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  • The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations...
  • The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...
  • 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...
  • Bedlam by Derek Landy

    Bedlam by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind – and change everything…On a desperate journey to recover her sister's lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself, and there's nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can do to stop her...
  • Witch at Odds by Juliette Harper

    Witch at Odds by Juliette Harper

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Resigned to her new life as a witch and determined to make a success of both that and her business, Jinx has a lot to learn. She sets out to both study her craft and get a real direction for her aunt’s haphazard approach to inventory. Not to mention the fact that she wouldn’t mind getting to know neighboring business owner Chase McGregor a lot better...
  • Witch Is Why The Wolf Howled by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is Why The Wolf Howled by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Absence makes the… Cometh the hour, cometh a stranger with a story which Jill doesn’t want to hear. …custard cream taste even better...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  audiobook  book  cozy
  • The Ghost and the Witches' Coven by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Witches' Coven by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The mediums of Beach Drive don't take rumors of a witches' coven seriously-not until it threatens one of their own.Meanwhile, Officer Brian Henderson can no longer ignore the secrets of Marlow House...
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    crime  ghosts  witches-wizards  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  fiction
  • To Teach a Witch by Juliette Harper

    To Teach a Witch by Juliette Harper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A pen scratches in the night. A rat faces his past. A wizard pays for his crimes. The opening of the magical sanctuary of Tír na nÓg has rocked the foundations of Fae society. Isherwood sits in the Tower of Londinium awaiting trial, while Jinx and the special ops team circle the globe dealing with nonconformi incidents...
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    ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Dead Man Walking by Pandora Pine

    Dead Man Walking by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cold Case Detective, Ronan O’Mara is stunned to see the breaking news that a well-known mobster he helped to put behind bars, Vito “The Dragon” Dragonni, has been released from prison after his life sentence is overturned on a technicality. When prominent members involved in the original case against The Dragon start turning up dead, Ronan starts to wonder if he’s next...
  • A Spelling Mistake by Nancy Warren

    A Spelling Mistake by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Spell in haste, repent at leisure.Middle-aged witch Quinn Callahan agrees to hold a book launch for the bestselling but recently dead author Bartholomew Branson. It's a small favor for the new vampire. Unfortunately, things get out of hand when the author arranges a huge launch party and someone dies...
  • Chapter and Curse by Nancy Warren

    Chapter and Curse by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A quiet Irish village? Not so much!An ancient curse seems to be causing bad luck in the charming village of Ballydehag, Ireland—witch Quinn Callahan’s new home. When someone is murdered is it the curse? Or is there a very human murderer on the loose? Moving to a small Irish village was supposed to keep the middle-aged witch out of trouble. Yeah, that didn't happen...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  audiobook  book  cozy
  • Grim by Amy Boyles

    Grim by Amy Boyles

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Witcher meets Dresden Files in this action-packed mystery. "I am in love." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"This was a fast and fun read and I cannot wait for the second book in the series!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"I felt so many emotions and am totally going along on this ride." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️It only takes an instant for Grim—monster hunter and emotionally scarred hero—to lose everything.Grim is having a bad year...
  • Witch at Last by Juliette Harper

    Witch at Last by Juliette Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A lot has changed for Jinx Hamilton in just a few months. After the mishaps that befell her in Witch At Odds, Jinx just wants to enjoy the rest of the summer, but she’s not going to be that lucky. Just as she’s poised to tell her friends she’s a witch, secrets start popping out all over the place...
  • Witch at Heart by Juliette Harper

    Witch at Heart by Juliette Harper

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereJinx Hamilton has been minding her own business working as a waitress at Tom’s Cafe and keeping up with her four cats. Then she inherits her Aunt Fiona’s store in neighboring Briar Hollow, North Carolina and learns that her aunt has willed her some special “powers” as well. They say admitting you have a problem is the first step and Jinx has a major problem...
  • The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff

    The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An unforgettable, high-stakes, laugh-out-loud funny novel, The Witchstone blends the merciless humor of The Good Place with the spellbinding fantasy of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black stone...
  • Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

    Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”—a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage...
  • Shadow Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Shadow Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The holidays are here, and this year, they’re deadly…It’s my first Thanksgiving back in Moonshadow Bay, and everything is hunky-dory until the Witches Guild assigns me a research project for the upcoming Winter Solstice Festival. Not only do I melt down my computer, but I download a demon who ends up stuck in my house...
  • Crystal Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Crystal Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Strange events--stranger than usual--begin to happen around town, odd accidents and frightening encounters. The chief of police comes to Conjure Ink to ask us to investigate. As we delve deeper into what's going on, we find evidence that Moonshadow Bay is being visited by the infamous Mothman. And worse than that, he seems to have targeted my best friend Ari...
  • A Time for Witches by Craig Schaefer

    A Time for Witches by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Ghosts of Gotham, Craig Schaefer unveiled a modern world haunted by Greek mythology and magic. That was only the beginning.Once upon a time, Lionel Page didn’t believe in magic.That was before his odyssey to New York City, and the quest for a lost manuscript that ended in mysteries, murder, and the buried secrets of his own past. He used to be a professional skeptic...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • Bringing up the bodies by Tim McGregor

    Bringing up the bodies by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The book you've been waiting for... With Kaitlin in critical condition after a fatal stab wound, reluctant psychic Billie Culpepper has learned that the body she found in the Murder House is actually her own father...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • A Bogie in the Boat by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Bogie in the Boat by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You know what doesn’t go down well with morning coffee? A body in a canal. When a neighbor finds a grim discovery in the waterways of Venice Beach, Linx Maxwell gets an unexpected visitor in the form of a new ghost. The only problem? Her new ghost doesn’t see eye to eye with her old one. Detective Frank Bogle doesn’t know what to make of the young victim...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman in black stares at the sea, her body transparent, eyes brimming with tears. Hoping to get a better look at the woman, psychic medium Addison Lockhart leans out over the manor’s windowsill, gasping when she feels an intense pressure pressing down on her back—someone thrusting her forward. She grabs the side of the window to brace herself, but it’s too late. She’s already falling...
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    crime  ghosts  gothic  spooky  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Buried Secrets by Leighann Dobbs

    Buried Secrets by Leighann Dobbs

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Even the ghosts have secrets in Dead Water .... For Celeste Blackmoore and her sisters, locating a hundred year old buried treasure in the gold mining ghost town of Dead Water sounds like an easy job ... until they find themselves facing threats from both sides of the grave...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  animals  audiobook  book
  • The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After battling a malevolent ghost that held the spirit of her friend Ian MacKinnon bound to the land for two hundred years, sixteen-year-old reluctant psychic, Riley Williams, felt as if she was finally easing into her new life in Scotland.Or so she thought...
  • Haunting Charlie by Wendy Wang

    Haunting Charlie by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ignoring the dead can get you killed... All Charlie Payne wants is to lead a normal life and to be a good mom. But Charlie’s not exactly normal. She's from a long line of witches and she can see the dead. Susan Tate has inherited a beautiful old southern mansion on the coast. Unfortunately, the property came with a million necessary repairs. And ghosts...
  • Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A gifted healer unravels the mysteries of a cursed estate—and its enigmatic owner—in a witchy retelling of Jane Eyre . "Salt and broom, make this room Safe and tight, against the night." Trunks packed with potions and cures, Jane Aire sets out on a crisp, clear morning in October to face the greatest challenge of her sheltered girls’-school existence...
  • Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Actions have consequences—a lesson Scarlett Bernard is learning the hard way. As a “null,” Scarlett has always been able to negate the powers of the supernatural beings that surround her. But now her reckless decision to permanently change Eli from a werewolf to a human has left the Los Angeles werewolf pack in shambles, and upset the balance of power among the city’s supernatural factions...
  • Holiday Spirits by Yasmine Galenorn

    Holiday Spirits by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kip gets himself in serious trouble, a strange spirit enters the house—one that at first poses as Santa Claus. But beneath that jolly exterior, lies a dark creature from legend and lore. Join Emerald O’Brien for the holidays, as she battles both psychic turbulence as well as the demons every mother faces when her child lands in trouble with the law...
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    ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  book  cozy  culinary  fiction
  • The Women in the walls by Tim McGregor

    The Women in the walls by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the detective she's fallen for needs help, a reluctant psychic must put aside her feelings to help him unravel a horrific crime. HAMILTON - Trying to maintain a normal life, psychic Billie Culpepper struggles to block out the dead souls that haunt her every move but her attempts to suppress her ability only serve to isolate her even more...
  • The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this darkly magical, romantic YA fantasy debut, a closeted teenage psychic in small-town Washington foresees the death of his sworn enemy, and is forced to work with him to save his life. Sparks fly, but the dead are restless, and some ghosts don't want to stay buried...Perfect for fans of The Raven Cycle, Cemetery Boys and Sixteen Souls...
  • Welcome to the Spookshow by Tim McGregor

    Welcome to the Spookshow by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Drifting through life while her peers move on with careers and marriage, Billie Culpepper fears she will never discover what she was meant to do with her life. Fate intercedes when she's injured during a pursuit between a mysterious Englishman and the police detective determined to apprehend him...
  • A Rolling Scone by Nancy Warren

    A Rolling Scone by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Butter, sugar, flour — and Death!British amateur bakers must turn out the perfect scone in this week’s filming of The Great British Baking Contest. But fledgling witch Poppy is losing her concentration as she gets closer to discovering more of her own history at Broomewode Hall, a postcard pretty manor house in Somerset, England. However, someone is warning her to leave as she’s in danger...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  animals  audiobook  book
  • The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

    The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries...
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    ghosts  gothic  magic  spooky  witches-wizards  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Spirit Girls by Dawn Merriman

    The Spirit Girls by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m Rylan Flynn. I hunt for ghosts and restless spirits, and solve the mysteries that make them haunt the living.I’ve learned to live with my “gift” but sometimes I long to escape. My aunt’s cabin, deep in the woods, is usually peaceful. But this time I can feel that something is different.The ghost of a young woman approaches through the trees...
  • The White Gold Score by Craig Schaefer

    The White Gold Score by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When a high roller dies in his Vegas penthouse suite, that's a problem. When his ghost refuses to leave, that's a bigger problem. Daniel Faust is the solution. Called in to clean up the casino's mess, the modern-day sorcerer soon learns that the restless spirit isn't going down without a fight...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  magic  adult  audiobook  book  dark  demons
  • The Seventh Witch by Shirley Damsgaard

    The Seventh Witch by Shirley Damsgaard

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is the seventh and last installment of the enchanting mystery series featuring a small-town librarian psychic and her grandmother, and a benevolent witch.Small-town librarian and psychic Ophelia Jensen hails from a long line of wise and wonderfully gifted women. There's her grandmother, Abby, a talented witch, and her great-aunt Mary, who's about to celebrate her 100th birthday...
  • Popcorn and Poltergeists by Nancy Warren

    Popcorn and Poltergeists by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Is there a murderous poltergeist on the loose?When an Oxford professor is killed by a fall down the library stairs, rumors fly that it’s the work of a poltergeist who’s been causing havoc at the college.The dead prof was a knitter, and a customer at Lucy Swift’s shop, Cardinal Woolsey’s...
  • 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...
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    ghosts  spooky  gothic  crime  horror  paranormal  mystery  fiction
  • Vampire Games by J.R. Rain

    Vampire Games by J.R. Rain

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire...
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    crime  ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  audiobook  book  cozy
  • 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 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...
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    ghosts  gothic  magic  spooky  witches-wizards  adult  book  demons
  • The Ghost of Marlow House by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost of Marlow House by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Danielle Boatman inherits Marlow House, she dreams of turning it into a seaside bed and breakfast. Since she's never visited the property, Danielle's not sure what awaits her in Oregon. She certainly doesn't expect to find one of the house's previous owners still in residence...
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    crime  ghosts  gothic  spooky  witches-wizards  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dark Rivers by Morgan Brice

    Dark Rivers by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One hundred years ago, a sheriff’s posse killed dark warlock Rhyfel Gremory, but his witch-disciples escaped, and their magic made them nearly immortal. To keep their power, each year one of the witch-disciples kills a descendant of one of the men in the posse, a twelve-year cycle that has cost dozens of lives, including that of Seth Tanner’s brother, Jesse...
  • Enchanted Objects by Kristen Middleton

    Enchanted Objects by Kristen Middleton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second installment (following Enchanted Secrets) The clock ticks once again... Kendra goes in search of a legendary wand in Salem. Meanwhile, her long-lost cousin, Willow, tries to stop a family curse from threatening her existence. Unfortunately, Willow enlists the help of a witch and one who doesn't have her best interests at heart...
  • Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake

    Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this exciting novel in the Veiled Magic series, Witch and police officer Donata Santori travels to Maine to help solve a deadly mystery, where her magical abilities are tested like never before...
  • Legacy Witches by Cass Kay

    Legacy Witches by Cass Kay

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Coming from a long line of murderous witches hasn’t exactly been sunshine and rainbows for Vianna Roots. When she inherits the family’s haunted house after her mother dies, she decides flipping the rundown dump is her smartest move—but the ghosts that haunt her have a different plan...
  • Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo

    Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A tightly woven blend of myth, magic, and the ties of a found family.Ghosts that speak in smoke. Spirits with teeth like glass. A parasitic, soul-eating spirit worm has gone into a feeding frenzy, but all the Jong-ro Police Department’s violent crimes unit sees is a string of suicides. Except for Kim Han-gil, Seoul’s only spirit detective. He’s seen this before...
  • The Witch and the Huntsman by J.R. Rain, Rod Kierkegaard Jr.

    The Witch and the Huntsman by J.R. Rain, Rod Kierkegaard Jr.

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Allison Lopez is not your everyday Psychic Hotline operator. She's a real psychic with real abilities that seem to grow daily, thanks to her close association with an immortal friend...
  • Shadow Burns by S.M. Reine

    Shadow Burns by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When more than a dozen people die at a retirement home, the official story is carbon monoxide poisoning. Cèsar Hawke is convinced the reason is less mundane and more infernal. But that’s his job. As an agent working for the Office of Preternatural Affairs, he’s always looking for supernatural answers to deadly questions.Isobel Stonecrow agrees to help him find the truth...
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    ghosts  magic  witches-wizards  adult  audiobook  book  demons  fiction
  • Heart Burn by C.J. Archer

    Heart Burn by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Time is running out for Hannah. With her life hanging by a thread and Tate trying to kidnap her, she finds help in an unusual quarter - the man who put the narcoleptic memory block on her as a child. Yet the powerful hypnotist may not be all that he seems...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  magic  spooky  audiobook  book  fiction  historical
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