Ghost Flower

Magic, danger, and epic fantasy collide in this spellbinding first book of the Silent Archmage series, where an archmage seeking peace enrolls in a magic academy, only to be swept into a treacherous magical adventure. Syl, an archmage who tirelessly fought the monsters spilling from the magical...

The second thrilling installment in the epic Silent Archmage fantasy series unveils a tale of magic, war, and a kingdom on the brink of destruction. War is coming. The kingdom is not ready…but Syl is. Syl’s first semester at the Aurian Magical Institute has been more eventful than he hoped...

Cascadia and Auria have felled each other, and in the wake of the Aurian king using a weapon made from machines long thought to be extinct, the moon has awakened and has begun to fall. The ghosts of the machines speak, telling humanity that judgment is coming.

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there...

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life.

Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of 700 folks who define the phrase ‘small town’. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion, and nothing ever will...until the mayor of sorts comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He’s heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of curious people and making the townsfolk rich overnight. Why not stage a prank in Pinion and do the same? What could go wrong? And then a dead body shows up.

In this gardening competition, some will win a prize while others get pruned… When amateur sleuth Lena Larsen agrees to host New Oslo's prestigious garden show at her Victorian home, she expects competition to be fierce. She doesn't expect it to be fatal. But after a renowned delphinium breeder is found dead among the prize-winning blooms, Lena finds herself cultivating suspects instead of flowers. With her grandmother's ghost offering commentary from the sidelines (that only Lena can hear), her best friend Charlie serving up local gossip with the tea, and a handsome sheriff who's learned...

A stolen secret, a strangled judge, and a flowering feud. When Lena Larsen agrees to host the New Oslo Tulip Festival at her grandmother's Victorian home, she expects prickly personalities and competitive gardeners. What she doesn't expect is murder. As tulip enthusiasts and judges gather to showcase their prized blooms, tensions quickly rise to the surface. Head judge Eleanor Summers seems to delight in antagonizing everyone with veiled threats about "revelations" she plans to share. But before she can expose anyone's secrets, Eleanor is found dead among the prize tulip beds. With a house ...

Murder, magic, and a ghost with unfinished business take center stage in Quillhaven. When seasoned director Olivia Sweetwater arrives in the enchanted town of Quillhaven, she expects nothing more mysterious than staging The Thirteenth Mirror at the historic Silver Quill Theatre. On the first day of rehearsals, the Silver Quill’s beloved costume designer, Martha, is found murdered, and her magical sewing patterns—protective spells woven into fabric for generations—have vanished. Someone wanted those enchanted costume patterns badly enough to kill for them. As supernatural shenanigans ...

When Daisy Fitzpatrick discovers a treasure trove of gold in a sea cave near her Granny’s shanty on Dingle Bay, she rents out her art studio in Dingle, buys an old mansion in Killarney, and overnight, finds herself a local celebrity with a wonderful new life. But when the real owner lays claim to the gold, she loses everything, including her fickle, new friends. Can Daisy find it in herself to start over? With Cavan’s help, the sea captain’s ghost, and her granny’s quilt to point the way, the quest for more gold is soon underway. But when a priest ends up dead and a pirate takes up ...

Two years ago, Gloria Cline had the worst night of her life. A music festival deep in the woods near the Porcupine Mountains turned deadly when Gloria and her best friend, Wren, went for a night walk. Twenty-four hours later, Gloria was found barely clinging to life with a horrific story of being abducted and nearly murdered. No trace of Wren was ever found. Today, Gloria has walled herself into a safe world that relies on routine and familiarity. She doesn’t leave her apartment—ever. But somehow evil has gotten in.

Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family's ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England's Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn't alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine's companion since childhood. When Francine's estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she brings with her a story that threatens everything Francine has always believed.

Three years after her father was killed, 16-year-old Peyton Delaney; her mother, Melody; and her new stepfather, Vance McIntyre, relocate to Shadow Bay, Minnesota, and move into an old Victorian. They are unaware of the house's dark history: 50 years ago, a jealous husband snapped, murdering his wife, her lover, and 16-year-old daughter, before killing himself. But when Peyton begins to have nightmares about the crime and is haunted by a ghostly girl named Caitlyn, she begins to investigate.

People tend to think of us as shadows. Blurred black mist. Often, it’s “out of the corner of my eye.” People sense the cold. I’ve heard of ghost hunters who use a tape measure, laying it on the ground to mark our boundaries. I don’t want to be measured. In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s...

Evil resides in Amon Palace. Something worse came to visit. Four veterans of the Iraq War seeking a cure for Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder arrive at a notoriously haunted house in the bogs of Galveston Island called Amon Palace...At first, their stay seems to conjure nothing more than spooky encounters with inexplicable phenomena. But Amon Palace is gathering its powers-and soon it will reveal that these veterans are not who they seem.

When sixteen-year-old Paige Preston and her mother relocated to Dead Lake, Michigan, they were unaware that a seventeen-year-old previous resident of their house had killed himself by jumping off a cliff into the lake six months earlier. But was it really suicide? Noah Snyder is a ghost. At least he thinks so. Only he's not sure how he died. He recruits the cute Paige to help him get to the bottom of the mystery so he can move on.

Audrey Hamilton, a young American woman, comes to Paris to seek her fortune as an artist. Lurking beneath the glamour of the city, however, in a nation still recovering from the Great War of 1914-18, is the dark spiritual force of the poet Charles Baudelaire. Evil will rise from the moody old Cemetery of Montparnasse to ensnare Audrey's spirit and drag her to her doom.

Last night I dreamt of Woodlands .... this has been a reoccurring dream all my life, a place of childhood memories where it is always summer. Long days exploring the countryside full of flowers and magic, lost in time itself between the hills, fields down to the Jurassic shoreline of Somerset. This book takes you through my early childhood with memories and snippets of history about the places I lived in, we moved houses several times in Somerset until we finally settled in the Midlands. We continued to visit our family for the summer holidays for many years and my heart is in those country...

Ghosts, Love, Suspense, and Dead Bodies The Ghostly Art of Flowers Mystery: A Sycamore Grove Paranormal Cozy Mystery When Eden receives a message from Shane, her detective boyfriend, she knows she has to reschedule her trip to Pine Ridge for another day. He’s working on a new case. “Nothing too intense, I hope.” Olivia sighs. “After the whole coin craziness, I’m ready for Sycamore Grove to get back to normal.” I smirk slightly. I would love to see a “normal” Sycamore Grove. Since moving here, I now see and talk to ghosts, plus I’ve helped solve a murder and barely escaped ...

The latest creepy Horror Short from author, Dawna Flowers. Sally Scratch and the Squirrel is volume seven in an eight volume set.