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I wish I had more romance in my life. Unfortunately, that dream has gone up in smoke. With my only daughter off to college and my husband only interested in college girls, I’m headed straight for one hell of a retreat. Attacked by a demon, cuffed as a djinn, and kissed by a priest—my life has officially become the setup for a really bad joke. It all started when I faced my demons: I quit my job, left my cheating husband, and drove to an art show in NYC. From there, I stumbled into an occult shop with a handsome old friend and uncovered a strange connection to another realm. When I ...

They say there’s a little monster in all of us, but is yours trying to kill anyone? Once again, it’s time for one of Bohemian Lake’s Gas Lamp Literary Tours. Nelle’s Book Club has been reading about morally suspect monsters of the Victorian era. Namely, the ones featured in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well as Sherlock Holmes and they’re off to Edinburgh and London to immerse themselves in gothic architecture and Victorian Villains. But when they get to the second half of the trip, Sera Popescu is shocked to realize that her boss, Nelle Storey, world-renowned ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been hiding. From what exactly—love, magic, my father who once tried to sacrifice me to a goat—who can say? Baggy clothes and thick glasses turned me into an invisible woman, and honestly, I preferred it that way. After all, the divorcees at Aunt Birdie’s kooky camp always said women became invisible with age. I just had a head start. But turning forty changed something. Suddenly, I wanted more—more life, more magic, more… everything. Which is ridiculous, considering I ran from Bohemian Lake to escape all that. And yet, when I snuck into my ...

My Evil Valentine is the third book in a new paranormal cozy mystery series. Bohemian Lake’s most eligible witch, Sera Popescu, is brewing up a fairytale-worthy love potion this Valentine’s day, only it’s not for her. It’s for the supernatural contestants of Last Fairy Tale Couple Standing, a reality show being filmed at Gaslamp Literary where she works. The show is about supernatural contestants, like herself, finding their fairytale happily-ever-after’s. Unfortunately, someone is taking things quite literally. When a bachelorette ends up in a coma, Sera’s forced to step into ...

Night of the Living Well-Read is the fourth and final spellbinding trip for the Gas Lamp Lit gang. If you enjoy furtive feline familiars, love at first bite, and hex-raising situations, you'll want to take a trip with this kooky coven now! Sera Popescu’s trust issues are becoming a real pain in the neck, or maybe that’s just the nest of vampires hosting them. The surviving members of Bohemian Lake's adventurous book club have mostly recovered from their last terrifying journey into literary lunacy, and just in time too, because November’s featured author is Bram Stoker. Which means ...

Scandal & Gretel is the first book in a haunting new paranormal cozy mystery series about an adventurous book club run by witches. Bohemian Lake’s bookstore regularly spotlights a 19th-century author. This month it just happens to be a duo—the Brothers Grimm—and the Gaslamp Literary adventure book club is off to explore the medieval magic of the Black Forest in South Western Germany. Sera Popescu is excited to see the half-timbered homes, hear the cuckoo clocks and travel over the narrow cobblestone streets. But the fairy tale scenario gets a little too real when one of the members ...

Today was supposed to be a good day. I woke up happy, stable and surprisingly clean of all cookie crumbs. Then I went and unleashed something dark on the quiet town of Bohemian Lake. Something darker than my ex-husband’s devilish secrets. And here I thought raising little ones while living through hot flashes and internal rage was hell. Let me tell you, those days were a cakewalk compared to now. Raising teens while coping with the betrayal of one husband, and the death of another is decidedly worse. And getting more hellish by the second. When I decided to clean under my son's bed before...

House flippers Jack and Juniper agree to lend and help prep their latest purchase - the Doctor's House, an old Victorian mansion - to act as the eerie setting for the town's Halloween bash. They're expecting to find missing floor boards and pesky bats, not the ghostly specter of the murdered doctor's wife. But when the head of the council is found stuffed in a trunk in the attic, it appears history is repeating.

House flippers Jack and Juniper are planning to ring in the New Year slinging tapas, vino, and beer in an old Victorian mansion that they've transformed into Bohemian Lake's first inn and taproom, but the mansion's poltergeist is out to dash their merriment with mean-spirited sabotage. Having laid otherworldly rumors to rest before, Juniper is skeptical, but the alarms aren't going off. When the mischief turns deadly, Juniper calls in a part-time paranormal investigator but the man's discoveries leave her thinking that her problem is more personal than paranormal.

If you love the changing of the leaves, legends of lunacy, and pandemonium in the pumpkin patch, you'll want to one-click this book today! Jack & Juniper are back, ripping up old carpets and exposing the secrets beneath in Black Cats, Corpses & the Pumpkin Pantry, Rachael Stapleton's fifth installment in the hilarious Bohemian Lake mystery series. House flippers Jack & Juniper agree to fix up the Van Tassell mansion, an old Dutch farmhouse estate known as Sleepy Hollow, which happens to be hosting this year's Haunted Pumpkin Patch festivities. They're expecting old carpets and warped posts,...

It's the last long weekend of the summer and former investigator-turned-journalist Penelope Trubble has returned to her hometown of Bohemian Lake to help her father with his newspaper and private eye businesses. With a contest prize of $10,000 on the line, the small town is more crowded than usual with summer vacationers on the hunt for a planted replica of the rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel that, according to local legend, was lost to Bohemian Lake over 50 years ago.

Fortune Teller Madam 'Nana' Vianu and her gifted Bohemian Lake girls, Mallory and Danior, have an unparalleled weekend planned for the guests of their family-owned-and-operated lakeside manor resort. Or so they think until a dead body is found at the bottom of the manor's secret staircase. Rumors abound of past indiscretions and a ghost's revenge. It could all be part of the show but as the weather worsens so do their chances for survival. Snowed in with a killer, the Vianu girls must use their paranormal gifts and follow the clues to decipher what is real in this game of make-believe.

It's the week before Christmas, and investigative journalist Penelope Trubble has reluctantly agreed to investigate the death of a woman at the Sleighs & Slopes Adventure Resort in the hopes of exonerating her husband - who just happens to be Penny's ex.

Mallory Vianu is busy hosting a blogging conference at Caravan Manor when she hears back from a local historian who’s translated the 55-year-old diary she found in the attic, uncovering a valuable heirloom used by a Roma witch-wife to divine the future. Unfortunately, unlike her powerful relative, Mallory doesn’t see what’s coming next. The historian dies in her home, taking the whereabouts of the heirloom. To make things worse, one of the conference guests is murdered, and Detective Kaden Bones’ eyes are on Mallory.

Private investigator Penny Trubble is all for an island vacation, but warm sand and surf comes at a cost. Her friend, Danior Vianu, is spending the summer working at a relative’s paranormal resort in San Paolo, Brazil. There, the paranormal activity that is part of the resort's charm has gotten a bit too real for some. Several guests, including a personal acquaintance, have gone missing, and Danior wants Penny to find out why. What she finds is trouble.

When Bohemian Lake’s favorite house flippers Jack and Juniper agree to renovate café-owner Pike Hart’s newly inherited property - the old mill - they’re expecting to solve configuration issues, not cold cases. But with the previous owner, the ghostly Doctor Albert Downey, still in residence and connected to their own mysterious haunting, what choice do they have? The doctor convinces Juniper the only way he and his murdered bride Victoria - the ghost of the Gothic Inn - can move on is if Juniper solves the 100-year-old mystery of their murder-suicide.