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  • As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    It's been three months since Alexis helplessly witnessed Lydia Small's violent death, and all she wants is for her life to return to normal. But normal people don't see decaying bodies haunting photographs. Normal people don't have to deal with regular intrusions from Lydia's angry ghost, sometimes escalating to terrifying attacks. At first, it seems that Lydia wants revenge on Alexis alone...
  • The Dying Breath by Alane Ferguson

    The Dying Breath by Alane Ferguson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cameryn?s ex-boyfriend is back . . . and ready to kill! Cameryn had thought she was in love with him. He was smart, strong, and would do anything for her?even kill. Kyle O?Neil disappeared after his first attempt on Cameryn?s life at the end of The Angel of Death . Now he is back for his second...
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  • Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The final book in the "Gravity" series. The end is finally here. After being threatened by Phillip Rhodes, Ariel confronts her father and finds out just how deeply the conspiracies in town run. She discovers more about what she is and where she came from...
  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • Blessed Child (The Caleb Books Series Book 1) by Ted Dekker, Bill Bright

    Blessed Child (The Caleb Books Series Book 1) by Ted Dekker, Bill Bright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A young orphaned boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls—at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee or die.But the world beyond is hardly ready for a boy like Caleb...
  • Blue is for Nightmares Collections by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Blue is for Nightmares Collections by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With over 500,000 in print, this best-selling series about a teen witch has cast a spell upon young adults across the world! In commemoration of this remarkable success, each volume—Blue is for Nightmares, White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance—has been updated with a new cover...
  • Dark Premonitions by Heather Topham Wood

    Dark Premonitions by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Psychic Kate Edwards had her first premonition—a vision of her own murder by a faceless attacker. With very few clues to go on, she has to use her psychic gifts to uncover who wants her dead. Paranoia sets in and Kate wonders if there’s anybody she can trust. As Kate fears her impending death, she’s desperate to seek comfort with her ex-boyfriend Jared Corbett...
  • The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm...
  • The Reason by Marley Gibson

    The Reason by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's not everyday you have a premonition of your own demise. But two months after Kendall had a vision of her own death, all is well in her world. Maybe some cosmic wires got crossed. Then Kendall gets a request by the mayor of Radisson to investigate the mayoral manor. Emily and Loreen warn her against it: This spirit is dangerous. But not even they can see just how dangerous...
  • Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On a misty cliffside, mystery and romance await. . . . Ivy Calhoun's life has been turned upside down. Her new stepdad has uprooted Ivy and her mom, bringing them to live in an actual castle in the misty Scottish countryside. There are stone-faced servants and shadowy corridors, and the ancient walls seem full of secrets. Ivy is at once frightened and intrigued...
  • Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    High school junior Camelia thought her powers of psychometry only gave her the ability to sense the future through touch. But now she’s started to hear voices. Mean voices. Berating her, telling her how ugly she is, and that she’d be better off dead...
  • Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    MY SISTER WANTS THE TRUTH.BUT SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS.For months, my long-lost twin, Emma, has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. She's unearthed dark secrets about my friends, my family, and my tangled past. But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running into dead ends.Until my body shows up in Sabino Canyon...
  • Gasp by Lisa McMann

    Gasp by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing. She’s convinced that if the visions passed from her to Sawyer after she saved him, then they must now have passed from Sawyer to one of the people he saved...
  • 'Til Death by Carol J. Perry

    'Til Death by Carol J. Perry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The staff at Salem, Massachusetts’s local station, WICH-TV, is looking forward to the wedding of their program director, Lee Barrett. But when Lee heads off on her Maine honeymoon, she’ll be haunted by the ghosts of her own past . . . Lee and Detective Sergeant Pete Mondello are finally tying the knot—and Lee is tying up loose ends before the big day...
  • Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After finally learning who was behind her mother’s death, Calla still doesn’t understand why it happened. Somewhere out there, someone seems to share the powerful psychic abilities that allow Calla to see not only into the past, but to the Other Side—someone who apparently doesn’t want to be found...
  • The List by Robert Whitlow

    The List by Robert Whitlow

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a world of secrets, where evil has reigned for over a hundred years, the power of an ancient covenant will change the life of one man forever. As a struggling young attorney fresh out of law school, Renny Jacobson pines for the day he can afford the luxuries of the partners in his Charlotte firm...
  • Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can't believe she did that . . . . . . at four-thirty I have to . . . . . . I hate this place . . . Rae Voight is losing her mind. When she walks down the halls of Sanderson Prep, she hears voices . . . even when no one is talking. Other people's thoughts crowd her head, a confusing tangle of insecurities and dark secrets...
  • Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark

    Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Norah Lukens needs to uncover the truth about the fabled lost city of Cobbogoth. After her archaeologist uncle’s murder, Norah is asked to translate his old research journal for evidence and discovers that his murder was a cover-up for something far more sinister...
  • Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor

    Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aubrey has a difficult choice to make to save his friends when Albion erupts into war—and it could cost him his life   The war that has been looming for so long finally erupts, sending Albion and the continent into chaos. Aubrey, George, and Caroline are brought into a top-secret espionage unit and sent on a mission to investigate a mysterious magical facility on the Gallia–Holmland border...
  • My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

    My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie Bloom’s junior year has been a bit of a train wreck. After the world’s greatest kiss re-awakened Sophie’s true identity as Persephone (Goddess of Spring and Savior of Humanity), she fought her dragon-lady guidance counselor to the death, navigated mean girl Bethany’s bitchy troublemaking, and dealt with the betrayal of her backstabbing ex, Kai (sexy Prince of Darkness)...
  • The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kendall and her ghost hunting team is the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn’t so pleased. Courtney Langdon doesn’t appreciate Kendall’s new popularity or her relationship with Jason, Courtney’s ex.So Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world. At first it’s all a game to draw attention away from Kendall. But Courtney doesn’t know what she’s getting into—or what wants in her...
  • The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs.Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse–dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted–has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community...
  • Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two girls haunted by the past... and destined to relive it In Legacy of Lies , Megan has to stay with the uptight grandmother she wants nothing to do with. She's determined to get through the visit without any drama, but when she falls into a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences, Megan may be caught up in her family's legacy in more ways than she realizes...
  • Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After her tumultuous summer in Lily Dale, Calla has decided to stay, hoping to unearth more about her mother’s untimely death.  As she starts school at Lily Dale High and begins to explore her relationships with Jacy and Blue, her visions begin to occur with greater urgency. There may be a killer on the loose, and he may be after Calla for her role in solving his first victim’s disappearance...
  • Blink Once by Cylin Busby

    Blink Once by Cylin Busby

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    West is a high school senior who has everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed. Strapped down in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, West is terrified and alone. Until he meets Olivia. She's the girl next door-sort of...
  • Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

    Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals...
  • Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    IT'S NOT EASY BEING ME.BUT MY TWIN SISTER HAS NO CHOICE.When I died two months ago, my killer told my twin sister to become me - or else. Now Emma has it down to a T. She tosses her hair with the signature Sutton Mercer flip and can lead a Lying Game prank with the best of them. She's even repairing my relationship with my adoptive family. The only thing she hasn't done is solve my murder...
  • Ominous by Kate Brian

    Ominous by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After the shocking revelations made in the Private prequel, The Book of Spells , Noelle and Reed know they are descendants of the original Billings Girls, and their legacy includes a mysterious coven of witches...
  • Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After the devastating events at Reed's birthday party, Noelle is determined to put the past to rest, but Reed is adament about rebuilding Billings. Coming up against endless roadblocks from the headmaster, not to mention Billings alumni, Reed will not let her legacy end with a pile of rubble. As if that weren't enough, old ghosts come back to haunt to the Billings Girls...
  • Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It’s been a year since the torturous notes from A stopped and the mystery of Alison DiLaurentis’s disappearance was finally put to rest. Now seniors in high school, Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily are older, but they’re not any wiser. The pretty little liars have more secrets than ever - twisted secrets that could destroy the perfect lives they’ve worked so hard to rebuild...
  • Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    MY FRIENDS AND I USED TO PLAY LYING GAMES.NOW MY TWIN SISTER IS LIVING ONE.When I was alive, my family seemed picture-perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel, copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my murder, we’re both learning just how flawed my family really is...
  • Secrets of the Time Society by Alexandra Monir

    Secrets of the Time Society by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There exists a secret society where one's ability to travel through time is "gifted" to members only by blood. Those who try to enter the society quickly come to realize that time is a force not to be reckoned with...
  • The Deep by Helen Dunmore

    The Deep by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The third spellbinding story about Sapphy and Conor's adventures in the powerful and dangerous underwater world of Ingo. A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood -- half Mer, half human -- can overcome the Kraken...
  • Paranoia by J.R. Johansson

    Paranoia by J.R. Johansson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the aftermath of the events that nearly killed him, Parker Chipp is trying to learn to cope better with life as a Watcher. And it seems to be working...until he wakes up in jail with a hangover and 12 hours of missing time. Darkness has somehow taken control and Parker doesn't have a clue how to stop him...
  • Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Having been accepted into the summer writing camp in Monterey, CA, Logan worked so hard for in "Aries Rising," she is on her way to becoming a real published author She needs to impress the camp's instructor, Henry Jaffa, a renowned journalist, paranormal investigator, and fellow Aquarian, whom she hopes will see the promise in her writing and become her mentor...
  • Runaway by Meg Cabot

    Runaway by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. With everyone she loves furious with her for something she can't explain, and nothing but the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Year's Eve to look forward to, Em's reached the end of her rope..
  • The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington

    The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A haunted house, a buried mystery, and a very angry ghost make this one unforgettable thriller. Jade loves the house she's just moved into with her family. She doesn't even mind being the new girl at the high school: It's a fresh start, and there's that one guy with the dreamy blue eyes. . . . But then things begin happening. Strange, otherworldly things...
  • Vanished by Kate Brian

    Vanished by Kate Brian

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Against all odds, Reed Brennan re-established Billings as an underground literary society. She and the new initiates created a glamorous secret headquarters and were ready to show Easton Academy that even though Billings House is gone, the Billings Girls are stronger than ever. But before Reed had a chance to revel in her success, something horrible happened: Noelle disappeared...
  • Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

    Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    My perfect life was a lie.Now I'd do anything to uncover the truth.Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I'm gone--that I'm dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad...
  • Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they decide that Calla should spend a few weeks with the grandmother she barely knows while he gets them set up...
  • The Third Eye by Lois Duncan

    The Third Eye by Lois Duncan

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's request for help, the children may never go home again. Lois Duncan presents a ticking clock mystery with thrills at every turn...
  • Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard

    Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin, Emma Paxton, takes over her identity to solve her murder. But after ruling out her early leads, Emma still hasn’t found Sutton’s killer. A lot of people wanted her dead—but one name keeps popping up: Thayer Vega...
  • Unbroken by Paula Morris

    Unbroken by Paula Morris

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome back to New Orleans. Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty. Where the houses breathe with ghosts. A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to this haunting city. She is looking forward to seeing Anton Grey, the boy who may or may not have her heart. But she also meets a ghost: a troubled boy who insists only she can help him...
  • Amber House by Kelly Moore, Larkin Reed

    Amber House by Kelly Moore, Larkin Reed

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "I was sixteen the first time my grandmother died . . ." Sarah Parsons has never seen Amber House, the grand Maryland estate that's been in her family for three centuries. She's never walked its hedge maze nor found its secret chambers; she's never glimpsed the shades that haunt it, nor hunted for lost diamonds in its walls. But all of that is about to change...
  • Thin Space by Jody Casella

    Thin Space by Jody Casella

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever since the car accident that killed his twin brother, Marshall Windsor has been consumed with guilt and crippled by secrets of that fateful night. He has only one chance to make amends, to right his wrongs and set things right. He must find a Thin Space—a mythical point where the barrier between this world and the next is thin enough for a person to step through to the other side...
  • Silent Harmony by Michele Scott

    Silent Harmony by Michele Scott

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Small town seventeen-year-old Vivienne Taylor is a talented equestrian with Olympic dreams and a little something extra going on she is also an equine empath, someone who has the ability to read horses minds and moods...
  • The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda

    The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Can fear be inherited?Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of fear, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn’t set foot outside their front door in seventeen years, since she escaped from her kidnappers with nothing but her attacker’s baby growing inside her—Kelsey...
  • Neverwas by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed

    Neverwas by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "I was sixteen the second time I had my first kiss...." At the end of AMBER HOUSE, Sarah made a choice that transformed everything--and now she must choose it all again. Things are very different--better--for Sarah and her family: her Aunt Maggie grew up; her parents are happily married; her grandmother died after a long, productive and respected life...
  • Stunning by Sara Shepard

    Stunning by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Now a hit ABC Family TV show, Sara Shepard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series continues with Stunning. In the eleventh novel, A is still out there, lurking in the shadows and digging up the liars’ latest secrets... Emily’s reconnecting with an old flame, one baby step at a time...
  • Buried by Linda Joy Singleton

    Buried by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new, darker paranormal mystery series from award-winning author Linda Joy Singleton—featuring popular goth girl Thorn from The Seer series Thorn Matthews is a Finder, a person with the psychic ability to find things just by touching an object. The visions she gets from objects—events and memories—are what guide her to the things that need to be found...
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