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Wicked Forever by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIvy Morgan-Harker has everything she’s ever wanted, including a devoted new husband and an upcoming break from her nursery business for the Michigan winter. Then the unthinkable happens.Upon arriving at Morgan Nursery early one morning, she finds a body strung up in the middle of her happy sanctum … and there’s a message attached telling her that she’s next... -
Ghostly Endeavor by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHarper Harlow is ready to move forward with her business, which just so happens to include taking ownership of the beleaguered Whisper Cove Cemetery. She and her partner Zander Pritchett have big plans … until the day they close on the property and discover a body on one of the well-worn pathways.Cassie Clifton is recently divorced, a devoted runner, and an individual with a lot of secrets... -
Black & Brew by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe day Ofelia Archer has feared her entire adult life is here. Despite the happiness she’s been feeling since her engagement to Zach Sully, when the inevitable happens and her father has a breakdown on Bourbon Street, her life turns upside down... -
That Magic Moment by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOfelia Archer is working toward a goal, both personally and professionally, and she’s making great strides on both. Her attention is diverted, however, when a steamboat washes ashore next to the riverwalk…and it’s a boat that is more than a hundred years overdue... -
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Freaky Crush by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPoet Parker is living a new reality now that she knows what she is. Unfortunately for her, she still doesn't know what she can do ... and she doesn't think she's going to figure it out in Little Rock, Arkansas.Since her uncle Sidney is in tow, Poet is hopeful for a quiet week. Little Rock has never been a hotbed of activity. Quiet isn't what she gets, however... -
New Ghosts, Old Tricks by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHarper Harlow-Monroe has everything she’s ever wanted. She has a husband she loves, a best friend who is only irritating fifty percent of the time, and a daughter who refuses to be “normal.” So, basically, she has it all.Then the unthinkable happens. During an afternoon picnic with her husband and daughter, Harper’s yard is flooded with ghosts … right as five bodies float by on the river... -
Once in a Brew Moon by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOfelia Archer has a lot on her plate. Between building renovations for her new business endeavor and plans to move in with her boyfriend for the duration of the construction, she doesn’t have time for anything else. All that changes when a teenage girl is almost abducted in front of her bar... -
The Ghoul, the Bad, & the Ugly by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsZombies in Casper Creek? Say it ain't so. Unfortunately, it looks to be true ... and Hannah Hickok and her motley crew of helpers have a mess on their hands.As Cooper Wyatt struggles with the perfect way to propose, his girlfriend is buried in zombie lore ... and seemingly having a good time digging up solutions... -
Kiss My Ash by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMia Thorne’s midlife makeover is going better than she ever expected. She has a new job, a new relationship, a new garden—well, never mind the garden. She doesn’t even mind that she’s back to pounding the pavement to generate ad revenue for the local newspaper... -
Haunt 'Em High by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNow that she’s absorbed the power of the Casper Creek nexus, Hannah Hickok is a witch on a mission. Her new powers require regular venting, and she’s surpassed even her limited expectations. It’s not magic on her mind when her father comes for a visit, though.Brad Hickok has always wanted to see Casper Creek, and now that he gets to visit, he’s extremely excited. He’s not alone, though... -
The Wendigo Whoop-De-Doo by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCharlie Rhodes has the one thing she always wanted but was afraid to admit. The parents who gave her up for adoption are back in her life, but the transition from orphan to adult child isn’t going to be an easy one. Before she can commit to the process, however, a new job pops up for the Legacy Foundation and she’s whisked away to upstate Washington... -
Witch Is Where Magic Lives Now by Adele Abbott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere have been many changes to Jill's life during the last six years, but she's just as busy as ever. A family heirloom has disappeared from Tweaking Manor, and a man claims he saw a woman being shot, but the police insist no such shooting ever took place. Meanwhile, Winky is up to his old tricks... -
Friday The Witchteenth by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBay Winchester is newly married and happy. Things have been quiet since she returned from her honeymoon, which means trouble is just around the corner. When it comes, it takes the form of a despondent man on a bridge. Despite her best efforts, Bay and the hostage negotiator can’t save him, and death is swift... -
Undead Incorporated by Steve Higgs
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe paranormal? It’s all nonsense, but proving it might get him killedA woman whose dead husband is haunting her? That sounds like a routine case. Until she reveals her husband’s name …… and a past event Tempest wants to forget comes back to haunt him. Taking a case he doesn’t want, its only hours before he finds a threat on his doorstep.Leave the dead to be dead... -
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Shadow in the Mine by Steve Higgs
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCalled to investigate a mystery at a local gypsum mine, paranormal detective, Tempest Michaels, expects to find a rational explanation for the strange events …… instead, he discovers a body and a horrified staff.Recent earthworks exposed something ancient, twisted, and above all evil. It has claimed one life already and the staff are terrified for who might be next... -
Honeysuckle Haunting by Amy Boyles
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJust when Blissful Breneaux is getting used to her new life in ghost-filled Haunted, Alabama, a stranger enters town with the promise of solving a thirty-year old murder. When that stranger winds up dead, Blissful is thrust in a murder mystery that threatens to destroy the happiness she’s created. Her friend Alice becomes suspect number one... -
Grim Rising by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAisling Grimlock should be happy.She’s living with and engaged to the man of her dreams, her mother isn’t eating people … at least out in the open, her best friend is distracted by wedding details … mostly, and there are zombies running around Detroit.Yeah, it’s that last one that’s driving her crazy … especially because no one in her family believes her when she spouts the tall tale... -
Ghostly Wedding by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHarper Harlow and Jared Monroe fell in love fast and hard. Finally, their big day is here.They just need to solve a murder before they exchange their vows and take the next step to happily ever after.Peter Humphrey, an insurance salesman from a neighboring town, appeared to be minding his own business when a woman came out of nowhere and struck him down while he was crossing the street... -
Drive Me Daisy by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMia's biggest nightmare is about to manifest-her mother is coming to town with her husband du jour in tow. Never mind the sorry state of the garden, the hormonal inches insulating Mia's waist, or the Orca-sized cat that likes to rest her girth on Mia's head in the middle of the night when she's too tired to object... -
Give up the Ghost by Jane Hinchey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNever in my almost thirty years did I think my new normal would be talking to ghosts, yet here we are.After inheriting a PI business, I find my clients are more incorporeal than not and are relying on me to solve their untimely deaths. Unfortunately, being a magnet for ghosts has its downside. Hello? Lack of privacy, for starters... -
Witch Is How The Biscuits Disappeared by Adele Abbott
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou can lead a horse to water...Truth can be stranger than fiction. Never has that been more true for Jill Maxwell. Meanwhile, a close relative makes a shocking discovery. ...away from your custard creams... -
Ghostly Travels by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHarper Harlow-Monroe thought getting to her wedding would be the hard part. She was wrong. Getting through her honeymoon is going to be a whole lot worse.Jared Monroe decided to surprise his new wife with a honeymoon in Salem, Massachusetts. The goal was to have fun, bask in the sun, and eat some good seafood while shutting out the rest of the world... -
Mirrors of Time by Juliette Harper
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNOTE: This expanded version of Mirrors of Time includes the material previously published as the novel To Love a Witch. Time. The Fourth Realm. Is it a discovery or a trap? Seconds away from making a clean getaway to a fantasy honeymoon in Paris with Lucas, Jinx gets sucked down a time-bending portal tunnel — with Glory... -
File Two: Private Wars by Terri Reid
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEven though her father’s murderer had been found and killed, Bruce Blackwood’s spirit would still not rest. Now his focus was on his daughter, Brooke, and the danger she would be in if she ever recovered the childhood memory of his death... -
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Magic & Mercy by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWelcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. Ember Rose has her work cut out for her when a butler is murdered at the annual Estate Manager Conference. The former New Jersey resident and descendant of the One True Witch must keep Aunt Hyacinth from marching on the war path in defense of Simon, her butler and right hand... -
Hook, Line, and Murder by Tegan Maher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMoonlight, a handsome man, and… a dead body? Definitely not what Noelle expected when she cast off with Hunter to do a little romantic night fishing. Hunter discovers the girl didn’t exist before moving to Keyhole Lake. A day later, he’s ordered to close the case before he even opens it... -
Broomsticks and Bones by Misty Bane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeing summoned to attend a mandatory Flyers Education course – aka Broomstick Riding 101 - is bad enough. Immediately being entangled in a web of witchy drama from the moment I arrive? Well, that’s just my luck. Word has it a young woman has mysteriously fallen from the dormitory roof... -
Angel in Demise by Leanne Leeds
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn electrocuted millionaire at a garden party.One witch under suspicion.Can Fortuna Delphi clear her name before they shut her art gallery down? Fortuna Delphi’s starting to feel like a part of Mystic’s End... -
Millie on a Mission by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMillie Watson doesn’t often take initiative when it comes to work but when an old friend – or, rather, acquaintance she can’t stand – wants to hire her to solve a potential haunting at her upscale home, Millie jumps at the chance. In truth, Millie doesn’t care about finding a ghost. She does have a specific form of payment in mind, though, and it’s something she’s itching to collect on... -
Sketchy Charms by Leanne Leeds
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA body in the woodlands near the crystal field.Smoky quartz that smoked the local mailman.Can Fortuna unearth the truth the authorities won’t? When reporter and Mystic’s End busybody Pepper Stanford discovers a sketched map that professes to reveal what the heck the deal is with mystics in Mystic’s End, Fortuna reluctantly follows her out to the thick forest to hunt for for clues... -
Ghostly Fears by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTen years ago, Harper Harlow lost a classmate. Jennifer Jessup was sweet, nice, and seemingly aimless in life. She came from a good family, lived on an island, and was spoiled with every material gift that could possibly be bestowed upon her. She was still unhappy. Now, a decade later, her father Byron Jessup has approached Harper with a business opportunity... -
A Haunted Disappearance by J.A. Whiting
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is book 2 in the Lin Coffin Mystery series. The main mystery is solved in each book but you will enjoy the stories more if they are read in order. Lin Coffin is enjoying her new life on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts... -
Witch is How To Lose Big by Adele Abbott
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo custard creams… A man has gone missing from a hotel, and Jill is on the case. Meanwhile, what has happened to the ghost's jewellery, and what is in the trinket box? …are not as good as five... -
Ghostly Holiday by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChristmas is here, and Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe have big plans for the holidays. Harper is ready to move into their new house – and find him the perfect gift. And Jared? Well, he’s gearing up to propose and he’s making Zander ring shop with him... -
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Wicked Whispers by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Harker says the honeymoon will never be over, but it’s back to reality for him and his wife Ivy. Unfortunately for them, that means murder is on the menu … and this newest body is dropped in Ivy’s nursery parking lot.Jack is a mess when he realizes a sniper took out a local woman. Ivy, although shocked because it happened right in front of her eyes, is also intrigued... -
Ghostly Asylum by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSomething haunted this way comes … and it means big things for Ghost Hunters, Inc. It seems Phantoms, one of the most popular shows on the Independent Ghost Hunting Network, is interested in doing a location shoot at Ludington Asylum, which just happens to be located on a small island near Whisper Cove... -
Infernum by Wendy Saunders
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInfernum, the Hell book. There have been whispers of it down through the centuries. The most powerful book to have ever existed, so powerful wars have been fought over it, families torn apart and betrayed for it, souls have been lost to it and countless rivers of blood have been spilled for it. It is said whoever possesses it will have limitless power... -
Vengeful Vampire at Wonky Inn by Jeannie Wycherley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVampires are a pain in Alf’s neck. After hosting a diabolical vampire wedding last Halloween, Alf had imagined that Whittle Inn had seen the last of those long-toothed monsters. She’d pointedly barred them from ever setting foot or fang in her part of the English countryside again. But since then, one thing has continued to bother our favourite wonkiest witch... -
Solstice Spirits by Erin Johnson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHave yourself a very Merry Witchmas in July in Holiday Haven, where the magic and mystery of Christmas is snow joke!Rudie Hollybrook, here! I love my quaint, magical town of Holiday Haven. It’s basically like living in a snow globe.I’m killing it (oops) directing my family’s funeral home where I work with my two zany sisters and am head over heels for my boyfriend, the editor of the local paper... -
Mangroves and Murder by Tegan Maher
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's nothing worse than finding a dead body when you're trying to relax at a magical beach resort.Witch Destiny Maganti loves bartending at the Enchanted Coast, but she's in desperate need of a vacation... -
Beachside Burglary by Tegan Maher
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife's a beach, at least until a king's crown goes missing.Destiny's been trying to hunt down a thief for a couple of weeks, but up 'til now, it's been all small potatoes - sometimes literally. Since she's certain it's a local and suspects there's a method to the thievery, she's tried to keep it on the down-low in order to flush the petty criminal out... -
Dead as a Dodo by Jeannie Wycherley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Amazon bestselling author of the Wonky Inn books comes a brand-new magical fantasy witch detective series.Dodo was dead. And there the matter should have rested.At least for DS Elise Liddell.Emotionally burnt out, she considers herself retired from police work... -
Ghostly Business by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvery “quiet” town has secrets. The one nobody expected is about to rock Whisper Cove.During what should’ve been a romantic double date, a fire breaks out at a historic home. Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe race to the scene to make sure nobody is trapped or in danger … and discover one heck of a secret... -
Witchy Secrets by Misty Bane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Shay Graves is worried about is helping her daughter, Ember, prep for her starring role in the upcoming musical at the local community theater. All Alvin Graves is worried about is passing his continuing education course at Mystic Key University. But when Shay’s father falls ill, she agrees – albeit begrudgingly – to attend on his behalf and take copious notes... -
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Payback's a Witch by Misty Bane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe town has been whispering about my mysterious new neighbors and the means behind their extravagant lifestyle. Some have even been accusing him of being a cult leader. So when I receive an impromptu invite to Joe Collins’ sixtieth birthday party, you’d better believe I’m there... -
The Garden by Alexie Aaron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe PEEPs team (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners) has finally taken on a paying investigation. The owner of an isolated mansion wishes to donate the lease of the property to be used as an abuse shelter. There’s only one problem, it’s haunted. From the maids perpetually making up the beds to a banshee screaming in the upper hall, this house is more than hot with activity, it’s boiling... -
To Teach a Witch by Juliette Harper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA 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... -
A Brunch With Death by Mara Webb
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTake a trip to Compass Cove, an enchanted town full of magic and mayhem…Zora Wick is in trouble. Again.Life in Compass Cove felt like it was heading in the right direction, but events beyond her control force her to hit the road. It’s only been a month since she inherited her aunt’s bakery and business has already slowed down... -
Mind Over Magical Matters by Brenda Trim
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeing the Guardian isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. My new life is weird, and hard. Think magic comes easy to those who wield it? Think again! I’m more likely to blow something up than shield it.As dark Fae make their way through the portal and my best friend’s children are kidnapped, it’s time for me to learn how to cast a location spell... -
44 Gilmore Street by Shani Struthers
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“We all have to face our demons at some point.” Psychic Surveys – specialists in domestic spiritual clearance – have never been busier. Although exhausted, Ruby is pleased. Her track record as well as her down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach inspires faith in the haunted, who willingly call on her high street consultancy when the supernatural takes hold. But that’s all about to change...
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