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  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
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    dark  demons  family  ghosts  gothic  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • The Devil's Darling by Briana Michaels

    The Devil's Darling by Briana Michaels

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Packs are divided, oaths are broken, and ties are severed. No one is safe. And the traitor is still out there causing mayhem. Could it get any worse? Yes, it could.The closer Sara’s pack gets to discovering who the traitor is, the faster everything around them unravels...
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    dark  demons  ghosts  adult  amnesia  angels  book  contemporary
  • The Romeo Catchers by Alys Arden

    The Romeo Catchers by Alys Arden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is blood thicker than magic in La Nouvelle-Orléans?Adele scours Storm-ravaged New Orleans for the truth about her family’s magical past, tormented by the fate she condemned her mother to, and by the lies she’s forced to tell to cover it up. But every turn leads her back to the one person she’s determined to forget: Niccolò Medici...
  • Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    (New to this angsty, sexy, scary romance series? Start with book #1, Darkhouse, and work your way up through all the slow-burn spookiness) Perry Palomino and Dex Foray. On their own, they’re uniquely brilliant. Together, they’re an unstoppable team. Until now. Because after everything the duo has encountered, they haven’t come across an evil quite like this...
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    dark  demons  family  ghosts  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Facing her future as a single mother, psychic Realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether she likes it or not.… Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack’s marriage proposal...
  • Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

    Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    We're waiting for you to come and play. Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the teachers and students are long gone. But they left something behind...Sophie arrives at the old schoolhouse to spend the summer with her cousins...
  • To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trent's heart may belong to Tina, but a shadow demon is after his soul…Trent Austin is a successful, big-city lawyer. The last thing he needs is the burden of a run-down house in the suburbs. But when his crazy uncle dies and leaves his estate to Trent, he soon learns he's inherited a lot more than a Victorian mansion...
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    demons  family  ghosts  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  drama
  • Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her unforgettable supporting players, who step out of the shadows and into the light...
  • Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her unforgettable supporting players, who step out of the shadows and into the light...
  • 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...
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    dark  demons  ghosts  gothic  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • This Broken World by Eric R. Asher

    This Broken World by Eric R. Asher

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vesik, Book 4 An ocean of darkness lives in the journal of Philip Pinkerton. Ancient things with no place in our world are rising from the Abyss. Ezekiel, the arrogant, mad god has called us into battle. Does he think we can't touch him, or does he know we can't? I wish I knew...
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    dark  demons  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias

    Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Gabino Iglesias’ second novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest.A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos...
  • Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan faces a difficult new case. Her new clients are a family haunted by multiple ghosts and a poltergeist that wrecks their home at night. Their seven-year-old son's invisible friends may not be imaginary at all, but the restless spirits of dead children...
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    dark  family  ghosts  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  death
  • The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb

    The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An 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...
  • Ghosted by Karina Halle

    Ghosted by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ghosted is an all-new EIT novella told from Dex's POV. It should be read after Dust to Dust (after Veiled, preferably) and before Came Back Haunted.It's available in the All the Love in the World anthology on Amazon, as well as by itself in paperback, and at Nook, iBooks and Kobo...
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    dark  demons  ghosts  gothic  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Temple of the Inner Flame by Amber Fisher

    Temple of the Inner Flame by Amber Fisher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sinister secrets lurk within the temple walls...Necromancer Kezia Bernard sees her ability as both a blessing and a curse. While it’s an honor to connect the African diaspora to their ancestors and heal wounds from the past, her power is overshadowed by a crushing affliction. One that has cost her all she holds dear...
  • The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!" When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms...
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    ghosts  gothic  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The White Night by Desmond Doane

    The White Night by Desmond Doane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Yes, you should be afraid of the dark…A mighty demon sits at the right hand of Satan, and he knows paranormal investigator Ford Atticus Ford by name. Mike Long, too, but what the vile creature covets most lies with little Chelsea Hopper.As Ford wrestles with the uncertain nature of his future, a different kind of evil storms into his world, proving that not all demons are inhuman...
  • Heart, Haunt, Havoc by Freydís Moon

    Heart, Haunt, Havoc by Freydís Moon

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Laced with romance, gothic imagery, Catholic mysticism, diaspora, and horror…When lonely transgender exorcist, Colin Hart, finds himself challenged by an unruly haunted house in Gideon, Colorado, he’s kept awake by ghosts, demons, ghouls, and the handsome nonbinary owner of the house, Bishop Martínez...
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    gothic  ghosts  demons  romance  horror  lgbtq  fantasy  paranormal
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead...
  • Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to be closer to her older sister’s figure skating club—and far from Fiona’s close-knit group of friends—nobody seems to notice Fiona’s unhappiness. Alone and out of place, Fiona ventures to the town’s library, a rambling mansion donated to the town by the long-dead heiress...
  • The Suffering by Rin Chupeco

    The Suffering by Rin Chupeco

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Tark knows what it is to be powerless. But Okiku changed that. A restless spirit who ended life as a victim and started death as an avenger, she’s groomed Tark to destroy the wicked...
  • The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street.Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago...
  • Into the Flame by Christina Dodd

    Into the Flame by Christina Dodd

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Meet Doug Black—the Wilder brother who’s been missing for centuries. With no idea of where he’s from, he’s become an angry young cop with the ability to transform into a cougar. in search of others like him, he comes across a beautiful woman who may hold the secret to his destiny..
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    demons  family  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The White People and Other Stories by Arthur Machen

    The White People and Other Stories by Arthur Machen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The haunting title story of this volume was considered by Lovecraft to be the second greatest horror tale ever written. One of the stories, 'The Angel of Mons', was so coolly reported during the Great War that millions of people believed it to be true...
  • Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

    Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society...
  • Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unsettling. There's no better word to describe Miranda Barnes's ability to hear the cries of the dead, feel the wind move her hair when they run by, and - dare she look into a mirror - see the reflection of a ghostly woman behind her. There's only one person to turn to for support: Etienne. As sexy as he is mysterious, Miranda can't help but be drawn to him. He believes her; he wants to help her...
  • River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor

    River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some truths are better kept secret. Some secrets are better off dead. ALONG THE BANKS OF THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family—but weekends belong to the river.And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux...
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    gothic  dark  ghosts  horror  young-adult  fantasy  fiction  suspense
  • Les aventures de Johnny Dixon: Le crâne du sorcier by John Bellairs

    Les aventures de Johnny Dixon: Le crâne du sorcier by John Bellairs

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass discover an old heirloom clock, the terror begins. The professor suddenly vanishes, and Johnny is left to solve the mystery--alone.Inside the clock Johnny discovers a miniature room, a room exactly like the one in which a murder took place long ago. And from the inside the little room Johnny pockets a tiny skull with magical powers...
  • Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

    Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology.Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: Tread lightly and survive...
  • The China Garden by Liz Berry

    The China Garden by Liz Berry

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Clare moves with her mother from London to Ravensmere, an historic English estate, she can't shake the feeling that the residents already know her, especially Mark, a maddeningly attractive biker. Clare also feels compelled to take midnight walks in Ravensmere's abandoned China Garden. Then her mother reveals that their own past is tragically linked to the estate...
  • Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide...
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    dark  family  ghosts  gothic  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Lanny by Max Porter

    Lanny by Max Porter

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs...
  • Livre de sang by Clive Barker

    Livre de sang by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist...
  • Touch of Darkness by Christina Dodd

    Touch of Darkness by Christina Dodd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Handsome, powerful Rurik Wilder holds the power to transform himself into a fierce bird of prey-a gift that's caused death and destruction. At last he's offered the chance to redeem himself. Only one woman stands in his way-a beautiful writer determined to wreak revenge on the assassins who murdered her family. Assassins, it's been rumored, who have powers no human should ever possess..
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  family  ghosts  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This electrifying conclusion to the Nevermore trilogy takes one last trip to the dream world of Edgar Allan Poe to reveal the intertwined fates of Isobel and Varen.The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? —Edgar Allan PoeThe fine line between life and death blurred long ago for Isobel Lanley...
  • The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

    The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Deep in the shadowy foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies a dying town.My name is Amelia Gray. They call me The Graveyard Queen. I've been commissioned to restore an old cemetery in Asher Falls, South Carolina, but I'm coming to think I have another purpose here...
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    dark  demons  ghosts  gothic  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Haunted by Heather Graham

    Haunted by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Love is everywhere. . .When does a gift become a curse?Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house...
  • Ghost Walk by Heather Graham

    Ghost Walk by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New Orleans haunted-tour manager Nikki DuMonde claims to have seen her newest employee Andy in her bedroom at the exact time Andy was apparently murdered. No-one believes her, apart from Brent Blackhawk, a half-Irish half-Lakota paranormal investigator who realizes that Nikki must listen to the dead if she wants to keep on living...
  • The Keepers of Metsan Valo by Wendy Webb

    The Keepers of Metsan Valo by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The spirits of Nordic folklore come calling in this entrancing tale of family secrets and ancient mysteries by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Haunting of Brynn Wilder.In Metsan Valo, her family home on Lake Superior, Anni Halla’s beloved grandmother has died. Among her fond memories, what Anni remembers most vividly is her grandmother’s eerie yet enchanting storytelling...
  • The Sinner by Amanda Stevens

    The Sinner by Amanda Stevens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I am a living ghost, a wanderer in search of my purpose and place… I'm a cemetery restorer by trade, but my calling has evolved from that of ghost seer to death walker to detective of lost souls. I solve the riddles of the dead so the dead will leave me alone. I've come to Seven Gates Cemetery nursing a broken heart, but peace is hard to come by…for the ghosts here and for me...
  • Old Blood by Karina Halle

    Old Blood by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A haunting novella from the Experiment in Terror Series...From her harrowing introduction in Darkhouse, the spectre known as “Creepy Clown Lady” has been a constant fixture in Perry Palomino’s life. But beyond the horrid makeup and piercing stare lies Pippa, a woman just like everyone else.Well, not quite...
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    dark  demons  family  ghosts  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  drama
  • The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates

    The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "The dead are restless here..." Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host seven guests for a week-long stay to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for...
  • Wicked Deeds by Heather Graham

    Wicked Deeds by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nevermore ...Eager to start their life together, historian Vickie Preston and Special Agent Griffin Pryce take a detour en route to their new home in Virginia and stop for a visit in Baltimore. But their romantic weekend is interrupted when a popular author is found dead in the basement of an Edgar Allan Poe-themed restaurant...
  • The Farm by Amy Cross

    The Farm by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One farm. Two tragedies, thirty years apart. And a tortured figure whose presence connects both incidents... In 1979, the Bondalen family farm in Norway is home to three young girls. As winter fades to spring, Elizabeth, Kari and Sara each come to face the secrets of the barn, and they each emerge with their own injuries...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Devil's Reprise: A Rockstar Romance by Karina Halle

    The Devil's Reprise: A Rockstar Romance by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Given a second chance, music journalist Dawn Emerson and guitarist Sage Knightly are reunited, only to have their lives threatened again by a demonic bargain. The sequel to THE DEVIL’S METAL, from USA Today bestselling author Karina Halle.When Dawn Emerson got the chance to go on tour with her favorite metal band, Hybrid, she thought she landed the writing gig of the century...
  • Dark and Deadly Things by Kelly Martin

    Dark and Deadly Things by Kelly Martin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Since Elise Morgan left her father’s reality television show, Dark and Deadly Things, she put the ghost-hunting life behind her, able to comfortably watch from her couch. Her father has resorted to faking the hauntings that thrill America, but he could never fool Elise. She can see the dead. When the Halloween episode airs live on television, something goes horribly wrong...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  gothic  adult  book  contemporary  death  fiction
  • A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

    A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest.The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said...
  • Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins

    Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Young Australian cellist Maisie Fielding is bored with her career and her overpowering, manipulative musical family. Faking a wrist injury, she takes time off to return to England, her mother's home country, to search for her own roots and to find out more about her grandmother, a 'white witch' who settled in a bleak village on the North Yorkshire coast...
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