Kirjahaku

Scott Randall is settling in with the northern Lower Michigan branch of Spell's Angels. She's feeling bold, brash ... and just a little bit flirty thanks to her burgeoning relationship with Gunner Stratton, a shifter whose father happens to serve as the chief of police in Hawthorne Hollow.Things are going well ... until they're not.A group of shifters who used to live in the area have returned and they're up to something. Right from the start, Scout is suspicious but she can't quite explain why. Then, when a local homeless man is found dead - with Scout's name literally carved into him - she starts to believe that she's being set up to take a fall.Gunner is determined to help. His history with the shifters in question makes things difficult, though. On top of everything else, it becomes apparent that the dead guy's ties to Scout run deep ... like genetically deep. He's related to her, and for a woman who was abandoned as a child, it's a hard blow to absorb.Gunner is determined to stick close as the warring wolves close ranks and start issuing threats. It's going to take everybody working together to find the answers Scout desperately needs, including uncovering the secret of her past. When one of their own is taken, Scout has no choice but to put her full cache of magic on display.It's going to be a fight to the finish, rival gangs going at one another, and only one side will be victorious.Which one will it be?

Halloween is Avery Shaw's favorite time of year. What's not to love? Slasher movies, hot chocolate and corn mazes. She's addicted to them all.During a visit to one of those mazes, she runs across several men trying to kidnap a teenage girl. In true Avery fashion, she intervenes ... resulting in a severe injury. While she's on the mend, she starts tracking information on a group of people working in the area.Avery can't decide if she's on to something or imagining things. The attack leaves her weaker than she would like, something she refuses to acknowledge, and questioning her investigative mind.Eliot Kane, her live-in love, decides to help. As much as he wants her safe, he understands she needs to take control. Together, they're going to dig until they find the information they need. Unfortunately for both of them, the deeper they get, the more they start to wonder just how big of an operation they're dealing with.Information pours in, leading to questions about missing girls from years before ... and an odd woman serving as an oracle for the Halloween fans in the present. She's keeping a secret, too, and Avery is determined to figure out what it is.As she's proven her entire life, Avery won't quit until she wins. This time, however, the battle is going to be long, dark and deadly.She won't ever give up ... even if the search for the truth ultimately kills her.

Izzy Sage is settling into her new job, enjoying her new romance, and only has one thing on her mind: Choosing a new assistant to help her at Belle Isle's death gate. All of that changes when the gate malfunctions. Instead of dragging someone over, though, it sends five people back.Years ago, a group of trainees disappeared while on a tour of the facility. There was no rhyme or reason to what happened and the higher-ups assumed they died during the malfunction. Five of them have returned though, and they haven't aged a day.Naturally, the reaper world is buzzing with the news. Izzy, however, thinks something bigger might be going on. Her belief only becomes stronger when another creature shows up in the middle of the night and attacks.The malfunctioning gate is hiding a sinister secret, and it might just have something to do with what happened to Izzy's parents so many years ago. Oliver has ties to the initial incident, too, and even though he knew the men way back then, he's discombobulated by what's happening now. When you add to that the arrival of Paris Princeton, Izzy has her hands full.Thankfully she's not alone on the job. She has the Grimlocks to back her play ... and serve as emotional sounding boards. Together, Izzy and the Grimlocks are neck deep in trouble and searching for answers. They need to find them before the unthinkable happens and they lose one of their own, because when the gate starts acting weird again, someone is going to have to cross over to the other side - face death itself - and reclaim the most valuable prize imaginable.Izzy's life is about to take a turn. Somehow, she needs to stay on her feet to see it through. That's easier said than done when death is your business but if anyone can make it to the other side and live to tell the tale, it's Izzy.It's going to be a bumpy ride.

Witches are descending on Hemlock Cove and the town is gearing up for mayhem. Bay Winchester is ready to cover the event for her newspaper, and is excited to see faces she hasn't interacted with in more than a decade.Then the unthinkable happens.The local blacksmith shop catches fire and Bay and her cousin Thistle risk death to try and rescue the owner. Unfortunately, they're too late, and the man is unable to be resuscitated. Not only that, but it wasn't the fire that killed him. No, he was murdered.Bay can't shake the feeling that something bad is about to happen. Harbingers of the feathered variety are filling the sky ... and threatening attack. Dark magic is at work, and someone is plotting multiple deaths.It's up to Bay and her family to save the day, and they have to do it before cousin Clove gets married on the summer solstice. It's a big day for the family, and a big moment for Bay. She's the center of attention as the clock ticks down, the weight of the world on her shoulders.The Winchesters won't sit back and wait for a fight to come to them, they'll go after the fight ... and this is no exception. As death comes calling, they will answer.Sit back and enjoy the ride. Love, marriage, death, and destruction are about to collide. You won't want to miss a thing.

Hadley Hunter thinks she's seen everything - okay, maybe not everything but a lot of things - but she's never seen a cupid convention.When her good friend Booker's fellow cupids descend on Moonstone Bay, she thinks it's going to be fun and games. Instead, it's mayhem and mystery when a rash of suicides and attempted suicides hit random island residents.That means it's off to the races to solve another mystery.Hadley has been doing a lot of thinking about her life. She wants a career, not a job. She also wants to uncover a murderer. Even though her boyfriend Galen tries to keep her out of the case, she's bound and determined to be in the thick of things.Galen's fears come to fruition when something starts calling to Hadley in her dreams and he's convinced whatever creature convinced the others to try to kill themselves is now after Hadley.Between egocentric cupids who are at war with each other, a big mystery regarding the origin of some of Hadley's favorite paranormal friends, and her own determination, Hadley isn't giving up without answers.She's used to having magical backup at every turn. This time, she's going to have to fight the ultimate battle alone.Is she up to the challenge? She'd better be. Everyone she loves is in danger and she's the only one who can save them.It's time to witch up ... and she's ready.

Poet Parker put the past behind her. At least she thought she did.Life on the streets wasn't what she had in mind for her forever and she jumped at the chance to join Mystic Caravan Circus when an invitation was extended. She didn't look back.That was ten years ago, and now Poet is going back to the exact area she used to haunt ... and she's nervous.The friends she left behind are scattered. Some are dead. Some have moved on to other things. Some turned out to be something else entirely. Others simply disappeared into the wind.Unfortunately for Parker, forgetting isn't easy ... especially when a group of banshees start infringing on Mystic Caravan's territory and the creatures seemingly have ties to the people Poet left behind.Between the reapers also working the case - a crazy family called the Grimlocks who can't stay out of trouble - and the guilt weighing Poet down given the way she fled, she has her hands full.Someone is controlling the banshees, stealing girls from the streets and creating a merry band of monsters. It's up to Poet to find out who and protect two street girls who remind her of herself.Poet doesn't want to look back but she has no choice ... what she finds might be more evil than she ever imagined.

Bay Winchester is having a tough week.As the local editor of Hemlock Cove's only newspaper, she just happens to be present when a body is found in an area corn maze. To make matters worse, the police believe the murder may have something to do with the occult.This wouldn't be a problem for a normal reporter, but since Bay is descended from a well-known line of actual witches, the town is understandably on edge.Between the suspicious townspeople, the befuddled police presence, and that random hot biker guy who may or may not have something to do with the murder -- Bay has her hands full.When you add the typical family problems, multiplying ghosts -- and one monster of a zit that she's sure came from her aunt's curse -- Bay is just struggling to make it through the week.Of course, when the killer sets his sights on Bay, things could get a whole lot worse.

Avery Shaw is having a bad week.First, she had to cover a story on a barricaded gunman who likes to dance naked in his window. Second, she's receiving death threats with her morning newspaper. Lastly, and most importantly, her mom keeps vetoing her outfit choices.It's all in a day's work for this hardworking, if easily distracted, reporter.Avery Shaw is hot on the trail of the story, even if it means tangling with her hot ex-boyfriend -- the county sheriff -- and the equally hot, if slightly shadier pawnshop owner down the street.Getting the story is going to be totally worth it -- that is if Avery can survive the week.

Local news reporter Avery Shaw's week is going from bad to worse.It's bad enough there's a dead body in the parking lot of the newspaper, but when the investigation into the death leads to drugs - and a tie to her own family - things continue to spiral downward.If she could focus on that, though, it would just be another normal week. Constant run-ins with both the men in her life, a missing cousin, and that nagging little problem with her grandfather -- who insists on running around his yard naked -- are all combining for one heck of a headache.Avery is going to get the story - even if it means taking down her own cousin. Surviving to file that story, though, that's a whole other problem altogether.

Journalists are supposed to report the news, not be it. For Avery Shaw, though, that's easier said than done.Avery has spent the last month on her boss' list -- you know the one -- and she can't figure out a way to get off it. When a missing persons case involving a wealthy mother in the northern suburbs surfaces, Avery figures the best way to get back in his good graces is break the story of the year.There's just a few problems standing in her way. First off, she's being stalked online -- and it's starting to make her life difficult. She's also decided to actually start dating the hot pawnshop owner, Eliot, who saved her life a few weeks back. That sounds good in theory, but she's constantly crossing paths with her ex-boyfriend and that tends to make things uncomfortable (to say the least).When you compound that with the fact that this missing persons case is more than it appears -- and the office tool has been assigned to the story with her -- Avery manages to get in over her head. Again.Avery is sure that she can work things out to her advantage -- as long as she doesn't die in the pursuit of yet another story in which she manages to get personally involved.

Life should be good for Avery Shaw. She's got a hunky new boyfriend in local pawnshop owner (and sometime private detective) Elliot Kane, her cousin Lexie swears she'll be moving out of her house one day "real soon" and her family has been relatively quiet for a whole week. That's practically perfection in Avery's world.Then, what appears to be a random freeway shooting resulting in the death of a young mother, causes upheaval on just about every front. County Sheriff Jake Farrell announces that the same gun used in the current shooting was also used in a similar shooting one county over a few weeks before. A joint task force is assembled and the denizens of southeastern Michigan are on edge - including Elliot and Jake, who still can't quite seem to make amends with one another.Avery is on the case, but she's got a few distractions blocking her way. The commander of the local National Guard base is acting cagey, there's a new public relations liaison in the sheriff's department that is laying down the law about media leaks and her grandfather is refusing to report for jury duty which, most likely, will result in his own incarceration.When you couple that with Carly's upcoming wedding, the opening of Lexie's new yoga studio and Avery's mom's insistence that Thundercats shoes are not appropriate footwear for public outings, and Avery's happiness quotient continues to plummet.Avery is determined to get the story - even when it becomes apparent that her efforts have turned the shooter's attention to her. When Avery finally does find an answer, will she survive to tell anyone about it?

When you're a witch, being wicked comes naturally.For the Winchester witches, though, being wicked is only half the fun.After a long winter, spring has finally hit Hemlock Cove and Bay Winchester thinks things are finally settling down in the town - and with her family. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true.As a way to distract Aunt Tillie, the Winchester family has decided to give her a new project: Her own greenhouse. As construction starts, though, Bay is approached by a young girl - one she quickly realizes is no longer among the living - and given a task. The litter girl wants her mother - and she wants Bay to find her.If that wasn't bad enough, Bay's boss has brought in a consultant who wants to up The Monitor's production to three times a week, Bay's father and uncles are in the midst of opening their own rival inn - which has the middle generation of Winchester witches in a tizzy (and Aunt Tillie on the warpath) - and FBI agent Landon Michaels is finally embracing the truth about witchcraft.In short order, Bay finds out that there may be more than one ghost in need of help, Landon is still suspicious when it comes to the Winchesters and Aunt Tillie finds she has an unlikely suitor in pursuit of her curmudgeonly affections, which doesn't stop her from cursing the youngest witches in the family when the mood hits.It's just a normal week in Hemlock Cove - that is until the truth about two small ghosts blows sky high and brings a world of trouble to the Winchester witches' doorstep.

Is speed-dating okay when you're in a relationship? It is when you're looking for a killer, especially in Avery Shaw's world.A naked body has been discovered in the nearby Clinton River, and while Sheriff Jake Farrell is keeping his cards close to his vest, Avery has another avenue of information: Eliot.It doesn't hurt that the medial examiner seems to have a crush on her -- and verbal diarrhea -- and she keeps stumbling on information that propels her ahead of the pack.Unfortunately for Avery, when she discovers information that no one else has -- and she finds herself on top of the media game -- she has to make a decision, and that decision is going to tick off everyone she knows.Between Jake's anger, Eliot's worry, and Grandpa's insistence that you can't force a handicap parking space on a business owner, Avery has her hands full.Lexie has a new place to live, Carly is adjusting to married life and Avery is trying to convince the men in her life that she's not in danger, despite all evidence to the contrary.It's a busy week -- kind of.In actuality, it's just a normal week for this hard-headed reporter, until someone's eye focuses on Avery and she finds herself in real danger. Again.Jake is angry and Eliot is torn, but Avery has an idea on how to solve the case. The only problem is, when all is said and done, someone is going to be shot ... and Avery is going to regret every move she's made on this case when it happens.Will someone survive to see another Avery Shaw catastrophe?

Life's a witch ... and then you die.It's the dying part vexing Bay Winchester these days.She may be a long-suffering daughter, thankless newspaper editor, and keyed-up girlfriend, but she's barely holding off a royal freakoutLandon's family is visiting the inn -- and they're not exactly open minded. Bay is on a mission to hide her witchy ways, but the discovery of a body -- and the poltergeist that accompanies it -- at The Overlook tips everything into turmoil.Landon's mother doesn't trust them -- and his Aunt Blanche is moving in on Aunt Tillie's man (which is causing more trouble than anyone saw coming). That's on top of the paranormal havoc the poltergeist is wreaking in every corner of town.Bay and Thistle are convinced Aunt Tillie knows something about the body the construction company unearthed while erecting her beloved greenhouse. The problem is, she won't admit it.Landon is on vacation. Chief Terry is on edge. Clove is hiding something -- and it has nothing to do with the poltergeist. That's on top of the fact that Bay's mom and aunts are feigning eternal ignorance.The poltergeist is out for blood, though -- and it will only settle for Winchester blood.When everything comes to a head, a long-held Hemlock Cove secret will be unveiled -- and it's not what anyone is expecting.

Avery Shaw's life is a mess - and that's putting it mildly.County Commissioner Tad Ludington is on the warpath, and his complaints haven't fallen on deaf ears. The new publisher is watching the staff - and Avery is of particular interest. As punishment, he's decided to bust her down to sports - and no one is happy about it.The sports editor hates her, and the rest of the staff is struggling to tolerate her. As for Avery? Her new world has sent her into a tailspin, and no one can console her - even long-suffering boyfriend Eliot, who can't deal with Avery's depression (or constant attitude).She desperately wants to chase the story swirling around the dead girl found on a high school's football field. Instead, she's forced to sit through wrestling meets and basketball games.She's not happy, and that means everyone around her isn't happy. No, to be fair, they're downright miserable.When Avery's current assignment crosses paths with the story she wants to chase, things come to a head. There's a tangled web of steroids, obnoxious teenagers, and sketchy coaches to unravel. When you compound that with Grandpa and Mario's new business venture - they're running a traveling food truck and taking it to local high schools - Avery's tenuous grasp on reality is starting to fray.Then there's that whole "Jake thing" - you know, how he told her he loved her when he thought he was dying - and Avery is also expending a lot of energy hiding from him.Can this long-suffering reporter climb her way out of sports and survive when she becomes a target yet again?

Hemlock Cove is celebrating a magical birthday, and familiar faces from different places are descending on the town to participate in the party.Everyone is looking forward to the festivities except Bay Winchester, who would rather be hiding from her high school nemesis than chatting her up in the town square.Lila Stevens hasn't changed since graduation, and Bay remains her favorite target. Bay would like to ignore her, but Lila isn't making it easy - especially when she sets her sights on FBI Agent Landon Unfortunately for Bay, she can't focus on that predicament when the Hemlock Cove Savings & Loan is held up and a local teller is shot. When suspicion falls upon Sam Cornell, the Winchesters have to gather together to prove his innocence (or guilt).Clove is despondent, Thistle is on a revenge mission and Aunt Tillie is ... well ... Aunt Tillie. As usual, the Winchester witches are in an uproar.As the clues start to fit together, Bay realizes she has to wade through a pack of lies to find the truth. With Landon by her side, and Lila nipping at her heels, Bay is going to have to find a way to survive and keep her family together.