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Publication Date:  March 2, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Supernatural, ghosts Narrators:  Reba Buhr Publisher:  Scholastic Audio  Length:   5 hours 36 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows....  Unless it's the other way around?  Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while traveling for her parents' TV show.  But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. In a city of ghost tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the colorful, grisly local legends. And the city's bigg...

The Shade of Santa Fe Eva Pohler (The Mystery House, #7) Publication date: October 31st 2021 Genres: Adult, Mystery, Supernatural A haunting in Santa Fe will either reunite Ghost Healers, Inc. or disband the group forever. When Ellen decides to buy a fixer-upper in an art community in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she’s reassured by the realtor that nothing evil has ever occurred there. What she doesn’t know is that the bridge near the back of the property is notoriously known in the town as Suicide Bridge. As she and her friends try to uncover why so many people have taken their lives there, they are shocked by what they find. Can the reunion of Ghost Healers, Inc. untether the troubling spirits near Ellen’s fixer-upper, or will their discoveries be too much for them this time? Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — EXCERPT: “Ready for our hike?” Tanya asked. “Do pigs fly?” Sue said with a laugh. “The sooner we do our hike, the sooner we ...

Publication Date:  March 29 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   LGBTQ Romance, Ghost Fiction Publisher:  Independently   Published                              Length:  254 pages Buy:  Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis Levi Black has mostly recovered from the events of a year ago. The only lingering effects are that he’s much more well known in York than he’d like to be, and he’s a lot more cautious about walking around his house naked. However, those events brought him the capricious and fascinating Blue, so he’s not complaining. On the contrary, he’s happy, in love, and looking forward to Blue finally moving in with him. And if sometimes ...

Publication Date:  November 14, 2019 Format:  Kindle Genre:   LGBTQ Romance, Ghost Fiction Publisher: Independently   Published                    Length:  278 pages Buy: Paperback  | Kindle  Synopsis Levi Black is at a crossroads. After suffering a loss and breaking up a long-term relationship, he’s looking for a change. When he receives the news he’s inherited a house in York, he seizes the opportunity to begin a new chapter in his life. However, when he gets there, he finds a house that has never kept its occupants for very long. Either through death or disinclination, no one stays there, and after a few days of living in the place, Levi can understand why. Strang...

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...

Publisher: Tantor Format: Audible Narrator: Nicole Poole   Genre: Romance Buy: Amazon Synopsis:  The Seven Series follows the lives of the Westin pack. Most of the males in this pack are part of the same family. The Cole brothers all follow their brother Austin who is the leader of the Westin pack. As each man struggles to find and keep their mate they also struggle against outside forces that try to tear them all apart. These books count down from 7 so 7 is the first and it goes from there. Review: These books are a great mix of romance and action.  This combined combined with a pack made up of family members and a few others that care about each other. Even when that caring isn’t always reciprocated the way it should be. These are great paranormal romance books.  Each one can be read as a standalone but they all seem to have a common thread that is best read in order. Discover other books or products I like:  https://www.amazon.com/sh...

Release Date:  February 27, 2018 Publisher:  St. Martin's Press Format:  ebook Pages:  432 pages Genre:   Fiction Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis: It’s been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon’s life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; the fascination remains. Living alone on six thousand acres of once-sacred land, Johnny’s only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. They’re not boys anymore, but the bonds remain. What they shared. What they lost. But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent. Johnny will discuss none of it, but there are the things he knows, the things he can do. A lesser friend might accept such abilities as a gift, but Jack has felt what moves in the swamp: the cold of it, the unspeakable fear. Review:  I d...

Release Date:  July 04, 2017 Publisher:  Atria books Format:  Kindle Pages:  465 pages Genre:  Thriller/Supernatural Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Paperback Synopsis: It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker’s employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator—he is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker is drawn into Eklund’s world: a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts... Review:  This series just keeps getting better and better. There is always a supernatural twist to these books an...

Release Date: October 16, 2016 Publisher: Createspace Format: Kindle Pages: 224 pages Genre: Fantasy Buy: Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: They came after The Great Storm, the Espers. Feared and hunted by society, there are those who use their powers for good, and those who use them for evil. When an experiment goes wrong in Victorian London, Espers, people with supernatural abilities are created. In order to counter this new potential threat, the Institute is set up to teach Espers how to use their abilities for good and how to hunt down those who want to use their powers for evil. Gifted with a formidable but self-destructive ability, Nathan is one of the Institute’s top agents. When the evil Baron executes his plan to control the minds of London’s political leaders, peace is dependent on Nathan and his team. Will he learn to control his powers in time to save the world? Or will he succumb to their self-destructive nature? Review:  This book is like a combinat...

Release Date: May 1, 2013 Publisher:  Aurea Blue Press Format: Kindle Pages: 433 pages Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy Buy: Paperback | Kindle   Synopsis: Sometimes saving the person you love can cost you everything.  There is one person that ties Oliver Richter to this world: his wife Kai. For Kai, Oliver is the keeper of her secrets. When her telepathy spirals out of control and inundates her mind with the thoughts and emotions of everyone within a half-mile radius, the life they built together in Manhattan is threatened. To save her, Oliver brings her to the hometown he abandoned--Butternut, Wisconsin--where the secrets of his past remain buried. But the past has a way of refusing to stay dead. Can Kai save Oliver before his secrets claim their future? Review: After reading this book I can honestly say that having telepathy would be the worst super power in the world.  Knowing everyone's thoughts, would be torturous.  How Kai thought sh...

Release Date:  June 7, 2016 Publisher:  Quirk Books Format:  Kindle Pages:  288 pages Genre:  Sci Fi/ Fantasy Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: Bailey Chen is fresh out of college with all the usual new-adult demons: no cash, no job offers, and an awkward relationship with Zane, the old friend she kinda-sorta hooked up with during high school. But when Zane introduces Bailey to his monster-fighting bartender friends, her demons become a lot more literal. It turns out evil creatures stalk the city streets after hours, and they can only be hunted with the help of magically-mixed cocktails: vodka grants super-strength, whiskey offers the power of telekinesis, and tequila lets its drinker fire blasts of elemental energy. But will all of these powers be enough for Bailey to halt a mysterious rash of gruesome deaths? And what will she do when the safety of a “real world” job beckons? Review Quirky and interesting, this story twists the ...

Title: Publisher:  St. Martin Press 320 pages Genre:  Supernatural Romance I received an advanced e-copy of this book from the publisher from netgalley.com in return for an honest review. Synopsis:  Ella Harrow is trying to carve out a normal life for herself. Well, as normal as an art geek with psychic abilities can hope for. As museum docent and gift-shop manager, Ella is able to keep her distance from people—and her powers in check—while surrounding herself with the artifacts she loves. But how on earth is she supposed to act normal when a thousand-year-old statue on the museum’s terrace suddenly comes to life? Not your ordinary gargoyle, Kees has been asleep for eons, waiting for a portent of evil to wake him from his slumber. Kees isn’t a vision; he’s a bat-winged guardian created to protect the world from the seven demons of the Dark. Somehow, Ella triggered his reawakening. Maybe the demons have been unleashed? Maybe his heart is finally ready to be chi...

Title:   Sara by Greg Herren Publisher: Bold Stroke Books 264 pages Genre: lgbt, YA I received an E-ARC of this book from netgalley.com - it is being released July 17, 2012 Synopsis:  For Tony Martin, being a senior means being a star on the football team, classes to get through, hanging out with his friends—and dating Candy Dixon. And once he graduates, he’s getting out of Kansas and never looking back. But his best friend Glenn’s decision to come out and be openly gay at their small rural high school creates a lot of problems for the two of them. But a beautiful new student arrives at Southern Heights High—Sara. When all the kids who’ve been mean to Glenn start dying in very strange circumstances, and Glenn starts acting strangely, it’s up to Tony and Candy to get to the bottom of what’s going on in their school—before it’s too late for them. Review: What starts off seeming like a coming of age story about Glenn coming out and how his best friend Tony and his f...