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  • Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After powerful psychic Blue Billings fell in love with Levi Black, he believed their biggest challenges would arise from Blue’s ability to see and speak to the dead. So it’s rather alarming when he and Levi are confronted with a spate of new—and frightening—problems that have to do with the realm of the living...
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    paranormal  suspense  dark  spooky  romance  mlm  mystery  ghosts
  • Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late...
  • The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale: someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it’s her job to aid the agent leading the case—even if that agent is her estranged husband...
  • Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  animals  audiobook
  • Santa Biker by Nikki Landis

    Santa Biker by Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diablo:I’m a savage and a killer.A man with nothing to lose.As the cleaner for the Royal Bastards, I do the dirty work for the club.When I’m called in, it’s my job to ensure nothing is left behind. But it’s the blood that speaks to me, revealing hidden secrets and exposing the truth.Blood contains all the agony of my past, and I can’t escape it...
  • The Witchwood Boys Are Trending by C.M. Stunich

    The Witchwood Boys Are Trending by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They tricked me into a dark and unholy union.Three bastards in witch hats, leather pants, and iron masks.These supernatural stalkers have claimed me for their coven.They won’t go away. These assholes will. not. leave.All because I fell for an urban Touch the Witch’s Tree on a moonless night and discover magic.Wholesome magic kinky rituals, blood sacrifice, and jizz potions...
  • I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. He's no ordinary cop...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation...
  • 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...
  • Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.No one is safe...
  • Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts

    Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a compelling trilogy about three brothers bound by fate, blood, and a timeless enemy. In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys--Caleb, Fox, and Gage--went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone.
  • Lake Silence by Anne Bishop

    Lake Silence by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy, set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, Vicki DeVine and her lodger, the shapeshifter Aggie Crowe, stumble onto a dead body . . . and find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets.Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly...
  • Fortune Favors The Witch by Ani Gonzalez

    Fortune Favors The Witch by Ani Gonzalez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fortune teller Luanne LaRue is trying to build a new life in the haunted town of Banshee Creek and the last thing she wants is a conflict with super-sexy Sheriff Sean Stickley. But when a mysterious fraud spreads through town (along with a dead body) she has no choice. She has to find the culprit and clear her name fast before her new life (and new love) is destroyed...
  • Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another.There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others...
  • All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

    All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected complication: how to be a good boyfriend. When a mysterious drifter named River disappears, though, Vie finds himself dragged into finding the missing boy...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  abuse  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Only days have passed since Vie Eliot’s murderous half-brother—a dangerous, out-of-control psychic—was stopped from killing the people Vie loves most, but Vie is ready for his life to return to normal. He has plans. Big plans. Make the cross country team, pick up his grades, and spend a lot of time with his boyfriend...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  abuse  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine

    Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Read Rachel Caine's posts on the Penguin BlogIn the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since...
  • A Darkness Absolute: Library Edition by Kelley Armstrong, Thérèse Plummer

    A Darkness Absolute: Library Edition by Kelley Armstrong, Thérèse Plummer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She knew living in Rockton meant living off-the-grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval...
  • The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts, Dan John Miller

    The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts, Dan John Miller

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ electrifying trilogy comes to an end, as three men and three women join forces—and hearts—to battle the ultimate evil.Years ago, after their blood brother ritual, Gage, Fox, and Caleb each emerged from the woods with a piece of bloodstone. Now, it will become their weapon in the final fight against the demon they awakened...
  • Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Mia Devlin knows what it is like to love with your whole heart—and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared—and determined to live without love...
  • The Ghost of Ellwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    The Ghost of Ellwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I didn't believe in ghosts. Until I met him.”As a horror novelist, Ben makes a living telling scary stories. However, he's struggling in his career and fears he's lost his touch. Not only is there a disconnect in his writing, but in his personal life as well. After his relationship goes south, he decides to start over and moves to Ivy Grove, a small town with a lot of history...
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    dark  paranormal  spooky  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook
  • Don't Be Scared by A.J. Merlin

    Don't Be Scared by A.J. Merlin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Every town has a history.Ours is just a little darker than most.For years I’ve celebrated Halloween and Hollow Bridge’s history with everyone else who lives here. Parades, festivals, and insane Halloween parties have always been a staple for us. Some bad behavior is expected, given what we’re celebrating.But murder has never been on the table before...
  • Don't Let Go by Harper Fox

    Don't Let Go by Harper Fox

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What’s haunting Lee Tyack? He’s moved in with Gideon Frayne, and they’re both loving their new lives. But the shadow is still there – a voice from hell that torments clairvoyant Lee, and which even the pragmatic copper Gideon can hear. Gideon’s determined to protect his lover. But after a serious injury on duty, Gideon finds out the hard way that he needs protection too...
  • The Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman

    The Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As high summer bakes the rich earth of north-east Herefordshire, dark shadows gather around a converted hopkiln where the last owner was savagely murdered. Though the local vicar dismisses claims by its current occupants that the place is haunted, their story is soon splashed over a Sunday newspaper—and Merrily Watkins is directed by the Bishop of Hereford to defuse this situation...
  • Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

    Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom.With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake...
  • Some Like It Witchy by Heather Blake

    Some Like It Witchy by Heather Blake

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Wishcrafter Darcy Merriweather can charm desires into reality, but as the national bestselling Wishcraft mysteries continue, she won’t be able to magically avoid trouble when death holds an open house…. The Enchanted Village is abuzz when the old Tavistock house finally goes up for sale...
  • Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

    Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?What was it like? Living in that house.Maggie Holt is used to such questions...
  • Hollow Heathens: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Hollow Heathens: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A forbidden, timeless, and haunting love story.Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Fallon who was taken far away from home shortly after she was born. A home that held more than strange traditions and bizarre superstitions...
  • The Hot Zone by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    The Hot Zone by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The world of Harmony has its wonders, one of them being Rainshadow Island. Just beneath its surface, a maze of catacombs hides a dangerous secret...… Halloween—with its tricks and treats—is a dust bunny’s dream come true. Just ask Lyle, Sedona Snow’s faithful sidekick. But for Sedona, it’s a nightmare...
  • Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ash Grove is a fine place to die. Blythe has accepted her fate and is tired of running. Who would miss her anyway? She attends her new and eccentric town’s month long Halloween masquerade for one last party before meeting her end. But what will she find...and what will find her? A man in a skeleton mask is watching... and he’s not the only one...
  • The Hollow by Nora Roberts

    The Hollow by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For Fox, Caleb, Gage, and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom - ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon the Pagan Stone.Their innocent bonding ritual led to seven days of madness, every seven years. And now, as the dreaded seventh month looms before them, the men can feel the storm brewing...
  • Unbreakable Bonds by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

    Unbreakable Bonds by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Be careful what you wish for because karma has a way of biting you in the butt." That's what Angela Panther's mother always said. And boy was she was right. When Angela first discovered her gift to gab with ghosts, she fought it tooth and nail. But the second she decided it wasn't so bad, tragedy hit and the universe decided to teach her a lesson...
  • Down by Kirsten Weiss

    Down by Kirsten Weiss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The answers lie below… A shamanic witch and a poet, Lenore Bonheim hides in the world of books to escape reality, which for her includes seeing ghosts and forecasting death. But when her employer and friend dies under suspicious circumstances, she must use all her skills – magical and mundane – to find the killer and save her two sisters and her town...
  • A Bear for Christmas by C.D. Gorri

    A Bear for Christmas by C.D. Gorri

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At 47 years old, Jillian Osborn was too old to believe in fairy tales and finding love twice in one lifetime wasn't in the cards for her, or was it? Every time she saw him, she couldn't help but long for the handsome Tim Jacobs in spite of her honorable husband's memory.Ornery widower and Black Bear Shifter, Tim Jacobs had already found his true love...
  • Calluna by Jewels Arthur

    Calluna by Jewels Arthur

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Calluna is sassy, snarky, and doesn't give a crap about, well, anything. Calluna doesn't believe in all this love garbage that she keeps seeing all over the town. Nope, she is just fine keeping to herself and her pet store, Beastie Besties, spank you very much...
  • Guardians of the Haunted Moor by Harper Fox

    Guardians of the Haunted Moor by Harper Fox

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 5 in the Tyack & Frayne Mystery seriesThe wedding is just the beginning…Gideon and Lee have spent a year in chaotic married bliss, with all the trimmings – a dog, tricky in-laws, and a baby girl they both adore. But even the best of lives can be fragile, and a shocking family loss hits their new world like a demolition ball...
  • The Arcane Taste of the Witchwood Boys by C.M. Stunich

    The Arcane Taste of the Witchwood Boys by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Those witch pricks betrayed me in the worst possible way.I’m not about to run home and bake f*cking cupcakes, move on, and pretend to be happy.I’d rather rage.These men told me I wasn’t allowed to leave, that they’d follow me anywhere.Well, it goes both ways, my dear stubborn husbands.You aren’t allowed to leave, and I will do anything to enforce that.I’ll slaughter the Hag Wytch...
  • Promise the Moon by Hailey Edwards

    Promise the Moon by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lorimar Pack, Book 1War is a constant threat on Dell Preston's horizon. As beta of the Lorimar pack, her job is to maintain the peace on the new border between Faerie and Earth at all costs...
  • The Forgotten House on the Moor by Jane Lovering

    The Forgotten House on the Moor by Jane Lovering

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mystery, mayhem, a manor house and a generous serving of romance...When police knock on Alice Donaldson’s door at 4am, she knows the news won’t be good. There’s been an accident involving her ex-husband Grant, and as his existing next of kin, they need her help.Grant is missing up on the North York moors, but the Grant Alice knew could barely be persuaded out on a walk around the block...
  • The Contortionist by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Contortionist by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Come one, come all, to Harrow Faire...and greet your sweetest nightmare.Cora Glass’s humdrum existence as a bank teller flips upside down when a long-abandoned circus mysteriously returns to life. But the entry fee to this big top show is far more than Cora bargained for.A deal struck.A soul...stuck...
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    dark  paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  anti-hero  audiobook  book
  • Come with Me by Ronald Malfi

    Come with Me by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee.Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence--and her ghost--Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country...
  • A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong

    A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. Something bigger is happening in the small town they call home...
  • Mr. Monster by Dan Wells

    Mr. Monster by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies.But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve...
  • Faithless by Karin Slaughter

    Faithless by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods–then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. For them, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and draw dozens of life into the case...
  • Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine

    Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    The wait is over. dig into the feast...In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans live in relative peace. Student Claire Danvers has never been convinced, though, especially with the arrival of Mr. Bishop, an ancient, old-school vampire who cares nothing about harmony. What he wants from the town's living and its dead is unthinkably sinister...
  • Faerie Forged by L.R. Braden

    Faerie Forged by L.R. Braden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New world, new rules . . .Alex is screwed. She’s due at the fae Court of Enchantment in less than twenty-four hours, but she’s not even close to being ready. Her job is hanging by a fraying thread. There’s a new vampire master in town. And several of her werewolf friends have been captured by the Paranatural Task Force...
  • Spindrift by Amy Rae Durreson

    Spindrift by Amy Rae Durreson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Siôn Ruston has fled to Rosewick Bay to recover from a breakdown which led him to attempt suicide. He needs the peace and tranquility of this lovely North Yorkshire seaside village to recover, but instead he is awoken by the ghost that walks across his bedroom at dawn...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Ground by Kirsten Weiss

    Ground by Kirsten Weiss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her magic flows from the earth… Jayce Bonheim is on the sheriff’s radar and not in a good way. Always the reckless one of her triplet sisters, Jayce is trying to turn over a new leaf. No more wild partying. No more one night stands. But when someone leaves a dead body in her pickup truck, her resolve to become the sensible sister is sorely tested...
  • Blood and Water by J. David Osborne

    Blood and Water by J. David Osborne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After discovering a body in a local fishing hole, two brothers come to terms with their own poverty as they're inescapably drawn into a surreal world of dangerous criminals.Set against a rural Oklahoma backdrop, Blood and Water is a story of family responsibility, the lure of easy outs and even easier scores, and our own violent impulses...
    Categorized as:
    dark  rural  spooky  adult  book  contemporary  crime  family
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