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  • Dying Wishes by Colleen Helme

    Dying Wishes by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shelby Nichols needs some time off, but for a mind-reader with ties to the police and the mob, is that even possible?Her kids want the dog she's promised them, the police need her to talk to a counselor, and Uncle Joey has unexpected news that could change her life. Is Shelby up to the task? Let's hope so, because solving a murder might be easier than granting a dying wish...
  • Wakes and High Stakes by Trixie Silvertale

    Wakes and High Stakes by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A flamboyant funeral. A dashing gigolo. Can this psychic sleuth beat the odds on murder?Mitzy Moon is never one to celebrate death. But a compelling invitation to a 1920s themed memorial service, aboard a riverboat casino, entices her to take a gamble. And the only thing hotter than the tables is the newly wealthy widower—until he disappears...
  • Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye...
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    suspense  drama  paranormal  fiction  mystery  audiobook  horror  crime
  • 死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

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

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

    Three in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in these three favorite In Death stories—together in one volume for the first time.INTERLUDE IN DEATHLieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it...
  • Soul of the Sentinel by E.E. Holmes

    Soul of the Sentinel by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A mysterious mark, an ancient spirit, and a message from beyond the Aether… After uncovering and destroying a Necromancer plot to take over Skye Príosún, Jess and Finn are united at last and longing to move on with their life together. But the Durupinen world has other plans...
  • Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

    Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a thrilling alternate-universe Seattle, empaths are disappearing—and it’s up to grumpy Reece and his mysterious protector, Grayson, to investigate. Empath hunter Evan Grayson is the Dead Man, transformed by a dark past into a perfect weapon against corrupted empaths...
  • Rogue Darkness by Dianne Duvall

    Rogue Darkness by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Immortal Guardians have hunted and slain psychotic vampires for thousands of years. Now someone is hunting them...
  • The Book Keeper by Sarah Painter

    The Book Keeper by Sarah Painter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mysterious, magical, and a little bit deadly... Welcome to Unholy Island.Luke Taylor was searching for his missing twin brother when he discovered a new purpose on a magical tidal island. Living in a quirky bookshop is a dream come true - he just didn't expect it to be so damn dangerous...
  • Deep Beneath by Dale Mayer

    Deep Beneath by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You might think you know what lurks below, … but do you really?A kayaking incident off Seattle’s shores sends Whimsy into a coma, where her nightmares are a revolving repeat of her drowning. She wakes to life on an isolated island, involving her strange savior, two dogs with unique identities, and voices, sounds, emotions that aren’t hers alone...
  • Liar City by Allie Therin

    Liar City by Allie Therin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A murder has Seattle on edge, and it falls to a pacifist empath—and a notorious empath hunter—to find the killer before it's too lateIt’s the middle of the night when part-time police consultant and full-time empath Reece gets an anonymous call warning him that his detective sister needs his help...
  • Shaw by Milly Taiden

    Shaw by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alpha Geek 6: ShawPanther shifter Poppy Cain has been living a secret life. She’s been hiding her nursing career from an overbearing uncle and terrifying cousins. They run a shady business in town, and when they want to use her as a pawn, Poppy makes a hard decision: run. What she didn’t expect was to find a mate in the process. Shit just got real.Shaw Eagan uses his hacking skills for good...
  • Witches in the Kitchen by Danielle Garrett

    Witches in the Kitchen by Danielle Garrett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A magical inn bursting with paranormal delight. A picture-perfect seaside town filled with humans who don’t know about their witchy neighbors. This cozy fantasy series has mystery, magic, and a splash of romance!Up until a week ago, my only knowledge of magic came from the movies. Unfortunately, it didn’t stay that way...
  • Wonderment in Death by J.D. Robb

    Wonderment in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Someone is hosting dangerous tea parties in 2061 New York... Thing aren't what they seem when Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates what appears to be a routine murder/suicide. When friends of Darlene and Marcus Fitzwilliams insist Darlene would never hurt her brother, Eve digs deeper...
  • Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff

    Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    John F.D. Taff's highly-anticipated epic supernatural thriller, The Fearing, begins with Book One: Fire & Rain where humanity faces a series of catastrophes spawned by a worldwide event that unleashes all of mankind's greatest fears.In the American high desert, vacationers returning from a road trip are thrust into a heart-stopping flight from death as they try to avoid a cataclysmic end...
  • A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash

    A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Raised by a narcissistic mother, the Rowan children’s magical talents were twisted to fit her needs. When Rachel dies, her children must confront the past to have a future.Rachel Rowan could sniff out secrets and her antique shop, Rosemary Thyme, was a front to torment the residents of Grimsby. When she dies, her children are faced with the deadly fallout of blackmail, murder, and magic...
  • Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk

    Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Project Phoenix…Find Oz…”Those were the last words her brother Jonah said when he died in her arms. Convinced that he was murdered, Navy Intel Officer Allegra Steele learns that “Oz” is her brother’s former Navy SEAL teammate, Jack “Oz” Cullen.When Allegra asks for Jack’s help, she doesn’t expect the undeniable electricity that sparks between them...
  • Jingle Spells by Christine Pope

    Jingle Spells by Christine Pope

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sweet baby Jesus, someone’s stolen a lot of Christmas dough!All is calm and bright as Globe, Arizona’s holiday celebrations approach. Selena Marx should have known it wouldn’t stay that way. The painted snowflakes on her shop window are barely dry when her best friend, Josie Woodrow, bursts in with news that the baby Jesus is missing from the crèche in front of St. Ignatius...
  • The Long Walk Home by S.A. Ison

    The Long Walk Home by S.A. Ison

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Which would be worse? Suffering an EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse? Or finding out that you've fallen back into time, five hundred years. Beckett Gray thinks the world has ended because all indications lead him to believe that an EMP has struck, and he is woefully unprepared. His car and cellphone have died near the Appalachian Trail, in the Cumberland Gap National Park...
  • The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall

    The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1925 three children vanish without a trace in Arrowhead Lake. Nearly a century later there are those who still report seeing the children swimming beneath the surface like elusive dolphins. After losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal...
  • Return by Michael Siemsen

    Return by Michael Siemsen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Matt Turner’s psychic ability has granted him a window into the entirety of Earth’s intelligent beings—past and present—but this gift has also been his heaviest burden. A talent like Matt’s can only be kept secret for so long, and ruthless individuals desiring lost and rare items have viewed him only as a prized tool. Now, there is no more secret...
  • Coached in the Act by Victoria Laurie

    Coached in the Act by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As East Hampton's go-to life coach, Cat Cooper and her BFF, Gilley, delve into the exclusive personal lives of the rich and infamous. But with local gossip growing vicious, knowing too much information can be a death sentence....Wild rumors are swirling in the Hamptons over Twelve Angry Men, a ruthlessly revealing one-woman show written and performed by Yelena Galanis...
  • Mutation by Chris Morphew

    Mutation by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jordan’s world is falling apart. She’s a prisoner in her own skin, trapped by an enemy who can paralyse her at the touch of a button.And the questions in Phoenix keep piling higher.Why is Jordan starting to see things before they happen? What’s wrong with her mother’s pregnancy? And why do Peter’s old friends suddenly want to talk to him again?The clock is still ticking...
  • And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones

    And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He only looked away for a second.Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister Amy over twenty years ago, Joseph Bridgeman's life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel...
  • Fatal Fascinator by Jenn McKinlay

    Fatal Fascinator by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hip hip beret! Hatmakers Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont return and must collar a killer when a castle wedding goes awry in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s new Hat Shop Mystery.It’s wedding season and Viv’s longtime frenemy Piper May is getting married. She convinces Viv and Scarlett to take on the job of designing the headpieces for her “wedding of the year...
  • Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...
  • Sit, Stay, Slay by V.M. Burns

    Sit, Stay, Slay by V.M. Burns

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her best friend Dixie is suspected of killing a dog show judge, Lilly must bring one sick puppy to heel . . . Tennessee transplant Lilly Echosby has two great dogs and mysteries. So naturally she's named her poodles Aggie, after Agatha Christie, and Rex, for Rex Stout...
  • Past Tense by Viola Grace

    Past Tense by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mayden Morningside is a Reader who works with contracts and lives a quiet life until her old recruiter from Terra comes asking her to join the Sector Guard. She will have her body changed to match her partner's, a strange but necessary practice when one's partner is a dragon. Harusk is a sleeper, a dragon who chose to preserve his genes through a prolonged hibernation...
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    paranormal  psychics  adult  aliens  book  dragons  fiction  mystery
  • Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit.     The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear...
  • Hallows Gate by Michelle Erickson

    Hallows Gate by Michelle Erickson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition for ASIN B0078TEC8WNew Years Eve changed Angelina ‘s lifeShe got lost and fell in love – with a ghostNow she needs to save him by becoming his wifeThe problem?If she succeeds, she frees him, but loses him forever.Love is more complicated than she thought...And that doesn’t include the elves...
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    cozy  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  humor
  • UFO Down by D.C. Alden

    UFO Down by D.C. Alden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Over the skies of war-torn Germany, Harry Wakefield faces a terrible choice - jump from his crippled RAF bomber without a parachute or burn to death as it crashes to earth.  Harry jumps... And survives with barely a scratch. Twenty years later, a powerful earthquake rocks the Berwyn Mountains in north Wales, waking Harry and his family from their sleep...
  • Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason has the ability to "mind slide", the ability to project his consciousness. He can be anywhere in the world. Watching. Listening. Kelly tries to put that terrible night behind her. Kidnapped when she was a teenager, she still struggles to overcome the trauma. The details of her rescue were always a little sketchy. It was almost as if someone knew exactly where to find her...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  book  crime  fiction  horror  killer  mystery
  • The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They promised purification.They delivered poison.One that hijacks the mind. A plague that will change humanity forever.From the author of The Pain Colony comes the highly anticipated second book in The Colony series.Investigative reporter Nick Slater could have been the best in the business if only he hadn’t gone off the rails chasing a conspiracy theory...
  • Planet of the Grapes by Kirsten Weiss

    Planet of the Grapes by Kirsten Weiss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aliens, fairies and murder, oh, my! In small-town Doyle, California, UFO abductions are a budding tourist attraction. So when Susan Witsend brings a UFO festival to town, she’s ready for some well-deserved time in the sun.What she gets instead is the corpse of a UFO conspiracy theorist, brained with a bottle of local wine...
  • Raymond by Eve Langlais

    Raymond by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This avid gamer is about to discover love doesn't mean game over. As a hacker who rarely leaves the basement, Raymond's chances of meeting Mrs. Right are slim to none until his hermit-lifestyle is jolted. A warning to stop poking into his past comes with consequences--and intrigues this curious cat. Raymond's only recently discovered he can shift into a lynx...
  • Kilty as Charged by Amy Vansant

    Kilty as Charged by Amy Vansant

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A blend of suspense, romance and laughs with just a dash of time-traveling Highlander from author Amy Vansant.When Catriona spots a plaid posterior passed out on the Hollywood movie lot where she works, she doesn't know her life as a fixer for Hollywood's spoiled elite is about to grow more complicated...
  • Dark Game by Michael Robertson Jr.

    Dark Game by Michael Robertson Jr.

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Less than twenty-four hours after the horrific events that forced him to flee his hometown, Lance Brody steps off a bus into a whole different nightmare.The small town of Westhaven seems ordinary on the surface, but Lance can feel the evil lurking in the air … and it knows Lance has arrived...
  • Thursday's Child by Monique Martin

    Thursday's Child by Monique Martin

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Crosses -- renowned Professor of the Occult Simon and irrepressible Elizabeth -- set off on their latest time traveling adventure. Leaving Jack behind to nurse his broken heart, the couple travels to 1852 Natchez, Mississippi to help the next person on grandfather Sebastian's list, Mary Stewart. There's just one problem. Little Mary Stewart, just 8 years old, died two days ago...
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    drama  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  historical
  • Only Cold Depths by Jennifer Estep

    Only Cold Depths by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A WOMAN WHO CAN’T CONTROL HER POWER . . .Everyone knows the name Vesper Quill. I used to be a lowly lab rat working in a Regal-owned corporation, but thanks to my truebond with Kyrion Caldaren, I’m now one of the most wanted fugitives in the Archipelago Galaxy...
  • Contact by Chris Morphew

    Contact by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For the first six months, Peter's life in Phoenix was pretty normal. Hanging out with his friends, frustrating his parents, sleeping through school. Then he found out the world was ending. The Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate the rest of humanity - and they're going to use "Tabitha" to do it...
  • The Five Times I Met Myself by James L. Rubart

    The Five Times I Met Myself by James L. Rubart

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What if you met your twenty-three year old self in a dream? What would you say?Brock Matthews’ once promising life is unraveling. His coffee company. His marriage.So when he discovers his vivid dreams—where he encounters his younger self—might let him change his past mistakes, he jumps at the chance. The results are astonishing, but also disturbing...
  • Impulse by Steven Gould

    Impulse by Steven Gould

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Cent is the teenaged daughter of two very special people, Davy and Millie, the world's only teleports, but her life is far from ideal. Kept in isolation to protect her from her parents' enemies, she wants a normal life, a life with friends and, perhaps, romance. She wants to go to school like any other normal child.If only she were normal..
  • Psi-Changeling, T1 : Esclave des sens - OP PETITS PRIX IMAGINAIRE (Psi-Changeling (1)) by Nalini Singh

    Psi-Changeling, T1 : Esclave des sens - OP PETITS PRIX IMAGINAIRE (Psi-Changeling (1)) by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Dive into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind—and none of the heart . . .In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”—the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was . .
  • Infinite by Brian Freeman

    Infinite by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From bestselling author Brian Freeman comes an explosive new psychological thriller that pushes the limits of reality as we know it. One rainy night, the unthinkable Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore...
  • The Shadows of London by Nick Jones

    The Shadows of London by Nick Jones

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A time traveler's work is never done.Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed...
  • Erased by Jennifer Rush

    Erased by Jennifer Rush

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They thought they had escaped. They were wrong.After fleeing the Branch with Sam, Cas, and Nick, Anna is learning how to survive in hiding, following Sam's rules:Don't draw attention to yourself.Always carry a weapon.Know your surroundings.Watch your back.When memories from Anna's old life begin to resurface—and a figure from her childhood reappears—Anna's loyalties are tested...
  • Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

    Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    What would you do to save someone you love?Time is slipping away. . . .Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything...
  • Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain

    Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church—and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out...
  • Fragments by Monique Martin

    Fragments by Monique Martin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Professor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help.They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened...
  • Seven by Adrienne Wilder

    Seven by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A past that won’t let go…After losing his job, Chase Sarim finds himself living in a shit hole apartment. His new neighbor calls himself Seven, wears aluminum hats and carries around a ceramic rooster. He also seems to know what Chase is going to do or say before it happens, and talks about people named, Nine, Three, and Four.Chase knows better than to get involved with someone like that...
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