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  • Carpathian Collection by Christine Feehan

    Carpathian Collection by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "The queen of paranormal romance" (USA Today) presents three darkly compelling novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that "bring[s] vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life" (Publishers Weekly). Dark Curse Dark Slayer Dark Peril.
  • The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

    The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    Sage Singer befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. They strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses. .. and then he confesses his darkest secret—he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS guard...
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  • Whack The Mole by Maggie March

    Whack The Mole by Maggie March

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucy is a human lie detector. Her rescue dog Paco is a ghost whisperer. Together, they solve crime in this laugh-out-loud cozy mystery series! Joey "The Weasel" Frizzone has been deep undercover with one of the country's largest organized crime families and the time has come for him to testify against them...
  • The Secret of the Chateau by Carrie Bedford

    The Secret of the Chateau by Carrie Bedford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD—AND DEATH. SHE KNOWS IT’S COMING; SHE HAS TO STOP IT! London architect Kate Benedict has barely shucked off her coat before she spots her host's aura, a swirling pattern above his head that Kate has come to recognize as a prediction of death within a few days. And she’s barely realized he’s in danger when he drops to the floor, shot by an unseen assailant...
  • The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a humorous, standalone mystery, The Librarian’s Vampire Assistant, Book 2. (Yep! It’s a standalone. The boring title is just to mess with you! ). HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HE KEEP HIS SECRET AND HIS FAVORITE HUMAN SAFE? Michael Vanderhorst has always been a lone wolf. Or lone vampire? Whatever...
  • Simon Says….Walk by Dale Mayer

    Simon Says….Walk by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Detective Kate Morgan isn’t impressed with her latest case. A terrorized woman walks into the police station, with a message for Kate. Actually a message that drags Simon into the middle of it—no, make that front and center. A challenge has been issued, one that Kate is determined to solve, hopefully keeping Simon on the sidelines...
  • Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Includes books 2, 3, and 4 of the Gravity series. In Uncertainty, Ariel finds out more information about her grandmother's visions and family secrets. An unexpected reunion turns her life upside down, and she doesn't know who to trust. In Luminosity, Ariel is haunted by reoccuring nightmares that bring her back to the spooky Dexter orphanage in search of something she once lost.
  • Under the Willows by Pamela McCord

    Under the Willows by Pamela McCord

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After her husband is killed by a drunk driver, Kelly Harris and her son TJ move into a sprawling Victorian house in Ohio that her husband inherited from his grandmother. Dealing with her overwhelming grief is a struggle as she adjusts to life in a small town. And, just as she’s beginning to feel more comfortable, life takes another unexpected turn...
  • If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Madison Adair didn’t witness her famous mother’s brutal murder. But she saw it. Saw the gloved hand. .. felt the knife strike. .. knew her mother’s terror. That was a lifetime ago. But the nightmares have returned; only, this time they’re of a faceless serial killer stalking women in south Florida. A killer she can’t see but who knows she is watching...
  • Favole: Set Me Free by Victoria Francés

    Favole: Set Me Free by Victoria Francés

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sucesso internacional finalmente disponível em português! Donzelas à beira da morte, lânguidas imagens erguendo-se por detrás de uma lápide, castelos carregados de mistérios, lagos obscuros no meio de bosques banhados pelo luar. .. A temática gótica e vampírica é uma das mais recorrentes da ficção contemporânea e tem originado grandes êxitos literários e cinematográficos...
  • Favole: Frozen Light by Victoria Francés

    Favole: Frozen Light by Victoria Francés

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Poetry and exquisite art.
  • Scar Tissue by M.C. Domovitch

    Scar Tissue by M.C. Domovitch

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When successful model Ciara Kelly wakes up in hospital, remembering nothing of the weeks she has been missing, her only clues are the ugly words carved into her skin. According to the police she was a victim of the Cutter, a serial killer who has already murdered three women...
  • Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

    Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A scientist with a special gift riles a wasp's nest of conspiracy theories while investigating a cold case in this riveting novel from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans and We Are All the Same in the Dark. When she was ten, Vivvy Bouchet saved a boy’s life by making an impossible prediction...
  • Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

    Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 83 ratings
    Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list...
  • Midnight is a Lonely Place by Barbara Erskine

    Midnight is a Lonely Place by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After a broken love affair, biographer Kate Kennedy retires to a remote cottage on the wild Essex coast to work on her new book until her landlord's daughter uncovers a Roman site nearby and long-buried passions are unleashed! In her lonely cottage, Kate is terrorized by mysterious forces...
  • Hiding from the Light by Barbara Erskine

    Hiding from the Light by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the three million copy bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes the big new novel by the bestselling author of WHISPERS IN THE SAND is a gripping tale of witchcraft and romance, past and present, as her modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years. The parish of Manningtree and Mistley has a dark history...
  • The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    December and Lilly have got their work cut out for them. Not only are they desperately trying to figure out the identity of the Lost Soul, and track him down, they've also got to investigate why Powell River's newest resident has got all of their men falling at her feet. But when they learn that the Nephilim might be involved, it becomes clear that they're all in extreme danger. ..
  • Shadows from the Grave by T.L. Haddix

    Shadows from the Grave by T.L. Haddix

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When it comes to murder, the past is never really dead. .. For ten years, Chase Hudson has carried the weight of his college girlfriend’s unsolved murder on his shoulders. When a ghost from the past comes calling, Chase’s friends and family become the targets of a serial killer who’ll stop at nothing to make Chase suffer...
  • The Saint-Germain Chronicles by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    The Saint-Germain Chronicles by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fleeing Spain at the beginning of their Civil War, the vampire Saint-Germain arrives in California to reunite with the older and wiser Rowena Saxon, who is considering following the Dark Prince into an eternal life. Meanwhile, Saint-Germain is unaware that a ruthless assassin is pursuing him--one of the most charming killers ever to grace the page: Cenere...
  • When Darkness Falls by Heather Graham

    When Darkness Falls by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    What You See - In an ancient cemetery, travel writer Jade MacGregor’s tour of a Scottish tomb is marred by a terrifying attack that leaves her surrounded by corpses drained of blood. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses the oddly compelling stranger she met that day...
  • The Seance by Heather Graham

    The Seance by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A chill falls over Christina Hardy's housewarming party when talk turns to a recent murder that has all the hallmarks of the so-called 'Interstate Killer' murders from fifteen years before. To lighten the mood, the guests drag out an old Ouija board for a little spooky fun -- and that's when things become truly terrifying...
  • Fearless in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

    Fearless in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer is back! Morning sickness sucks. Which is why fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer has spent the last six weeks being a couch potato and Moonlight vampire movie devotee...
  • The Haunting of St. Xavier by Carol Lynne, T.A. Chase

    The Haunting of St. Xavier by Carol Lynne, T.A. Chase

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Justice comes to all in time. Although empty for over fifty years, St. Xavier Monastery was still an awe inspiring structure and Jason Bentley thought he'd found the perfect location for his newest resort. Yet once construction begins to bring the magnificent building back to its former glory, odd events begin to occur. While the death of a stonemason shakes Jason, he decides to continue anyway...
  • Hallowed Eve by Suza Kates

    Hallowed Eve by Suza Kates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Something terrible happened in Pine Creek. Eve Taylor must return home for her grandmother's funeral but has every intention of making it a short visit. Too many memories live in the small town where she grew up, memories of a Halloween best forgotten. Trey Rainwater has been waiting for Eve. He knows she'll be staying for longer than she'd planned and has every intention of making sure she does...
  • Resilient by Patricia Vanasse

    Resilient by Patricia Vanasse

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Livia has never felt like she fits in. As normal as it sounds, Livia is anything but ordinary. She can feel every emotion of every single person around her, and it’s maddening. In pursuit of some psychic quiet, she moves with her family from New York City to Whidbey Island in the lush and sleepy Pacific Northwest...
  • Dark Season: The Complete Second Series by Amy Cross

    Dark Season: The Complete Second Series by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For the first time, the entire second series of Dark Season books is available in one volume. Also includes 20th Century Vampire (A Dark Season Prequel). Total word count is around 180,000 words, approximately 700 to 800 pages of a printed book. Sophie Hart's relationship with Patrick, the last vampire, continues to take a series of dark twists and turns...
  • Lancaster House by Taylor Dean

    Lancaster House by Taylor Dean

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A PARANORMAL ROMANCE. Zoe Grayson needs a change. So, she moves to another state, purchases an old, dilapidated 1920s Victorian Mansion, and sets out to restore it to its former glory. As she begins the restoration, she finds herself falling in love with the old house . . . not to mention its illustrious builder, Mr. Lancaster...
  • The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this classic Gothic tale from. New York Times. bestselling author Jana DeLeon, a writer needs a local man’s help when she discovers her home may hold some chilling secrets…. For Olivia Markham, laMalediction is the ideal setting in which to complete her work. But something is sending a chill up the usually fearless author’s spine...
  • Forgotten by Maggie Shayne

    Forgotten by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Ash is a slightly claustrophobic investigative reporter on the trail of a serial killer, who thinks his Ms. Right is Suzy Homemaker. As part of his investigation, he's pretending to have amnesia. Joey is a Harley-riding psychic with a penchant for caves and a vested interest in catching the same killer. As part of her investigation, she's pretending to be Ash's wife...
  • The Truth About Unicorns by Bonnie Jones Reynolds

    The Truth About Unicorns by Bonnie Jones Reynolds

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What dark and secret spell beguiled Oriskany Forks? Why did Crazy Lizzy paint her body with strange symbols? Who stole Cass's newborn baby girl? Why did the round house have a windowless second story -- and no way to reach it? Was the circular pit in the woods a meeting place for a witches' coven? Who would believe there could be so much evil in such a pretty little town?
  • Heart of a Vampire by Amber Kallyn

    Heart of a Vampire by Amber Kallyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    ***This is a book bundle of the Heart of a Vampire series, Books 1-3. Book 1 - Bloodstorm. (Available Free on all Etailers). When duty forces a shaman to stop a vampire from her revenge, love doesn’t just burn. .. it bites. For two hundred years, Niki DeVeraux has been tracking the monster who murdered her family and made her a vampire...
  • Whispers at Dusk by Heather Graham

    Whispers at Dusk by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When darkness falls, there’s nowhere to hide. Four bodies have been discovered along Europe’s riverbanks, placed with care—and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister...
  • Model, Vol. 3 by Lee So-Young

    Model, Vol. 3 by Lee So-Young

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While Jae is thinking about Eva asking her to leave Michael's mansion ASAP, Ken arrives. She says she should hurry and paint Michael and leave the estate. Ken takes her arm and leads her to a cave. He tells her that this is his room, and reveals to Jae that Michael isn't his biological father. Michael confronts Eva for telling Jae to quickly leave...
  • Spirits in the Trees by Morgan Hannah MacDonald

    Spirits in the Trees by Morgan Hannah MacDonald

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    EVIL DOES EXIST. An abandoned house, a serial killer, and a victim reaching out from the grave. A woman races against time to unearth buried secrets before she becomes a ghost herself. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Madeline Anderson goes to Isabelle Island, Washington, to sell a family home abandoned over forty years before. Strange things occur the moment she steps on the property...
  • Night Moves by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    Night Moves by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Photographer Bryn Keller is struggling to raise three boys while getting her career on track, so working with superstar Lee Condor is an opportunity she can't pass up…even if he is the most infuriating—and desirable—man she has ever met. But then Bryn finds herself in unexpected danger. Someone wants something from her—badly enough to hurt her family...
  • The Awakening by Shannon Drake

    The Awakening by Shannon Drake

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    New Orleans musician Megan has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform, with her husband Finn, in a weeklong series of concerts, culminating on All Hallow's Eve - and to renew her connection with the past. As the full moon approaches, Megan senses that she is in great danger.
  • Behind a Closed Door by J.D. Barker

    Behind a Closed Door by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Soon to be a major motion picture! Would you kill a total stranger to save someone you love? Sugar & Spice is the latest app craze taking the world by storm, but for Abby and Brendan Hollander, downloading it leads to a dangerous game of life and death...
  • Betraying Innocence by Airicka Phoenix

    Betraying Innocence by Airicka Phoenix

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    October 31, 1983, seventeen year old Johnny Baits vanishes without a trace, leaving the slumbering town of Chipawaha Creek, British Columbia reeling with his mysterious disappearance. Twenty-nine years later, The French family moves into his home, never realizing they're not alone in the house. For seventeen year old Roseanna French moving to a strange new town is a problem she can handle...
  • Third Eye by Rick R. Reed

    Third Eye by Rick R. Reed

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who knew that a summer thunderstorm and his lost little boy would conspire to change single dad Cayce D’Amico’s life in an instant? With Luke missing, Cayce ventures into the woods near their house to find his son, only to have lightning strike a tree near him, sending a branch down on his head...
  • Biting Oz by Mary Hughes

    Biting Oz by Mary Hughes

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Real vampires do musicals. Biting Love , Book 5. Gunter Marie “Junior” Stieg is stuck selling sausage for her folks in small-town Meiers Corners. Until one day she’s offered a way out—the chance to play pit orchestra for a musical headed for Broadway: Oz, Wonderful Oz. But someone is threatening the show’s young star...
  • Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash

    Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Paul Russo’s wife just died. While trying to get his family’s life back in order, Paul is being tormented by a demon who is holding his wife's spirit hostage on the other side. His fate is intertwined with an old haunted mansion on the north shore of Long Island called Stillwell Manor. Paul must find clues dating back hundreds of years to set his wife's soul free.
  • The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The house next door to Pat Robbins—eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Mark—has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark's heart on first glance...
  • What You Can't See by Allison Brennan, Karin Tabke

    What You Can't See by Allison Brennan, Karin Tabke

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    THREE GRIPPING TALES. FROM TODAY'S BRIGHTEST STARS. OF DANGER AND SEDUCTION. Allison Brennan. Demonologist Anthony Zaccardi can't save the twelve priests brutally slaughtered at a California mission, but he's determined to send the killer -- an ancient demon -- back to hell...
  • Lullaby and Goodnight by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Lullaby and Goodnight by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hush Little Baby, Don't You Cry. . . At thirty-nine, Peyton Somerset has an enviable life, with a thriving advertising career and a beautiful Manhattan apartment. And now she's going to have the one thing she wants most--a baby. Peyton's biological clock went off just as her fiancé took off, leaving her at the altar. So Peyton's going it alone...
  • Silent Fall by Barbara Freethy

    Silent Fall by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Dylan Saunders is attending a wedding in the mountains when a former lover appears out of nowhere, luring him into the woods, then leaving him there, drugged and disoriented. When he wakes, the woman has disappeared and Dylan is accused of her murder. Now he must rely on the help of a beautiful psychic haunted by her own dark past-and find the killer before the killer finds them. ..
  • House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Meg Rittenhouse fears she is losing her mind. The doctors tell her the strange and disturbing hallucinations she's been experiencing ever since her accident are all in her head, and that, with a little rest, the haunting visions will vanish. But accepting an invitation to stay with her cousin in the country may be the worst decision Meg has ever made...
  • Chosen Prey by Cheyenne McCray

    Chosen Prey by Cheyenne McCray

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lyra Collins has made a life for herself in a sleepy artists' community in Arizona. Having escaped from a cult five years ago, she keeps a low profile, making a living as an artist. But when a mysterious man with a dark, dangerous look appears on her doorstep, she knows it's time to run again. Former cop Dare Lancaster didn't mean to lead a bunch of fanatical cult members straight to Lyra's door...
  • River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Leigh Cobb

    River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Leigh Cobb

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    LENGTH. 9 hrs and 53 mins. It's been thirteen years since Lucy Sheridan was in Summer River. The last time she visited her aunt Sara there, as a teenager, she'd been sent home suddenly after being dragged out of a wild party - by the guy she had a crush on, just to make it more embarrassing...
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous by Heather Graham

    Drop Dead Gorgeous by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham comes a romantic suspense thriller! After being acquitted of murdering his high school girlfriend 15 years ago, a man returns to Miami. While there, he encounters another former girlfriend and discovers that they still share feelings for one another. But before the couple can rekindle their relationship, they must confront the past...
  • Sleepy Hollow by Dax Varley

    Sleepy Hollow by Dax Varley

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Katrina is still haunted by her encounter with the Headless Horseman - the night he beckoned to her. Now he has risen again, slashing heads and terrorizing the quiet countryside. Her only joy during this dismal darkness comes when Ichabod Crane, a gorgeous young man from Connecticut, moves to Sleepy Hollow and their attraction turns to romance...
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