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  • The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN.For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different reception --- Gwen refuses to see them...
  • Murder in Tuscany by L.B. Hathaway

    Murder in Tuscany by L.B. Hathaway

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Under 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...
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  • The Prison of Buried Hopes by C.J. Archer

    The Prison of Buried Hopes by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In 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...
  • Asylum for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Asylum for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When 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...
  • Letter to a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Letter to a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Only 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

    A Dangerous Ruse by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her 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

    The Missing Brides by Helen Goltz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From 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

    The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A 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

    Wit'ch Gate by James Clemens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The 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

    Death of a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My 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

    The Potent Perfume by Helen Goltz

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Miss 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

    The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At 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 Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At 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

    The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods, Evie Gaughan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Edie 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...
  • Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SWEET 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 Vanished Bride of Northfield House by Phyllis M. Newman

    The Vanished Bride of Northfield House by Phyllis M. Newman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    England, 1922. Times are hard. Anne Chatham is a clever, modest young woman with little money, no prospects for marriage, and a never-shared secret—she can see spirits. Anne finds employment as a typist at Northfield House, the grand country manor of the Wellington family. Her employer, the wheelchair-bound Mr. Wellington, is kindly. His haughty wife is not...
  • The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    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

    Vow of Deception by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With 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

    Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Glen 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

    Tryst by Elswyth Thane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hilary 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...
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls by Shane K.P. O'Neill

    For Whom The Bell Tolls by Shane K.P. O'Neill

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A WAR RAGES AROUND US EVERY DAY. THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE ALL MANKIND. THE ULTIMATE EVIL. The battle for souls has raged since the truce that followed the First Great War of the Angels. God has struck the ultimate blow and sacrifice to gain the advantage and defeat His fallen angel and estranged son, Lucifer...
  • Danger for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Danger for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Amidst the shadows of unsolved mysteries, Lenora faces a new enigma that could shatter her world. Who killed her father?As Lenora struggles to decipher the eerie happenings surrounding her daughter and strives to free her friend’s trapped spirit, a new puzzle emerges–one that hits too close to home...
  • The Color of Light by Karen White

    The Color of Light by Karen White

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    At thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found. At the time, Linc Rising, Lauren's boyfriend and Jillian's confidant, had been a suspect in Lauren's disappearance...
  • Passage of Shadows by Chasity Bowlin

    Passage of Shadows by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Don’t miss the exciting conclusion to The Victorian Gothic Collection… The plots, schemes and machinations at Cysgod Lys, from both mortal and immortal sources, are coming to a head...
  • The Temple of Forgotten Secrets by C.J. Archer

    The Temple of Forgotten Secrets by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Glancia is plunged into perilous times, but it's the events in her village that worry Josie more. A terrible fire puts the lives of those she loves at risk and threatens to shatter the uneasy peace. Josie and the captain investigate the cause of the blaze, but powerful enemies try to stop them. As the dangers grow more intense, so do the feelings between Josie and the captain...
  • シノビライフ 10 by Shoko Conami

    シノビライフ 10 by Shoko Conami

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Many, many years ago, a ninja named Kagetora devoted his life to protecting Princess Beni (”Beni-Hime”). Unfortunately, they were attacked and Kagetora was flung into a lake, and sank to the bottom… And is somehow warped to the future where he sees the princess Beni being kidnapped.Little does Kagetora know that Beni is not the real princess, but rather her descendant...
  • MacGowan's Ghost by Cindy Miles

    MacGowan's Ghost by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Gabe MacGowan—a sexy, brooding, guilt-ridden widower and father to mischievous seven-yearold Jake—is the proprietor of Odin’s Thumb Inn and Pub in a misty Scottish seaside village. He decides to sell the inn and move, not only to give his son a more stable environment, but to escape the ghosts who haunt him—in particular his dead wife...
  • The Glass Butterfly by A.G. Howard

    The Glass Butterfly by A.G. Howard

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For close to a decade, twenty-five-year-old Felicity Lonsdale has masqueraded as a dowager almost twice her age--selling caterpillars to butterfly consortiums--enabling her to hide an ill-fated past while raising her late brother's daughters. Together, the three live on an isolated Irish estate bequeathed by a dying earl...
  • The House That Death Built: A Gothic Thriller of Romance and Mystery by Mel Stone

    The House That Death Built: A Gothic Thriller of Romance and Mystery by Mel Stone

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A 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 Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

    The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence—unless, that is, you get stuck in the nineteenth century.Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old they’re frozen—or so their inside joke goes...
  • Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Seven 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...
  • Conspiracy To Murder by Heather Graham

    Conspiracy To Murder by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Don’t miss this heart-racing story from “the queen of romantic suspense,” New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Is she a suspect or a target? A year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she’s suspected murder all along...
  • Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

    Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    After 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...
  • It Wakes in Me by Kathleen O'Neal Gear

    It Wakes in Me by Kathleen O'Neal Gear

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    According to the tradition of the Black Falcon People, each person has three souls: the eye soul, which stays with the body forever; the shadow soul, where all evil is leeched and shed at death; and the reflection soul, where the spirit lives on among the Blessed ancestors in the Land of the Dead, pure and clean...
  • The Haunting at Hawke's Moor: A gothic paranormal romance by Camille Oster

    The Haunting at Hawke's Moor: A gothic paranormal romance by Camille Oster

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Victorian London shows little mercy when divorce leave Anne Kinelly destitute and abandoned by her husband. Her bleak future is avoided when the merciful actions of her solicitor results in a stroke of luck, finding a house forgotten and left in probate by previous generations...
    Categorized as:
    horror  paranormal  fantasy  historical  m-f
  • The House of Lost Wives by Rebecca Hardy

    The House of Lost Wives by Rebecca Hardy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets. Lies. And four missing wives. 1813. Lizzie's beloved older sister Esme is sold in marriage to the aging Lord Blountford to settle their father's debts. One year later, Esme is dead, and Lizzie is sent to take her place as Lord Blountford's next wife. Arriving at Ambletye Manor, Lizzie uncovers a twisted web of secrets, not least that she is to be the fifth mistress of this house...
  • A Ghostly Guardian by H.P. Mallory, Fiction

    A Ghostly Guardian by H.P. Mallory, Fiction

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    London, 1880I’ve returned to London with my proverbial tail between my legs.After the death of my beloved husband, I took my broken heart and retreated to Paris, where I’ve been living for the last year.But finally deciding I need to face the ghosts of my past, I’ve returned.And now find myself sitting in a jail cell in Scotland Yard, the precinct of the London police...
  • The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There’s a reason: she’s living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past. But when a hungry journalist starts chasing her story, she’s confronted with whom she once was: Iris Chapel...
  • Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When 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...
  • Lady Liesl's Seaside Surprise by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Lady Liesl's Seaside Surprise by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Spied beside the seaside: stepdaughter seeks scandal!Lady Liesl, fourth daughter of the Earl of Sandwich, always thought her fate was to marry well, and live a perfect life like her older sisters.Now she's had a taste of rebellion, and she likes it..
  • Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

    Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family – a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But all is not well at Wake's End. Edmund dominates his family tyrannically, in particular daughter Maud...
  • The King's Agent by Donna Russo Morin

    The King's Agent by Donna Russo Morin

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    "Russo Morin skillfully blends historical fiction and fantasy in surprising ways. She draws effortlessly upon influences ranging from Dante to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the authority of her presentation makes the world she’s created come alive. A wonderfully action-packed ride through the lush landscape of Renaissance Italy...
  • Dunmoor: A compelling journey in gothic suspense by London Clarke

    Dunmoor: A compelling journey in gothic suspense by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A 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...
  • Love Immortal by Kit Vincent

    Love Immortal by Kit Vincent

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Perfect for fans of vampires, romantic fantasy, and dark academia.Jonathan Evergreen is a talented sophomore at a prestigious, isolated college in Vermont, who dreams of a career in book conservation. But Jonathan’s life isn’t as rosy as it may appear. Disowned by his family after they caught him with another boy, he struggles to overcome heartbreak and support himself through his studies...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  horror  fantasy  queer  vampires  historical  paranormal  m-m
  • Mansions of Darkness by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Mansions of Darkness by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from the temples of ancient Eygpt to our present century...
  • Eyes of the Predator: The Pickham County Murders by Glenn Trust

    Eyes of the Predator: The Pickham County Murders by Glenn Trust

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***For Mature Readers*** Eyes scanning, searching, the predator sits motionless in a parking lot. His next victim is only feet away. Within hours a backwater south Georgia county will be rocked by two seemingly unrelated murders that signal the arrival of a serial killer in the rural southland...
  • Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne

    Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A 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

    The Quiet Stillness of Empty Houses by L.V. Russell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Theodora 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...
  • In High Spirits by Kate Danley

    In High Spirits by Kate Danley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the thrilling conclusion of the O'Hare House Mystery series, Wesley has been wrongly imprisoned and is facing the hangman's noose. Teaming up with Red and Marguerite to prove his innocence, Clara discovers a sinister society bent on unlocking the secrets to eternal life, even if it means others must die...
  • Heart of Thorns by Nicolette Andrews

    Heart of Thorns by Nicolette Andrews

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She pretended she could not see them. They told her the fae weren't real. Then they cut out a woman's heart and she could no longer look away. Catherine's first memories were of the fae. They visited her in her garden and wove garlands of flower in her hair. She offered them saucers of cream and honey. But they repaid her in tricks and misfortune...
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