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  • Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi  Vol. 4 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 4 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    History stands poised to repeat itself as Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are besieged by walking corpses atop the Burial Mounds. It is here fate offers them a second chance to protect their loved ones and unmask the true instigator of this grisly onslaught...
  • Merry Me: Book 15 in The Jerry McNeal series (Jerry McNeal) by Sherry A. Burton

    Merry Me: Book 15 in The Jerry McNeal series (Jerry McNeal) by Sherry A. Burton

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Feeling guilty at not having made his engagement to April official over the Christmas holidays, Jerry seeks to join her and Max for their annual after-Christmas getaway to Frankenmuth, Michigan...
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  • Running on Air by Eleventy7

    Running on Air by Eleventy7

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects...
  • Southern Ghost Hunter Series by Angie Fox

    Southern Ghost Hunter Series by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Southern SpiritsWhen out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she’s saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick—she gains the ability see spirits. It leads to an offer she can’t refuse from the town’s bad boy, the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with...
  • Jon's Helter Skelter Cold Case by A.J. Sherwood, Katie Griffin

    Jon's Helter Skelter Cold Case by A.J. Sherwood, Katie Griffin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Jonathan Bane and Donovan Havili cordially invite you to their wedding.They just have to prove a man’s innocence and get him out of prison first.Not to mention prove Solomon completely inept (not hard), and fired from being a detective.Oh, and train Jon’s new apprentice.They can probably get married this year. Probably...
  • The Ghost and the Poltergeist by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Poltergeist by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Ghost and the PoltergeistBook 34 in the paranormal cozy mystery seriesHaunting DanielleLiving in a haunted house is nothing new to Danielle. In fact, she’s rather fond of the ghosts who visit Marlow House.But after she brings home the twins, unexplained paranormal activities in the nursery perplex not just her, but the ghosts who frequently visit Marlow House...
  • Cops and Clobbers in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Charles Kunkle

    Cops and Clobbers in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Charles Kunkle

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Violet Parker has big troubles these days—the ticking kind. To duck the Grim Reaper, she needs to get her hands on eighty-plus rare, mystical clocks locked up tight by a thick-headed detective.The solution? Hijack the truckload of ticking time bombs out from under Johnny Law’s nose.But no caper ever goes according to plan...
  • Whyborne and Griffin, Books 4-6: Necropolis, Bloodline, and Hoarfrost by Jordan L. Hawk

    Whyborne and Griffin, Books 4-6: Necropolis, Bloodline, and Hoarfrost by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Books 4-6 in the Best-Selling Whyborne & Griffin Series, now in one convenient download. Save 30% off the cover price of buying separately! Necropolis, Bloodline, and Hoarfrost Whyborne and Griffin join Christine midst the ancient ruins of the pharaohs, to face betrayal, murder, and a legendary sorceress risen from the dead...
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    mystery  queer  horror  historical  fantasy  paranormal  m-m  magic
  • Bayou Secrets by Apryl Baker

    Bayou Secrets by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deep in the bayou is a place so dark even nightmares tremble in fear. It has been whispered about for a century, and even the hunters of New Orleans don’t trek into the shadows of Madame’s island, a Necromancer more feared than any other. But all that is about to change. A hunter has gone missing...
  • Dead Line by Pandora Pine

    Dead Line by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Police Chief Cisco Jackson is rushed to the hospital after suffering a heart attack, he has one request for Detective Ronan O’ find a young mother who vanished without a trace. Ronan is itching to jump feet first into the search, but after recently being shot in the line of duty, promised his husband he’d turned his badge in for good...
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    mystery  queer  m-m  paranormal  suspense  fantasy  length-short
  • Deadly Vows by Kate Allenton

    Deadly Vows by Kate Allenton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psychic Cree Blue is working on a cold case where the motives and suspects multiply like the spices in her cooking. When Davina Richards went missing the day before her wedding, people assumed she was a runaway bride. Only Cree knows differently. This bride skipped being a missing person and landed smack-dab in the dead zone...
  • Ghost Falls by Pandora Pine

    Ghost Falls by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the way to a psychic convention in Niagara Falls, Detective Jude Byrne sees a commercial advertising famed daredevil Cannonball Jackson’s latest stunt, going over the falls in a barrel. Jude thinks it would fun to witness the attempt until his husband tells him the day will end in tragedy. From that moment, Jude’s entire focus is on saving Cannonball from himself...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  paranormal  suspense  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Dead on Arrival by Pandora Pine

    Dead on Arrival by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Newly retired from the Boston Police Department, Ronan O’Mara is looking forward to spending time with his husband, Tennyson, and his daughter. It turns out walking away from his job is harder than he thought. When Ronan is offered the chance to work some cases at West Side Magick, he jumps at the chance...
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    mystery  queer  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  length-short
  • Coldburgh Train Station by Michele Notaro, Sammi Cee

    Coldburgh Train Station by Michele Notaro, Sammi Cee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Do you hear bumps in the night? Get unexplained chills? Feel like someone’s watching you when you’re all alone? Don’t stay scared! Shoot RIPP a message for all your spooktacular needs!DaneI only go along with Rory and Thad’s crazy plan of checking out an abandoned train station because they seem so excited, and I honestly don’t care what we do for our film class project...
  • Ghost Tour by Pandora Pine

    Ghost Tour by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With the kids out of school for the summer, Detective Jude Byrne takes everyone on vacation to Arizona to visit the Grand Canyon and his grandfather, Running Eagle. The trip will be a chance for everyone to relax and enjoy some fun in the sun without a cold case to work or ghosts to hunt. Little does Jude know he’s dead wrong on both counts...
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    mystery  queer  paranormal  suspense  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Dead Fun by Pandora Pine

    Dead Fun by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Come one, come all to Fun-A-Rama, where all your screams come true…Ride the teacups. Reach new heights on the Ferris Wheel. Survive the Viper.If you dare.What could be more fun than a day at an amusement park filled with rides, games, and all the junk food you can eat? Ronan O’Mara can’t wait to tame the Viper, the parks double loop rollercoaster just like he did when he was a kid...
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    mystery  queer  paranormal  suspense  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Ghost After Dark by Pandora Pine

    Ghost After Dark by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    While listening to the wildly popular paranormal podcast Ghost After Dark, psychic Copeland Forbes hears a disembodied voice crying out for help. The episode was investigating the haunting of a clifftop mansion, where Domenica Fibonacci lived with her wealthy husband, Vic. On a stormy night in 1984, she tragically fell to her death...
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    mystery  queer  paranormal  suspense  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief #2 by Faye Perozich, Travis Moore

    Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief #2 by Faye Perozich, Travis Moore

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Second in The Tale of the Body Thief series adapted by Faye Perozich featuring exclusive material written by Anne Rice...
  • Murder on the Lamplight Express by Morgan Stang

    Murder on the Lamplight Express by Morgan Stang

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All aboard for mysteries, murders and monsters on the Lamplight Express .The orders given to Isabeau Agarwal and her partner are ensure the safety of all passengers and crew until point of destination. But on the maiden voyage of this luxury train, nothing is quite what it seems...
  • Legal Drug, Volume 03 by CLAMP

    Legal Drug, Volume 03 by CLAMP

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sent by Kakei to enroll in a mysterious high school, the boys must retrieve an equally mysterious ring. But Kudo and Himura discover that there is more to these hallowed halls than is out of the closet. And their discovery may very well uncover more about each other than they truly want to know...
  • My Noisy Roommate: The Roof Over My Head Comes With Monsters and a Hottie 1 by Kaho Ozaki

    My Noisy Roommate: The Roof Over My Head Comes With Monsters and a Hottie 1 by Kaho Ozaki

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Osuke loses his home, a convenient opportunity presents itself--too convenient, because his new roommate is a hot blond guy with some weird ideas about the supernatural..
  • Dead To Me by Pandora Pine

    Dead To Me by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Psychic, Tennyson Grimm, was kicked out of his house and disowned by his religious parents when he came out to them as gay and psychic. The last thing Tennyson’s father said before the teenager boarded a Greyhound bus to Boston was that his son was dead to him...
  • Whyborne and Griffin, Books 1-3: Widdershins, Threshold, and Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk

    Whyborne and Griffin, Books 1-3: Widdershins, Threshold, and Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Books 1-3 in the Best-Selling Whyborne & Griffin Series, now in one convenient download...
  • Among Gods and Monsters by S.D. Simper

    Among Gods and Monsters by S.D. Simper

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    "Look at you, as sweet as springtime, your heart and soul both. Would you destroy all of that to bring about your lost love's return?" The dead lay gone but not forgotten. War has sparked in the demonic realm of Sha’Demoni, ignited by the wrath of a vengeful goddess seeking recompense for her daughter’s death – and she deems Flowridia responsible...
    Categorized as:
    queer  horror  fantasy  magic  f-f  paranormal  length-medium
  • Dead of Night by Pandora Pine

    Dead of Night by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one is more surprised than Cold Case Detective, Ronan O’Mara when he answers his doorbell one night to see members of Salem’s Wiccan community standing on his doorstep with an unbelievable story to tell. According to them, members of their coven are being murdered in a modern-day witch hunt and they want Ronan to look into the matter for them...
  • Dead Serious by Pandora Pine

    Dead Serious by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a grieving father begs the cold case team to investigate the untimely death of his eighteen year old son from a suspected fraternity hazing, Detective Ronan O’Mara is all in. Discovering the previous detectives assigned to the case have done little over the years to solve it, Ronan is determined to uncover exactly what happened to Bash Stark...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  paranormal  suspense  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Ghost Motel by Pandora Pine

    Ghost Motel by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tourists check in, but they don’t check out…Wanting to spend one last summer weekend with his family, Detective Jude Byrne books them into a four star hotel on Maine’s beautiful rocky coast. Unfortunately, when Jude arrives, he finds the name of the hotel is Four Star and the motel itself looks the same as it did when it opened in 1976...
  • Dead Giveaway by Pandora Pine

    Dead Giveaway by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With no customers to speak of, Psychic Tennyson Grimm decides he’s going to take some well-deserved time away from work, when a woman bursts into his office with a cremation urn she found in a neighbor’s trash. Laura is excited for Tennyson to make contact with the spirit, so that she’ll have an incredible story to tell her book club...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  paranormal  suspense  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Dead For Christmas by Pandora Pine

    Dead For Christmas by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s beginning to look a lot like murder…While on vacation in Florida with his family, Detective Ronan O’Mara gets the one call every police officer dreads; his former partner, Shane Matheson, is dead. Retired and living in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida, Shane took a job as a mall Santa...
  • Ghosted by Pandora Pine

    Ghosted by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After an argument with his husband, Detective Jude Byrne leaves the house to cool off. When Jude hasn’t returned after two hours, Cope begins to worry. He calls around to all of their friends and neighbors in attempt to find his missing husband, but to no avail. Jude Byrne had vanished without a trace...
  • The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

    The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    On the eve of wedding in 1978, Shay Garrett peers into the antique mirror in her family's longtime home, the famous Victorian Gingerbread House on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, and falls unconscious only to wake in the body of her own grandmother Brandy on the eve of her wedding--in 1900. The virginal Brandy, in turn, awakes in Shay's body to discover herself pregnant...
  • 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.
  • Dear Door 1【電子特典付き】 by Pluto

    Dear Door 1【電子特典付き】 by Pluto

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After the loss of his fiancée, police officer Kyungjoon resigned himself to a life of watering his house plants and catching two-bit criminals. But after a police investigation into a mysterious cult goes supernatural, he finds himself face-to-face with “Lord Cain,” a demon king in desperate need of mana in order to survive...
  • All Our Secrets Laid Bare by Firethesound

    All Our Secrets Laid Bare by Firethesound

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Fandom: Harry PotterRelationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Harry Potter/Original Male Character(s)--------------------------------------------------Over the six years Draco Malfoy has been an Auror, four of his partners have turned up dead. Harry Potter is assigned as his newest partner to investigate just what is going on...
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    mystery  queer  fantasy  m-m  magic  paranormal  length-medium
  • Legacy of Blood by Heather Graham

    Legacy of Blood by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the streets of Paris, someone wants to paint the town red…When Special Agent Jeannette LaFarge is called in to investigate a vineyard in the Reims region of France, the last thing she expects to find is multiple bodies with every vein bled dry. It’s yet another case tailor-made for Blackbird...
  • 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...
  • Pros & Cons of Christmas by A.E. Wasp

    Pros & Cons of Christmas by A.E. Wasp

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christmas time and the gang is celebrating leaving the threats and dangers behind them with a week long house party in the country. It’s the perfect opportunity for a murder.★★★★★My name is Charlie Binghman. Well, it was back when I was a conman. Now I’m done. Finished. Out of the business. A vigilante grifter no more. Charlie Bingham is dead for real this time...
  • Protecting His Fox by Fel Fern, Kara Kitt

    Protecting His Fox by Fel Fern, Kara Kitt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Your letters kept me alive all these years... but I’m done waiting.Declan Simmons’ time in the paranormal army left him with scars, both inside and out. Night after night, Declan dreams of the monster that wiped out his entire unit. Cliff is his safe harbor. He’s the sole reason Declan hasn’t given in to despair. He knows what’s between Cliff and him is special..
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    queer  mystery  magic  m-m  fantasy  paranormal  length-short
  • Dead Sick by Pandora Pine

    Dead Sick by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s worse than being stuck in bed with the flu? Being quarantined with your two best friends.When Ronan O’Mara wakes up stuffy and coughing, his family wants nothing to do with him. Upon hearing the other cold case detectives are sick too, Tennyson suggests the three men bunk together, so no one else gets sick...
  • Remembrance by T.K. Eldridge

    Remembrance by T.K. Eldridge

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I was three when I watched my mother die.Now I'm back in Muckle Cove digging into her murder.They say coming home is never easy, but what I'm finding goes so much deeper than anyone could have imagined.Ancient magic, modern politics, and my mother's ghost all point to some truth in the past that could change my present forever.If it doesn't kill me first..
  • Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, Jackson's kisses keep coming, and despite the occasional moodiness of her ghostly housemate, Sunni is looking forward to the season.It's spring break in Firefly Junction and the Stockton Traveling Carnival has come to town. Sunni finds herself saddled with an uninspiring story assignment...
  • Double Trouble by London Lovett

    Double Trouble by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Firefly Junction meets Port Danby as Lola and Lacey take a trip to the Cider Ridge Inn in Double Trouble. Sunni Taylor is finally going to meet Lola Button, the quirky antique dealer who sold her some rather unusual old photos of Cider Ridge Inn. When Lola arrives with her best friend, Lacey Pinkerton, Sunni and Lacey find they have a lot in common...
  • 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...
  • Willowhope Manor by Sammi Cee

    Willowhope Manor by Sammi Cee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “There’s no time. Remember Willowhope Manor.”All Chance wants is a change of pace and a little excitement, so opening a B&B in a town surrounded by ghost stories sounds like the perfect solution.Throw in Jett, the super-sexy handyman, who is as willing to work him over as he is to help return the manor to its former glory, and Chance knows he made the right decision...
  • Stargazing with a Ghost by K.L. Hiers

    Stargazing with a Ghost by K.L. Hiers

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Grant Mittel is the Paranormal Probe's secret weapon for ghost hunting: he's a medium.His ability to communicate with the dead is put to the ultimate test when the crew takes on an unprecedented challenge—living at the famously haunted Allan Hotel for three months to film the new season of their ghost hunting show...
  • The Ghost in the Mirror by Faith Gibson

    The Ghost in the Mirror by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do when you have no memories of your life except the one moment that took everything away? My name is Dex and I'm a Marine. Somewhere in the horrors of the sand overseas, an explosion took out not only most of my unit but also my memories of everything that happened before that day. When my memories don’t return, the explosion also ends my career in the military...
  • Arthropoda by Xenia Melzer

    Arthropoda by Xenia Melzer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Andi Hayes Murder Mystery Detective George Donavon doesn’t plan to stay in Charleston long. Skeptical and by-the-book, he’s on the fast track to the top, and he won’t let anything derail his career. Especially not Andrew Hayes, his grumpy, awkward new partner—and not the chief’s secret order to find out how said partner solves even the most difficult cases...
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    mystery  queer  paranormal  fantasy  length-medium
  • Sweets to the Sweet by Josh Lanyon, Jordan Castillo Price

    Sweets to the Sweet by Josh Lanyon, Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Indulge your sweet tooth with five deliciously weird tales by gay mystery virtuoso, Josh Lanyon, and the queen of gay erotic horror, Jordan Castillo Price A storefront. You've never noticed it before. It's small, unassuming, and yet there's something about it that draws your eye. And the aroma drifting out, rich and dark, so enticing. How could you have overlooked it? It must be new...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  suspense  paranormal  m-m  fantasy  length-short
  • Fool Me Twice by A.M. Rose

    Fool Me Twice by A.M. Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Be a calm wave in the ocean of chaos.” Hart, perhaps, took that quote a bit too much to heart. In the midst of drama and the constant restlessness of his family, he chose to present himself as unwavering. Poised. Controlled. Even when inside, he’s anything but. There are layers to him underneath the perfection. Layers he’s desperately craving for someone to peel away...
  • Seizing Dreams [夺梦] by Arise Zhang, 非天夜翔

    Seizing Dreams [夺梦] by Arise Zhang, 非天夜翔

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Within the dream of the dreamer, the one who was dreamed of awoke.… Borges“I exist in the sunlight, the wind, between the heavens and the earth, and also in dreams.”One night, Yu Hao, a college student who was at his wits’ end had an unexpected encounter with a mysterious visitor – “General” – who had dream traveled...
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