Best of
Paranormal-Mystery

2016

You Witch


Amanda M. Lee - 2016
    Of course, they always find trouble. So … situation normal? Take a walk on the wild side as Bay Winchester learns a little bit about life, death, magic, monsters and love. Enjoy three wacky adventures with your favorite Michigan witches in this compilation, which includes Life’s a Witch, Charms & Witchdemeanors and The Trouble With Witches.

A Holiday of Witches


Amanda M. Lee - 2016
    Spend five frightfully funny holidays with the Winchesters and the people who love them. This five-novella omnibus includes: Bewitched: Did you ever wonder how Sam and Clove hooked up? Find out what Sam was thinking when he fell in love with the sweetest Winchester. A Solstice Celebration: Spend a magical weekend with Marnie as she prepares for a big party and tries to control a mischievous Bay, Clove and Thistle. That’s on top of reining in Aunt Tillie, which is never easy. Witchdependence Day: Follow Marcus during the Fourth of July weekend as he discovers someone who desperately needs help … and what it means to call the Winchesters family. Happy Witchgiving: Chief Terry spends a fun-filled few days at the Winchester Bed & Breakfast when he’s forced out of his home. He’s excited to be part of the family – until teenagers Bay, Clove and Thistle think they’ve uncovered a crime. Merry Witchmas: Go back in time with Aunt Tillie as she tries to prove to a young Bay, Clove and Thistle that they didn’t discover a body … and also deliver the most magical Christmas ever.

Ghost of a Chance


Angie Fox - 2016
    Verity Long has come to terms with the fact that she can see spirits, and talk to them, and...she's actually making cookies for one of them. But she's drawing the line at any more ghost hunting or mystery solving. Until a dear friend needs help locating a missing antique at the party of the year. Not one to leave a friend in need, Verity straps on her sparkly heels and sneaks in to see what she can find—only to uncover a startling secret that will change everything.

Cid


Alexie Aaron - 2016
    His colleague Jesse Holden has hooked him up with a fill-in position on a multimillion dollar renovation on an isolated 1920s southern mansion called Hidden Meadow. The job is being run by a driven female contractor, Kiki Pickles, who specializes in renovating prewar buildings. She lets Cid know right away that she’s hired him for his carpentry skills and not as a ghost hunter. But Cid is all too aware that in the renovation of old homes, sometimes you have to deal with a myriad of pests, living and dead.Lurking at the top of the stairs is a very cranky ghost. He’s been woken up by the sound of pounding hammers and screeching tile cutters. He can’t do anything about the tools themselves, so he targets his rage at the men and women working on the mansion. Jesse is attacked in one of the three attics in Hidden Meadow and left to die. Cid arrives just in time to fight a black mass, and he surprises it with a good salting. Jesse is saved, but the ghost isn’t finished with them yet, nor is he the only entity that has been released to cause havoc in the first of the “Cid Garrett P. I.” novels.“Cid” is a standalone book written in the “Haunted Series” universe.

The Haunting of Crawley House


Michelle Dorey - 2016
     Her chance at a new life is going to kill her. When Gillian and her family move into the old house on Harvest Street, it's too good to be true. The rent's dirt cheap, and it's right next door to the University she’s going to be attending. With her recently widowed mother on board, there’s a ready and willing babysitter for her five year old daughter Sarah. Who could ask for anything more? When Gillian’s mother Maureen discovers a family connection to the house they see it as Providence. They’re meant to live here! But then… odd things start to happen. Sarah loves the swing in the backyard and her new friends—twin girls only she can see. The odd becomes foreboding when Nana Maureen can’t sleep in her room. She’s constantly woken up by creaking floors, nightmares of being strangled, and the smell of rotting flesh. The family has always been loving and close, but now the atmosphere between them is tense. Small disagreements explode into rage. What on earth is happening to them? They don't know about the evil that descended upon the house. How, almost a century ago, dashed dreams rose again into a rage— a murderous rage. A rage that still breathes in the very walls of this home. This is how it began and how it will end. At Crawley House.

A Miracle on Bourbon Street


Deanna Chase - 2016
     It’s Christmas Eve and Jade Calhoun’s ready for a quiet, magical night with her husband Kane. But when Santa demons and energy-stealing elves start wreaking havoc, it’s going to take a miracle on Bourbon Street to save Christmas. *Originally published in Hex the Halls 2015*

A Bourbon Street Valentine


Deanna Chase - 2016
     It’s Valentine’s Day and magic’s in the air. Only Kat Hart never expected her handmade jewelry to be at the center of everything. So when her night out at Cupid’s Ball turns into a competition to be a handsome stranger’s wife, it’s up to her to break the spell…or she might get more than she bargained for.

Promise McNeal Mysteries Vol 1-3


Morgan James - 2016
    Wrapping everything in a ghost story, Quiet The Dead will keep you guessing…”-- Mark de Castrique, Author of Sam Blackman Mysteries and Bary Clayton Mysteries. CLUES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE… AND AN ATTRACTIVE NEW MAN! Dr. Promise McNeal, retired psychologist, is supplementing her income with a little investigative work for a lawyer friend to whom she never reveals her unconventional sources: the dead. And they have an agenda all their own. Promise has left her private counseling practice and traded Atlanta’s ghastly traffic for a package deal that included a struggling general store along with a farmhouse and five acres with a creek and mountain views in beautiful western North Carolina. Her “Watson” is her twenty-something, semi-Goth store manager Susan, a Bluegrass musician who performs with her father Daniel. Promise’s abilities of perception do not, however, extend to reading mountain men, because, no matter how vehemently Promise dismisses the notion, Daniel-- an unsettlingly handsome widower-- is, as Susan shrewdly observes, very clearly “sweet on her”. Morgan James’s appealingly human and incisive, fiftyish female sleuth is sure to delight fans of cozies, especially those by Julia Spencer-Fleming and Mary Kay Andrews, as well as the kind with a light sprinkling of psychic suspense; admirers of female amateur sleuths; readers of supernatural suspense and psychic detective fiction, and of other great North Carolina mystery authors like Margaret Maron, Barbara Neely, Elizabeth Daniels Squire, and Vicki Lane. QUIET THE DEAD (Promise McNeal Mysteries Book 1) The image comes in a dream: a beautiful woman hanging over a stream, strangled with a red scarf. And with that, Promise McNeal’s hoped-for quiet new life in the North Carolina mountains flies out the window. But in flies opportunity—along with the mystery surrounding the woman’s murder, a brand new murder, a lucrative consulting job, and an extremely attractive man (in a problematical sort of way). A lot of action for a woman who moved from Atlanta to find peace and quiet! QUIET KILLING (Promise McNeal Mysteries Book 2) Amateur North Carolina sleuth (and psychic) Promise McNeal just can't seem to get a good night’s sleep—someone’s always haunting her dreams. Lately it's been her great grandfather, January McNeal, and who disobeys their great grandfather? So she delves back into family history, but when she finds grave robbery in there, she has second thoughts. Then evil comes knocking. First someone burns her barn, then the contractor she hires to rebuild it is murdered, nearly at her back door. More fires lead her to a mysterious abandoned child who could be the arsonist-- and murderer. QUIET HEARTS (Promise McNeal Mysteries Book 3) Lovebirds Promise McNeal and her mountain man, Daniel Allen, have arrived in the historic Golden Isles, Georgia’s barrier islands, for a romantic wedding and honeymoon on nearby Jekyll Island. As fate would have it, the ruthlessly ambitious Atlanta TV talk show host Aileen Wang has brought her crew for an extravaganza production on a cursed Chinese chair that’s also a World War II relic connected to the secret of a sixty-year-old murder.

The Hindleford Killer


Danielle Rose-West - 2016
    For Paige is no ordinary woman. Born with a strong psychic gift, Paige can see deep into secrets and things others would rather she didn’t know. Having cost her dearly in the past, Paige has ignored her gift for five long years. Now her gift is speaking to her in ways it never has before. With a dangerous serial killer on the loose in the nearby town, Paige is very much afraid she is being drawn into the investigation. Why does she feel a strong connection to the investigating detective? Why is her gift showing her the crimes of a sick and deranged man? She wants nothing to do with any of it……..then someone close to her dies. With no seeming connection to the killer at large, the police are treating the latest death as a separate incident. Paige is the only one who knows the truth. The victim knew who the serial killer was and was silenced. Can she get Detective Steele to listen to her or will he dismiss her abilities as those of a charlatan? With time running out, Paige knows she is the only one who can unmask the Hindleford killer before he strikes again…..

Dark Beginnings


Michael Robertson Jr. - 2016
     From his birth, Lance’s life has been different. With visits from lingering spirits, telepathic whispers, and an uncanny ability to solve the unexplainable, Lance has spent the first twenty-two years of his life in his small hometown, wishing only to be normal. His mother is his most trusted confidant, and together they’ve survived as Lance comes to grips with his gifts, his burdens, and the unsettling knowledge of the darkness that lives among us. But now, there’s a new evil in town. A darkly powerful duo who’ve arrived and know exactly what Lance is. And they want him for their own. As Lance’s world is quickly turned upside down and tragedy unfolds, he suddenly learns his purpose may be much larger, and much more dangerous, than he could have ever imagined. BOOKS IN THE LANCE BRODY SERIES: 0: Dark Beginnings (Prequel Novella) 1: Dark Game 2: Dark Deception

Lone Star Dragon


Sloane Meyers - 2016
    He’s leading the high school football team on a quest for their first ever state championship, and it looks like they’re going to make it all the way this year. But despite his outward confidence, he’s lonely on the inside. He can’t show his true dragon self to anyone, for fear that his secret would tear this small town apart. When an outsider from the east coast shows up and steals his heart, however, he has to decide whether he can learn to trust her enough to finally reveal the truth… Maddie Anderson has always been an East Coast city girl. So she’s devastated when she’s forced to take a job as a reporter in a small town in the Southwest. She’s even more frustrated when her first assignment—to interview the local high school football coach, Theo Wilson—quickly goes south. Theo refuses to speak to her, but Maddie doesn’t give up easily. She never would have imagined that her quest to write a news article about him would turn into a whirlwind romance, and she starts to think that maybe love is enough to keep her in Persimmon Springs. But before she can sort through her feelings, Theo reveals that there’s much more to him than meets the eye, and Maddie has a choice to make… Is young love strong enough to keep Maddie in a small town that holds such big secrets? Read this steamy dragon shifter romance to find out! Lone Star Dragon is the first book in Sloane Meyers' Shifters in the Heart of Texas Series. While this 29K word novella can easily be read as a standalone story, you’ll likely enjoy reading all of the Shifters in the Heart of Texas books. Please note, this novel is intended for mature audiences and contains explicit love scenes as well as adult language.

The Book of Beloved


Carolyn Haines - 2016
    But when an invitation arrives from Caoin House, her uncle’s estate in Mobile, Alabama, she’s finally ready to cast off the shadows of her past. And what better way to do so than with a grand party in her honor? An aspiring authoress, Raissa’s eager to soak up more of life—and immerse herself in the dark history that haunts the estate.But the revelries come to an abrupt end when one of her uncle’s guests takes a deadly plunge. And when a ghost from the property’s past, a Confederate soldier, reveals himself to Raissa, she’s more determined than ever to get to the heart of the mysterious deaths that plague Caoin House. Enlisting the help of Reginald Proctor, a self-proclaimed medium, she holds a séance to shed light on old secrets. But she discovers that some secrets, even those long dead, still have a startling hold on the living…

Deadly Intent


Kate Allenton - 2016
    Just ask her mother. Her people-pleasing skills could use some work, which is why Quinn prefers working with the dead over the living. Ghosts take her as she is, but when people experience Quinn’s sharp tongue and sassy attitude, there is no in between. They either love her or want to throw her off the nearest bridge, with the latter being more typical. Good thing she knows how to swim. When a Scottish ghost invades her home and insists she resolve his earthly issues, banishing his ghostly presence becomes priority number one, and a battle of wills and wits ensues until she ultimately agrees. Her task is easy enough. Return a gem to its rightful owner and then return home, minus the aggravating ghost. Quinn should know things are never as easy as they seem. Scottish laird Collin Menzie has lived through his share of problems and is still currently dealing with the aftermath of a fire that nearly destroyed his ancestral home. When a beautiful American shows up to return his emerald, her presence starts an unavoidable collision course, in which he questions not only his destiny but also hers. When dealing with an annoying ghost, an emerald worth a small fortune, and a sexy-as-hell Highlander, what could possibly go wrong? Quinn is about to find out just how deadly the combination can be.

Ruby And Nessa - Ghost Hunters - Box Set 1


Gillian Larkin - 2016
    She locates ghosts who are haunting places – or people. In this first story, Ruby is called upon to investigate a haunting in a supermarket. She soon discovers the ghost of a young woman called Mary Jackson. How is Mary connected to the supermarket? And why is she haunting it? Ruby’s investigation is made more difficult by the arrival of her troublesome younger sister, Nessa. Will Nessa help, or hinder, the investigation? A Ghost In The Pub In this second story, Ruby and Nessa are asked to check out a nasty smell in a pub. They soon discover the ghost of an evil man who is determined to scare them away. According to local sources, the man is a local character called Shifty Sid Simmons who was always on the wrong side of the law. Shifty Sid hasn’t been seen for decades. Why is he suddenly haunting The Red Lion pub? A Ghost In The Garden Ruby and Nessa are called in to investigate a haunting in an apartment building. They soon discover the building used to be a school. Something tragic happened years ago to one of the pupils, and the child’s ghost now haunts the apartment. The Laurel sisters are determined to help the ghost; but as they do so, they are in for a shock. A Ghost In The Church Reverend Goodwin calls the sisters in to deal with a ghost in his church. The ghost is affecting a particular group of men. The disturbances began three weeks ago when a local man, Leonard Bradley, was laid to rest. Ruby and Nessa suspect Leonard’s ghost is haunting the church and begin their investigations. But their investigations take an unexpected turn.

The Wantland Files (The Wantland Files #1)


Lara Bernhardt - 2016
    Her television show, The Wantland Files, catapulted her from a private paranormal investigator to stardom. Moved by the desperate pleas of a distraught mother of two terrorized by a ghost from her past, she takes the case. Her producer invites Sterling Wakefield, who hosts his own show Spookbusters, to join the investigation. Wakefield, a renowned illusionist and confirmed skeptic, plans to debunk Kimberly's psychic abilities. As they are both drawn into the investigation, Kimberly struggles to determine the source of the haunting while battling Sterling’s attempts to disprove her abilities. Her investigation leads her to a conclusion she never expected—the children are in danger, targeted by a more powerful entity than she has ever encountered. Pushing all her powers to the limit, Kimberly must repel the spirit before it harms the children—even though it means enlisting Sterling's help and putting her own life at risk.

Michelle’s Case Files


N.E. Conneely - 2016
     In “Trouble in the Neighborhood,” Rodriguez calls Michelle when he gets reports of a creature frightening children. Together they must neutralize the monster before it does more than scare someone. In “Leather and Fire,” what starts as a normal day gets strange when Michelle is called out to a farm in Pickens. It turns out you never know what magical creatures are living just down the road. In “Vacation Magic,” Michelle faces wildlife that found themselves at the wrong end of a spell and discovers that not everything is what it seems.

Supposedly Haunted: True Life Experiences of a Paranormal Investigator


E.E. Bensen - 2016
    He discusses what brought him into the paranormal research field, describes real life supernatural events witnessed firsthand during his numerous investigations, and also provides an opinion of what all of it might be. Experiencing paranormal phenomena has a way of changing one's perspective. Locations include Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Preston Castle, The Washoe Club, The Stanley Hotel, Old Tooele Hospital (Asylum 49), Farrar Elementary School, and more!

Rebellion: Southern Arcana Books 1-3


Moira Rogers - 2016
    Falling in love is dangerous enough. Falling in love with a man who was turned into a wolf instead of born as one means risking everything--her family, her heart...and possibly his life.Deadlock: A human daughter isn't of much value to a shapeshifter family unless magic can wake her inner wolf. But playing with powerful spells is dangerous. The only man who can help her is the most powerful wolf in New Orleans--and her family's enemy.

Between a Ghost and a Spooky Place


Nic Saint - 2016
    The stories are set in London, and revolve around Harry, her new best friend Jarrett Zephyr-Thornton III (an eccentric billionaire’s son) and stalwart Inspector Darian Watley of Scotland Yard. In the first book Harry is recruited by the Wraith Wranglers, a group of ghost hunters, and future books will feature her, Jarrett, and Darian in a series of fun and exhilarating ghost adventures. When Henrietta ‘Harry’ McCabre’s employer, a dodgy antiquarian, is found murdered, she promptly shoots to the top of Inspector Darian Watley’s suspect list. Fortunately she has a solid alibi: at the time of the murder she was delivering a rare and precious book for Buckley: the Clavicule Necroire. Soon the whole case revolves around the Necroire, as the mysterious tome allegedly has the power to turn people immortal. And since Harry was the last person to handle the book, she quickly goes from suspect to target, and from being interrogated by Darian to being protected by him, at his own apartment. Soon the hunt is on, with billionaires, rogue priests and East End crime bosses trying to get their hands on the Clavicule Necroire… and on Harry.

The Christmas Spell (Breens Mist Witches)


Aileen Harkwood - 2016
     Breens Mist witch, Chloe Ballard, has a Christmas Eve tradition. Leave her little cottage in the woods and head into town to find a man to keep her warm that night, the loneliness at bay. What she doesn’t expect when she encounters Thaddeus Cole, standing in the display window of a storefront from the Victorian Era, is to confront a past that ripped her life apart 130 years before on the Oregon frontier. Part-contemporary, part-historical, The Christmas Spell weaves a story of seduction, danger, and magical healing from a grief too long put aside. Heat level: spicy

A Rose by Any Other Name


Alexie Aaron - 2016
    This beautiful rose-brick mansion has stood since the Chicago fire. The interior is pristine, and the neighborhood is rapidly becoming the place to live in the Windy City. Glenda enters into a provisional sale on Rouston Rose and hires the Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners to clean house. They have one month to identify the problem and escort whomever is haunting the mansion out. If it can’t be done, Glenda is out a packet of money.From the moment Mia steps into the house, she knows something is wrong. Her intuition has left her, and her ability to communicate silently with Murphy is gone. Whatever resides there is so powerful that it has crippled the most powerful sensitive of her generation. The PEEPs prepare the house for a full investigation while the wind howls outside. Chicago is forecast to have a mild blizzard, if a blizzard can be mild.Almost immediately, Mia, Cid, and Murphy are taken by the resident ghost Renee. While the snow accumulates outside, the PEEPs struggle to unlock the mystery of the house and get their people back. But Renee is just one petal on the rose of evil that lives and thrives in Roustan Rose.Come, pull on your warmest sweater, find an afghan to pull around you, and pour a warm cup of your favorite beverage to guard you from the cold. Why? Because A Rose by Any Other Name holds chilling secrets.A Rose by Any Other Name is the 18th novel in Alexie Aaron’s Haunted Series. Check out Alexieaaron.com for more information.

Revolution: Southern Arcana Books 4-6


Moira Rogers - 2016
    For one girl, it’s a deadly weapon. She killed once to protect the man she loves. Now he’s a lethal alpha wolf ready to do anything to protect her. But the greatest danger they pose could be to each other. Book #5: Impulse - It’s hard to be a rare submissive shifter in a town full of over-protective alphas. Especially for a woman desperate to claim her own independence. Avoiding dominant wolves is the easy answer, but the only man who makes her feel strong is one of the most powerful wolves in the Southeast—a man whose family would kill to protect their legacy. Book #6: Enigma - Two bounty hunters. One mystery. On the clock, they’re the perfect supernatural-crime-solving team. After hours, she’s ready to rock his world. But he won’t settle for just her body. Daring to risk her heart might be the first fight she loses, and the stakes have never been higher. Because he’ll sacrifice anything for her. Even his life.

Taryn's Camera: Beginnings


Rebecca Patrick-Howard - 2016
    But what happened before she fought for her life at the Devil’s House? What is the mysterious presence that haunts her Aunt Sarah’s farmhouse in New Hampshire? Was she the first to see and hear ghosts at the historic Shaker Village? Taryn’s Camera: Beginnings includes 4 novellas that act as prequels to the Taryn’s Camera series. All ghost stories, all spooky fun!In “Pieces” you’ll travel back to Shaker Town and follow Susan, a spitfire woman who learned the secret of the haunted pond long before Taryn.In “The Devil’s House” you’ll return to Windwood Farm and follow four teenagers in the 1950s who spend an evening at the haunted house that none of them will ever forget.In “Stella”, you’ll meet Taryn’s grandmother, a woman who finds that there’s more to her spooky old house than she ever imagined.Lastly, in “Sarah” you’ll finally meet Taryn’s Aunt Sarah. Alone in her rambling old farmhouse in New Hampshire, Sarah is about to come face-to-face with something unspeakable–something that will act as the catalyst for everything that follows in Taryn’s life. **These are companion stories to the Taryn’s Camera series. It is not necessary to have read the rest of the books in the series first. The Taryn’s Camera series follows multi-media artist Taryn Magill, a woman who can see the past through her camera. If you like ghosts, mysteries, and old houses than she’s your gal!**

Romantic Ghost Stories (Books 1 - 3)


Ginny Baird - 2016
    But is he leading her to safety, or into greater danger?THE HOUSE AT HOMECOMING COVEA New York City musician rents a historic farmhouse at the Virginia Eastern Shore, where odd things start occurring. Though the hot groundskeeper tries to protect her, is she really safer in his arms?** Buy all three stories together and save $$$! **Praise for Ginny Baird Paranormal Ghost RomanceThe Ghost Next Door (A Love Story)"The twist at the end took me by surprise! Great job to the author!" ~ Melinda Burchett"A fine suspense and you just won't believe how it ends." ~ Barbara Baker"This is a mind bender! Very well done!" ~ Sandra D. GriffinThe Light at the End of the Road"Wow. I mean, WOW. This is not your normal romance..." ~ Anita Slaugh"Ms. Baird has again exceeded any expectations." ~ Dianna Plano"New, refreshing twists and turns." ~ Anna GibsonThe House at Homecoming Cove"A spellbinding tale...filled with exquisite prose." ~ Nina Soltwedel"Just the right balance of suspense and romance." ~ Dawn Pearson"Hauntingly beautiful." ~ Marjorie Roberts

Backtrack 17: The TaP Team


L.J. Charles - 2016
     Pierce has sworn to protect two material witnesses—a routine job for his company, TaP Security, until Koslov accepts a contract with organized crime to assassinate the witnesses. Seventeen years of history and hatred explode when Koslov discovers Pierce is the obstacle protecting his targets. The evil born deep in Koslov’s psyche pushes him to delay fulfilling the contract so he can achieve his vendetta by eliminating Pierce’s family and friends. One. By. One. Everly Gray, Pierce’s wife and partner, isn’t about to allow Koslov to murder the people she holds dear, especially not her husband Pierce and Everly stand together as the TaP Team. Their mission: to protect the innocent in the chaos of a perfect storm.