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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… Continue reading The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy
He fired me and ruined my career, and yet the unthinkable happened between us.How could I be so foolish?It was dubbed “The Ultimate White-collar Masquerade.”All the big shots were there. Masked Encounter is a different type of story than what I usually read but was a nice change of pace. There were a few transitions… Continue reading Masked Encounter : An Enemies to Lovers Romance by Bellina Acosta
From the time she was born, Sigrid has only ever been ordinary. Being paired at birth with a plain horse―instead of the powerful winged mare of a valkyrie―meant there would be no warrior path for her. No riding the skies, no glory among the nine worlds. Just the simple, unremarkable life of a stable hand.Everything… Continue reading The Valkyrie’s Daughter (The Helheim Prophecy #1) by Tiana Warner
Eighteen-year-old Zarela Zalvidar is a talented flamenco dancer and daughter of the most famous Dragonador in Hispalia. People come for miles to see her father fight in their arena, which will one day be hers.But disaster strikes during their five hundredth anniversary show, and in the carnage, Zarela’s father is horribly injured. Facing punishment from… Continue reading Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez
Three things can be said of warrior angel Gladriel:1. She's loyal to a fault2. She'll protect humans at any cost3. She never blindly follows ordersWhen she defends the honor of her BFF, it costs her everything. Exiled from Heaven with a target on her back, she finds herself in the company of Fallen, her sworn… Continue reading Cursed (Morningstar Academy, #1)by L.R.W. Lee
A guardian. A friend. A paranormal investigator.EMT Abbie Grimshaw must prove she can be a good guardian for two young orphans, but a shape-shifter friend needs her to find out what got his sister killed.The investigation drives Abbie straight into the cutthroat world of magically modified food.If she doesn’t get it in gear and solve… Continue reading Death Shifts Gears (Outside the Circle Mystery #2) by Shereen Vedam
A rural island community steeped in the mystical superstitions of its founders and haunted by an unsolved murder is upended by the return of the suspected killer in this deeply atmospheric novel.Emery Blackwood’s life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused… Continue reading Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment…After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the… Continue reading The Change by Kirsten Miller
Lyne Vanlith, an archaeologist who seeks a logical explanation to any mystery, discovers an ancient Druidic curse on her first dig. When the signs foretold by the curse descend on her, Lyne can’t find a reasonable interpretation.And that’s even before a Beast rescues her from a monstrous sea-creature. She drops a grateful kiss on the… Continue reading Druid’s Moon by Deniz Bevan
Hiding the worn piece of paper among her father’s watch deliveries, her eyes fill with tears at the memory of her brave friend walking towards the Nazi soldiers, and the sharp sound of gun fire. Her friend sacrificed herself so that she could deliver this message. But if she hands it over, the love of… Continue reading The Watchmaker’s Daughter by Dianne Haley