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Publication Date:  August 16, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Magical realism Narrators:  Kyla Garcia Publisher:  Highbridge  Length:   6 hours 53 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two women's lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer ...

Calling Quarters Jen Stevens (Beacon Grove, #1) Publication date: October 7th 2021 Genres: Contemporary, New Adult I was raised to believe that towns full of witches were only in movies, and those spell books my aunt studied were just a silly pastime. I had no idea of the important role I play in a coven with zero knowledge of my existence, or the sacrifice my parents made by leaving behind everything they knew to protect me. In the wake of my aunt’s mysterious death, I have no other choice but to return to my birthplace for answers. But Beacon Grove is a twisted place where distrust spreads like cancer, lies fester, and the truth is nearly impossible to find. One thing I’m sure of is the danger that Remy Winters and our inexplicable connection pose to me as one of the Quarters of the Watchtower coven. Through painstaking research and placing my trust in this man who has been trained since birth to hunt me, I learn that my family is far more intertwined with the tight-knit t...

  Publication Date:  April 30, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Ghost Fiction, paranormal Publisher:  Anchor    Length:  416 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on 44 acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams.  When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special mater...

  Publication Date:  November 9, 2018 Publisher:  Rowan Moon Narrator: Jan Cramer Format:  Audiobook Length:    8 hours 38 minutes Genre:   Historical Fantasy Buy:    Audiobook Synopsis: In 13th century Cornwall, young Megge has just come of age to be apprenticed to her mother, the healer of Bury Down. But first, she must accept and vow to protect The Book of Seasons, an ancient tome that holds life-sustaining power harnessed centuries earlier by Murga, the first seer Bury Down. At her vow taking ceremony, yearning to accept her inheritance and take her place in her family's long line of healers and seers, Megge reaches for the book. When she touches it, she feels something writhe within it and becomes convinced that the book is cursed and that she too will be cursed if she accepts it. Despite her mother's pleas to protect the book from the one who would usurp its powe...

Release Date:  October 2, 2018 Publisher:  Harlequin audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 59 minutes Narrator:  Lauren Ezzo Genre:  Fantasy/romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Two centuries after the Salem witch trials, there’s still one witch left in Massachusetts. But she doesn’t even know it. Take this as a warning: if you are not able or willing to control yourself, it will not only be you who suffers the consequences, but those around you, as well. New Oldbury, 1821 In the wake of a scandal, the Montrose family and their three daughters—Catherine, Lydia and Emeline—flee Boston for their new country home, Willow Hall. The estate seems sleepy and idyllic. But a subtle menace creeps into the atmosphere, remnants of a dark history that call to Lydia, and to the youngest, Emeline. Review: I really loved the feel of this book, the scenes were beautifully written with a Gothic feel that kept me listen...

Publication date: October 31st 2019 Publisher: Square Six Pages: 364 pages Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Thriller Buy: Kindle SYNOPSIS: A thrilling introduction to the dark mystical world of Melanie ‘Breaker’ Perkiss, Buffalo NY’s most capable witch hunter and spell lifter. In this debut instalment, a dark mage acting on behalf of a vengeful ex has magically removed the genitals of a man and vanished, leaving him wiped clean down there. And unfortunately for the victim, he is set to wed…now imagine saying ‘I do’ while in that deprived state. No wonder when a shell-shocked and heartbroken Casey walks into Melanie’s office to report the incident, the witch hunter immediately goes on a chase, risking her own life as she encounters dark creatures and malevolent spirits in the city’s darkest corners. The pressure is indeed on Mel: the wedding is fast approaching and leads remain few. Will she be able to corner the mage, recover the taken goods and save a doomed marriage, ...

Release Date:  June 16, 2015 Publisher:  Speak Format:  Paperback Pages:  432  pages Genre:   YA, Fiction, Depression Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis:  It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t. First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading  The Crucible  for extra credit—co...

Release Date:  August 28, 2018 Publisher:  Harlequin Teen Format:  ebook Pages:  352 pages Genre:   YA Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover   Synopsis:  Scorn the witch. Fear the witch. Burn the witch. History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge.  Toil & Trouble  features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure—and to kill. A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures love sickness might need the remedy herself when she falls in love with an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. In Reconstruction-era Texas, a water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oas...

Release Date: January 24, 2017 Publisher: Crown Publishing Format: Kindle Pages: 448 pages Genre: Thriller & Suspense Buy:   Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis: When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, wonders if there is a connection between his 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 Callie Cahill, the daughter of one of the victims newly returned to town. Neither believes that the main suspect, Rose Whelan, respected local historian, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. But exonerating Rose might mean crossing paths with a dangerous force. Were the women victims of an all-too-human vengeance, or was the devil raised in Salem that night? And if they cannot discover wha...

Release Date: December 20, 2015 Publisher: Createspace Format: Kindle Pages: 52 Pages Genre: Romance Buy: Kindle  | Paperback   Synopsis: A cursed Viking trapped in a watery prison. A modern-day witch digging into her past. What they discover could bring them together…or tear them apart.  Over a thousand years ago, Bram and his brothers were cursed. The Viking has spent centuries trapped in a Scottish loch as an invisible water wraith, despairing of ever breaking free. But when a gorgeous woman splashes into his world, Bram finally has a chance to make things right. Audrey is a tenacious witch exploring the grounds of her grandmother’s secret Scottish cabin. When she feels drawn to the beautiful waters of a nearby loch, she discovers she is not alone. Will her magic be enough to free her aqueous lover? Review: This is a short hot steamy romance with a paranormal twist. Audrey is a young witch who inherits her grandmothers Scottish cabin.  Bram w...

Title:  Smoke on the Water (Sisters of the Craft) by Lori Handeland Publisher:  St. Martins Paperbacks Format:  advanced e-galley from the publisher through  netgalley.com  in exchange for an honest review Pages :352 pages Genre:  paranormal romance This book is due to be released August 4, 2015 Synopsis:  Reunited after four hundred years, three sisters join together to vanquish the power that tore them apart…and embrace the sorcery that is their birthright. Abandoned as an infant, Willow Black spent her childhood in foster care, the object of whispers and pity...and rumors about being certifiably crazy. Telling your young friends that you can foresee the future--and summon the rain--is a surefire way to end up in the psychiatric ward. But when Dr. Sebastian Frasier arrives at the facility, Willow's whole life takes a turn. Sebastian is the handsomest man she's ever actually laid eyes on--even though he has been in Willow's visions for ye...

Title:  Heat of the Moment (Sisters of the Craft) by Lori Handeland Publisher:  St. Martins Paperbacks Format:  advanced e-galley from the publisher through  netgalley.com  in exchange for an honest review Pages :368 pages Genre:  paranormal romance This book will be released June 30, 2015 Synopsis:  A spell that tore three sisters apart is broken four hundred years later, when the magic in their blood reunites them. Now, one of them will discover her gift--and reignite a love long thought lost… Flame-haired Becca Carstairs was born to be a veterinarian. Since childhood, her affinity for animals has been special, and her healing touch nothing short of magic. But only Becca knows the truth--that she alone can hear the creatures' voices. She's always trusted her sixth sense…until a string of missing pets, an attempted murder, and a face from her past converge into one explosive mystery, with her at its center. Is haunted Owen McAllister, t...

Title:   The Hawley Book of the Dead: A Novel by Chrysler Szarlan Publisher: Ballantine Books Pages: 352 pages Format: Kindle Genre:  I received an advanced ecopy of this book from the publisher through netgalley.com Synopsis:  Revelation “Reve” Dyer grew up with her grandmother’s family stories, stretching back centuries to Reve’s ancestors, who founded the town of Hawley Five Corners, Massachusetts. Their history is steeped in secrets, for few outsiders know that an ancient magic runs in the Dyer women’s blood, and that Reve is a magician whose powers are all too real. Reve and her husband are world-famous Las Vegas illusionists. They have three lovely young daughters, a beautiful home, and what seems like a charmed life. But Reve’s world is shattered when an intruder alters her trick pistol and she accidentally shoots and kills her beloved husband onstage. Fearing for her daughters’ lives, Reve flees with them to the place she has always felt safest—an ...

Title:   The Undead Pool (Hollows) by Kim Harrison Publisher: Harper Voyager 423 pages Genre: Fantasy Synopsis:  Supernatural superhero Rachel Morgan must counter a strange magic that could spell civil war for the Hollows in this sexy and bewitching urban fantasy adventure in acclaimed  New York Times Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now, strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering. Rachel must stop this dark necromancy before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and all-out supernatural war breaks out. Rachel knows of only weapon to ensure the peace: ancient elven wild magic, which carries its own perils. And no one know better than Rachel that no good deed goes unpunished.... Review: Rachel ...

Title:   A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison Publisher: Harper Voyager 560 Pages Genre: Fantasy Synopsis:  Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in by the FIB to help investigate, former witch-turned-day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: others want to create their own demons, and to do so they need her blood. She’s faced vampires, witches, werewolves, demons, and more—but this time Rachel’s toughest challenge might be humanity itself. Review: I love Rachel Morgan, whether she is a which, a demon familiar or a demon, it doesn't matter to me.  Her and her eclectic group of friends, Jenks the pixy with an attitude, Ivy the Vampire, Trent the Elf and Al the demon all love her in their own way too.  These books are pure mind candy. Rachels life is never dull and she always seems to get herself into a whole mess of trouble.  Maybe this time instead of being th...