June 2024 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Bless Your Heart
by Lindy Ryan
It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with "normal" business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. But when Mina Jean Murphy's body is brought in and she rises from the dead instead, it's clear the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town. Bless Your Heart series.
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First Light
by Liz Kerin
Haunted by her mother's blood-thirsty past, Mia hunts the man who sparked it, infiltrating a secret network of fugitive monsters and finding herself snared in a web of unsettling truths. Night's Edge series.
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Grey Dog
by Elliott Gish
In 1901, Ada Byrd accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge where she sees a future in the small farming community. But when she witnesses strange and grisly phenomena, which both beckons and repels her, her grip on reality loosens and Ada wonders if the real horror is her.
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The Hungry Dark
by Jen Williams
As a child, Ashley Whitelam could often see odd things nobody else could: quiet, watchful figures she called the Heedful Ones kept a strange vigil wherever she went. As an adult, she keeps these visions to herself, but then she catches a glimpse of those old ghosts of her childhood and follows them into the woods.
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Indian Burial Ground
by Nick Medina
When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi suspects something sinister is stalking their tribal lands. Relying on her uncle who's return to the reservation brings secrets, horror, and what might be the key to determining Roddy's true cause of death.
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Lord of the Feast
by Tim Waggoner
Twenty years ago, a cult attempted to create their own god: The Lord of the Feast. The god was a horrible, misbegotten thing, however, and it was killed before the creature could come into its full power. Now the cultists’ children are seeking answers and the opportunity to resurrect a god.
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Myrrh
by Polly Hall
Myrrh is searching for her birth-parents to unlock the secrets of her horrific past. She's trying to stop the goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she’s done wrong, that berates her and drags her down.
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Night Warriors
by Graham Masterton
It can find you anywhere... even in your dreams. The young girl has been forced to host a hideous malevolence that insinuates itself into the bodies and minds of thousands of unsuspecting people. The only hope of saving them is to become Night Warriors, an ancient Order with the power to infiltrate the dream world, and destroy the original source. Night Warriors series.
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Oracle
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
When Luca and her friend, Emma, discover the impossible: the wreck of an 18th-century ship stranded in a flower field--Emma enters and is never seen again. Now, with the help of a retired occult specialist, Luca is unraveling the mystery, only to come face-to-face with an open doorway to the apocalypse.
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The Redemption of Morgan Bright
by Chris Panatier
Hadleigh Keene died on the road leading away from Hollyhock Asylum. The reasons are unknown. Her sister Morgan blames herself. A year later with the case still unsolved, Morgan creates a false identity and goes inside, quickly discovering that Hollyhock is... not right.
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Someone You Can Build a Nest in
by John Wiswell
Nursed back to health by Homily, a warm-hearted human, shapeshifting monster Shesheshen falls in love with her only to discover she's a monster hunter. Since devouring her girlfriend isn't an option, Shesheshen must learn to build a life with, rather than in, her soulmate.
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Withered
by A. G. A. Wilmot
Moving to the small town of Black Stone with her mom to recover after surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, Ellis discovers their new house is the battleground in a decades-long spectral war, one that will claim their family—and the town—if it's allowed to continue.
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