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by Charlotte Del Vecchio

Jade Crawford, or as her clients know her, Madame Ravencroft, is a 25-year-old psychic, offering a variety of services thanks to her supposed connection …

by Henrietta Thornton

Be happy, be academically successful, do the right thing—in McEwan’s tale of the mystery surrounding a lost poem, you can only have two. The …

by Danise Hoover

Life in a small town in Minnesota is not supposed to involve complex crimes in the middle of a heat wave, at least that’s …

by Jeff Ayers

Beautiful, upstate New York, small town Cape Vincent is a place where everybody knows one another. When famous retired hockey player Mikko Helle buys …

by Dodie Ownes

As a junior editor at Bespoke Weddings magazine, Christine is thrilled when she is chosen to cover the supernova wedding of the year, that …

by Brian Kenney

Cordelia West lives a pretty simple life. A devoted young Dallas Public librarian, she likes to keep her past just that: in the past. …