latest case involves the disappearance of children in the small village of Herefordshire, and the local police are unwilling to admit there might be a supernatural element involved... -
Cross Your Heart by Michele Bardsley
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEven vampires can be afraid of ghosts... After the death of her husband-and her dreams of motherhood-Elizabeth Bretton returned to the family estate in Broken Heart, Oklahoma. Little did she know she would also give up her life as the Silverstone heiress... -
Dead Case in Deadwood by Ann Charles
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Nothing good ever happens at the butt-crack of dawn. No doubt, the headless corpse on the autopsy table in front of me would agree."-Violet Parker Real estate agent. Violet "Spooky" Parker stumbles upon a body-part theft ring at the local funeral parlor and suspects her caustic coworker has a hand in it or maybe a foot... -
Blood Moon by Alyxandra Harvey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen the vampire tribes convene for the rare Blood Moon ceremonies, Solange Drake is plunged into a battle with her feral nature. The Drake brothers have been raised knowing that they had to protect their younger sister at all cost. But forbidden magic and a mysterious stranger have put them all in terrible danger... -
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the new owner of the worst business in history, Jack has a lot on his plate. His self-appointed “biggest fan” wants to finally meet, and won’t take no for an answer. The annoying cultists are back and cultier than ever. Plus, there’s a creature living under the building's crawlspace that must be fed regularly (or else)... -
Grave New World by John P. Logsdon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Council Gods Are Brutal. The Lesser Gods Are Worse. I'm All That Stands Between Them...You won't find me in the lore of the gods, but I'm there, hidden between the lines. Whenever the lesser gods torture humanity, creating armies of supernatural beasts to rain hell down on the innocent, it's my job to stand against the tidal wave of pain and death.I like my job... -
The Deadliest Bite by Jennifer Rardin
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsI have two choices. Carve Brude's name into Hell's bile-encrusted gates. Or lose my soul.After an assassination attempt on Vayl, I find myself pulled into a tangled web that takes the gang to Romania... -
Haunted by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsIs it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead?Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him... -
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Guns and Graveyards by Katie May
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI have blood on my hands. Blood that isn't mine. I had thought I had escaped my past. I had thought I had finally freed myself. But can you really escape your monsters? With a gang war looming on the horizon, bodies piling up, and a strange new student claiming ties to the Shadow Man, I find myself looking into my past... -
Optical Delusions in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Caroline Shaffer
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSomeone is spreading rumors around Deadwood that Violet Parker likes to chat with dead folks.With her reputation endangered, her bank account on the verge of extinction, and her career at risk of going up in flames, Violet is desperate... -
Wait Till Your Vampire Gets Home by Michele Bardsley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsUndead fathers really do know best... To prove her journalistic chops, Libby Monroe ends up in Broken Heart, Oklahoma, chasing down bizarre rumors of strange goings-on -- and finding vampires, lycanthropes, and zombies. She never expects to fall in lust with one of them, but vampire/single dad Ralph Genessa is too irresistible... -
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNow in hardcover, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm... -
Dream a Little Dream by Kerstin Gier
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsMysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yes, Liv's dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially the one where she's in a graveyard at night, watching four boys conduct dark magic rituals.The strangest part is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream... -
Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsHigh school totally bites when you’re half human, half vampire. Freshman year sucks for Vlad Tod. Bullies still harass him. The photographer from the school newspaper is tailing him. And failing his studies could be deadly... -
Reunion by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsAccidents happen. With ghostly consequences, if you're Susannah Simon.The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them - since she's the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze's classmate Michael... and they'll stop at nothing until he's joined them in the realm of the dead... -
In the Company of Vampires by Katie MacAlister
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFran was a young witch of 16 when she became Ben’s Beloved, bound to him by fate to save his immortal soul—as if puberty isn’t hard enough. Over the next five years, she fights hard for space, and time, to grow into her own person, pushing Ben away. But when her mother goes missing, she returns to GothFaire to find her, only to find Ben in another woman’s arms... -
Witches Gone Wicked by Sarina Dorie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou think you know the world of magical boarding schools? Not from a teacher's perspective at a school for at risk youth. Like any twenty-two-year-old who grew up obsessed with fantasy novels, Clarissa Lawrence expects all her Harry Potter fantasies to come true when she is invited to teach at a school for witches... -
Chasing Shadows by Lila Bruce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAvery Smith, who returned to her hometown of Bethel Springs after time spent away in the big city, is finally beginning to absorb the culture shock and settle into her job at the local Sheriff's Department... -
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Of Wicked Blood by Olivia Wildenstein, Katie Hayoz
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNo rest for the wicked... or the cursed.SLATEI didn’t mean to steal the Bloodstone from the De Morel’s crypt. Scratch that, I did mean to steal it. Until I realized it was a curse-magnet that only comes off if I, along with a jolly trio, successfully defeat four curses.If any of us fail, I’m dead...Categorized as:
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Real Vampires Get Lucky by Gerry Bartlett
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a female loan shark named Lucky is attacked and left for dead, vampire Glory St. Clair turns her into one of the undead to save herbut eternity would have been safer without her. Vamps prefer a low profile, and that's not Lucky's style. She prefers to flaunt her sexy rock-star ex-boyfriend and great shoes... -
Crushed by Eliza Crewe
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMeda's back. This time she has a friend. The battle is over; the choice has been made. Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead... -
Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith the defeat of the evil Douglas behind him, Sam LaCroix is getting used to his new life. Okay, so he hadn't exactly planned on being a powerful necromancer with a seat on the local magical council and a capricious werewolf sort-of-girlfriend, but things are going fine, right?Well . . . not really... -
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsReturn to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time... -
Scorch by Gina Damico
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby is a teenage grim reaper with the bizarre ability to damn souls. That makes her pretty scary, even to fellow Grims. But after inadvertently transferring her ability to Zara, a murderous outlaw, Lex is a pariah in Croak, the little town she calls home.To escape the townspeople’s wrath, she and her friends embark on a wild road trip to DeMyse... -
Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire by Michele Bardsley
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsbeing a mother is never easy-especially when you're undead. Eva LeRoy, Broken Heart, Oklahoma's librarian, got "vampified" when everyone else did: during a rogue vampire's feeding frenzy. But books still make her undead heart beat-and, strangely enough, so does Lorcan the Loner, the vampire who killed her.. -
Vignette by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA short story of the Dresden Files. Bob and Harry discuss the latter's Yellow Pages advert... -
Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men by Molly Harper
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFollowing Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs, the second in a hilarious, smart, sexy romantic series about an out-of-work librarian who is turned into a vampire. With her best friend Zeb’s Titanic-themed wedding looming ahead, new vampire Jane Jameson struggles to develop her budding relationship with her enigmatic sire, Gabriel... -
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsCharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets... -
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Ghost of a Chance by Chris Tullbane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Broken-Neck spat forth a stream of Spanish which no doubt contained disparaging comments about my intelligence. Or my appearance. Or my fashion sense. The only Spanish words I knew were the expletives my friend Mike had taught me. Even so, I recognized insults when I heard them."The White Ladies of San Diego are one of the city's supernatural powers, organized and led by Graciela... -
Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsCryptid, noun:1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Wall in 1983.2. That thing that's getting ready to eat your head.3. See also: "monster."The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity--and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price... -
Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang by Katie MacAlister
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFor a woman married to the vampire of her nightmares, the honeymoon’s over—and reality bites…Pia’s dream of being married has come true.But her husband is straight out of her nightmares.Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones and feeling like a fool, considering she doesn’t know where either of them are... -
Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsFollowing the explosive success of "Odd Apocalypse," here is the gripping new adventure of Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz's most celebrated character.In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a disturbing vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not yet been committed... -
It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God... -
Sex and the Single Vampire by Katie MacAlister
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn undying classic from Katie MacAlister, Sex and the Single Vampire is a paranormal romance lover’s delight, ideal for fans of Lynsay Sands and her Argeneau vampire family novels. This perennial New York Times bestselling author knows what readers are hungry for: sexy and funny tales of otherworldly passion featuring hot, dark, immortal alpha heroes searching for their happily forever afters...
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