Books like 'Shadows of the Past'

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  • Ghostly Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    12 ratings
    Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe fell in love fast and hard. Finally, their big day is here.They just need to solve a murder before they exchange their vows and take the next step to happily ever after.Peter Humphrey, an insurance salesman from a neighboring town, appeared to be minding his own business when a woman came out of nowhere and struck him down while he was crossing the street...
  • Ghostly Travels by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Travels by Lily Harper Hart

    12 ratings
    Harper Harlow-Monroe thought getting to her wedding would be the hard part. She was wrong. Getting through her honeymoon is going to be a whole lot worse.Jared Monroe decided to surprise his new wife with a honeymoon in Salem, Massachusetts. The goal was to have fun, bask in the sun, and eat some good seafood while shutting out the rest of the world...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  magic  magical-realism
  • The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    16 ratings
    One, two, the ghosts are coming for you… Three, four, better salt your door… Five, six, death and hatred mix… Seven, eight, help will come too late… Nine, ten, never reap again…Seventeen year old, Mattie Hathaway, has enough on her plate without having to deal with the latest teenage ghost drama. The ghosts of eight murdered girls are out for her blood. They blame Mattie for their deaths...
  • Ghostly Holiday by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Holiday by Lily Harper Hart

    12 ratings
    Christmas is here, and Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe have big plans for the holidays. Harper is ready to move into their new house – and find him the perfect gift. And Jared? Well, he’s gearing up to propose and he’s making Zander ring shop with him...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  humor  magic
  • Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi

    Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi

    12 ratings
    What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He’s losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out...
  • The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    12 ratings
    For psychic Charlie Payne, gruesome visions of death are just a normal Tuesday—but when she investigates the murders of two green witches, her usual methods lead nowhere. With her options to save the next victim dwindling, she must test a dangerous new form of astral projection to find the killer.Meanwhile, Charlie's cousin Lisa has her own set of problems...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  mystery  psychics
  • Witch Is Where Magic Lives Now by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is Where Magic Lives Now by Adele Abbott

    14 ratings
    There have been many changes to Jill's life during the last six years, but she's just as busy as ever. A family heirloom has disappeared from Tweaking Manor, and a man claims he saw a woman being shot, but the police insist no such shooting ever took place. Meanwhile, Winky is up to his old tricks...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  animals  book  cats  cozy  female-mc
  • Wicked Honeymoon by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Honeymoon by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Jack Harker and his new wife Ivy have beaten the odds, and with that comes a little rest and relaxation. They have a two-week honeymoon planned, and the first leg involves a glamping trip down the river.Jack has never been one for camping, and the truth is, he would’ve preferred anything but what they’ve got planned. Ivy, however, is desperate to prove that camping can be fun...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  magic  magical-realism
  • Grave Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    They thought it would never happen, but the wedding of their dreams is finally here. Maddie Graves and Nick Winters are days from walking down the aisle, exchanging vows, and embarking on the life they’ve always wanted. All they have to do is solve one more mystery … and this one is going to be a doozy...
  • Grave Missteps by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Missteps by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Maddie Graves and Nick Winters are feeling the pull of spring. The only thing hanging over them is wedding plans … until they see smoke in the sky and race to a house to offer rescue. Instead of the elderly woman they were expecting, Maddie pulls a young teenager from a basement window and stumbles across a mystery that is decades in the making...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  cozy  fiction  humor
  • Grave Demands by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Demands by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Maddie Graves and Nick Winters are looking forward … to marriage and forever. Before that happens, they have to look to the past and overcome another obstacle. Todd Winthrop, the man who tried killing Maddie when she first returned to town, is up for trial. Maddie and Nick have been called to testify, but before that happens, they have to solve an eerily similar murder...
  • Ghostly Camping by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Camping by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Harper Harlow’s romantic life is perfect, her wedding is in the works, and now she’s decided to enhance her business standing by attending a haunted campground opening. If she enjoys herself, publicly endorses it and the owner, then she’ll open up a brave new world.Unfortunately for Harper, old ghosts die hard and a fresh murder taints what is supposed to be a quiet weekend...
  • Ghostly Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Harper Harlow is going on vacation. Sure, it’s not the romantic trip she was envisioning with her fiancé Jared Monroe – especially since her best friend Zander is acting as a third wheel when it comes to the long-planned cruise – but it’s a break from the weather and a chance for fun in the sun.Rowan Gray is excited...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  magic  magical-realism
  • Haunted Hex by Sara Bourgeois

    Haunted Hex by Sara Bourgeois

    10 ratings
    Death is not the end…Kinsley and Thorn are new parents. Laney is a perfect baby, and because of the magical reset, they don’t have to harness her powers.Life is everything Kinsley always wanted it to be. Nice. Normal. Quiet.Until a dead witch turns up outside under the old hanging tree, and Lilith is possibly the prime suspect...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  amateur-sleuth  animals  book  cozy  fiction
  • Millie on a Mission by Amanda M. Lee

    Millie on a Mission by Amanda M. Lee

    10 ratings
    Millie Watson doesn’t often take initiative when it comes to work but when an old friend – or, rather, acquaintance she can’t stand – wants to hire her to solve a potential haunting at her upscale home, Millie jumps at the chance. In truth, Millie doesn’t care about finding a ghost. She does have a specific form of payment in mind, though, and it’s something she’s itching to collect on...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  humor  low-fantasy
  • Seven Year Witch by Samantha Silver

    Seven Year Witch by Samantha Silver

    6 ratings
    Tina's running out of time...It's the opening day for The Witching Flour, and Tina is ready to help Ellie start her new bakery in whatever way she can. She just doesn't expect that to mean investigating a murder!When one of the first customers at the new bakery is poisoned, Tina jumps into action...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  animals  book  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    6 ratings
    Close your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out to see you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago...
  • Infernum by Wendy Saunders

    Infernum by Wendy Saunders

    6 ratings
    Infernum, the Hell book. There have been whispers of it down through the centuries. The most powerful book to have ever existed, so powerful wars have been fought over it, families torn apart and betrayed for it, souls have been lost to it and countless rivers of blood have been spilled for it. It is said whoever possesses it will have limitless power...
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    A mysterious death. A vicious gang. And a spectre whose presence foreshadows a horrific fate.When the Wynne family inherits a house from a deceased family member, they didn’t expect a ghost to come with it.The frightening figure of a skeletal, wild wraith with a bloodcurdling scream leads the Wynnes to seek the help of psychic private investigator, Sully Gray. Rarely does Sully land simple cases...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychics
  • Beachside Burglary by Tegan Maher

    Beachside Burglary by Tegan Maher

    6 ratings
    Life's a beach, at least until a king's crown goes missing.Destiny's been trying to hunt down a thief for a couple of weeks, but up 'til now, it's been all small potatoes - sometimes literally. Since she's certain it's a local and suspects there's a method to the thievery, she's tried to keep it on the down-low in order to flush the petty criminal out...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  mystery  psychics
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Love's Goddess  (Poppy's Potions, #3) by H.P. Mallory, J.R. Rain

    Love's Goddess (Poppy's Potions, #3) by H.P. Mallory, J.R. Rain

    8 ratings
    Roses are red,violets are blue,demons are dangerous,but love is too.It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so love should be in the air, right?Except it’s not—by a long-shot...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  magic  mystery  shapeshifters
  • Descension by Shani Struthers

    Descension by Shani Struthers

    8 ratings
    Descension is the fifth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!This is what we're dealing with here, the institutionalised..Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    8 ratings
    Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them...
  • Dead Push by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Push by Tim O'Rourke

    8 ratings
    When two enemies push back together!“…Most of them just sit as if waiting for someone to join them on their impending journey. Others are rushing for their train as if late for some important meeting. They can’t wait to board one of those trains below ground...
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • The Garden by Alexie Aaron

    The Garden by Alexie Aaron

    8 ratings
    The PEEPs team (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners) has finally taken on a paying investigation. The owner of an isolated mansion wishes to donate the lease of the property to be used as an abuse shelter. There’s only one problem, it’s haunted. From the maids perpetually making up the beds to a banshee screaming in the upper hall, this house is more than hot with activity, it’s boiling...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    20 ratings
    Nonie Broussard is a medium—a closet medium. After losing her job at a local T-shirt factory, Nonie has to find a way to make ends meet. Not easy in a small town like Clay Point, LA. Two opportunities come her way, however, neither of them easy for someone with her abilities...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  drama  epic  fiction
  • Grave Paths by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Paths by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Jennifer Cook was a young mother with a new infant when she disappeared from her home. She started haunting Maddie Graves’ dreams before her body was even found. Despite that, Maddie is determined to find the woman’s child and return him to the life he was ripped from before she allows herself to rest. The only problem is that she has no idea who took him...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  cozy  fiction  humor
  • Grave Danger by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Danger by Lily Harper Hart

    10 ratings
    Maddie Graves went from an unhappy life in the city to her version of the perfect life in Blackstone Bay. Now she’s going back … and danger is stalking her every move. When Maddie gets a call from a police officer she knows in Detroit, she can’t turn her back on his plea. It seems girls are going missing in the city and some of them have turned up dead in an abandoned city lot...
  • Primrose & Poison by Mara Webb

    Primrose & Poison by Mara Webb

    6 ratings
    Astrid Atwood is homeward bound.It was never part of the plan to move back to Raven Bay, but things just didn’t work out in the city...
  • Samantha Moon Forever: Including Books 8, 9, and 10 in the Vampire for Hire Series by J.R. Rain

    Samantha Moon Forever: Including Books 8, 9, and 10 in the Vampire for Hire Series by J.R. Rain

    6 ratings
    Books 8, 9, and 10 in the international #1 bestselling series, Vampire for Hire: MOON RIVER Seven years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire...
  • Down and Out by Constance Barker

    Down and Out by Constance Barker

    6 ratings
    ***Two Murderers are Murdered***Helga has competition. A new superstore has come to town and set up shop close by. Not only that, but it's taking a hit on her business. Meanwhile, Jacob, resident detective and Helga's old school chum, needs her help with two murders. The murdered women got away with murdering their husbands...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  animals  book  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • NOLA by Alexie Aaron

    NOLA by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    Favors, be careful asking for them, because they have to be repaid. Repaying her debt Gerald Shem has sent Mia to New Orleans, Louisiana to be part of a team of sensitives and psychics who were coming together to aid in the crossing of lost spirits. Mia assumed that she was just replacing a team member that had fallen ill, but there is more at stake in the Big Easy than it appears...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Checking Out PEEPs Lite 9.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Checking Out PEEPs Lite 9.1 by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    They’re back. PEEPs Lite – More story, less filling. Some stories just need to be told; anyway, that’s what the voices in my head keep telling me. As I prepare for the next full length “Haunted Series” novel (available in the Spring of 2014), I can’t help wanting to tell you a couple stories in between. These novellas fall after “Something Old” the ninth novel in the “Haunted Series...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Things that Go Bump in the Night by Alexie Aaron

    Things that Go Bump in the Night by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    Ladies and Gentlemen, The Jewel Theater proudly presents for your reading enjoyment “Things that Go Bump in the Night,” starring Cherry O’Kelly, a burlesque performer whose career was cut short in her prime. A consummate professional, Cherry doesn't let a little thing like death get in the way of a good bump and grind...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Ice and Steel PEEPs 9.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Ice and Steel PEEPs 9.2 by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    They’re back. PEEPs Lite – More story, less filling. Some stories just need to be told; anyway, that’s what the voices in my head keep telling me. As I prepare for the next full length “Haunted Series” novel (available in the Spring of 2014), I can’t help wanting to tell you a couple stories in between. These novellas fall after “Something Old,” the ninth novel in the “Haunted Series...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Crossroads by Wendy Saunders

    Crossroads by Wendy Saunders

    6 ratings
    The Guardians Series 1: Book 3Would you defy a God to save the one you love? The doorway to the Otherworld has been closed but at a terrible cost. Theo has been left trapped on the other side, while the Demon Nathaniel searches for one of the lost crossroads of the Underworld...
  • Never Forget by Alexie Aaron

    Never Forget by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    Never forget that there are things in the first push of a thunderstorm that are dangerous to you: hail, plow winds, and Wanderers. These spirits cross the plains with the weather fronts. They are looking to feed off of the energy of creatures, living and dead, who have been foolhardy enough to be caught outside in the rain. The driving rain of Illinois can stop a lot of things too...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Cid by Alexie Aaron

    Cid by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    Summer has arrived and, with it, an opportunity for Cid Garrett (paranormal investigator for PEEPS) to make some cash as a carpenter. 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...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  supernatural
  • The Old House by Alexie Aaron

    The Old House by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    It’s summertime and Mia needs a break. The Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners are offered a stay at Price Hills Resort, a ski lodge with a hundred and four rooms, located at the top of one of the best non-mountainous ski runs in Wisconsin. Of course, it’s not the right season for fun in the snow, and this isn’t a vacation...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    Unfinished business, we all have it. Projects left undone, a garden yet to be weeded, an email needing to be sent. In Mia’s case, it’s Cold Creek Hollow. It has been two years since the horrors there were successfully dealt with...
  • Old Bones by Alexie Aaron

    Old Bones by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    Every family has a few skeletons in their closet.Meeting the future in-laws has Mia in a panic. She’d rather face a hoard of marauding ghosts than make polite conversation with the 150 relatives and friends that have arrived to check her out."If you are reading this then I, Giuseppe Basso, am dead. I have been murdered...
  • Puzzle by Alexie Aaron

    Puzzle by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    A group of teenage boys enter an abandoned middle school with larceny on their minds. The tables are quickly turned when an entity of great power locks them in and forces them to play his puzzle games. Dave (Sand Trap), who is violently tossed out because he can see the ghost, calls Mia for help, fearing police involvement...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • The Siege by Alexie Aaron

    The Siege by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    The dropping temperatures herald the coming of the holidays in northern Illinois. There are trees to be trimmed and packages to be wrapped. Mia is taking it easy while the PEEPs struggle with an infestation of poltergeists. Meanwhile, Big Bear Lake braces for the approach of the first winter storm. Two feet of snow is expected...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    It’s do-it-yourself season and the DIY projects are in full swing with enthusiastic homeowners tearing down walls, sanding old floors and waking up ghosts. “It should be called DYI for do-yourself-in,” Mia commented as the calls for PEEPs flood the switchboards and crash their computers. Or did something else crash them? Meanwhile, Angelo searches for the soul of his lost friend...
  • Mind Fray by Alexie Aaron

    Mind Fray by Alexie Aaron

    6 ratings
    On a quiet street in the suburbs of Chicago sits an ordinary ranch home built in the sixties. Inside, a young couple rests comfortably until there is a scratch at the door…Something inhabits the Madisons’ home. It feeds off of memories and produces hallucinations that will isolate and confuse the ghost hunters until it can get its hands them...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Elves' Bells by Nova Nelson

    Elves' Bells by Nova Nelson

    6 ratings
    When an elf falls to his death from Eastwind’s clock tower, a cryptic message on him points to Fifth Wind witch Ruby True as the main suspect...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  humor  mystery
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