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    Our Stop: Hilarious, heartwarming romance – this is THE new romcom you need to read in 2019 What if you almost missed the love of your life?

    Nadia gets the 7:30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma’s after too much wine.

    Daniel really does get the 7:30 train every morning, which is easy because he hasn’t been able to sleep properly since his dad died.

    One morning, Nadia’s eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper:

    To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I’m the guy who’s always standing near the doors… Drink sometime?

    So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses, true love, and the power of the written word.

    A wonderfully funny will-they-won’t-they romance told with real emotional honesty, perfect for those who loved Sally Thorne’s 99% Mine and Helena Hunting’s Meet Cute.

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    Schoolgirl Missing: Discover the secrets of family life in the most gripping page-turner of 2019 The USA Today and #1 eBook bestseller of The Girl Who Lied and Sister Sister.

    HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GIRL?

    When fourteen-year-old Poppy vanishes on a family boating trip, suspicion soon turns close to home – to the two people who should do everything to keep her safe, her parents, Kit and Neve.

    Neve has a secret. Kit is lying.

    Everyone is watching.

    Who do you believe?

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    Apple Pie and Trouble (Sandy Bay Cozy Mystery Book 1) Meghan Truman always had a dream to become a Hollywood actress. Hollywood decided she wasn’t good enough. She left Hollywood broken but with a burning desire to start afresh in the Pacific Northwest, pursuing her second dream – opening a bakery.

    She never expected that the owner of a rival establishment would be found dead and all eyes would be focused on her as the prime suspect.

    As the new girl in town with a new bakery store, she’s determined to clear her name and find the murderer; otherwise she’ll have to leave Sandy Bay penniless and pitiful and possibly the murderer’s next victim…

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    Redemption's Blade (After the War Book 1) Ten years ago, the Kinslayer returned from the darkness. His brutal Yorughan armies issued from the pits of the earth, crushing all resistance, leaving burnt earth and corruption behind. Thrones toppled and cities fell.

    And then he died.

    Celestaine—one of the heroes that destroyed him—has tasked herself with correcting the worst excesses of the Kinslayer’s brief reign, bringing light back to a broken world. With two Yorughan companions, she faces fanatics, war criminals and the Kinslayer’s former minions, as the fragile alliances of the War break down into feuding and greed.

    The Kinslayer may be gone, but he cast a long shadow: one from which she may never truly escape.

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    Swept Away By a Kiss (Rogues of the Sea Book 1) “A breathtaking romance filled with sensuality and driven by a brisk and thrilling plot… Katharine Ashe writes with eloquence and power—what a compelling read!”
    New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas

    An absolutely amazing debut novel from Katharine Ashe, an exceptional new voice in historical romance, Swept Away by a Kiss is the first book in an exciting new series—the story of a society jade who thinks she’s done it all until she meets the devil himself.

    Piracy, intrigue, rogue lords with a dangerous secret…can love unmask the Masters of Masquerade? Read Swept Away by a Kiss and find out!

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    You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the ’60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers.

    Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the ’60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men.

    The watershed point in Carol’s journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses. But this sense of self-possession comes too late for honesty with her father. His unexpected death before she can tell him the truth brings the full cost of Carol’s secret crashing in compelling her to come out to her mother before it is too late.

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    A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to learning effectively—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier.

    Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there’s only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions—you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over.

    The learning strategies in this book apply not only to math and science, but to any subject in which we struggle. We all have what it takes to excel in areas that don’t seem to come naturally to us at first, and learning them does not have to be as painful as we might think!

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    Senile Squad: Adventures of the Old Blues Grab your walker, secure your catheter, and make sure there’s double adhesive on your dentures! Then hang on for dear life because you are about to ride along with the covert Senile Squad—a bunch of elderly cops who refuse to stop catching crooks.

    Fighting street crime the old-fashioned way is their modus operandi. The Ol’ Blues, led by their cigar-chewing Sarge, bring justice back to the streets of Omaha by taking down a brutal Sudanese kingpin who thinks he’s a powerful gang lord.

    Crime fighting has never been so funny or effective when seasoned cops armed only with walkers, canes, and wheelchairs (and some gross tactics) take back the streets.

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    The Handfasters (Lowland Romance Book 1) Scotland, 1811. Coming from the Highlands to Edinburgh in search of a husband, Alison Lamont finds herself in all sorts of trouble.

    Thrown out of a fashionable ball for a stolen kiss, Alison flees from a riot in the notorious Old Town and meets Willie Kemp, an eccentric boatbuilder. While she falls deeply in love with Mr. Kemp, her aunt wishes her to marry the obnoxious but rich John Forres.

    Alison takes drastic measures to solve her dilemma, including a long trip through the snow-covered Pentland Hills. But who left the mysterious footprints outside her cottage, and what secrets is Mr. Kemp hiding?

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    Redemption Lake: A Winston Radhauser Mystery: #1 Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal.

    Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something. But as the investigation progresses, Radhauser’s attention is focused on Matt’s father. Matt’s world closes in when his father is arrested for Crystal’s murder, and Travis breaks off their friendship.

    Despite his father’s guilty plea, Matt knows his dad is innocent and only trying to protect his son. Devastated and bent on self-destruction, Matt heads for the lake where his cousin died—the only place he believes can truly free him. Are some secrets better left buried?

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    Suspense, Biographies & Memoirs, Romance, Fantasy, Thriller, Romantic Comedy, Science Fiction, Mystery… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    One Perfect Lie Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He’s applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he’s ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable.

    But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie.

    Susan Sematov is proud of her son Raz, a high school pitcher so athletically talented that he’s being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But Raz’s father died only a few months ago, leaving her son in a vulnerable place where any new father figure might influence him for good, or evil.

    Heather Larkin is a struggling single mother who lives for her son Jordan’s baseball games. But Jordan is shy, and Heather fears he is being lured down a dark path by one of his teammates, a young man from an affluent family whose fun-loving manner might possibly conceal his violent plans.

    Mindy Kostis succumbs to the pressure of being a surgeon’s wife by filling her days with social events and too many gin and tonics. But she doesn’t know that her husband and her son, Evan, are keeping secrets from her – secrets that might destroy all of them.

    At the center of all of them is Chris Brennan. Why is he there? What does he want? And what is he willing to do to get it?

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    BRAVE Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood.

    In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualization. Rose escaped into the world of her mind, something she had done as a child, and into high-profile relationships. Every detail of her personal life became public, and the realities of an inherently sexist industry emerged with every script, role, public appearance, and magazine cover. The Hollywood machine packaged her as a sexualized bombshell, hijacking her image and identity and marketing them for profit.

    Hollywood expected Rose to be silent and cooperative and to stay the path. Instead, she rebelled and asserted her true identity and voice. She reemerged unscripted, courageous, victorious, angry, smart, fierce, unapologetic, controversial, and real as f*ck.

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    Rescued By the Rancher (Tall Pines Ranch Book 2) Starting over and starting a whole lotta trouble…

    Meredith Anderson left her difficult past behind to create a new life for herself in Tall Pines – where she can be the independent, confident woman she always dreamed of being. Now she’s a partner in her sister’s wedding planning business, helping brides realize their happily-ever-afters…even as she promises herself to never fall in love.

    Meredith’s sweetness and vulnerability brings out the protective side of rancher Gage Mackenzie – even though their worlds are miles apart. All it takes is one night for desire to take hold of them both, a sizzling encounter that can only lead to the promise of more. But Meredith isn’t looking for more, and even if she was, Gage is set to leave Tall Pines behind him…

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    The Oracle of Stamboul: A Novel Set in the heart of the exotic Ottoman Empire during the first years of its chaotic decline, Michael David Lukas’ elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel follows a gifted young girl who dares to charm a sultan—and change the course of history, for the empire and the world.

    An enthralling literary adventure, perfect for readers entranced by the mixture of historical fiction and magical realism in Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red, or Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lukas’ evocative tale of prophesy, intrigue, and courage unfolds with the subtlety of a Turkish mosaic and the powerful majesty of an epic for the ages.

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    The Girl Who Lied: The bestselling psychological drama Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Sometimes the perfect friend tells the perfect lies…

    Erin and Roisin were once friends until a fatal accident ruined both their lives. Now, Roisin has discovered a secret—one Erin has kept for over a decade—and she’s determined to make Erin pay for her lies.

    When Roisin suddenly disappears, suspicion soon lands on Erin. She would do anything to protect her family, but just how far is she willing to go when time is running out?

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    The Final Outbreak: An Apocalyptic Thriller Our End is Coming. It’s Closer Than You Think. And It’s Real.

    The final outbreak starts with animals and moves swiftly to humans, turning the infected violent.

    Cities fall as the outbreak spreads as far as the winds blow, leading to society’s end.

    A lucky few may survive, but for how long in a world ravaged by an always present disease? Or is all hope lost?

    This story is true, it just hasn’t happened… Yet.

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    Four Bridesmaids and a White Wedding: The laugh-out-loud romantic comedy of the year! Don’t tell the bride!

    Rose, Sal and JoJo have been looking forward to their best friend Wendy’s hen party for ages. A relaxing spa break is the perfect way to escape their crazy careers, grumpy husbands and stroppy children – even if the groom’s straight-laced sister, Tamsin, is coming too.

    Until they realise that there’s been a mistake in the booking and instead of sipping prosecco in fluffy white dressing gowns they’re off to bridesmaid bootcamp!

    Squeezing themselves reluctantly into tiny shorts and sliding through the mud, it’s only a matter of time before secrets emerge that could change everything…

    Forget about saving the date, these four bridesmaids need to save the day – otherwise will there even be a white wedding at all?

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    Fluency (Confluence Book 1) NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it.

    The ship itself remained silent, drifting.

    Dr. Jane Holloway is content documenting nearly-extinct languages and had never contemplated becoming an astronaut. But when NASA recruits her to join a team of military scientists for an expedition to the Target, it’s an adventure she can’t refuse.

    But the ship isn’t vacant, as they presumed…

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    The Witch of the Meadows (The Windborne Book 1) For months, seventeen-year-old Fern has been sneaking out on her mother—really sneaking out—through a magical portal to an island halfway around the world. There, the grandmother Fern never knew existed needs her help rejuvenating their ancestral land. She has always been good at growing things, but that’s not magic. And magic is what the island needs.

    With its energy running out, the land is breaking apart, and the caretakers demand a real witch to take over the Meadows, not a teenager with a green thumb. Elbow-deep in dirt, Fern confronts a splintered community, unsure who to trust, but grateful for the support of a Scottish boy who looks at her with green eyes shining with magic—and something more powerful.

    Caring for this land is Fern’s birthright, one she longs to claim. But to take her place in this magical world, Fern must first figure out how to use her unique gift.

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    Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse (A Cape Bay Cafe Mystery Book 1) From USA TODAY bestselling author Harper Lin: a new cozy mystery series with recipes!

    Francesca Amaro moves back to her hometown of Cape Bay, Massachusetts, and takes over the family business, Antonia’s Italian Café. She spends her days making delicious artisan cappuccinos, until she stumbles upon her neighbor’s dead body. When the police discover Mr. Cardosi was poisoned, Francesca becomes a suspect.

    The victim’s son, Matty, happens to be Francesca’s old high school friend. Together, they uncover the secrets of the locals in order to find the killer in their idyllic beach town.

    Includes two special cupcake recipes!

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    Historical Romance, Science Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Legal Thriller, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Paranormal… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    My One and Only Duke: Includes a bonus novella (Rogues to Riches Book 1) Meet the highly unconventional Wentworth family in this charming USA Today bestseller with a Cinderella twist.

    One minute, London banker Quinn Wentworth is facing execution. The next, he’s declared the long-lost heir to a dukedom. Quinn has fought his way up from the worst slums, and now he’s ready to use every dirty trick he knows to find the enemy who schemed against him.

    Jane Winston, widowed and pregnant, crosses paths with Quinn while her father is preaching to the prisoners. Believing his days are numbered, Quinn offers her marriage as a way to guarantee her independence and provide for her child. Neither thinks they’ll actually have a future together.

    He’s a wealthy gutter rat out for vengeance. She’s a minister’s daughter who must turn a marriage of desperation into a proper ducal union. Are they doomed from the start or destined for a happily-ever-after?

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    The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1) Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.

    Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.

    Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan…

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    Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones.

    The things we want most—peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work—are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds—the length of a deep breath—allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. Four Seconds reveals:

    • Why listening—not arguing—is the best strategy for changing someone’s mind
    • Why setting goals can actually harm performance
    • How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower
    • How taking responsibility for someone else’s failure can actually help your team

    Practical and insightful, Four Seconds provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.

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    No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon Beloved American hero and astronaut Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he’s gathered—both in outer space and on earth—through his event-filled life, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation.
     
    Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man in space to first men on the moon. Now he pauses to reflect and share what he has learned, from the vantage point not only of outer space but also of time: still a non-stop traveler and impassioned advocate for space exploration, Aldrin will be 86 in 2016.
     
    No Dream Is Too High is a beautiful memento, a thought-provoking set of ideas, and a new opportunity for Buzz Aldrin to connect with the masses of people who recognize his unique place in human history.

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    Mid Watch: An action-packed legal thriller One young man forced into an impossible situation: obey his commander and potentially cause a disaster, or disobey and ruin his career permanently.

    With a new wife and baby on the way, Victor Cushing joins the crew aboard the U.S.S. Manhattan for a highly risky endeavour, eager to prove himself and determined to secure his family’s future.

    Vic’s duty was to keep watch in the fire-rooms for the final hours of a speed test, starting at midnight. Reaching the required knots with their ageing boilers would be an immense task.

    When the water levels start to drop, alarm bells start to ring.

    The fallout of Vic’s decision leads to the courts where he is pitted against his captain, both with everything to lose. In this tense action novel, which leads brilliantly into a nail-biting legal thriller, we witness one man’s struggle for innocence against powers far greater than his own.

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    The After Party: A Novel From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship – in all its intimate agony and joy – set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation.

    Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man wants her; every woman wants to be her. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But when Joan’s radical behavior escalates the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, ultimately forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is. 
     
    A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.

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    The Pursuit of Alice Thrift (Vintage Contemporaries) In her newest well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, bestselling author Elinor Lipman dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman?

    Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101?

    Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower life comes Ray Russo, a slick traveling fudge salesman in search of a nose job and well-heeled companionship, but not necessarily in that order. Is he a conman or a sincere suitor? Good guy or bad?

    Alice’s parents, roommate, and best friend Sylvie are appalled at her choice of mate. Despite her doubts, Alice finds herself walking down the aisle, not so much won over as worn down. Will their marriage last the honeymoon? Only if Alice’s best instincts can triumph over Ray’s unsavory ways.

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    Under a Raging Moon (River City Crime Novel Book 1) A violent robber is loose in River City. Meet the cops that must take him down.

    Stefan Kopriva, a young hotshot. Katie MacLeod, a woman in what is still mostly a man’s world. Karl Winter, about to retire but with one more good bust left in him. And Thomas Chisolm, a former Green Beret who knows how dangerous a man like the Scarface Robber can be.

    These are the patrol officers of River City – that mythical thin blue line between society and anarchy. They must stop the robber, all the while juggling divorces, love affairs, internal politics, a hostile media, vengeful gang members and a civilian population that isn’t always understanding or even grateful.

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    Legal Affairs: McKayla's Story One year ago, I graduated from law school and embarked on a career as a purveyor of high priced legal shenanigans.

    Six months ago, my boyfriend dumped me when I thought he might be proposing.

    Two weeks ago, I got drunk and joined a secret sex club.

    Two days ago, I had a torrid one-night stand with a stranger.

    Today? My one-night stand is no longer a stranger… Today, he’s my new boss.

    Matt Connover is all kinds of forbidden temptation wrapped up in a deliciously wicked package, and he’s made it clear… he’s only interested in sex.

    My name is McKayla Dawson, and I work at the powerhouse firm of Connover & Crown, LLP, where the law has never felt so hot.

    But between you and me, I’m afraid my heart won’t survive these Legal Affairs.

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    Wolves of Wisteria (Wisteria Witches Mysteries - City Hall Book 1) Zinnia Riddle doesn’t use her witch powers much these days. She works as a clerk at the Wisteria Permits Department, where there hasn’t been much need for spells and potions… until now.

    When a beloved coworker is found dead next to her desk, the whole office gets paranoid. Is one of them a killer? Did the victim leave behind clues in the book she was writing? Is there a town-wide conspiracy, or is some lone serial predator on the loose?

    The police are always two steps behind the evil that’s threatening the peaceful town. Now it’s up to Zinnia Riddle and the witches in her coven to uncover the secrets hiding in plain sight.

    Will Zinnia’s rusty magic hold up against a powerful enemy?

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