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Heather Marie Adkins

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HEATHER MARIE ADKINS writes too much but still too little. She also has too many cats, not enough tequila, and a torrid love affair with procrastination.

With a penchant for the paranormal, Heather spends her days fueled by coffee, Ancient Aliens, and true crime podcasts. She resides in an unfortunately-not-haunted Queen Anne in southern Indiana with a sarcastic husband who is entirely too dependent on puns.

When she’s not plotting her next book or herding felines, she's researching the spookier aspects of history for her podcast, Historically Weird. Find out more about her at heathermarieadkins.com. ...more

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	Souls and Shadows by Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author), Lori Titus (Goodreads Author), Normandie Alleman (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows and Sorcery by Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author), Jen L. Grey (Goodreads Author), Nicole Kelley 4.52 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empires of Shadow and Ash by Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author), Allyson Lindt (Goodreads Author), Julie Hall (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underneath 3.57 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wiccan Wars (Wiccan Wars #1) 4.36 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rite to Reign by Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author), Alex Singh, Ash Krafton (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebels and Realms by Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author), R.J. Blain (Goodreads Author), J.A. Culican (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mischief and Magic by Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author), Carly Fall (Goodreads Author), J.N. Colon (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 108 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jingle Spells by Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Laslie (Goodreads Author), Sammi Cox 3.82 avg rating — 108 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temple 3.96 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Heather Marie Adkins

Wiccan Wars (3 books)
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Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author)

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CyberWitch Press Short Fiction Anthology (2 books)
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Kolin Gates

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His Kiss (1 book)
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Hilarious and fascinating scientific look at the use of curse words. Brings to mind the human construct of placing power behind words. Thoroughly entertaining and enlightening. Swearing is a coping mechanism. People under a lot of pressure or in bad ...more
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“To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.”
― Heather Marie Adkins

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“You know what brings people’s secrets to the surface? The end of the world.”
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“Unfortunately, the purge hits too close to home for Scarlet Roma. When members of the Wolf gang terrorize her and the ones she loves with the backing of the government’s authority, she knows she must do something about it.”
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“I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

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“After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.”
― Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun

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“I do not worship their devil. Nor do I worship their other gods--Jesus, Jehovah, the Holy Spirit--but I respect them, for all gods are One. I worship the Great Mother, the one many call Diana, whose secret name the inquisitors shall never know. If this makes me a witch by their definition--very well then, I am a witch, just as surely as they are Christians and murderers.”
― Jeanne Kalogridis, The Burning Times

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“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

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“Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

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