Cozy Occult

Life isn’t all that easy when you’re a paranormal private investigator involved with a police chief who’s convinced the paranormal world doesn’t exist. When he sees it up close and first hand, Jack knows that Miranda hasn’t been entirely truthful about her profession. Not that great for a relationship in its early stages.

It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living alone with her eccentric mother - who conducts seances for the local Ludthorpe community - she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. When the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. But Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep. Then Lucy goes missing.

Meg Walton has always used her magical powers for good, but not every witch is like her. Not only do evil witches exist, but one has just arrived in Enchanted Bay, looking to exact revenge. Before long, spells begin to fly. If Meg isn't careful, her magical days might be numbered. What will happen to Meg?

When two new clients seek Becca’s professional services, the fledgling witch detective is overjoyed. Finally, she can use her skills to help her magical community. But as the young witch finds the new cases intertwining, things grow more complicated. Becca’s three cats - the ones with the real power - can smell something is wrong with these clients. But not even Clara, the calico, knows what to do when a man ends up dead and a powerful and poisonous root appears - and disappears - in the case.

When Eden Kyle, an artist and tarot reader, moves to Sycamore Grove to help her niece develop a new store as a business, she starts seeing and hearing ghosts in the building where she is visiting. She soon has an encounter with the spirit of a recently murdered man who had been staying at the local B and B.

Vampire Priscilla Pratt is the best baker in the quaint town of Bellmare, Massachusetts, and its best sleuth. But the townspeople aren’t making life easy for Priscilla after her run-in with a murderer. So she agrees to cater a debutantes' breakfast to get away from it all. But just her luck, she finds another body at the hall....

The fourth exciting episode in this continuing magical saga finds the two young sleuths continuing their seclusion in the abandoned east wing of the McMasters castle as their intriguing adventures continue. Yet tricked by the rivaling wizard Vincent Chalmers, they find themselves back on the doomed airline of flight 4652, but survive using powered magical wands to form a protective shield. And Maci rises from the flames of that crash and four attempts on her life—to take the rare but historical position of Phoenix.

Susan travels on a fun cruise around the Hawaiian islands with her best friends, that is, until she sees a ghost (Book 3 of 6). When they discover the ship's deadly past, thieves give chase. An on-board ghost guides her to safety. Now, a mob boss kidnaps her, hoping to escape the island. Will Susan's new boyfriend save her before it's too late. If you've never been to Hawaii or have taken a cruise, this is the mystery for you. 10/18/21

Just when I think I understand life, the Universe flings a magic booger at me. It just doesn’t pay to think you’ve got a handle on things. For example, my favorite customer, Mrs. Foxladle, got into a simple disagreement with her book club friends over their obsession with youth and beauty. The next thing you know, they’re all dead.

Petunia Patterson's life was turned upside down when she discovered a body in her new neighbor, Noah Becker's, back yard. It's bad enough that her cat, Pansy, had gotten into his house - especially when Pansy wasn't a cat at all, but Jeremy Walters, a man she gave a love potion to, which transformed him into a cat. Soon Petunia was a person of interest, and she teams up with Noah to clear her name when all the evidence points to Petunia.

Four friends on vacation have to deal with the fact that one of them is seeing the ghost of her dead brother. This leaves them wondering if it is the intense heat of a summer drought or something supernatural? As the story unfolds they also come to realize that a wild pack of coyotes may present more danger than they originally anticipated. A fast paced little mystery that should leave the reader satisfied.

Someone's green thumb has turned red with blood when an elf is found dead, strangled by vines, in the middle of a garden shop. Now it's up to Lola and her friends to find the culprit while also keeping a careful watch on their human friend, Erin, now that the International Magic Assembly agents are on the trail! Can they find a way to get Erin back to his home in 1960's America, a mystical land of magic-less creatures? A perfect short cozy listen for when you need a few minutes to immerse yourself with magic, mystery, humor, and mischief!

Writing retreats are murder. I just turned my new home into a cozy bed-and-breakfast, and my first guests are a group of five horror writers looking for a retreat, including the famous Jason Baskin. But everything went wrong when my family ghosts vanished. No amount of ghost hunting on the part of the writers could bring them back. Then, Jason Baskin dropped dead just outside his room. Now, I have to team up with Sarah, my wise and witty mentor, and solve the murder before someone else dies. But how can I do that without Sebastian, my lazy but loyal familiar? And how can I protect my guests...

A summer heat wave is the worst of vampire baker Priscilla Pratt’s problems - until an anti-vampire religious sect shows up in town. Someone else comes knocking: a grumpy (though handsome) investigator who is suspicious Priscilla has been surrounded by so many murders recently. Avalon, Priscilla’s wacky fairy godmother, is causing a ruckus again, too. And finally - another murder, right under Priscilla’s nose, found dead on the steps of the church. Priscilla is the number-one suspect, and everyone seems to want to do her in.

As the hotel launches an addition to its overnight amenities on a neighboring property, Delia Sanchez MacBride, the Loring’s principal owner and hospitality manager, is haunted by premonitions of disaster. Delia’s worst fears begin to materialize when the hotel’s most macabre secret is literally unearthed, namely when the bodily remains of The Forgotten Fifty, a group of townspeople who vanished without a trace a century ago, are revealed as being buried in the Loring’s basement.

Genie and her ghostly great-great-aunt Adriana have been too busy with their gelato business and helping with the restoration of the old speakeasy to notice that something isn't quite right in their small town. Until pranks with touch of the macabre haunt the neighborhood, right before Halloween. But it gets worse. When a locked room murder case points straight at a connection to dark forces, the sleuthing duo fears for the living—and the not-quite so departed. Can they root out the evil in their midst before it ends Adriana’s happy afterlife—forever?

Would you travel to the past to right a wrong? Solve a cold case? Perhaps, catch a killer? Meet one of the five witches who will. Animal mauling or were attack? Time witch Nuala Walsh is on the case. Ex-communicated from her coven at a young age, Nuala uses her powerful magic to solve cold-cases for the Agency of Paranormal Peculiarities. Only the cases become less cold and fresher as each assignment sends her back in time to work out the clues the mortal investigators can’t dig up on their own.

England, 1990. Reed has travelled his whole life in search of someone who understands him. So he’s thrilled when his journey brings him to free-spirited Zoya, who shares his rare ability to dream-walk. But after his gift leads him to a hidden corpse, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder. Despite the setback, Reed resolves to use his power to help crack the case. When the real perpetrator delivers a violent threat, he’s tempted to give up, slip into his camper van, and hit the road again. After all, who would miss him?

Nicole was from New Orleans. When she found voodoo dolls in her gym locker, work desk, and on her front porch, she was scared. She knew what they meant. She was right. A few days later, she was murdered. A voodoo doll was next to her body. Can voodoo dolls kill? Liz, an amateur sleuth, is determined to find out and catch the killer. On a trip to New Orleans to attend a Cajun Creole cooking school, she meets with a gris-gris doctor who specializes in voodoo, hexes, spells, and superstitions.

Lola Sphinx and Detective Dereck, a witch and warlock in the town of Warlor, head off to the library to meet the famous potion master, Fern Magnus. Fern's in town on her book tour, and Lola is star struck at the woman's arrival. At the book signing, however, one of the guests drops dead from a poorly made potion. Lola and Dereck must work together to discover who killed her fellow bookworm, and in the process Lola learns an unfortunate lesson: You probably should never meet your heroes.