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A Good Chance by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill she be swept away? If someone had told Avery that she’d be flying to a tiny island in the Caribbean to film a reality show masquerading as her identical twin sister, she would have thought they were crazy. And yet, she finds herself in a tin can of an airplane, about to land on Siren Island where a film crew waits to document her every move for a new reality love show – Swept Away... -
Good Moon Rising by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEven mermaids fall sometimes…The ladies of The Laughing Mermaid guesthouse are renowned for both their beauty and their enchanting ways. Jolie, one of the owners, has only dated casually for years, as she is searching for the one man who has been foretold to be her future. When he arrives, Jolie is shocked to find him impervious to her charms... -
Up to No Good by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLola Ramon has cultivated a life most would dream of – or judge – depending on who is doing the looking. A world traveler and artist, she never stays in one place for too long, or with one man. A fateful meeting with a psychic in Italy reveals the cracks in her happy exterior and sends her to Siren Island determined to take a break from her wandering lifestyle... -
Stoneheart Lion by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's a shifter fixer who can fix anything ... except herself. Exiled from her clan, jaguar shifter Max is a P.I. who handles unique shifter problems. Incriminating photos, blackmail, mate problems? Max helps others solve their problems because there is no cure for her own loneliness. At least none that she knows.But she's never had a problem like him before ..Categorized as:
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Good Girl by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Tricia O'Malley, comes a brand new series about love, self-discovery and embracing your inner mermaid. She shouldn't be on this island. If she was smart, Samantha Jameson would turn around and march right back to the plane that deposited her at a faded hut of an airport on Siren Island... -
The Keeper by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe South Channel lighthouse is a crumbling antique at the mouth of the Savannah River, abandoned and forgotten for generations. Local stories still tell of a mysterious woman in white who often stood at the old lighthouse, watching the sailors come into port...even long after she died... -
The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne minute you are doing your make up and making plans, and the next your oldest sister is giving birth to a baby who awakened as a Prime mage while in the womb. You think Exorcist is scary? Connor and Nevada’s baby says, “Hold my milk. You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Timeline: Takes place at the end of Emerald Blaze... -
The Color of the Season by Julianne MacLean
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes the next instalment in her popular Color of Heaven series - a gripping, emotional tale about real life magic that touches us all during the holiday season... Boston cop, Josh Wallace, is having the worst day of his life... -
Chai, Chai Again by Eryn Scott
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPebble Cove is known for giving tourists the cold shoulder, but a frozen body is something new. The people of Pebble Cove are thrown into a forced hibernation when the worst snowstorm in a decade hits the Oregon Coast. They expect to find damages once the snow thaws, but a frozen body down by the pier comes as a terrible surprise... -
The Secrets of Lost Stones by Melissa Payne
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA soul-stirring novel about the bonds between mother and child and the redemption that comes with facing the past and letting it go.Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and—most heart-wrenching—her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident... -
The Sight of You by Holly Miller
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Light We Lost meets How to Walk Away in this romantic and page-turning American debut that poses a heartbreaking question: Would you choose love, if you knew how it would end?Joel has sworn off falling in love. But when he meets Callie, he can't help being drawn to her. In Callie, he sees a second chance at life. And in Joel, Callie discovers the kind of love she'd always hoped was real... -
Shadow by Veronica Bale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHalloran Farm—a lonely plot of land and an abandoned Victorian farmhouse. Nearly a century ago it was the site of a gruesome murder which, to this day, resonates within its decaying walls.COMPASSION. REDEMPTION. IF SHE CAN FIND ONE, SHE CAN DELIVER THE OTHER.Tilly Bright is a girl with an extraordinary gift, one which she never wanted and which she has spent a lifetime trying to suppress... -
Shoes on the Stairs by Jan Steele
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by the many frustrations of parenthood and the ever-present fear of failure, SHOES ON THE STAIRS centers around a mother's struggle to accept what she has left behind after her death. She takes the reader on a journey of both laughter and tears while learning even the smallest of gestures can make a significant and lasting impact.* * *Claire Blackwell can't find that damn white light... -
Not by Oolong Shot by Eryn Scott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPebble Cove's most infamous house is about to get a makeover, but can changing the outside get rid of the curse held within its walls?High up in the cliffs behind the town of Pebble Cove, a haunted house looks out over the ocean. When the cursed house sells after sitting vacant for decades, the locals are concerned. Horrible things happened there... -
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The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsYears ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . .Categorized as:
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Dazed and Infused by Eryn Scott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHave the people of Pebble Cove welcomed a killer into their midst?Two women wash up on the beach in front of Rosemary's tea shop. One is dead. The other is wounded and can't even remember her name. Is she also a victim or the killer?When it becomes clear that the only souls who can help solve this mystery are those of the ghostly persuasion, Rosemary has to get involved... -
The Billionaire Dragon Shifter's Baby by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA curvy social worker in need of a break + a carefree dragon shifter + a baby dragon who needs her father = one hot and heartwarming romance! Amy McCullough has to handle just one last case before she takes some much-needed leave from her stressful job as a social worker. But when she finally gets the call from a baby's missing father, Amy's the one who gets a fairy tale ending... -
A Score to Kettle by Eryn Scott
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA ghost mystery for readers who don't usually enjoy the paranormal."The residents of Pebble Cove were wary of the new commune at The Pines even before someone ended up dead.Rosemary is excited to cater her first even at the newly opened commune's full moon festival. When a young woman is found murdered in her yurt, it's clear these rich wannabe hippies aren't as peaceful as they pretend... -
During the Dance by Mark Lawrence
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA short story (2000 words)A story of love, loss, and the dance in between. Absolutely not a romance.A short story about a child with a gift for seeing past the world... -
The First Witch-Mage by Isabel Campbell, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThose who cross a Blackwood soon learn that they won’t like the results.Theadora Kathryn Blackwood’s life is just the way she wants it. Thea focuses on what she wants to do, what she wants to study, and the local COVEN hierarchy leaves her the hell alone...Categorized as:
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The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn investigative journalist uncovers the haunting secret history of her own ancestors in a bewitching novel by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Lake.When Cassie Graves discovers her husband’s affair, it’s enough to chip away at the foundation of her life. But after researching her family’s Italian ancestry, it completely crumbles beneath her... -
The Shadow Wing by Sarah Painter
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter the explosive events of The Copper Heart, Lydia must deal with a secret service operative with murder in his heart.The mysterious Mr Smith has sent a professional assassin after Lydia and the bonds of blood are stretched to breaking point when it turns out to be someone very close to home... -
Embraced by Darkness by Keri Arthur
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsShe's hunting a killer—and shattering every boundary she’s ever known…Part vamp, part werewolf, Riley Jenson plays by her own rules, whether it’s her stormy love life or her job as a guardian. But when her family’s alpha male demands that she solve the mystery of a vanished girl, Riley can feel a trap closing in around her...Categorized as:
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Give Up the Ghost by Kelly Moran
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParanormal investigator Kerry Baker has seen it all. But nothing in her work with the Phantoms TV program prepares her for the most terrifying spirit of all—seeing her doppelganger. Rumored to be a foreshadowing of one's death, the specter shakes Kerry to the core, sending her into the arms of her best friend and fellow cast member for comfort... -
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Dark Passing by Liz Schulte
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMary Nelson’s murder shocked the small town of Jackson. The vibrant, young college student disappeared on her way home. A week later her body was found in the trunk of a burning car. No suspects. No evidence. No case. Ella Reynolds’ life had finally turned around. With a new book released, the past safely tucked away, and a burgeoning romance, she begins to live again... -
Wolf Mountain: A Paranormal Romance Trilogy by Isabella Hunt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFINDING WOLF MOUNTAIN House sitting for her best friend Char was supposed to be an easy gig for Millie. Just move in for a week while Char was on vacation, feed the dogs, and all would be right in the world. When Char’s brother escapes from prison and shows up at the house, though, her easy two week vacation in the woods turns into a kidnapping lock down... -
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.No one blames Margaret...Categorized as:
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Splintered Mind by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsViv just wants work—any work. Well, not quite any work. But she’s desperate enough to accept a job offer as personal assistant to Jasper Renner—the rich and mysterious owner of the Renner Tea House—even though odd things happen whenever he’s around.She expects to deal with rich, entitled Melbournians and a full business schedule... -
Amanda Cadabra and The Hidey-Hole Truth by Holly Bell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAsthmatic furniture restorer and covert witch Amanda Cadabra is a survivor. After all, her family’s bus went over a Cornish cliff. Now the presentable but irritating Inspector Trelawney is dogging her footsteps as he investigates the unexplained deaths. But that’s the least of her problems... -
Salsa Nocturna: Stories by Daniel José Older
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA 300 year-old story collector enlists the help of the computer hacker next door to save her dying sister. A half-resurrected cleanup man for Death's sprawling bureaucracy faces a phantom pachyderm, doll-collecting sorceresses and his own ghoulish bosses. Gordo, the old Cubano that watches over the graveyards and sleeping children of Brooklyn, stirs and lights another Malaguena... -
One Hex of a Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWedding bells turn to sour notes for Emerald O'Brien. Her fiancé is wounded by gunfire, her ex-husband becomes the prime suspect, and her maid of honor is being stalked. Now it's up to Emerald to divine if the incidents are related... -
Steeped in Suspicion by Eryn Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPebble Cove is not the sleepy coastal town Rosemary remembers from her childhood. Ghosts are everywhere, and only she can see them.When Rosemary Woodmere inherits her estranged grandmother's Victorian teahouse, she didn't expect to also inherit a ghost named Asher from the 1920s.Things get weirder for Rosemary.Her grandma was supposedly murdered... -
Fifth Life of the Cat Woman by Kathleen Dexter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart magical realism, part love story, this book is a vividly imagined (Jill Paton Walsh) allegory of prejudice, intolerance, and second chances... -
Ghost of a Chance by Lauren Barnholdt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKendall takes drastic action when she encounters ghostly overwhelm in this third book in a tween series that Kirkus Reviews calls “bright, bubbly fun.”Kendall feels like she’s losing at life. The only people who will talk to her are ghosts, and she’s exhausted from trying to fix their problems... -
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Versions of Her by Andrea Lochen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the surface, Melanie Kingstad-Keyes’s life is the picture of success. She’s a tenure track professor at a prestigious university and has a perfect husband. But a recent miscarriage has left her reeling and her marriage tenuous. Selling her family’s Lake Indigo summer home, which she hasn’t visited in fifteen years, feels like the perfect distraction from her problems... -
Midlife Dawn by N.Z. Nasser
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*Shivers of excitement shot up my spine. It was time to draw a line under the past and find a new me.*By forty, Alisha thought she’d be living her best life. When her idiot husband gambles away their savings, she divorces him and throws herself into teaching her night class in godforsaken London. That is, until her mum dies in a car crash and Alisha suspects foul play...Categorized as:
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Ghost in the Guacamole by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen two sisters feud over the family business, medium Emma Whitecastle doesn’t need a Ouija board to know it spells trouble. But with a little help from the spirited ghost of Granny Apples, she may be able to solve one murder and prevent another . . . Sisters Lucinda and Ricarda Ricardo—better known as Lucy and Rikki—are at each other’s throats over the family business, Roble Foods... -
Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Chasing the Sun comes a new novel about immigration and the depths to which one Mexican American family will go for forgiveness and redemption.The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day... -
The Silver Mark by Sarah Painter, Kate Rawson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingshe Silver Mark is the second installment in Crow Investigations, an exciting paranormal mystery series from best-selling author of magical fiction, Sarah Painter. London is Lydia Crow’s city so when a man is found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, she takes it personally. Even when it seems as if the Silver Family might be involved, Lydia refuses to back down... -
The Warbler by Sarah Beth Durst
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of The Lies Among Us comes a magical tale about mothers and daughters, choices and consequences, and the real meaning of home when every place feels like a cage.Ten months. That’s the longest Elisa has stayed anyplace, constantly propelled by her fear that if she puts down roots, a family curse will turn her into a tree...Categorized as:
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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland, Emmanuelle Mattana
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation. 'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden... -
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine... -
Ghost of You by Kelly Moran
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's no secret among the Phantoms crew that lead investigator Sammy Hanesworth pretty much hates team psychologist Cain McClutchen. The friction between them is taut with tension...and unexpected attraction. He knows full well that something about him rubs her the wrong way, even though he admires the witty, gorgeous spitfire more than a lot... -
Hunters for Hire, Books 1-3: An Urban Fantasy Series Box Set by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe City of Angels is about to be overrun with demons...He is living proof life can suck. Scraping by paycheck to paycheck, this desperate "nice guy" is hungry for any break. And after John Hunter learns his fiancée is dumping him, his roommate is a vampire, and LA is infested with; werewolves, magic, fairies, and witches, a paid gig to hunt down a rogue chimera seems like his last shot... -
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Everything You Are by Kerry Anne King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Whisper Me This comes a haunting and lyrical novel about the promises we make and the forgiveness we need when we break them. One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey’s hands, his musical career, and his family... -
Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin by Nancy Atherton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNancy Atherton's charming Aunt Dimity series has won the hearts of cozy mystery fans everywhere. Now, Lori Shepherd, feeling a touch world-weary, decides to become a volunteer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where she can spread a little good cheer in the community. There she meets Elizabeth Beacham, a kind, retired legal secretary with no family except a brother who has mysteriously disappeared... -
The Dragons at War by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDragons, the true children of Krynn, are power incarnate, and they know it. They come in all guises and forms. Their personalities are as varied as thier colors. Their magical abilities are virtually unlimited. And nothing is so terrifying as dragons on the wing...Categorized as:
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Lead Me On by Julie Ortolon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a woman who is willing meets a man who's resisting, let the seduction begin.Allison St. Claire has the face of an angel. That's part of the problem. She also sells quaint tea sets in the Pearl Island Inn gift shop. It doesn't exactly scream sexy. Years of having men treat her like a little sister is enough to drive a healthy woman crazy... -
Love in the Afternoon by Karen Hawkins, George Newbern
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratings3 hours, 30 minutes A woman with a legendary green thumb, a man living in an emotional desert, and a small boy unable to connect with others... -
Inspector Specter by E.J. Copperman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDetective Lt. Anita McElhone is one of Harbor Haven's finest. She's also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the doorstep of Alison Kerby's Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural help in solving the murder of her former partner it's hard to tell which woman is more flabbergasted...
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