Hollis McCarthy
101) No Scone Unturned
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Why did someone kill Olive Pendleton and hide her body?
When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad-toting grandmas witness a murder remotely through the camera of a drone, they go straight to Lexy's homicide detective husband, Jack, to report the crime. But with no body and no crime reported, Jack can't do a thing, leaving Lexy and her grandmother no alternative than to solve the murder themselves.
Armed with nothing but their gigantic patent...
102) Making Waves
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Maxi's life is about to change, but not in the way she expects...
Maxi Stevens is at a crossroads. Things between her and James haven't been the same since their kids left the nest. When she finds proof that indicates he may have strayed, she strikes out on her own. James' infidelity has a silver lining, though. Maxi can finally do all the things James wouldn't approve of like pursuing her lifelong dream of becoming an artist.
But everything is not...
103) Sorcery & Stories
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It's the holiday season in the town of Ivory Beach. Rory Hawthorn and her new magical family are preparing for the festivities. But when a group of strange werewolves materializes in the library, it kicks off a series of bizarre events which appear to be lifted directly from her aunt's best-selling novels.
Not only is Rory left to hold the fort when her family falls under the effects of the spell, her growing relationship with Xavier, the local reaper,...
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Bread is supposed to be the staff of life - not a murder weapon.
Every baker has their weak spot. For Poppy, it's bread. So, when The Great British Baking Contest hits bread week, she's as fragile as an overbaked croissant. Just when she needs to keep all her focus on flour, water, yeast, and salt, another ingredient enters the mix. Death.
Someone is not who they appear to be, and secrets from the past are bringing deadly consequences to the present....
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Butter, sugar, flour - and Death!
British amateur bakers must turn out the perfect scone in this week's filming of The Great British Baking Contest.
But fledgling witch Poppy is losing her concentration as she gets closer to discovering more of her own history at Broomewode Hall, a postcard pretty manor house in Somerset, England. However, someone is warning her to leave as she's in danger.
Can she keep her cool while solving mysteries, working...
106) The Write Hook
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Midlife is full of surprises. Not all of them are working for me.
At forty-two I've had my share of ups and downs. Relatively normal, except when the definition of normal changes... drastically.
• New York Times bestselling romance author: Check
• Amazing besties: Check
• Lovely home: Check
• Pet cat named Thick Stella who wants to kill me: Check
• Wacky Tabacky-dealing Aunt: Check
• Cheating husband banging the weather girl on our kitchen...
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Quinn Callahan is having a doozy of a midlife crisis.
She's stuck in a dead end job, going nowhere, but she's been fine with it. She's 45 and divorced. Her husband left her for her best friend-so cliche! But it was all good-until Quinn, a practicing witch, broke a major rule, and found her boring existence turned upside down. Suddenly, she finds herself thousands miles away from the bustling metropolis of Seattle and plunked down in the sleepy little...
108) The Touch of Love
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What makes a man fall in love? The Book of Love holds the answer, or so Poppy Farthingale believes . . .
Poppy Farthingale has made a pact with her two best friends to use The Book of Love to find true love. How else will Nathaniel Sherbourne, Earl of Welles, ever notice her? With a small dowry and no prominent lineage, Nathaniel will never consider her a suitable wife, especially when her competition is a beautiful duke's daughter who has already...
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A paranormal cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Nancy Warren
Under the Great British Baking Contest competition tent, there's more at stake than winning the title of Best Baker in All of Britain. For amateur baker Poppy Wilkinson, there are mysteries to solve, secrets and lies, even murder. As a fledgling witch, Poppy's having enough trouble controlling her sponge cake, never mind trying to control her powers. Besides solving...
110) In Want of a Knife
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What more could a diehard fan ask for? Except that Jane is undead and unamused…
To bookshop owner and witch Quinn Callahan's delight, Jane Austen shows up for the late-night Vampire Book Club in Ballydehag, Ireland. Quinn's thrilled and aching to ask her favorite author all the questions every rabid reader has about Jane's books, especially Pride and Prejudice. But Jane isn't in Ballydehag on a social call. She's on a mission to stop the latest...
111) Ghost in the Stone
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Caina Amalas is a Ghost nightfighter, an assassin and spy of the Emperor, and her cunning saved the city of Marsis from a brutal invasion. Now she must keep the war from becoming worse. The nobles of the Imperial city of Cyrioch plan to revolt, and assassins stalk the high lords of the Empire. Only Caina stands between the Empire and a ruinous civil war. But Caina faces a far more dangerous enemy than mere assassins. A enemy that whispers from the...
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Rory Hawthorn knows her family's magical library contains an endless array of secrets, but even her fellow biblio-witches little expect a corridor that's been missing for over two decades to suddenly materialise again.
They don't expect it to put a curse upon Rory's aunt Candace, either.
With the library once again at the centre of a potential disaster, can Rory help her family unravel the mysteries of the lost corridor and break the curse, or will...
113) Karma Camellia
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Murder lurks behind the prettiest blooms...
The past doesn’t always stay in the past. Deeds can come back to haunt us. That’s what happens to florist Peony Bellefleur’s protégé and young witch, Char, when her old boyfriend turns up out of the blue saying he wants another chance. Turns out he’s really on the run from crime. Meanwhile there’s a competition among some of the women in the Cotswold village of Willow Waters to support the church...
114) All the Write Moves
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Going to Hell has never been on my bucket list … until now.The fact that I can speak that sentence without laughing or losing my mind is absurd. However, my life has veered into a very tricky tale that rivals any of my books.The villain has been banished. I've written her right into an infernal doom. Unfortunately, a few of my very dear friends, fictional and real, have been caught up in the horror story and they've taken the trip down under as...
115) Southern Potions
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One member of Pepper's family has been turned into a toad. Can she save them?
It's New Year's and Pepper Dunn is ready to celebrate. She's been hard at work creating a potion for the annual Potion-Making Contest. All she must do is present her creation.
Pepper's plans go awry when a sorceress claims she can turn a witch into a toad-all she needs is a volunteer.
But when the sorceress is murdered and the potion stolen, all Pepper wants is to stay...
116) Spells & Shelves
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Bookshop assistant Aurora "Rory" Hawthorn thinks reality will never be as interesting as fiction. Content to spend her time escaping into a good book to escape her micromanaging boss, the very last thing she expects is to be cornered by a group of terrifying strangers hunting down a journal that belonged to her late father.
It turns out Dad was keeping a secret or two...most importantly, that he was a wizard and that Rory has a hidden magical family...
117) Beachcomber Motel
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Jules Whittier is starting to regret the promise she made to her grandmother on her deathbed. The motel is even more dilapidated than it looked like in the pictures and it turns out that renovating it includes working with her estranged cousins Maddie and Gina-the same cousins who caused her to fail at running the last motel. But there's no getting around the stipulations in Gram's will, and Jules needs to make a success of the Beachcomber, not only...
118) Cloak of Shards
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A destroyed cult. A creature from the Shadowlands on a rampage. And I'm the next target.
I thought I would help the Family of the Shadow Hunters track down a renegade cult of Dark Ones worshippers.
Instead, whatever nightmare the cultists summoned killed them all, and now it's on the run.
If I don't find the creature, a lot of people are going to die.
Starting with everyone I love...
120) How Sweet Magic Is
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HOW SWEET MAGIC IS contains books 4-6 in the Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries.
SOUTHERN SORCERY
Pepper Dunn can't catch a break. As soon as life settles down in her magical town, the sorcerer Rufus Mayes appears, hell-bent on stealing Pepper's powers for himself.
When Rufus casts a spell that links his magic to hers, Pepper is determined to break the connection. Luckily, she doesn't have to look too far for help. When an aging wizard agrees to assist her,...