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  • The Ghost and the Church Lady by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Church Lady by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When autumn arrives in Frederickport, it brings surprises—some welcomed.Meanwhile, the residents of Beach Drive learn there are some things more frightening than ghosts...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • The Ghost Who Came for Christmas by Bobbi Holmes

    The Ghost Who Came for Christmas by Bobbi Holmes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s Christmastime at Marlow House Bed and Breakfast, and Danielle has a full house. When a woman, stranded far from home, shows up on the doorstep and begs for a room for the night, how can Danielle tell her the inn is full and turn her away? After all, it’s almost Christmas. The woman makes quite an impression on the other guests, especially when she mysteriously disappears...
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    crime  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night. One last enemy. One chance to stop him forever. It’s all come down to this. More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • 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...
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • Purgatory by Lee Mountford

    Purgatory by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The dead are sufferingPicking up immediately after the shocking climax of Haunted: Perron Manor, a paranormal research team is hired to help gather evidence and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Perron Manor is haunted.The owner of the house needs the Church to sanction an exorcism. It is the only way to free the souls of the dead who are trapped there and suffering in eternal torment...
  • The Ghost Who Wasn't by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost Who Wasn't by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a local heiress goes missing, Danielle discovers it’s not always possible to distinguish the living from the dead. To complicate matters, it seems Danielle is not the only one who communicates with spirits. Her new guest claims to hear Walt. But, something’s not quite right with Marlow House’s newest medium. Danielle must move quickly before her best friend joins the spirit world...
  • Legion by Shani Struthers

    Legion by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Legion is the sixth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!What if evil won't let go?Along a sheltered lane, deep in the Sussex countryside, sits a house that is sometimes called home, the tenants it has held unable to forget it...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Eternal Maze PEEPs Lite 3.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Eternal Maze PEEPs Lite 3.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PEEPs Lite – more story, less filling. Plagued with my characters’ constant chatter in my head, I’ve decided to tell a few stories in between the novels of the Haunted series. Each novella will deal with one haunt investigated by the PEEPs (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners) team with Mia and Murphy along for the ride. The novellas start after "Sand Trap," the third book in the series...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Homecoming PEEPs 3.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Homecoming PEEPs 3.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mike, the face of Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners (PEEPs) has led with his Hollywood jaw, projecting his good looks, while hiding a very important secret from his colleagues. He’s been haunted since he was a child. This may have been the impetus behind him co-founding PEEPs, but it has also kept him from enjoying a good night’s sleep...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Unfinished business, we all have it. Projects left undone, a garden yet to be weeded, an email needing to be sent. In Mia’s case, it’s Cold Creek Hollow. It has been two years since the horrors there were successfully dealt with...
  • Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s do-it-yourself season and the DIY projects are in full swing with enthusiastic homeowners tearing down walls, sanding old floors and waking up ghosts. “It should be called DYI for do-yourself-in,” Mia commented as the calls for PEEPs flood the switchboards and crash their computers. Or did something else crash them? Meanwhile, Angelo searches for the soul of his lost friend...
  • Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.

    Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new novel in the exciting Lance Brody series from the author of the Amazon Kindle #1 Bestselling horror novel, Rough Draft!A family mysteriously murdered. A haunted farmhouse. A town rich with secrets...
  • 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...
  • Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not all sand traps occur on the links. Some may be found on a popular beach or lonely stretch of highway. A sensitive and two ghost hunters walk into a bar. The barman is silent and the barflies long dead. Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. An active haunt in a derelict biker bar on Route 66 is a dream come true for the PEEPs team until it turns violent...
  • Christmas, the Krewe, and Kenneth by Heather Graham

    Christmas, the Krewe, and Kenneth by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Short Story" Approximately 6000 wordsNo way out of it—Christmas 2020 was going to be different.But Jackson Crow and Angela Hawkins are “home for Christmas.” Other agents are covering the office and they’ve just bought a home with a yard for their baby daughter and adopted son.But their neighbor, newly widowed, hears strange noises in the yard, a rustling...
  • Devil's Door by Lee Mountford

    Devil's Door by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Halloween night, 1982. Many people were brutally killed or simply vanished at the Blackwater Hotel—formerly Perron Manor. The events of that night have always remained a mystery.Until now...Ray and Rita Pearson, along with their daughter, Chloe, move into the hotel to help with its renovation and grand opening. All under the watchful eye of the mysterious owner, Marcus Blackwater...
  • 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...
  • The Ghost Who Wanted Revenge by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost Who Wanted Revenge by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With his dying breath, Stoddard Gusarov names his killer: Danielle Boatman. Danielle had a score to settle with Stoddard Gusarov, but murder him? Never. Proving to the police she is innocent is the least of her problems. She has an angry spirit to contend with, the ghost of Stoddard Gusarov—and he’s out for revenge...
  • The Belles of Desire, Mississippi  (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    The Belles of Desire, Mississippi (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happened to Jeopardy Belle? Is she the lost soul that haunts Summerleigh? Jerica Poole had no idea how quickly life could change until hers is ripped apart at the seams. After a messy divorce and the tragic death of her daughter, she jumps at the chance to fulfill the last wish of her friend, Harper Belle Hayes...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Rocks & Gravel by Catie Rhodes

    Rocks & Gravel by Catie Rhodes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peri Jean Mace knows ghosts create chaos in her life. She also knows the Mace Treasure spawns blood, death, and sorrow. They’re both trouble and she wants nothing to do with either one.When a ghost steals secrets about the cursed fortune, Peri Jean is dragged kicking and screaming into the dangerous world of the treasure and the people who hunt it...
  • The Ghost of Gabrielle Bonet by M.L. Bullock

    The Ghost of Gabrielle Bonet by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Screaming Woman Haunts the Mobile History Museum Can Cassidy Uncover the Truth About This Entity? Museum curator Carl Fletcher is terrified by a mysterious woman seen haunting the museum...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Graveyard Shift by Michelle Dorey

    Graveyard Shift by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The newest eerie tale from best selling author Michelle Dorey Serenity Lodge is haunted. Don’t ask the residents suffering dementia if that’s true. Ask the nurses. Amanda Ennis is the new nurse at Serenity Lodge nursing home. It’s a dream job after years of the hectic pace in the emergency room of a large hospital...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychics
  • The Maelstrom of the Leaf Academy by M.L. Bullock

    The Maelstrom of the Leaf Academy by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Jocelyn Graves left the Leaf Academy after her solo investigation, she was determined to return for another look. Only not by herself. The Gulf Coast Paranormal team accompanies Jocelyn as she faces down her fears at the haunted school...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Andy's Diary by Tim O'Rourke

    Andy's Diary by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In his confession, Ben McCloud told Detective Chief Inspector John Walker about the four murders that took place at Black Hill Farm. But what about the others? There are two sides to every story and this is Andy’s. 'Andy's Diary' the second book in the paranormal romance series: ‘Black Hill Farm’. For young adults aged 16 years and over...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now the prime suspect in a high-profile murder investigation, Abby Craig flees the only place she has ever called home and is forced to live on the run as a fugitive in the shadows of the American Southwest.But Abby soon discovers that she isn't alone. A mysterious stranger is plaguing her every step. A stranger with a dark past who has plans for her...
  • Black Opal by Catie Rhodes

    Black Opal by Catie Rhodes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Note: This novella is the second installment in the Peri Jean Mace series. The print version is approximately 180 pages. Please be aware before purchasing that this is a short novel. "I knowed you'd be coming." The voice came from next to my arm, male but high and reedy. "You here to make things right, ain't you?" Not according to Peri Jean Mace...
  • Kurkow Prison by Ron Ripley

    Kurkow Prison by Ron Ripley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shane, and Frank, two ghostblasting military vets, have a new job – the gruesome ghosts of Kurkow Prison. When one of the clueless new owners cuts the iron chains that keep the deadly ghosts locked inside the prison, the property becomes hell on earth! Shane and his brother-in-arms can’t believe the inherent stupidity of the new owners...
  • 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...
  • The Ghost of Tobacco Road by Dale J. Young

    The Ghost of Tobacco Road by Dale J. Young

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the banks of the Skeleton River in a remote part of North Carolina lies the small town of Starlight. Once known for its tobacco fields and rural charm, Starlight has seen better days. Now most of the stores on Main Street are boarded up, and many of the residents have left town for good...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  gothic
  • A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Living. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The door to Addison Lockhart's room opens. Five-year-old Sara Belle walks in. The child seems lost and confused. Addison reaches out, grabs Sara's hand, and the room goes black.Addison's eyes open to find she's been transported several decades into the past. She's sitting in the back seat of a car. Sara is beside her. The car stops at an intersection...
  • 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...
  • Haunted: Hotel by Lee Mountford

    Haunted: Hotel by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    David Ritter and Reverend Rachel Quinn are on a mission to save their dear friend, Sarah Pearson, from the forces of evil. Their information leads them to the long-abandoned Hillside Hotel. Imprisoned within the crumbling walls of the hotel, Sarah must hold out against chilling spectres and a demonic presence that feeds on fear. If she succumbs to them, the prophecy will be fulfilled...
  • The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything is right on track for Danielle as she prepares for the grand opening of her bed and breakfast. All that changes when her cousin, Cheryl, shows up to claim her share of the inheritance—housemate Lily figures out there is a ghost in the house—and the million dollar necklace goes missing...
  • Berkley Street by Ron Ripley

    Berkley Street by Ron Ripley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781532759208An abandoned house. A forgotten evil. Home sweet home...Shane Ryan returns to Nashua and the childhood memories that drove him to join the Marines. After a prolonged legal battle with his aunt and uncle, Shane has possession of the family home where his parents disappeared over 20 years ago...
  • The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He just spent everything on a house in disrepair, but he didn’t know someone was waiting inside. Tim Russell just put his last dollar on a handyman’s dream; a quaint but dilapidated farmhouse in New Hampshire. Newly single after a messy divorce, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale...
  • Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mummified body washed up on a beach near Chichester.A tormented detective cursed with a gift she didn't want. When the autopsy reveals the victim's heart was torn from her body, Detective Inspector Jo Wolfe and her team wonder if someone is continuing the work of Anubis, the Egyptian God of Death.  With the body count rising, Jo must touch the dead, to help her solve the case...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  audiobook  book  dark  fiction
  • The First Church by Ron Ripley

    The First Church by Ron Ripley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brian Roy is a ghost hunter extraordinaire. His latest adventure involves headless Japanese soldiers wreaking havoc in a New Hampshire church. The stats are grisly. Two boys blinded. Another boy shot. Cops killed...
  • Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEES Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Haunted Inn by Michelle Dorey

    Haunted Inn by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Each tale of The Hauntings of Kingston is a standalone novel with new characters that takes place in the enigmatic city of Kingston, Ontario. They have the chance of a lifetime... Tim and Brad have been best friends for years. They were college roommates and now share an apartment. They even share the predicament of being trapped in dead end jobs...
  • Haunting Karma by Elizabeth A. Reeves

    Haunting Karma by Elizabeth A. Reeves

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three Sisters...One Shared Destiny A Novella Once Amber discovers she has sisters, she at least isn't all alone in the world. Just when things should start to get easier...life gets more complicated than ever! The Haunting Karma is getting a bit extreme. Haunting Karma is book 4 in Karma's Witches Healing Karma book 5, by Hope Welsh is also available now...
  • Bones of a Witch by Dana E. Donovan

    Bones of a Witch by Dana E. Donovan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bones of a Witch, the fourth in a series of Detective Marcella mysteries, shines a light on one of America’s darkest hours when a simple accusation could get a girl hanged. But as Lilith learns, history is always pending, and the art of witch hunting never dies...
  • 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..
  • The Forest of Forever by Rob Blackwell

    The Forest of Forever by Rob Blackwell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Soren Chase’s life was shattered eight years ago after an encounter with a supernatural being left three friends dead and him branded as a murderer. Since then, he’s become a paranormal investigator, facing off against a host of deadly creatures. But his investigation into the haunted Reapoke woods may be his most dangerous case yet. Something evil is lurking in the forest...
  • The Brown House by Christy Sloat

    The Brown House by Christy Sloat

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Brown house isn’t a house you want to mess with. It’s that place where you and your friends go on a dare, but no one is brave enough to go inside, and if they do, they come out screaming. So when Brylee Branson and her family move in, it's not long before the evil things lurking in corners come out to play...
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