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Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

Rowan, a Mayfair woman, gives birth to a creature from another species, Lasher, threatening the Mayfairs.

Merrick: The Witch's Tale

A wealthy financier's mansion becomes a portal to the supernatural, as a young fry cook and his charming companion unravel the darkest secrets of the place.

A tale of fate, magic, and power between two worlds - the Taltos, a species of witch, and the Mayfair family, a dynasty of witches in New Orleans - a story of struggle, survival, and the legacy of the past for the Taltos and the Mayfair family alike, set against the backdrop of Scottish glen and Louisiana bayou, past and present, in a world of supernatural beings and psychic scholars, where the line between science and magic blurs, and the Taltos and the Mayfair family struggle to adapt to a new and dangerous era of the world they have known for centuries.

A skeptical detective, Matt Stone, teams with curious paranormal investigator Darcy Tremayne to uncover the truth behind eerie events at the historic Melody House, only to find a deadly supernatural danger lurking within.

A story of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of 19th-century England, where an orphaned heiress seeks to prove her worth in the pursuit of a marriage of convenience.

A tale of forbidden love and dangerous secrets in the historic English mansion of Winterset.

Detective Jude Crosby investigates the murder of a rising starlet in Manhattan, uncovering a supernatural killer who mirrors Jack the Ripper’s crimes. With paranormal investigator Whitney Trement, she faces a chilling blend of crime and the occult.

Violin: A haunting ghost novel of passion, music, and mystery from Anne Rice, a master of the macabre who returns to her roots of nineteenth-century Viennese opera and modern-day New Orleans with a tale that is both captivating and disturbingly beautiful.

An FBI agent with a supernatural edge investigates a murder linked to a smuggling ring, while a grieving neighbor’s murdered colleague’s spirit seeks her help.

When a corpse swings from a marble angel in her family garden cemetery, heiress Ashley Donegal enlists a team of paranormal investigators, including New Orleans musician Jack Mallory, to uncover a dark truth that threatens to expose hidden family secrets.

After her grandfather’s murder at his 1750s‑built Savannah tavern, Abigail teams with FBI Agent Malachi Gordon to unravel a paranormal murder mystery.

When Toni MacNally’s plan to turn a Scottish castle into a tourist attraction turns supernatural, she must confront a mysterious ghostly laird and unravel a string of murders involving young women.

Three sisters struggle to reconcile their faith with the world outside the convent.

A year ago, archaeologist Leslie MacIntyre barely survived the explosion that took the life of her fiance, Matt Connolly. In the long months since, she’s slowly come to terms not only with her loss but with her unsettling new ability to communicate with ghosts, a dubious “gift” received in the wake of her own brush with death.Now she’s returned to lower Manhattan’s historic Hastings House, site of the explosion, to conquer her fears and investigate a newly discovered burial ground. In this place restless spirits hold the secrets not only of past injustice but of a very real and very contemporary conspiracy with deadly designs on the city’s women-including Leslie herself.By night Matt visits her in dreams, warning her and offering clues to the truth, while by day she finds herself helped by-and attracted to-his flesh-and-blood cousin Joe. Torn by her feelings for both men, caught between the worlds of the living and the dead, Leslie struggles against the encroaching danger that threatens to overcome her. As she is drawn closer to the darkness at the heart of Hastings House, she must ultimately face the power of an evil mind, alone in a place where not even the men she loves can save her."The intense, unexpected conclusion will leave readers well satisfied."—Publishers Weekly

A stolen antique bust in New Orleans sparks a hunt through the French Quarter as a private investigator teams with an antiques dealer to destroy a demonic object before it claims another victim.

In New Orleans, private investigator Aidan Flynn and tarot reader Kendall Montgomery uncover a haunted mansion’s dark secrets and a serial killer lurking in the shadows of a long‑forgotten plantation.

A psychological thriller about a psychic investigator and the mysterious estate where she finds a long-lost brother.

In the swamplands of Louisiana, a young woman defies her family's turmoil to navigate love, pregnancy, and secrets while contending with a wealthy cannery owner's schemes.

On the historic cruise ship Destiny, FBI investigator Jackson Crow teams with local agent Jude McCoy to hunt a serial killer known as the Archangel, whose victims are marked with saintly medallions. Along the way, therapist Alexi Cromwell encounters the vengeful spirit of a dead passenger.

When jazz saxophonist Tyler Anderson inherits a battered instrument from the recently deceased Arnie Watson, he believes the saxophone holds clues linking a series of musician murders in New Orleans to a possible conspiracy.

A young woman's struggle for independence in Victorian England as she awaits her coronation, guarded by her father, mother, and husband.

In historic New Orleans, aristocrat Rafael Navarro mistakenly courts Catherine Mayfield, believing her a worldly woman; he soon discovers her true virtue and they navigate a perilous romance amid family secrets and a haunted bayou estate.

When Joletta Caresse’s grandmother dies, she inherits a missing perfume formula and a century‑old mystery that takes her on a journey from Louisiana to 19th‑century Europe, while danger and romance swirl around her in the present.