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Fallow by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Griffin’s past collides with his present, will it cost the lives of everyone he loves?Between the threat of a world-ending invasion from the Outside and unwelcome revelations about his own nature, Percival Endicott Whyborne is under a great deal of strain...Categorized as:
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The Making of a Highlander by Elisa Braden
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Elisa Braden's enchanting new Midnight in Scotland series, the unlikeliest matches generate the greatest heat. All it takes is a spark of Highland magic."Make me a lady, and I'll make ye a Highlander." –Mad Annie Tulloch, Scottish lass"Challenge accepted...Categorized as:
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The Lady Has a Past by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBeauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick.Investigative apprentice Lyra Brazier, the newest resident of Burning Cove, is unsettled when her boss suddenly goes on a health retreat at an exclusive spa and disappears without another word...Categorized as:
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Love vs The Scarecrow! by Cassandra Gannon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNevermore County, 2000: Lori Hatake’s future isn’t going how she’d hoped. She’s broke, her boyfriend ran off with her cousin, and she just witnessed a grisly murder. A demonic Scarecrow killed a woman at the annual bonfire party, right in front of Lori’s eyes. The monster needs to be stopped, before it strikes again!Unfortunately, no one believes her wild tale, except for Dashiell Mommet... -
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Fairydale by Veronica Lancet
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratings𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞?August 1955,When Miss Darcy O’Sullivan, an orphaned English teacher from Boston, receives a letter that her biological father passed away, she is surprised to find herself included in his will.There is only one condition.She must travel to Fairydale to attend his funeral... -
Fluke and the Frontier Farce by Sam Burns
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s been a long year for Sage and his friends, and all of Junction, California, and it’s not over yet.Freddie's school of magic is still a mystery, and figuring it out would be enough work, but the investigation leads them to the mysterious coded notes of Junction’s long-dead first magical artist, and then to the last place any of them ever expected to end up: the nineteenth century... -
Bounty Hunters and Black Magic by Kristen Banet
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat kind of trouble can a witch get into when she lives in the only supernatural town in the Wild West? A lot. Meet Adalyn Lovett, the local and only witch of Redstone and a bone to pick with anyone who wants to cause problems for her supernatural home. After losing the town sheriff to a demon attack the year before, she’s taken the task of protecting Redstone on herself... -
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick, Josephine Leslie
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsBurdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg... -
Close Up by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWelcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer… Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills...Categorized as:
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The Union Street Bakery by Mary Ellen Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLife can turn on a dime. It’s a common cliché, and I’d heard it often enough. People die or move away. Investments go south. Affairs end. Loved ones betray us...Stuff happens.Daisy McCrae’s life is in tatters. She’s lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend, and has been reduced to living in the attic above her family’s store, The Union Street Bakery, while learning the business... -
A Bargain of Blood and Gold by Kristin Jacques
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA novice hunter with a mission. A five-hundred-year-old vampire with a strong sense of irony. A town plagued by creatures in need of saving.When Johnathan Newman arrives in Cress Haven, the last thing he expects is for his life to be irrevocably changed. Sent by a clandestine league of vampire hunters to investigate a string of murders, signs point to a vampire lurking amid the townsfolk... -
Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA long-ago crime continues to menace the present in this spine-chilling tale of supernatural suspense. When Michael Flint is asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale’s childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall – a tragedy that occurred towards the end of World War II, involving a set of twins who vanished... -
Tightrope by Amanda Quick
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the Author's website: An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world.Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but things are not going well...Categorized as:
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The Bewitching Hour (A Tara Prequel) by Ashley Poston
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn this Buffy the Vampire Slayer prequel, fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment . . . whether she wants it or not. Tara Maclay isn’t thrilled to be in a new town for her senior year of high school. She misses her mom, her garden, her magic—and the way her dad treated her before her mom passed... -
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Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLucas Sebastian has never been one to ignore a lady in danger, even if she is trespassing on his property. Quickly disposing of her would-be assassin, he insists they keep the matter private. There are rumours enough already, about treasure buried under his garden, and occult botanical experiments performed by his late uncle...Categorized as:
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Named of the Dragon by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsTormented by horrific nightmares since the death of her baby five years before, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw agrees to accompany an author to Wales, where she encounters an eccentric young widow desperately afraid for her own infant's safety and a reclusive playwright who could be her only salvation... -
Atnomen by inlustrAriane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter her father died, Lena was left all alone in a men's world, suffering at the hands of an abusive church Minister. Then, one day, her life was saved by a very familiar Demon..
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