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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.

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.

Pepper Boucher just wants to live a quiet life—but fate has other plans. Plagued by violent visions of witch burnings and blood-soaked dreams she can’t explain, she’s barely holding it together. Then comes Leon: a dark, mysterious vampire with secrets of his own… and a warning that could shatter everything. Witches in Graves Parish are being murdered, and Pepper is next on the list. Someone—or something—is determined to wipe her out, and they’ll burn the entire bayou down to do it.

Young witches from Graves Parish are disappearing without a trace, and no one knows why. Pepper doesn’t have the answers, but she’s damn sure going to find them—even if it means risking her own life. As if that’s not enough, her longtime nemesis has turned up dead, and the ghost refuses to leave Pepper alone. Add in a dangerously sexy vampire who’s shadowing her every move, and things are spiraling from bad to cursed.

Murder, blood magic, and one dangerously hot vampire—some secrets refuse to stay buried. When a murder victim leaves Claire Benolt a chilling message scrawled in blood, her world shatters. Suddenly, she's being hunted by a faceless enemy, drawn into a shadowy world of supernatural secrets and ancient vendettas.

Recently divorced Maggie Benson and her two children move to the small town of Franklin, hoping for a new start. Life is finally starting to look up for them. The old farmhouse is everything she could have hoped for. There is plenty of room for the kids to play and the house really has character. But it is so close to the Hollow - a place of darkness and untold secrets more terrifying than she could ever imagine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sadie has accidentally turned her ex into a zombie, and now she has to keep him hidden in her closet until she can reverse the spell. That's just the start of her problems. Life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. As part of her starting-over plan, Sadie opens the Shadow Crossing Detective Agency, Spooks Included. Almost as soon as she opens doors for business, Sadie gets an anonymous client who's convinced someone is out to kill the heads of the five witch families known as the CO5. This is bad news, considering her aunt Selena is the head of one of those families.