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Mystery | Romance | Magical Realism
The heroine life changed forever after her best friend was found dead and the love of her life was accused of murdering her. Years later, she returned to her family business on a small remote island where she swore, she’d never return too. The accused murderer also returned to the village seeking answers and unearthing things the town had desperately tried to forget. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Cozy Mystery | Book 5 in the Series| Cooking
Our protagonist was hired to cater a charity haunted house. The death of a wealthy socialite could hold the key to solving a decades-old “accidental” death of a young girl. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Horror | Supernatural | Fantasy
Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered suburb of New England, a car carrying 5 teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One is unharmed, & the other suffers from brain damage. A year later, the three teenagers that were killed come back with a last chilling mission among the living. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Thriller | Mystery | Suspense
A newly married couple hires a surrogate to carry their baby and have unexpected consequences for their decisions. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Graphic Novels | Romance | LGBT
A heroine who works as a barista feel invisible, like a ghost, however if she drinks too much coffee, she can see ghosts. Her love interest is an elegant heir to a coffee plantation. Their world turns upside down when a strange old ghost nobleman begs her to take his letter from NYC to a coffee farm in Brazil so he can reunite with his long lost love. Bring sinister tidings of unrequited love. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Horror | Paranormal | Mystery
A chilling ghost story with a twist begins in the woods of Vermont where a married couple doesn’t move into a haunted house by proceeding to build one. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Thriller | Suspense |
After a local woman is found dead, a mother starts questioning everything about her son. The mother is elderly and starting to forget things. Her daughter is worried about her mother living alone and the house is rumored to be haunted. Her son is very disliked by the neighbors and were not happy about his return. After his return, a local woman was murdered, and the mother is worried she is enabling a monster. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Crime | Suspense | Mystery
A bookseller comes up with a list of the most unsolvable murders and ends up on the FBI’s radar. A serial killer is using his list as a guide for murder. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Medical Thriller | Science Fiction
Dystopia A doctor from the World Health Organization goes to Indonesia to investigate a surge of fever deaths in an internment camp. While there, the Doctor discovers a whole new mysterious virus that could bring the whole world to its knees. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Romance | Paranormal |Fantasy
A clever fake spiritual medium hired by a very wealthy woman to investigate the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner’s struggling goat farm. The business partner of the wealthy woman is a very good-looking man who doesn’t believe the fake medium. Surprisingly, the heroine comes face-to-face with a very talkative ghost who has been wreaking havoc at the open houses because the Business partner’s family has cursed since the 1920’s. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery | Book 19 in series | Crime
A charred body is discovered in an abandoned cotton mill. The crime scene leaves may question with few answers. His investigation started hitting road blocks by higher ups in the police ranks but the Investigator continues to try to solve the case even though the case has very few clues. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery |Book 1 in series| Paranormal
After her husband leaves her for another woman, the heroine was devastated however this doesn’t compare to the mysterious death of her 21-year-old daughter in a canoeing accident. The daughter’s body was never found which resulted in the woman never believing her daughter was dead, which in turn makes her believe she saw her daughter in Ireland. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Historical Fiction| Book 2 in Series | Japanese
In the year 1311, a very beautiful woman watches as the enemy gathers below and the fire wildly spreading through the night. Before the enemy captures her, she writes down the secret history of her clan and a prophecy they share and extraordinary destiny that awaits them. For six centuries, her writings remain undiscovered but in 1841, an American woman missionary tries to transcribe the writings begins to lose herself with the epic tale of forbidden love and heroism and slowly begins to see her story woven into the ancient writings. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal
A tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in shocking, surprising, and moving ways. A wealthy man dies leaving a bitter ex-wife, a troubled teenaged son and unforgiving daughter who came to get their inheritance. The living and dead are each haunted by painful truths that will soon surface with explosive force. When a new ghost appears, and the teenage son begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collide—with cataclysmic results.
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Mystery | Book 3 in the Series |Historical Fiction | Paranormal
When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, starts to wonder if there is a connection between this death and Salem's most notorious cold case, a triple homicide dubbed "The Goddess Murders," in which three young women, all descended from accused Salem witches, were slashed on Halloween night in 1989. He finds unexpected help in the daughter of one of the victims newly returned to town. Neither believes that the main suspect, who is respected local historian, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Horror | Fantasy | Monsters
The protagonist can see monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates. His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe—too focused on keeping the family from falling apart. And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydney, won’t admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight . . . until it swallows her up. The protagonist sees monsters. But, unlike his family, he chooses to let them in. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Cozy Mystery | Book 5 in the series | Suspense
Beware the blackbirds… It’s Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in heroine’s small cabin. She needs more room―and she knows just the Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it’s haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but she loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in the library. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery | Book 1 in the Series | Thriller
When crime reporter the heroine leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. From her time in Texas, she's covered the vilest of human behaviors, but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. She is that rare breed of journalist who can navigate a crime scene as well as she can a newsroom—often noticing what others tend to miss. Again and again, she is called to cover the murders of Black women, many of them sexually assaulted, most brutalized, and all of them quickly forgotten. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Thriller | Book 1 in the series | Crime
The protagonist is in control of everything in his simple life, both his day job as a janitor for the police department and his night work. He isn't bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, has murdered seven women. He knows that for a fact, and he's determined to find the copycat. He'll punish him for the one, then frame him for the other six. It's the perfect plan because he already knows he can outwit the police. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery | Thriller | Suspense
A series of seemingly random murders along a fifty-mile stretch of the rugged northern California coast, committed by an unknown dubbed by the media the Coastline Killer. A young couple with marital problems who decide to spend the week between Christmas and New Year's at a friend's remote coastal cottage. Two couples in a neighboring home whose relationships are thick with festering menace. A fierce winter storm that leads to a night of unrelenting terror. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Horror | Fantasy | LGBT
The book is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare. To survive they must evolve. A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery | Thriller | Suspense
As a sixteen-year-old, the girl was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery | Thriller | Crime
A television crime reporter desperate to recharge her flagging career becomes an unwitting accomplice to an attention-hungry serial killer at the center of the decade's biggest murder investigation. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery | Thriller | Crime
A Doctor is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. After a bruising breakup with his girlfriend, he’s out drinking whiskey when a hauntingly seductive woman appears by his side. The mysterious woman whispers to him over absinthe, gets his blood on her fingers and then brushes his ear with her lips as she says goodbye. He must find her. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Thriller | Crime | Mystery
A drowned young woman is discovered on an abandoned pleasure boat drifting by the Stockholm archipelago---strangely, her clothes are dry. The next day in Stockholm, a man turns up dead, hanging from a lamp hook inside his completely bare apartment---but how could he have hung himself with no furniture to climb upon? As Detective Inspector begins to piece together the two mysteries, he discovers that they are a mere prelude to a dizzying and dangerous course of events. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Mystery | Thriller | Suspense
Welcome to Hollow’s Edge, where you can find secrets, scandal, and a suspected killer—all on one street. Hollow’s Edge used to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]