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Pumpkin Patch Reads
Spooky season is among us! 👻 There is no better time to visit a pumpkin patch and read a good book. October’s Readers’ List is filled with books that are cozy, spooky, magical, or downright terrifying. Carve out time to read today! 🎃
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Horror
Kaleidoscopic Shades: Within Black Eternity
By David A. Neuman
Kaleidoscopic Shades now a multi-award winner described as a hellish Alice in Wonderland and a merging of Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone has the Triplow family searching for answers beyond the streets of Corona, California, in an unthinkable adventure across space and time. The experience will stay with you long after you have finished reading.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Historical Fiction
A Summer with the Hermit King
By William Todd
1888. Sixteen-year-old Auggie Rose runs away from an orphanage for the bliss of the idyllic Presque Isle along the shores of Lake Erie. Will the witness of a murder turn his dream into a nightmare?
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Mystery
Blue Murder (Lord and Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series Book 2)
By Emma Jameson
Scotland Yard’s Anthony Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave, investigates a Halloween bash gone wrong. By his side is DS Kate Wakefield, the East End beauty who’s captured his heart. What will she say when he pops the question—assuming they both survive? A series readers call “witty, charming, and consistently entertaining.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Horror
Brothers of Blood (New Orleans Haunts Series Book 1)
By J.T. Patten
This haunted season, Brothers of Blood, a New Orleans Vampyre Novella “compels” you to enter the historical legend of the Carter Brothers vampires as the are slowly turned to a world of darkness.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Literary Fiction
McRae: Murder at the Opera
By Steve Bartholomew
McCrae, a news reporter in old San Francisco, is onto the story of a lifetime. But he can’t tell anyone because they would think him crazy. The spirit of a murdered Italian soldier haunts him, giving messages by automatic writing. A great disaster is coming to the city, but the Italian doesn’t know exactly what. All he wants is revenge against the man who murdered him.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Horror
The Rising: Awakening (A Gothic Paranormal Horror)
By D. Ann Hall
An ominous danger creeps ever closer, threatening to consume us all. A brave archaeologist and a cursed vampire must battle their fears to save mankind. Fear the darkness, for it is coming…
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Psychological Thriller
The Illusion of a Boy
By LeeAnn Werner
Powered by Werner’s clean and focused writing style, the tale evokes the works of Stephen King and Gillian Flynn. The small Ohio town of Stanton comes alive in the pages. Werner’s rich descriptions particularly regarding sensory details make for an immersive read from start to finish. But it’s the deeply portrayed characters that are the novel’s real strength. By Kirkus Reviews.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Financial Thriller
The Spiricom (The Early Mysteries Book 2)
By Roslyn Reid
Voices from beyond… and his dead bride cries out for justice! Tall, handsome Dr. Spencer Py despairs over his failure to save his bride in a limo crash. Then he discovers & builds the Spiricom, Thomas Edison’s electronic device to communicate with the dead… which leads his friend, Black Maine detective James Early, into the scariest case of his life.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Cozy Mystery
The Murder of Sleepy Hollow (Charlie Kingsley Mysteries Book 5)
By Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)
No, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” has NOT come to life in Redemption, Wisconsin. No matter how much it might look like it.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Young Adult
The Girl Who Talks to Ashes
By Rachel Rener
“The Ghost Whisperer meets Nancy Drew…but with time travel!” When Lilah was an infant, her terrifying form of epilepsy drove her family to abandon her. Years later, when her quest to find answers leads to her teenage mother’s cold case, she must learn to control her “gift” before she kills someone… Again.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Paranormal Romance
Charlotte Redbird, Ghost Coach (Cat’s Paw Cove Book 12)
By Sharon Buchbinder
With the help of hunky real estate agent, Dylan Graham, life coach Charly Redbird and her new kitten have found the perfect home next to a cemetery. Charly gets a new client right away, who happens to be her neighbor — and a ghost. What could possibly go wrong?
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Fantasy
The Burned Spy (The Immortal Spy Book 1)
By K. A. Krantz
Meet the immortal gatekeeper on a mission from Hel. Summoned from exile to investigate the assault on the Norse pantheon’s ambassador, disavowed Dark Ops agent Bix tangles with the spy agency that burned her, the angels who prosecuted her, and the ex-lovers who took jealousy way too far. They destroyed her life, now she’ll destroy their souls.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Psychological Thriller
Blooding
By Charlotte Zang
Are the brutal and disturbing murders rocking the quaint college town of Thetford that of a deranged killer? Or has something more sinister returned from the past? As the mutilated bodies pile up, Jules dives head first into investigating the horrid events plaguing her peaceful college town. In the end, will she be able to hold true to herself or give in to the power and the secrets of Thetford?
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Paranormal Mystery
The Zalthagor Box
By Terrie Schultz
Thirteen-year-old Evelyn Taylor’s disturbing premonitions seem like a curse, but when a vengeful demon possesses her mom and wants to kill her brother to settle an ancient debt, her visions may hold the secret to saving his life.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Thriller
A Captive in Algiers (The Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries 1)
By AJ Lewis
A seventeen-year-old Italian orphan struggles with the elements and his own identity when he is swept out to sea and taken to a slave market by Algerian corsairs. Forced to confront his origins, his beliefs, and his own shortcomings while fighting to survive, he makes a calculated sacrifice in order to aid the companions he finds on the way.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Cozy Mystery
Pepper, the Highlander & the Dead Guy (Pepper the Prepper Mystery Series Book 1)
By Donna Fletcher
A dead guy, a Highlander, a murder, and a long-kept secret! Welcome to Willow Lake, PA. Come join in the fun and meet a cast of loveable and funny characters, especially Mo, an exceptionally bright Alaskan Malamute who is afraid of Roxie, an exceptionally entitled calico.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Fantasy
Becoming Crone (The Crone Wars 1)
By Lydia M. Hawke
She’s 60 years old and destined to save the world … just as soon as she finds her reading glasses. When Claire unexpectedly finds herself the wielder of magical powers – and heiress apparent of a cranky gargoyle and an overprotective wolf-shifter – mayhem seems inevitable. But when a dark god threatens all she loves, she needs to step up. Fast.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Absurdist Fiction
Godthread: A Noir
By Caleb Brabham
No good deed goes unpunished – especially for a demon. When Azrael Abaddon, known to his demonic peers as “The Destroyer,” accepts a favor to reunite Eve with her son, Cain, his meddling leads him to witness the murder of the Devil. Now, as Heaven and Hell seemingly fall to infighting, will Azrael help matters or lead them all to ruin?
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Horror
Rave (Terrors of the Macrocosm)
By Konn Lavery
Seth, cursed by his cousin’s crime, love, and desire, has no release at the rave after he and his friends carelessly get their DNA on an unexplainable murder; the RCMP will believe that these drugged-out kids saw a horned man-beast decapitating people – right?
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Adventure Fiction
Becoming Jessie Belle (Ancestor Ghost Stories Book 1)
By Linda Hughes
When ancestor ghosts visit in the night, diva news anchor Jessie Belle Church’s career and lovelife are turned upside down. She timeslips into tragic and thrilling moments of her forebears’ lives, shattering her perceptions of her own existence. Along the way, she opens up to a man she would have ignored – until now.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023
Horror
The Nawie
By Alex J Knudsen
Lured back to her birth nation of Poland Marcelina Bajorek and her boyfriend Jack Hayborough travel through the country during the volatile summer of 1980 to confront her family’s dark history, encountering a torturous sequence of gruesome and haunting events. When they escape back to Minneapolis what returns with them is something malevolent.
This deal is good on October 22nd, 2023