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Artist Celeste Cabot welcomes the chance to show her paintings at a craft fair in her hometown of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where she and her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, can park her vintage Shasta trailer and sell her creations, too. Unfortunately, her sales take a hit when a customer returns a painting, claiming it's haunted. When a fellow vendor discovers images hidden in Celeste's artwork - and a ghost pays her a late-night visit - she's shocked to realize she has psychic abilities.

Cookie Chanel has opened her own vintage clothing boutique in the charming town of Sugar Creek, Georgia. Always on the lookout for stylish second-hand steals, she attends the estate sale of deceased socialite Charlotte Meadows. But she gets a lot more than she bargained for when Charlotte's ghost appears before her-offering fashion advice and begging Cookie to find out who murdered her.

Rising up against the beautiful backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Biltmore Estate is a magnificent mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, built as a summer home for George Washington Vanderbilt II - yes, of those Vanderbilts - during the Gilded Age. Nowadays, it's the site of an annual craft fair. Unfortunately, it's also about to become a crime scene....

Celeste Cabot has a flair for painting - and a touch of paranormal talent, too. She's just arrived to sell her artwork at a big craft fair in North Carolina, complete with rides, games, and deep-fried everything. But the sunny landscape takes on a darker hue when her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, leads her to the riverbank - and to a body that was definitely not part of her design.

Sugar Creek is all abuzz. A film is being shot on a historic plantation, and vintage clothing store owner Cookie Chanel is thrilled to provide authentic period outfits for its stars. When Cookie discovers the temperamental leading lady drowned in a pond, wearing a lovely vintage dress, she's suddenly on location for a real-life crime scene. And when a ghost says the dress belongs to her, the number of clues Cookie has to investigate rivals the size of her shoe collection.

Cookie Chanel, owner of the chic clothing store It's Vintage Y'All, has been hired to dress models for a fashion shoot. The spread will be featured in Fashion and Style magazine's October issue, so the models are posing in a cemetery. As someone who can see and talk to ghosts, Cookie's not spooked by the location. And she's shocked when she hears a gunshot. Then a model runs toward her, saying the grumpy photographer has been edited out of the picture...for good. With help from her ghostly pals, Cookie must zoom in on the truth before she's the next to strike a final pose.

Halloween LaVeau has settled into her role as leader of the Underworld nicely. For once things are going exactly as planned. The universe has other plans for Hallie though and decides to put a crack in her big black cauldron. When a mysterious vampire appears in Hallie's life, she must figure out if he's a bad guy or if she can trust him. Hallie is shocked to discover the vampire shares a bond with a special someone in her life. Hallie is convinced that the chaos in her life has something to do with a new spell book that shows up at LaVeau Manor. Now Hallie must find out why and where the ...

Halloween LaVeau is descended from a long line of witches. Yes, her name is Halloween. The cosmic universe is definitely playing some kind of sick joke on her. She's the ultimate witch cliche, complete with a black cat and spooky house. Thank heavens she's missing the warts and flying broom. When Halloween inherits her great aunt's manor, she decides to put the house to good use as a bed and breakfast. Her first guest is the sinfully good-looking Nicolas Marcos, but he's not here for the continental breakfast.

Maggie Thomas, private investigator extraordinaire is enjoying the Miami sun and sand. She’s had a couple easy cases lately, which is a relief after recently being wrapped up in a few murder investigations. That all changes when her spunky orthopedic shoe wearing assistant Dorothy Raye’s main squeeze is accused of murder. Hunky Detective Jake Jackson worries the killer will come after Maggie. Handsome attorney Reynold Mitchell promises to get Dorothy’s beau out of jail. Maggie will need all hands on deck to solve this crime.

As if communicating with the dead isn't strange enough, Ripley Van Raden does it mostly via text message. Good thing she has the unlimited data package with her cell phone provider. Librarian by day and haunted tour guide by night. Rip, as her friends call her, discovers books that possibly contain secret messages. When a young girl is murdered, Rip has to put her sleuthing skills to the test. With the help of part-time paranormal investigator and full-time handsome police officer Brannon Landon, they must work together to solve this potentially paranormal related crime. Brannon and Rip ...

When Cookie Chanel lands a dream assignment of providing vintage hats for a high-society Kentucky Derby party, she's brimming with excitement. Leaving her mother and best friend to mind the store at It's Vintage Y'all, Cookie packs up her psychic cat and races to Kentucky. But before she can hang her hat, her enthusiasm is dampened when the rider of the potential Derby-winning horse is put out to pasture. Now, she's saddled with the jockey's ghost, who insists she find his killer.

Larue Donavan is a bookstore owner by day and psychic medium ghost buster by night. Just when she thought she'd gotten rid of the pesky ghosts following her, a new ghostly entourage has appeared. Her new group of ghoul friends includes a celebrity...the ghost of Mae West. And does Mae ever have dating advice for Larue!

USA Today Bestselling Author Rose Pressey now writing as Rose Betancourt. Cookie Chanel owns the hottest vintage clothing store this side of the Mason Dixon line. Although, selling fabulous vintage fashion isn’t the only exciting thing Cookie has happening in Sugar Creek, Georgia. Cookie has a Halloween-themed wedding to plan. However, when not one, but two ghosts pop up wanting Cookie’s help solving their murders, then that might just put the nuptials on hold. A gothic skull-shaped hatpin perhaps holds the key to solving both murders. With the help of handsome Detective Valentine, ...

Ripley Van Raden, or Rip as everyone calls her, takes a break from guiding people on her haunted tour around Devil's Moon and tries to solve the mystery behind the spirit haunting the haunted museum. The investigation might oddly be linked to her handsome detective beau. Rip has to solve the mystery to save her hunk.

Cookie Chanel, proud owner of It's Vintage Y'All, has an unexpected visitor to her shop. And he demands her help. She's forced to button up this dangerous predicament just to keep the peace in her life. With aid from Wind Song, her psychic cat, and sassy quips from Charlotte, her socialite ghost sidekick, Cookie must unravel the thread that's kept this mystery together for decades before it's too late.

Just when Larue Donavan, top-notch psychic medium and bookstore owner, thought she'd gotten a vacation from ghostly visitors, her ghoul friends are back. All she wants is to run her bookstore and help a few lost souls cross over into the light, but what she gets is black witchcraft, demons, and Elvis Presley. Oh wait, she likes the Elvis part. A reality show is in town and wants Larue to join their team. She accepts the job, but gets more than she bargained for when, on the first day, she's thrown into a battle with dark forces.

If ever a whole town could be haunted, Devil's Moon, Kentucky would be that town. Ripley Van Raden, or Rip as her friends call her, has come back to her hometown to start her own ghost tour business. That's not her only career path, though. Librarian by day and ghost tour guide by night, Rip is ready to take on the ghosts following her around and the mysterious residents who show up for more than the tour in the Devil's Moon Cemetery.

Book 4 of the bestselling Haunted Tour Guide Mystery Series. Ripley Van Raden guides tour-goers through the spooky streets and creepy buildings on her popular ghost tour. She deals with ghosts on a daily basis in her haunted hometown of Devil's Moon. Spirits aren't only there at night. During the day, as head librarian, Ripley chats with the ghost of the town’s former librarian via text and social media. When a team of film makers want to include Ripley's tour in their documentary she agrees. It sounds like a great way to promote her tour. No sooner does the camera stop rolling when one ...

Folks say the Sugar Creek Theater is haunted. But that doesn't scare off Cookie Chanel, owner of Georgia's chicest vintage clothing store, It's Vintage Y'All - especially since Cookie talks to the ghost of her grandmother every day through her cat Wind Song. Still, after she agrees to be in charge of costumes for a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she's surprised to find the specter of a young woman in the theater, keeping watch over a trunk of 1950s dresses. And when Cookie's best friend, Heather, is found standing over a stabbed actor, she has two mysteries to solve.

Larue Donavan is a small town girl who just happens to be a world-renowned psychic medium. Yes, she talks to ghosts, but not just any ghosts... lately she’s become a celebrity ghost whisperer. Famous ghosts won’t leave her alone. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones interested in Larue. Evil entities have their sights set on her too, and they keep popping up around every corner. This time Larue finds herself in the presence of iconic film star Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn is a sex symbol in the afterlife too. Also there’s a mysterious man in town and Larue wonders what secrets he’s...