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  Publication Date:  February 7, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Supernatural, ghosts Narrators:  Adam Lazarre-White Publisher:  Macmillan Audio  Length:   11 hours 15 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money—it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you. When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally caught a lucky break. The Masson proper...

  Publication Date:  March 6, 2012 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Horror/ Ghosts Publisher:  Berkley Length:  335  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis A thrilling debut in women’s suspense - a ghost story set in 1920s England...  Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary-work agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis - rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts - has been summoned to investigate the spirit of 19-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who haunts the barn where she committed suicide. Since Maddy hated men in life, it is Sarah’s task to confront her in death. Soon Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle, for Maddy’s ghost is real, she...

Publication Date:  December 12, 2015 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Occult, ghosts, mystery  Publisher:  Green Press Length:  255 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Ellen and her two best friends share a mid-life crisis by hatching a plan to renovate an 1860's Greek revival in the nearby historic district of San Antonio. Although Ellen isn’t one to believe in ghosts, she comes face to face with something inexplicable in the attic. Her ghost-enthusiast friends convince her that they must help the spirit find closure, and as they dig deeper into the past, they uncover a shocking history that someone in the neighborhood doesn’t want exposed. But Ellen and her friends don't give up easily. They realize they've been called to give v...

Publication Date:  December 8, 2020 Format: Kindle Genre:   Ghost Fiction  Publisher:  Montlake       Length:  303 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her―until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences. Feeling distant from...

  Publication Date:  May 18, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Ghost Fiction, Shifters, paranormal romance Publisher:  The Dial Press                   Length:  287 pages Buy:  Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis One bite changed my life. I was living life to the fullest when a wolf attacked. Now I’ve been ripped from my home and shipped off to Bad Moon Academy, a place for changed wolves. Or so I’m told. There’s something sinister lurking within the confines of the academy, and I’m starting to think I was brought here as a sacrifice. This is a dark academy reverse harem with dangerously possessive shifters. Review:  This book ends on a cliffhanger so be prepared to download the next boo...

Publication Date:  September 23, 2014 Format:  Audio Genre:   Paranormal Fantasy Narrators:  Tai Sammons, Bronson Pinchot Publisher:  Blackstone Audio         Length:  6 hours 16 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes, shattered Brooka glassware, and vandalized Liripip sofa beds - clearly someone, or something, is up to no good. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-till-dawn shift and encounter horrors that defy imagination. Along the way, author Grady Hendrix infuses sly social commentary on the nature of work in the new 21st-century ec...

Release Date:  July 05, 2019 Publisher:  Independently Published Format:  ebook Pages:  300 pages Genre:   paranormal romance Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis: Life isn’t fair…and neither is death. When seventeen-year-old Nebraskan, Rachel Sutton moves into her new home in Maine, she quickly discovers it is the former residence of Noah and Ethan Thompson, teenage brothers recently killed in car crash. Brothers who have yet to move on. Ethan, spiteful and jealous, is obsessed with Rachel, and Noah, guilt-ridden and gorgeous, is trying to save his brother’s soul. As Rachel spends countless hours with Noah, and dates Parker Redding, a popular football player, she finds herself torn between her feelings for the living and the dead. One fateful night, Rachel must choose. Will she embrace her life on earth with those who love her? Or find out what’s on the other side? Review:  This is a great teen paranormal roman...

Release Date:  August 28, 2018 Publisher:  Scholastic Audio Format:  Audio Length:  5 hours 2 minutes Narrator:  Reba Burh Genre:  fiction, middle school, ghosts Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  | Paperback   Synopsis:  Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead...and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost. So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger. When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And when Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift", she realizes how much she still has to learn about the Veil - and herself. And she'll have to learn fast. The city of ghosts is more dangerous than...

Release Date:  December 29, 2017 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  4 hours 20 minutes Narrator:  Sean Crisden & Bailey Carr Genre:  Fantasy, paranormal, mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  The paranormal investigators at Gulf Coast Paranormal thought they knew what they were doing. Midas, Sierra, Sara, Josh, and Peter had over 20 combined years of experience investigating supernatural activity on the Gulf Coast. But when they meet Cassidy, a young artist with a strange gift, they realize there's more to learn. And time is running out for Cassidy. When Gulf Coast Paranormal begins investigating the ghosts of Kali Oka Road, they find an entity far scarier than a few ghosts. Add in the deserted Oak Grove Plantation, and you have a recipe for a night of terror. Review: Cassidy is just discovering her strange ability to paint events that happened in the past.  She gets a compulsion to pa...

Release Date:  October 22, 2012 Publisher:  Carina Press Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 06 minutes Narrator:  Jack LeFleur Genre:  Mystery / Romance/LGBT M/M Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Synopsis:  Detective Matthew Bennett doesn't believe in ghosts. So when the spirit of a murdered child leads him to her body, he's shaken to the core--and taken off the case. Unable to explain his vision, or to let go of the investigation, Matthew turns to renowned medium Kiernan Fitzpatrick. Though he has doubts about Kiernan's claims to communicate with the dead, Matt is nevertheless drawn to the handsome psychic, who awakens feelings he thought were long-buried. Haunted by the lingering spirit of the little girl, Kiernan is compelled to aid in the search for her killer. The chance to get closer to the enigmatic Matt is an unexpected bonus. Although Kiernan's been betrayed by people who turned out to be more interested in his fame...

Release Date:  November 15, 2016 Publisher:  Boldstroke Books Format:  Kindle Pages:  288 pages Genre:  LGBT, supernatural romance Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback   Synopsis:  The evil lies dormant, waiting to be awakened. Brenna Taylor relocates to Arizona to nurse her grief and takes possession of a decrepit century-old home sitting among two hundred acres of dead citrus trees. But she unknowingly rouses an evil and stirs the darkness inside herself, a curse she’s carried since childhood. With the help of Alejandra Santana, the charismatic contractor to whom she is drawn, Brenna uncovers the violent history of the land she’s inherited. As the tormented spirits of massacred migrant workers call out for revenge, the malevolent force that imprisons their souls begins to lure Brenna into its hell. But Alex’s love may not be enough to stand between Brenna and death. Review:  Tortured by the death of her husband and child Bre...

Title:   Rituals: A Faye Longchamp Mystery (Faye Longchamp Series) by Mary Anna Evans Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press 250 pages Genre: Mystery I received this book as an e-galley from netgalley.com it is to be released November 2013 Synopsis:  Faye Longchamp doesn’t believe in ghosts. But she’s an archaeologist—dead people are her life. While working in Rosebower, a rural New York town founded by Spiritualists, Faye is surrounded by people who talk to the dead on a regular basis. When the most influential Spiritualist in town, Tilda Armistead, invites Faye and her project assistant to commune with the dead, she can’t say no. Curiosity is also a cherished part of an archaeologist’s life.  An hour after her crystal ball shows Faye things no rational mind can explain, Tilda is dead. The evidence says that someone trapped Tilda in a small room, nailing its one door shut before setting Tilda’s Victorian home afire. There is no possible way for Tilda to have escaped...

Title: The Raising by Laura Kasischke Publisher: Harper Collins 496 pages Genre: Fiction/supernatural I received this book as an advanced electronic copy from the publisher via netgalley.com  it is due to be released at the end of March. Synopsis: The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl. NICOLE was a straight A student from a small town. Sweet-tempered, all-American, a fomer Girl Scout, and a virgin. But it was an accident. And that was last year. It’s fall again, a new semester, a fresh start. CRAIG, who has not been charged with murder, is focusing on his classes, and also on avoiding Nicole’s sorority sisters, who seem to blame him for her death even though the police did not. PERRY, Craig’s roommate, is working through his own grief (he grew up with Nicole, after all, and had known her since kindergarten) by auditing Professor Polson’s sociology class: Death, Dying, and the Undead. MIRA has been ...

Title: The Lovers by John Connolly Publisher:  Atria 344 pages Genre: Mystery, fiction Synopsis : Parker is working in a bar in Portland , having been deprived of his P.I.'s license. He uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers, a search that will eventually lead to revelations about Parker's own parentage. Meanwhile, a troubled young woman is running from an unseen threat, one that already seems to have taken the life of her boyfriend, and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace is conducting an investigation of his own into Charlie Parker in the hope of writing a non-fiction book about his exploits . And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman, the lovers of the title, who appear to have only one purpose, and that i...

Title: Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (Book 3 of the Dresden Files) Publisher: ROC a division of Penguin Putnam Publishing 378 pages Genre : Fantasy Synopsis: In all Harry Dresden's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble - and not just of the door slamming, boo shouting variety.  These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.  Someone or something is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc.  But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? Review: Its always difficult to review books in a series without giving anything away but here goes nothing.  This is the third Harry Dresden book that I've read, and this one was better than the first two.  I was a huge fan of the SyFy series that only ran for one season and then realized that there were books! The books are different than the series but equally as good.  Harry i...