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Murder in Tuscany by L.B. Hathaway
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsUnder the Tuscan sun, ice-creams melt and dark secrets unravel…March, 1925Pregnant, bored, and longing for an adventure, Posie Parker accepts a rather last-minute Wedding Invitation from an old friend who is getting married out in the gorgeous town of San Gimignano, Tuscany.But what Posie -and her husband, Richard Lovelace- arrive into is not a blissfully happy wedding party at all... -
The Prison of Buried Hopes by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the fifth instalment of this epic fantasy series, a journey south brings together nine eclectic friends and leads them ever closer to answers – and danger. On their journey south to Freedland, Josie, Dane and their friends sense that someone is following them. Hiding in the twin cities of Merrin Fahl seems like their best course of action – until they’re recognized by strangers... -
A Bitter Draught by Sabrina Flynn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSan Francisco, 1900. Isobel has faked her own death, and is relishing her second life, but when a mysterious woman writes her last words in sand, Isobel risks her freedom to uncover the truth. As she plunges into a storm of betrayal, the winds are determined to throw Atticus Riot on her course, and the two detectives collide in a sea of madness and murder...Categorized as:
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Asylum for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen her haunting past returns, will it destroy her future?Lenora Fletcher brims with joy. Embracing motherhood, the young woman is determined to give her child the love and attention she never received. But a chance meeting with her assumed-to-be deceased father rips away her happiness and plunges her into roiling confusion... -
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When She Dreams by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReturn to 1930s Burning Cove, California, the glamorous seaside playground for Hollywood stars, mobsters, spies, and a host of others who find more than they bargain for in this mysterious town... -
The Broken by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2015. When the skeletal remains of a dismembered infant are found in an elderly couple’s garden, Quinn is called in to investigate the circumstances of the child’s death. As the case unfolds, she finds herself overwhelmed both by the tragedy she’s forced to witness and a devastating betrayal in her own life. Blindsided, Quinn must examine her own choices before she loses everything she holds dear... -
Letter to a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnly she can prove his innocence, but will it make her the killer’s next victim?Lenora Fletcher’s new role as Duchess of Blackmoore is put to the test when her brother-in-law is framed for murder. Desperate for help, he begs her to use her power to communicate with the dead to prove his innocence... -
A Dangerous Ruse by Tilly Wallace
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHer opponents have her cornered, unless Sera makes an unexpected move… Seraphina continues to pick at the secrets entangling her. Then, during a ball, she spots a piece of enchanted jewellery eerily similar to the bracelet she once wore. But before she can find out about its origins, its owner is murdered. At least this time no one is blaming Sera... -
The Missing Brides by Helen Goltz
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom author Helen Goltz comes an exciting new series about love, fate, and putting to rest more than the dead, with a hint of magic, mystery and visions.Miss Phoebe Astin and her brothers, Julius and Ambrose, lead an unconventional life working in the family funeral business – The Economic Undertaker... -
The Unforgiven by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA tragic past. An uncertain futureTwelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip... -
Wit'ch Gate by James Clemens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe dazzling epic of The Banned and the Banished has established James Clemens as an exciting new voice in fantasy fiction. Now his remarkable skills reach their peak with Wit’ch Gate, as one girl remains her realm’s only hope against the forces of darkness . . -
Death of a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMy name is Lenora Fletcher. And I can communicate with the dead. Lenora expected her unique ability would condemn her to a life of solitude, shunned by society. But when she receives an unexpected marriage proposal hinging on it, Lenora is shocked... -
The Potent Perfume by Helen Goltz
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMiss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker found herself charmed by the recently deceased perfume salesman, Mr Edward 'Teddy' Tate, as were many of his former clients... -
The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt twenty-nine, Nora Cameron's life feels adrift, her days are spent working in her parents’ bakery, and her nights are spent alone watching Hallmark movies. She yearns for something beyond her predictable existence, though she has no idea what that might be. That is, until fate intervenes, and Nora is swept into an unforeseen adventure to Scotland... -
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The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt twenty-nine, Nora Cameron's life feels adrift, her days are spent working in her parents’ bakery, and her nights are spent alone watching Hallmark movies. She yearns for something beyond her predictable existence, though she has no idea what that might be. That is, until fate intervenes, and Nora is swept into an unforeseen adventure to Scotland... -
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods, Evie Gaughan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEdie is … not in Paris?Edie Lane left everything behind in Ireland for a once-in-a-lifetime job at a bakery in Paris. Except, thanks to a mistranslation, the bakery is not in Paris, and neither is Edie.The tiny town of Compiègne, complete with its local bakery on the Rue de Paris, holds many secrets... -
A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe bestselling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible woman Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate... -
Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsBONUS: This eBook includes an excerpt from Laurie R. King's Pirate King.In this crackling short story, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King reveals an unforgettable new twist in the adventure that led supersleuth Sherlock Holmes to discover his first (and finest) apprentice, Mary Russell...Categorized as:
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Dreaming Death by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case... -
The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy
In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures... -
Vow of Deception by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith the wedding only days away, the Ministry is thrown into turmoil when another murder is committed by a shape-shifter. But this time the newspapers make the connection to werewolves – and the Ministry. Suddenly the attention is focused on Lichfield Towers and its residents as the police investigate and parliament wants to shut the organization down... -
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGlen David Gold's literary debut dazzled critics and fans from coast to coast. Now Carter's center stage for a spectacular paperback . . . The response to Glen David Gold's debut novel, Carter Beats the Devil , was extraordinary. He hypnotized us with his portrait of a 1920s magic-obsessed America and of Charles Carter--a.k.a... -
Tryst by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHilary Shenstone is dead, yet he haunts his old home. Only animals and a young girl Sabrina can sense his presence. The old housekeeper is aware of this, and helps Sabrina to contact the spirit... -
Lore by Sandra R. Neeley
Lore is an Ancient and is just what his name describes - Lore. The lore of a thousand peoples and places, their magics and their beliefs all evolved over the passage of time and now walking the Earth as this male — Lore. He’s wandered this realm and the next for eons in search of his beloved mate... -
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Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
Castle Shade by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat—all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure.The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia...Categorized as:
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Close Up by Amanda Quick
Welcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer… Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors... -
This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long... -
The House That Death Built: A Gothic Thriller of Romance and Mystery by Mel Stone
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA country girl. A grieving stranger. And a secret that will bind them forever…Arthur knows nothing but sorrow. His past is filled with secrets, trials, and death. On his way to settle his affairs with his deceased wife’s family he tears his shirt and enters a small village shop for a repair. There he meets Joy.Joy is not impressed by the stranger visiting their little village... -
The House in the Water by Victoria Darke
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA secluded house. A lost notebook. A wartime secret.1942: Young Irish nurse Ellen arrives at May Day House, tasked with helping the men there rehabilitate. But there’s something strange about the house, surrounded by water, on its own island in the Thames. And then there are the traumatised by their experiences of war, and subject to troubling methods in a desperate race to get them back to duty... -
Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSeven Sisters, an antebellum restoration in downtown Mobile, has come to life recently...and not in ways historian Carrie Jo Jardine had expected. After battling and surviving a dangerous encounter with a visitor from the past, Carrie Jo and Seven Sisters’ handsome owner Ashland Stuart have one last mystery to uncover... -
Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAfter the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents’ home on Lake Superior to pull herself together—only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the shallows. Tucked in the folds of the woman’s curiously vintage gown is an infant, as cold and at peace as its mother. No one can identify the woman. Except for Kate. She’s seen her before... -
Wildwood Magic by Willa Reece
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"An enchanting tale full of magical moments." — Library JournalA woman escapes her abusive husband and finds shelter in an enchanted orchard in this spellbinding novel of magic, resilience, and self-discovery from the author of Wildwood Whispers.Here be witches and wayward girls…In a town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Rachel Smith has found a new life tending a lush apple orchard... -
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Green Darkness by Anya Seton
"The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay—the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history." Green Darkness is the story of a great love, in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century... -
The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path. As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan’s Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries... -
Wildwood Magic by Willa Reece
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman escapes her abusive husband and finds shelter in a magical orchard in this spellbinding novel of magic and self-discovery from the author of Wildwood Whispers.Here be witches and wayward girls…In a town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Rachel Smith has found a new life tending a lush apple orchard. She’s safe within its grove... -
Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen a young, wealthy heiress, Calpurnia Cottonwood, disappears from Seven Sisters in 1850, rumors swirl. But no trace of the girl had ever been found--until now. Historian Carrie Jo Jardine and her handsome employer, Ashland Stuart, find clues to the heiress' whereabouts and even more mysteries are revealed. With Carrie Jo's ability to dream about the past, she watches a sinister plot unfold... -
The Secret of the Three Fates by Jess Armstrong
Following the atmospheric and award-winning gothic historical mystery debut, The Curse of Penryth Hall, USA Today bestselling author Jess Armstrong's heroine, Ruby Vaughn, returns in The Secret of the Three Fates, where the Scottish Hills hold ghosts of the past that threaten Ruby’s present.American heiress Ruby Vaughn still hasn't entirely forgiven her octogenarian employer and housemate Mr...Categorized as:
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The White Hare by Jane Johnson
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor fans of Alice Hoffman and Kate Morton, The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and daughters finding a new home for themselves, the secrets they try to bury, and the local legends that may change their lives.In the far west of Cornwall lies the White Valley, which cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea at White Cove... -
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe New York Times bestsellerA LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELLWhat happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death... -
Dunmoor: A compelling journey in gothic suspense by London Clarke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA lush gothic from bestselling author London Clarke set in the Regency era, Dunmoor is a tale of generational curses that threaten to destroy the most innocent and vulnerable.England, 1818. Lady Helena Winters hasn’t seen her husband in over a year—not since he disappeared without a trace... -
Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA long-ago crime continues to menace the present in this spine-chilling tale of supernatural suspense. When Michael Flint is asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale’s childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall – a tragedy that occurred towards the end of World War II, involving a set of twins who vanished... -
The Quiet Stillness of Empty Houses by L.V. Russell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheodora Corvus can hear the whispers of her crumbling family home. She can hear the whispers of Kingsward Manor, her place of employment. She sees the watchers by the lake, black-eyed and waiting. But Broken Oak is silent. Broken Oak is empty... -
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Echoes of Time by Calia Read
For Etienne and me, our love has always left a trace. It reigns over kingdoms, and rules over time. With Etienne now in the present day, the echoes of time grow louder. We must face the answers we seek to set things right. However, we must be incredibly careful. One false move and everything we love will be destroyed. And this time, could be the end of our surviving trace... -
Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James
“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow....”In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War... -
Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt begins as a lark -- a harmless diversion initiated by Washington, D.C., hostess Ruth Bennett as a means of entertaining her visiting niece, Sara. But the seance conducted in Ruth's elegant Georgetown home calls something back; something unwelcome ... and palpably evil... -
The Silent Fountain by Victoria Fox
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Superbly written . . . There is more than one terrific twist and the clever cliff-hanger chapter-endings will keep you compulsively turning the pages.” —Daily MailHollywood, 1978 Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti—and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister and learns that her new husband’s past holds dark secrets . -
The Secret Language of Stones: A Novel by M.J. Rose
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAs World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M.J. Rose’s “brilliantly crafted” ( Providence Journal ) novel The Witch of Painted Sorrows. Nestled within Paris’s historic Palais Royal is a jewelry store unlike any other... -
The Moor by Laurie R. King
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin...Categorized as:
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