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Bound

About Bound:

A paranormal murder mystery for any age, bitter and sweet.
Bound by magic, bound by love, bound by murder…
In a family with two witchy sisters, Karin is cursed with a lack of magic. But when she finds a body in flighty, big sister Jayce’s coffee shop, a dark enchantment begins unraveling. And Karin and her small mountain town will never be the same.
As Karin works to untangle the murder, the knottier the mystery of her small mountain town becomes. Why are hikers vanishing in the nearby woods? Why are some people cursed with bad luck and others with good? And what is Jayce’s handsome new lawyer hiding?
With her sister’s fate hanging by a thread, Karin struggles to untangle the truth, and death stalks ever closer…
Follow the magic with the Doyle Witch trilogy, starting with book 1, Bound. Each book has its own complete mystery and romance told from a different sister’s point of view, and Bound, Down and Ground can all be enjoyed independently, with a magical storyline weaving through the three books.
If you’re a fan of Sookie Stackhouse, Practical Magic, and cozy witch mysteries, don’t miss Bound. Escape into the enchanting world of Doyle today.

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Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change both his and Catherine’s life. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.

Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in happily ever after — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home.

Authors Note: The Osprey Cove Lodge series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An interesting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The Osprey Cove Lodge series setting was born from my love of the beauty of this region in Canada. The description of the lodge is so beautiful and inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there. The series is written in a continuing fashion; please be sure to read the books in the order written.

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Death and Diamonds

About Death and Diamonds:

The riotous reunion of two sisters. After escaping her mob past, Gabriella is making a new life for herself. Her sister, Sylvie is mobbed up and a walking disaster in five-inch heels. She arrives on the eve of Gabriella’s wedding, pissed off that she’s not invited. Sylvie carries a gun in her Gucci handbag along with her husband’s severed finger. The gun is to protect her from the Borkovic crime family. They have given her one week to return six million in diamonds or else. She blames Vince, Gabriella’s deceased husband, for the old vendetta and murder of Drago Borkovic. She reckons her sister is obliged to help. No way is Gabriella ever getting mixed up with the mob again. But when a mob-heavy attempts to kidnap them, they are forced to take drastic measures. They fall back on their skills: Sylvie offers a roll in the hay while the more practical, Gabriella, wants to cook for him. In an awkward self-defence scramble, the gun goes off. The bullet ricochets off Gabriella’s cast-iron skillet and the mobster drops dead. Now, they’re faced with the perennial mob problem; what to do with the body? To protect her family, Gabriella agrees to a wild ride in a stolen truck through the Australian countryside with her hair-brained sister at the wheel. They break more laws in their attempt to dump the corpse. But when they cross paths with an escaped convict wanted for murder, their prospects turn bleak. The bodies start to pile up and Gabriella wonders if she can trust Sylvie. Things don’t add up. But if they hope to survive the Borkovics they need to stick together. When Gabriella’s son is kidnapped, the stakes become personal. Can they find the missing diamonds? Will they get through their ordeal alive? The quarrelsome sisters put the fun back in dysfunctional! Buy it today and see the sisters’ relationship tested to its limits.

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The Amazing Wonders and Mysteries of the World

About The Amazing Wonders and Mysteries of the World:

For so long, the world has been submerged in myths and misconceptions of the numerous religious teachings, subjects, and interpretations. This book demystifies and clarifies all confusions by answering all the unanswered questions and setting the facts right. This book is a starting point for the world to make correct interpretations without personal bias, tribalism, or religious affiliation rather every interpretation should be based on the truth. The content in this book was carefully derived under spiritual guidance by God upon the writers thereby giving it all the authenticity to be Divine God’s word.

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DEATH IN THE PERFECT HOUSE by Caroline Clemmons

DEATH IN THE PERFECT HOUSE by Caroline Clemmons

Zoe Wilder is a reporter for the local newspaper, The Spencer’s Ridge Gazette, in Winston County, Texas. She also writes cozy mysteries. Perhaps that’s why she sees a crime where there may not be one. Members of the local Winston County Sheriff’s Department view her as a pretty kook and don’t take her seriously. When she finds her friend Margo Kingsley dead, she is certain Margo was murdered and Margo’s housekeeper agrees. The investigating officer doesn’t believe her, and the death is ruled an accident due to a fall while inebriated.

Zoe is determined to find the killer. A new Chief Deputy, Caleb McBride, arrives a few days later, hired from Fort Worth PD’s homicide division under unusual circumstances. Deputy McBride is determined Zoe will leave detecting to him and his officers. He warns her she is making herself a target. He also warns her he’ll arrest her if she interferes again. Undeterred, Zoe fears he is only going through the motions to appease the late woman’s daughter. Surprisingly, the new Deputy is the nephew of the dead woman’s housekeeper, of whom Zoe is very protective.

Just as Zoe decides Deputy McBride is good at his job, the killer targets her. She is forced to cooperate with Deputy McBride. Will the killer be stopped before Zoe is the next victim?

DEATH IN THE PERFECT HOUSE is a light cozy mystery which contains humor, with no graphic sex, and no cliffhangers.

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The Disappearance of Emily by Elizabeth Pantley

The Disappearance of Emily by Elizabeth Pantley

A magic mirror. An enchanted world. A mysterious missing mother. A suspicious package. An unexplained death. A community of strange, quirky people. A sassy cat and a hilarious, bumbling, and perpetually annoyed witch. Hayden finds herself surrounded with support as she solves the mystery of the death and learns shocking secrets about herself.

Hayden’s life was normal until she fell through a mirror and was thrust into an alternate, magical place. Destiny Falls is not on any map and is home to a family she never knew she had. The town is enchanted and charming, and the amazing mansion she lives in changes to meet the needs of the people who live there, including her! Every day she discovers a new enchantment.

But something is amiss. Hayden gets an ominous warning from a strange woman, who promises to tell her the town secrets and give her a package – if she’ll meet her at the mysterious ferry that lacks a published destination. The ferry visit is cancelled, but the package is delivered. Once it arrives, someone turns up dead. Then the suspicious episodes start, too many to call them coincidences. She and her family are targeted and in danger.

Who or what is causing the chaos? All signs point to the mysterious disappearance of her mother – way back when Hayden was just two days old. Can she identify and eliminate the threat before another person in her life is stolen away? Can she learn more about the secrets kept for her lifetime? With the help of her sassy sidekick cat, and a host of new family and friends, Hayden finds herself surrounded with support as she solves the mystery of the death and learns shocking secrets about herself.

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Gemini Rising (Mischievous Malamute Mystery Series Book 1) by Harley Christensen

Gemini Rising (Mischievous Malamute Mystery Series Book 1) by Harley Christensen

There’s a body in your alley…

Arianna Jackson—AJ to her friends—and her occasionally well-behaved Alaskan Malamute, Nicoh, live a normal, uneventful, admittedly mundane existence, where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens.

Until it does.

Early one morning, AJ stumbles upon a horrifying scene—a girl’s body lies broken in the dumpster behind her home, her face beaten and mutilated.

A secret reveals you’re living a lie…

As if that weren’t enough to upset the balance of normal, things go from bad to worse when she learns of her connection to the murdered girl. Suddenly, AJ realizes her entire life has been filled with secrets and lies.

A killer hunts for you…

Together with her trusty sidekick, Nicoh, and BFF, Leah, AJ must search for answers. But can she, when finding the truth proves to be more deadly than living the lie?

Would you search for the truth if you knew it could kill you?

Join AJ and her pals as they race to unravel the mystery of her past, where the pieces of the puzzle bring more questions than answers and the only certainty is the killer’s end game—AJ’s life.

Find your truth…

Grab your copy of Gemini Rising TODAY and join others who’ve enjoyed this suspense-filled page-turner that keeps you guessing to the end…and beyond.

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Fume Blanc and Fire

About Fume Blanc and Fire:

USA Today and Amazon bestselling author.
New release! Book #12 is the grand finale of Season One of Wine Valley Mysteries. On sale a limited time!

The darknet. Cryptocurrency. Family secrets.

This heart-pounding mystery begins with Detective Max King and Dr. Joy Burton on a quest to discover the secrets of their childhood. Clues lead to a cabin in the woods, where—for the second time in their lives—fire engulfs them.

A mysterious figure extracts Max and Joy. But not all survive. A charred body is discovered in the ashes, and Max and Joy are the primary suspects for the murder of a prominent man. There’s only one way to reclaim their lives—fight fire with fire.

Will Max and Joy find peace with the answers or struggle to live with the truth?

This is not the finale of the series, but it is the finale of the long-kept secrets that Max and Joy have worked tirelessly to uncover in Season One.

Step into the wicked world of Wine Valley. Read Fume Blanc and Fire today.

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1889, Paris and the Universal Exposition by Michael Gotwalt

About 1889, Paris and the Universal Exposition by Michael Gotwalt:

1889, Paris and the Universal Exposition

The year 1889 brought significant change to the world, most of all in Paris, France site of the Universal Exposition. The Eiffel Tower centerpiece of the exposition, remains, after 130 years the thing that dreams are made of. Gustave Eiffel, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Henri Toulouse Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and countless others now famous to everyone, roamed the avenues of Paris in 1889. Into this world comes Eustace Wyatt and Lloyd Kane, photographer and writer respectively for America’s greatest newspaper the Herald. The publisher, James Gordon-Bennett has been exiled in Paris for 13 years but runs the Herald from Paris and has just started an international edition that we know now as the International Herald Tribune.

Wyatt and Kane are thrust into the obvious excitement of La Belle Epoque, and intrigue that has always been present in the world. Along the way they meet and befriend some famous characters, and some not so famous. Excitement and wonderment meet them at every corner as the exposition runs its course. Join them in a time like no other.

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At Wits’ End

About At Wits’ End:

A cozy mystery that’s out of this world…
Men in Black. Conspiracy-crazed old ladies. Can a clueless innkeeper catch a killer … and stick to her carefully crafted schedule?
When control-freak Susan Witsend inherits her grandmother’s UFO-themed B&B, she’s ready to put her organizational skills to the test. She knows she can make the B&B work, even if there is a faux-UFO in the roof. After all, what’s not to love about a Victorian nestled in the high Sierra foothills?
None of her carefully crafted policies and procedures, however, can prepare her for a corpse in room seven – the body of her small-town sheriff’s ex-husband. Good thing Susan has her own plans to solve the crime.
But is there a government conspiracy afoot? Or is the murder a simple case of small-town vengeance?
Susan must keep all her wits about her. Because the killer isn’t finished, and if she isn’t careful, her fate may be written in the stars…
Beam up this hilarious cozy mystery today!

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Falling Into Magic by Elizabeth Pantley

Falling Into Magic by Elizabeth Pantley

An accidental journey through a magic mirror. A portal to an enchanted land. A mysterious family she never knew she had. Hayden’s life is upended with the wonder of Destiny Falls. But it is tainted by the danger that brought her here and that threatens her newfound family. Can Hayden and her sassy sidekick remove the threat, so that she can begin her magical new life in this captivating world?

When Hayden was a child, she lost her cat. Adults told her the cat ran away, but she knew the truth. The mirror had taken her. She knew because the mirror gave her a glimpse of an alternate world and had nearly pulled her in, so she was certain the cat had suffered that fate.

Twenty years later Hayden discovers the secret of the mirror when she is thrust into it. She learns of an enchanted world she never knew existed, and a family she never knew she had.

But danger brought her here, and it followed her. Now, Hayden is on a mission to remove the threat, so that she can begin her magical, meaningful new life in this enchanted world.

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Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose


About Featured Book: Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

Available for FREE for a limited time only (02.15.2022-02.19.2022)

FBI needs Eva Rae Thomas’s help in a murder case in Washington.
She starts to ask questions and soon finds out that things aren’t adding up.

As she digs deeper – she soon finds herself in too deep and realizes she can’t trust anyone’s motives.

But by then, it is too late, and the killer is already tracking her down.

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SUCH A GOOD GIRL (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 9) by Willow Rose

SUCH A GOOD GIRL (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 9) by Willow Rose

FBI needs Eva Rae Thomas’s help in a murder case in Washington.
She starts to ask questions and soon finds out that things aren’t adding up.

As she digs deeper – she soon finds herself in too deep and realizes she can’t trust anyone’s motives.

But by then, it is too late, and the killer is already tracking her down.

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Falling into Magic : Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic, book 1 by Elizabeth Pantley

Falling into Magic : Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic, book 1 by Elizabeth Pantley

*FREE this week* An accidental journey through a magic mirror. A portal to an enchanted land. A mysterious family she never knew she had. Hayden’s life is upended with the wonder of Destiny Falls. But it is tainted by the danger that brought her here and that threatens her newfound family. Can Hayden and her sassy sidekick remove the threat, so that she can begin her magical new life in this captivating world?

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Marshall’s Gold by K.R. Hill

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Police lieutenant Cody Brannon leaves a failed marriage to find out why his brother was murdered. He travels to the Caribbean village where his brother lived, and is forced to take along his ornery YouTube cooking star mother and despondent teenage nephew. Once there, he discovers that his late brother hid a treasure and bad people are killing to find it.

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Due North by Melanie Jackson

About Due North by Melanie Jackson:

Butterscotch Jones thought that living in the far north provided enough peril to contend with until a private plane crashed outside her hometown of McIntyre’s Gulch, Manitoba, Canada. The treasure inside the plane soon attracted both the RCMP and the Russian Mafia. For a town built upon isolation and secrecy, the citizens faced very public exposure.

“A light, fun read with an eccentric cast of characters who bring the village of MacIntyre’s Gulch to delightful life.”
–Lisa Cach, author of “Wake Unto Me”

McIntyre’s Gulch has long provided refuge to those needing to disappear off the face of the planet. Most donning red hair, the residents of the Gulch prefer to say to one another what little they have to say in a mish-mash of English and Gaelic. Unless conversing with Whiskey Jack in which the conversation is likely to just be a mish-mash. There’s comfort in the form of warmth, food and drink to be had at the Lonesome Moose, the downtown saloon and community meeting place that constitutes the bulk of downtown. There’s comfort in the knowledge that Big John will be opining vociferously from behind the bar on the latest news flown into town by the Wings with the night’s delivery.

Due North is the first book in Melanie Jackson’s bestselling Butterscotch Jones Mystery Series.

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The Suspects

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Mable Havelock and Violet Ficher are on a scenic bus tour of the Nordic capital cities of Europe and Russia. The tour culminates in Moscow. Where The tour director is murdered. There is a busload of suspects to choose from. A flirtatious woman and her jealous husband. A professor of Nordic History who is ill-informed. Two world travellers who describe themselves as gypsies and a mysterious man who is hiding something. The tour director’s assistant and bus driver; both have an axe to grind against the tour director Hilda Karlson. Add to the mix smugglers and thieves. And a case of mistaken identity. But unfortunately, the prime suspect is Mabel. Mabel and Violet will have to use all their skills and ingenuity to solve the murder in Moscow. And prove to the Russian police Mabel’s innocence.

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Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O’Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O’Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the linchpins in the guilty verdict.

The two detectives thought it was over, but it was only the beginning.

Eiselmann planned for a quiet weekend with his family at home. O’Connor planned on attending a high school soccer game and then head to Northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip with another cop, Detective Jamie Graff and four teenage, adopted brothers: George Tokay, Brian Evans, Brett McGovern, and Michael Two Feathers.

But Andruko is ruthless and vindictive. From his prison cell, he hires two contract killers to kill both O’Connor and Eiselmann and anyone else in the way. The killers can be anyone. The killers could be anywhere, and the killers could strike at any time.

The quiet weekend and the short vacation turn into a deadly nightmare as O’Connor’s and Eiselmann’s lives and the lives of the four boys are in peril.

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Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change both his and Catherine’s life. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.

Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in happily ever after — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home.

Authors Note: The Osprey Cove Lodge series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An interesting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The Osprey Cove Lodge series setting was born from my love of the beauty of this region in Canada. The description of the lodge is so beautiful and inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there. The series is written in a continuing fashion; please be sure to read the books in the order written.

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