Contemporary Metaphysical Paranormal

When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into "normal" society.

The best-selling author of Second Nature, Illumination Night and Turtle Moon now offers her most fascinating and tantalizingly accomplished novel yet -- a winning tale that amply confirms Alice Hoffman's reputation not only as a genius of the vivid scene and unforgettable character but as one of America's most captivating storytellers.

“This story is scary sauce with a side order of quirky. Pure Entertainment.” ~ Lighthouse Reviews Stella has an injured hip, but she’s hardly ready for a retirement home. At seventy-two, she’s enjoying life on her own for the first time. But when Stella’s daughter—Jennifer—begins to question Stella’s mental state, Stella must hide the happenings in her own house, or face being sent to a home for the elderly. Jennifer sees Stella’s mind slipping away. There’s no other explanation for her mother’s behavior--claiming to hear mysterious voices, carelessly destroying ...

Story is told by a narrator who is a psychologist in Indian country. What appears to be a consultation with a patient ends up being a meeting with his teacher, Tarrence. Tarrence proceeds to take the narrator into a dreamtime journey that melts the worldview held by the storyteller. The dream leads the narrator to a place in which the energy generated by ancient dreamers must be balanced. The lack of balance brought on by the power dreamers and their ceremony resulted in the atomic bomb.

“A frightful and entertaining read that nips at your funny bone. Terrific read.” ~ Lighthouse Reviews Wendy reluctantly moves to the country so that her husband can write full time. She’s willing to give it a try since they won’t have to put their baby in daycare. But when things begin to go bump in the night, Wendy doesn’t want to stay in their renovated farmhouse. Something doesn’t feel right, and she has an awful feeling that someone is trying to steal their baby. Sean is finally living the life he’s always wanted with his wife and child. He’s writing full time from home,...

Many millennia after the fall of Eden, Adam, the first man in creation, still walks the Earth - exhausted by the endless death and destruction, he is a shadow of his former hope and glory. And he is not the only one. The Garden was deconstructed, its pieces scattered across the world and its inhabitants condemned to live out immortal lives, hiding in plain sight from generations of mankind.

Another adventure with Laura and Greye Robbins. The early morning stillness on the Oregon Coast is shattered by an artist’s scream. The portrait Greye’s mother painted the day before has been altered by unseen hands, and tears have mysteriously appeared on the canvas. Laura’s mother-in-law begs for help to solve the mystery, and Laura must tap into her ESP when she discovers the portrait’s subject is a young mother who went missing ten years earlier. The question becomes—Did Sonya Hayden run away, leaving her child behind, or was she the victim of foul play? Laura suspects Sonya ...

In a world where light and darkness are locked in eternal dance, Kiara Elouise is the unexpected bridge between the two. Raised in a devout Christian household, she clings to the faith that shaped her, even as a deep, mystic pull awakens something ancient within her soul. Guided by spirits from both Heaven and Hell—including a sultry, rebellious Lilith and a commanding, enigmatic Lucifer—Kiara begins to uncover the secrets of her family’s past and the power she was destined to wield. When an ancient artifact tied to the balance of the universe is revealed to be at the center of a ...

Three-year-old Vangie is mute and unresponsive. She shows no interest in the people or world around her, much to the frustration of her callous foster parents. Little do they know, Vangie is otherwise occupied observing “ghosts”—an infinite number of versions of herself, in an infinite number of parallel universes. When a tornado hits their trailer and Vangie is severely injured, she makes a desperate leap into another timeline where she survives the tornado, but her foster parents do not.

Old people are dying. Left with an old-fashioned syringe in their vein. Jo and Byrd are called out to Aldershot to aid Sgt Major Crane and DI Anderson with a case that is foxing the detectives. Set in a retirement home in the old Cambridge Military Hospital, Jo begins to wonder if the residents are seeing the infamous Grey Lady ghost, said to haunt the wards. But who is really killing the elderly residents? A rogue nurse? Or something even more chilling, lurking in the shadows? The new paranormal series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of ...

A young man dead. Found slumped in a chair. The new paranormal mystery series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of horror suspense from John Connolly, Stephen King, Graham Masterton, Dean Koontz, Stephen Leather and C J Tudor. YOU’RE DEAD is blinking on and off on his laptop screen. Was it signifying the end of a video game? Or the end of the player? Soon he’s not the only victim. The gamers had played for far too long, sometimes all night, sometimes for days on end. Prompting DI Jo Wolfe and her team to ask, were the players obsessed? ...

Rejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative of her divine half-brother, Jesus. As a child, she revels in her talent for walking on water, resurrecting dead crabs, and treating fireflies as luminous alphabet blocks. But after she reaches adolescence, her life becomes as challenging and ambiguous as any mortal’s.

Earth Fire is the second book in The Cross-Worlds Coven series, the sequel to Witches and prequel to Rivals. Even though Lord Gensrow has been defeated, his long shadow continues to cast a pall over the Coven. Realizing their own insularity gave the madman an advantage, every young sorceress is now encouraged to freely cross between dimensions, exploring the universe at her leisure. Yet this additional freedom requires even greater discretion, which some magical operatives still find hard to accept. Indeed, many among the Coven ranks remain indifferent to the collateral damage they ...

High above Chichester, clinging to the wall of the Cathedral, sits a gargoyle. Watching... . The new paranormal mystery series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of horror suspense from John Connolly, Stephen King, Stephen Leather, C J Tudor, Iain Rob Wright and John Bowen. A man calling himself The Watcher is terrorising young women in Chichester. He pays for sex with them and hoping to get them pregnant, he refuses to take precautions and viciously assaults them. The only flaw in his plan is that all the pregnant women have abortions. Or do...

Someone is waging war against corrupt officials... and he won't stop until they're all dead. The new paranormal series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of horror suspense from John Connolly, Stephen King, Stephen Leather, C J Tudor, Iain Rob Wright and John Bowen. As a bomb detonates inside a popular Italian restaurant, DI Jo Wolfe has to witness the death of the diners. Her traumatic search for the bodies leaves her exhausted, yet resolved to find those behind the barbaric attack. Then she receives a warning from the group responsible. ...

Doing the right thing can land you in a whole heap of trouble, or so Natalie Swift discovers on her Florence vacation. When she interferes with the soul collection of a child, she inadvertently opens the gates to Heaven and Hell, finding herself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that she could never have foreseen. Now she is a target for those from the dark side, the only way for her to survive is to form an alliance with the man she has been trying to avoid since everything went so horribly wrong. Drawn in is a thrilling and unsettling adventure for readers with a taste for ...

Every moment, every lifetime, every decision - including her choice to erase - has led Maryah to this. Two outcomes are possible: an infinite happy-ever-after with her kindrily or the final severing of her relationship with Nathan. Closer to the enemy than ever before, Maryah unravels the diabolical plan that Dedrick has been manipulating into place for centuries. Revelations, secrets, and lies surface faster than Maryah can process.

Failure is never an option. When valuable shit that—surprise!—isn’t insured gets lost or stolen, the desperate rich and the otherworldly call on me. Rescue and recovery are my specialties, and I’m damn good at what I do. So, it's not much of a shock when one of the country’s wealthiest women hires me to retrieve a stolen pearl necklace known as The Mermaid’s Lament. A straightforward job, I think—except the thief and the pearls have seemingly fallen off the Earth, the necklace is actually owned by a pissed-off sea goddess, and a whole slew of magicals are doing their best to ...

“One of the most compelling, genre blending, contemporary fantasy adventures I’ve ever read! It’s a shifter romance, verses, dystopia science fantasy, with a paranormal twist. The author has created so many amazing, out of this world, characters, it will blow you away and keep you on the edge of your seat through the entire series!” ~Rouge Publishing What if you weren’t who you thought you were? What if your DNA carried a lost race just waiting to rally its people? The invisible ones are here, waiting in the shadows for opportunity to open the mind. A tiny sphere, a knock in the ...

The Sexton and the Reaper is a novelette labeled as Paranormal Romance but it is not scary and it is not erotic by any stretch of the imagination. It's really a good old fashion love story with Ghosts, Soul Collectors, Angels, Jewish & Christian Mysticism, and of course fantasy.