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  • 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...
  • Spirit Prophecy by E.E. Holmes

    Spirit Prophecy by E.E. Holmes

    18 ratings
    Two sisters, haunted by more than their past... Just weeks after discovering each other’s existence, Jess and Hannah Ballard arrive at Fairhaven Hall, where they will learn the clandestine ways of the Durupinen, an ancient sect of women who control the Gateways between the worlds of the living and the dead...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  book  family  fiction  horror  magic
  • 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...
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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...
  • Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    8 ratings
    Dex & Perry return in Book #10 of the Experiment in Terror series.A lot can change in three years.For Perry and Dex Foray, it’s been a step in the right direction, a step toward living a normal life. They’re happily married, they have their own media company, they’ve done what they can to leave their sordid and scary past behind them.But something has changed recently...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  age-gap  book  dark  female-author
  • 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
  • Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    14 ratings
    A gifted healer unravels the mysteries of a cursed estate—and its enigmatic owner—in a witchy retelling of Jane Eyre . "Salt and broom, make this room Safe and tight, against the night." Trunks packed with potions and cures, Jane Aire sets out on a crisp, clear morning in October to face the greatest challenge of her sheltered girls’-school existence...
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    8 ratings
    He'll never let go...Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on—and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved.Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  hauntings
  • Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    8 ratings
    Not all sand traps occur on the links. Some may be found on a popular beach or lonely stretch of highway. A sensitive and two ghost hunters walk into a bar. The barman is silent and the barflies long dead. Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. An active haunt in a derelict biker bar on Route 66 is a dream come true for the PEEPs team until it turns violent...
  • Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    10 ratings
    A woman in black stares at the sea, her body transparent, eyes brimming with tears. Hoping to get a better look at the woman, psychic medium Addison Lockhart leans out over the manor’s windowsill, gasping when she feels an intense pressure pressing down on her back—someone thrusting her forward. She grabs the side of the window to brace herself, but it’s too late. She’s already falling...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Beyond the Grave by R.W. Wallace

    Beyond the Grave by R.W. Wallace

    10 ratings
    The forever rebellious Clothilde’s gravestone only mentions her first name and date of death. A small bump in the ground next to her grave marks former police officer Robert’s last resting place.And in thirty years, no visitors for either of them.Confined within the cemetery borders and yearning for closure to move on, the two ghosts can’t go after the people who killed them...
  • The Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman

    The Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman

    14 ratings
    The border town of Ludlow has it all—exquisite medieval streets, a parish church the size of a cathedral, and a weight of history and legend. After a young teenage boy dies, his grandmother becomes convinced she's still seeing her dead grandson in the old town...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc
  • The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    6 ratings
    A young girl slaughters her entire family in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The police say she snapped, but Soren Chase knows the truth...
  • The Heir of Death by Becca Andre

    The Heir of Death by Becca Andre

    6 ratings
    Elysia Mallory has never embraced her magic, not when doing so comes at the price of her sanity. Her family is cursed with bizarre necromantic gifts that have driven each recipient mad, and she doesn’t want to be another dead branch on the family tree...
  • The Ghosts of Phoenix No 7 by M.L. Bullock

    The Ghosts of Phoenix No 7 by M.L. Bullock

    6 ratings
    After the devastating loss the team experienced on their last investigation, Midas is hesitant to return to the paranormal field. However, a desperate phone call from a local fire chief and a terrifying experience at an old Mobile fire station draws the leader of Gulf Coast Paranormal back to find answers for the chief and the firefighters...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  hauntings  horror  mystery
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • Let Her Rest by J.R. Erickson

    Let Her Rest by J.R. Erickson

    6 ratings
    Let Her Rest is the seventh stand-alone novel in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series The sprawling grounds of the Northern Michigan Asylum are rich with dark secrets. Many have run from the horrors, but the land remembers...
  • A Haunting at Dixie House by M.L. Bullock

    A Haunting at Dixie House by M.L. Bullock

    8 ratings
    The Gulf Coast Paranormal Team Investigates Dixie House!What will their investigation reveal? The Gulf Coast Paranormal team's new client is someone the team knows! Sierra and Joshua have surprising news, and Cassidy and Midas aren't letting anything come between them...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    10 ratings
    Living. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones by Richard Gleaves

    Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones by Richard Gleaves

    10 ratings
    "My earliest memory is of discovering my grandfather's severed head." The HEADLESS HORSEMAN has risen and rides. JASON CRANE is the Horseman's target. But Jason must stay and fight, to protect those he loves. For Sleepy Hollow is falling to evil. Now Jason Crane lives under a tyrannical guardian. Jason Crane must descend into fearful darkness. And Jason Crane has an appointment with death..
  • Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    6 ratings
    When sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair...
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    ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  crime  dark  fiction  horror
  • Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    6 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEES Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Ghost Huntress: The Journey by Marley Gibson

    Ghost Huntress: The Journey by Marley Gibson

    6 ratings
    Teen psychic Kendall Moorehead is about to embark on the most dangerous and shocking ghost hunt of her life. After all, it isn't every day that the ghost of Princess Diana steps in as a personal spirit guide. But Shy Di isn't the only surprise awaiting Kendall and her team of teen paranormal superstars as they begin a whirlwind tour of Europe with renowned TV medium Oliver Bates...
  • The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    6 ratings
    Some places are too evil. Some places should be left alone.Austin Cole has it made. Star of the hit television show Spirit Chaser Investigations, he has become the world’s most famous paranormal investigator...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  demons  fiction  horror  mlm
  • Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell

    Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell

    6 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to the Kindle bestseller A Soul to StealThe past is always at your heels…Quinn O’Brion and Kate Tassel, two community journalists, tapped into a dark power last Halloween in order to stop a vicious serial killer. But they are still grappling with their new abilities—and wondering if what they unleashed may soon consume them...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  mystery
  • A Haunting on Bloodgood Row by M.L. Bullock

    A Haunting on Bloodgood Row by M.L. Bullock

    8 ratings
    Cassidy Wright hunts ghosts with the Gulf Coast Paranormal team, but she may be in over her head when she's tasked with confronting a ghost who refuses to leave Bloodgood Row. With the power to paint scenes from the past, Cassidy dives into her art to find clues that will lead her to the truth about the life and death of Elizabeth Sabrina...
  • Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Indelible by Lani Woodland

    8 ratings
    Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn’t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie...
  • Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    8 ratings
    A missing teen. The ghost of a murdered woman. And one man whose struggles to save them both might cost him everything—including his own life.Sullivan sees the ghosts of those who have died at the hands of another, and his own peace rests solely on his ability to help find theirs.His family has helped shoulder his burden since childhood...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • In My Dreams by Cameo Renae

    In My Dreams by Cameo Renae

    10 ratings
    The dreams were happening again. It was something seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Hayes thought she’d outgrown. She didn’t want them anymore; detailed premonitions of how people would die. One night, Lizzy’s worst nightmare occurs. She dreams of her boyfriend, Michael Young, and soon discovers his car was found in a river, along with his lifeless body...
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    ghosts  paranormal  angels  book  death  drama  fiction  horror
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