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When Sarah returns to her hometown of Cedarbrook for her brother's funeral, she expects grief and sorrow—but not fear. Her brother's death, ruled a mysterious drowning in the frozen waters of Echo Lake, doesn't add up. As Sarah digs deeper, she discovers her brother wasn't the first to meet this fate. Several others have drowned or vanished under strange circumstances, their bodies pulled from the icy depths of the lake with no explanation.

A strange message and ominous warning send Gypsy back to her hometown of Twilight, seeking answers from her doting parents. When she arrives nothing is as it should be. Her parents have disappeared into thin air, and she is the prime suspect.

Sweeney just inherited a mortuary—along with a few restless ghosts. When she unexpectedly inherits Blackwell Rest from her long-lost grandfather, Jazz trades in her greasy apron at Happy Days Burgers for a shot at turning the funeral home into the hottest nightclub in town. But there’s a catch—or several. Her grandfather’s so-called accidental death might not have been an accident. His pet monkey needs a new home. And worst of all, the resident spirits aren’t about to leave quietly.

The Dark Forest keeps its secrets... and those who enter may never return. Midsummer's Eve should be a time of celebration in Twilight Cove, but this year's festivities take a sinister turn when an entire busload of tourists vanishes without a trace during a tour of the Dark Forest. Gypsy can sense something is wrong even before the search party forms. Armed with her growing magical abilities, Gypsy ventures into the ancient woods where legends of fae hollows, vengeful spirits, and packs of werewolves are whispered among locals. What she discovers goes beyond mere disappearance. Something ...

In Eastwood, the dead don't rest; they wait.Spring has arrived in Eastwood, bringing blooming flowers, warmer days, and murder. When a college student's body is discovered along the Eastwood River, Jazz Sweeney finds herself pulled into a nightmare that even being a reaper didn’t prepare her for. As more victims appear along the riverbanks, Jazz uncovers a disturbing pattern connecting the murders to historical injustices. Meanwhile, sightings of Lechuza, the legendary Owl Woman, has some of the town's residents on edge. Is the spectral harbinger warning of death to come, or something far...

When darkness falls, the hunt begins. In the shadows where witches weave their spells and vampires prowl, an uneasy alliance is about to be tested. Rosa Tuskin thought her biggest challenge was landing a spot in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit after graduation. But when you can see and speak to the dead, normal problems seem trivial when the ghosts start screaming warnings about an ancient vampire conspiracy. With her wolf ancestry and an inherited gift for communicating with spirits, Rosa has always walked between worlds. But when women begin disappearing from the streets of Reno and ...

Rebecca Ashton's grandfather vanishes without a trace. The only clue he leaves behind is a ring - a ring that is tied to an old family curse. From the depths of the sea, a phantom comes for her. Will he lure her to a watery grave where the rest of the Ashton family waits for her? Desperate to find her grandfather, Rebecca sets out to discover what lies behind the family curse and winds up on the mysterious Mist Island. What she finds there is an unquenchable passion and a love so powerful that it transcends time and death.

As children, Kara and Colin were inseparable but tragedy came between them. Now she needs Colin to help her discover the truth of her brother's disappearance, but he might also be the one who helps mend her broken spirit. With its magnolia-lined streets and quaint little shops, Bayou Landing is the picture-perfect small town, but beneath its charming exterior there are dark secrets and haunting nightmares. Twenty years ago, two children disappeared without a trace, leaving Bayou Landing and Kara Savoy changed forever.

The circus has rolled into town, and Sir Edward has decided to run away and join the show. Jazz Sweeney would be more annoyed—if she weren’t already dealing with a string of murders that started the moment the Gustav Brothers' Circus arrived.

My name is Jazz, and I’m a Justice Reaper. Sounds grim, but it’s not all bad—I make sure the worst of the worst get what they deserve. And sometimes, that means working with the police to bring killers to justice. Like now. Just after my best friend joins a coven, someone starts murdering witches, and all signs point to the killer being a vampire.

Being a reaper is a lot harder than flipping burgers—but Jazz Sweeney has never been one to back down from responsibility. She’s not exactly thrilled about her latest assignment: reaping the soul of convicted serial killer Theodore Salazar at the state penitentiary. Years ago, Salazar terrorized Eastwood, leaving two victims near the Eastwood River. Now that he’s finally dead, the city can breathe a sigh of relief.

Claire Benolt doesn’t do supernatural. Ghosts, vampires, werewolves? Total nonsense. Or so she thought. Eager to outrun her troubled past, Claire jumps at the chance to work for a private investigator in New Orleans. But her new boss isn’t exactly your average detective—he’s a centuries-old vampire with a taste for justice, and he needs Claire’s help to stop a brutal serial killer known only as the Ripper.

Something sinister is brewing in Eastwood, and Jazz Sweeney has a haunting suspicion that the ghostly bride of Bridal Falls might be behind it. Two men—both on the verge of marriage—have turned up dead under mysterious circumstances. And when Lyndy is left standing at the altar with her groom nowhere to be found, things get personal.

Disappearing tourists spell big trouble for Shadow Crossing, especially since the town already has the reputation of being one of the most haunted places on Earth. With the Moon Festival just around the corner, the town merchants are up in arms over tourists going missing. No one will want to visit the spookiest town in the country if people are actually disappearing. The situation takes a turn for the worse when the body of one of those tourists turns up in the county prosecutor's car and Aunt Selena spots a reaper roaming around the cemetery in the dead of the night.

On Mystique Island feuds can get messy! When Dorothy decides to turn part of the lighthouse into a coffee shop, Muriel sets out to cause all kinds of problems of the ghostly variety. Someone is turning the women of Mystique Island into fishwives, literally, and if that weren't enough, the body of a murder victim is discovered near the Shipwreck Point Lighthouse. Izzy suspects a connection to decades-old cold case. But if that isn't bad enough, Julius might be behind the elderly people on the island suddenly believing they are all 20-something again.

Here's a new mystery to solve, and another bad guy to catch, which means another chance to earn some redemption points. My name is Izzy Cooper, and I'm a fallen angel, though I'd really like to drop the fallen part off my title. That's why I joined the Monster Squad.The timing couldn't have been worse. I had him exactly where I wanted him. He was ready to fall to his knees and beg my forgiveness. Just as he got to the point that he couldn't take it anymore, I planned to hit him with a massive dose of revenge, but then the call came in.

What do you get when you mix a vampire hunter, who happens to be an FBI Agent and my boss, add a fallen angel, that's me, and a genius criminal profiler with secrets? You get the Monster Squad! We hunt monsters and other whatnots. Add to the mix an extra hot alpha wolf, a mysterious town with a serial killer on the loose, and you have total mayhem.

In this Christmas caper, Izzy finally gets a clue to where her grandmother is, but there is so much havoc on Mystique Island that she may not get the opportunity to act on it. The Christmas season starts out even stranger than the normal Mystique Island strange.

Sexual deprivation is such a handicap when you are dealing with the sexiest, most dangerous vampire to ever exist. If keeping him at arm's length isn't enough to deal with, there are all the dead, dried up male corpses that keep showing up in the oddest places.

"Some legacies are written in shadow." Celeste Osborn is thoroughly unimpressed with her destiny as the next generation of Osborn witches. While her mother, Stella tends to the mishaps on Mystique Island, Celeste dreams of a life beyond wards and spells, preferably one that involves actual fun. Between surviving her brother Aaron's ridiculous schemes, maintaining her reputation as the girl with the sharpest tongue in town, and pretending she doesn't notice the shadows, Celeste has enough on her plate. The last thing she needs is a killer hunting his prey at the Wonder Wharf Amusement Park. ...