Category: Paranormal Women’s Fiction

Second Chance Magic by Michelle M. Pillow

Posted February 27, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Seasoned Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Secrets broke her heart… and have now come back from the grave to haunt her.

So far, Lorna Addams’s forties are not what she expected. After a very public embarrassment, she finds it difficult to trust her judgment when it comes to new friendships and dating. She might be willing to give love a second chance when she meets the attractive William Warrick if only she could come to terms with what her husband did to her and leave it in the past.

How is a humiliated empty nest widow supposed to move on with her life? It’s not like she can develop a sixth sense, séance her ex back, force him to tell her why and give her closure. Or can she?

Titles in the Order of Magic series include – Second Chance Magic – Third Time’s A Charm (March 2020) – The Fourth Power (April 2020)

Witching for Grace by Deanna Chase

Posted February 26, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Series / 0 Comments

Welcome to Premonition Pointe, where witches take care of their own.

Grace Valentine had the perfect marriage and a great career managing her husband’s real estate office. Or so she thought until three months ago when she was served with divorce papers. Thanks to her philandering ex, not only is she out of a husband, but she’s out of a job, too.

At the age of forty-five with the help of her coven, Grace is ready to pick up the pieces and move on. But her only job prospect is at the rival real estate office, and it’s only for a trial run. She’ll need to prove that she can sell the haunted properties of Premonition Pointe before she’s hired permanently.

But who has time to deal with haunted houses when she’s testing out every antiperspirant on the market to combat her escalating hot flashes, trying not to succumb to the advances of the hot thirty-four-year-old in her office, and ignoring the urges to hex her ex with erectile dysfunction? Okay, maybe she doesn’t ignore the urges. She might be a witch, but she’s only human. Can Grace prove to herself and her new boss she has the magical touch to sell the impossible and find the courage to get her groove back… even if her new love interest is a decade younger?

Titles in the Premonition Pointe series include – Witching For Grace – Witching For Hope (May 2020) – Witching For Joy (August 2020) –

Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M. Roth

Posted February 26, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Series / 0 Comments

When it rains, it pours…

On the eve of my fortieth birthday, Fate has given me a second chance at the happiness I once knew in the odd Southern town of Grimm Cove. But only if I can come to terms with some rather eye-opening revelations. Supernaturals are a real thing. I’m a witch. My high school sweetheart, who happens to be the Chief of Police in Grimm Cove, is my fated mate and a wolf-shifter. Ghosts exist and can be very nosy and meddlesome. Someone is murdering witches left and right. And last but not least, my ex-husband’s barely legal arm candy is taking fatal attraction to new levels of Hell.

I’m no shrinking violet, and with the help of my best friends, I’m going to live life on my terms–come Hell, high water, or magikal mishaps.

Titles in the Grimm Cove series include – Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft – Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes – Spellcasting with a Chance of Spirits – Starry with a Chance of Nightshade –

Betwixt by Darynda Jones

Posted February 23, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction / 0 Comments

Divorced, desperate, and destitute, former restaurateur Defiance Dayne finds out she has been bequeathed a house by a complete stranger. She is surprised, to say the least, and her curiosity gets the better of her. She leaves her beloved Phoenix and heads to one of the most infamous towns in America: Salem, Massachusetts.

She’s only there to find out why a woman she’s never met would leave her a house. A veritable castle that has seen better days. She couldn’t possibly accept it, but the lawyer assigned to the case practically begs her to take it off her hands, mostly because she’s scared of it. The house. The inanimate structure that, as far as Dephne can tell, has never hurt a fly.

Though it does come with some baggage. A pesky neighbor who wants her gone. A scruffy cat who’s a bit of a jerk. And a handyman bathed in ink who could moonlight as a supermodel for GQ.

She decides to give it three days, and not because of the model. She feels at home in Salem. Safe. But even that comes to a screeching halt when people begin knocking on her door day and night, begging for her help to locate their lost objects.

Come to find out, they think she’s a witch. And after a few mysterious mishaps, Dephne is beginning to wonder if they’re right.

Titles in the Betwixt & Between series include – Betwixt – Bewitched (August 2020) – Beguiled (February 2021) –

Wrong Side of Forty by Jana Deleon

Posted February 23, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Series / 0 Comments

It was a day like any other day for Marina Trahan…until she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Before that eye-opening wake-up call, Marina would have described her life as average or uneventful, maybe even boring. But now, chaos and confusion reign supreme. She’d expected to slide through midlife with her unwanted extra pounds, chin hair, and hot flashes and move somewhat gracefully into elastic waist pants and having no verbal filter. But with a wayward husband, a high-maintenance daughter, a lackluster career, and a crazy mother all weighing her down, Marina is ready to wave the white flag of surrender.

Then an intriguing stranger named Alexios shows up out of nowhere and insists she is descended from a goddess and is the only person who can save the world from certain destruction. She has roughly a week to do it. Solving a centuries-old mystery seems like a more interesting proposition than the other situations Marina is facing, so she accepts his challenge. But her search for a magical item of power reveals far more about Marina than she ever knew. Maybe enough to save the world. And even herself.

Titles in the Marina at Midlife series include – Wrong Side of Forty –

It’s A Wonderful Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

Posted February 21, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Series / 0 Comments

Whoever said life begins at forty must have been heavily medicated, drunk, or delusional.

Thirty-nine was a fantastic year. I was married to the man I loved. I had a body that worked without creaking. My grandma, who raised me, was still healthy, and life was pretty damned good.

But as they say, all good things come to an end. I’d honestly love to know who ’they’ are and rip them a new one.

One year later, I’m a widow. My joints are starting to ache. Gram is in the nursing home, and dead people think my home is some kind of supernatural bed and breakfast. Gluing body parts onto semi-transparent people has become a side job—deceased people I’m not even sure are actually there. I think they need my help, but since I don’t speak dead, we’re having a few issues.

To add to the heap of trouble, there’s a new dangerously smokin’ hot lawyer at the firm who won’t stop giving me the eye. My BFF is thrilled with her new frozen face, thanks to her plastic surgeon, her alimony check, and the miracle of Botox. And then there’s the little conundrum that I’m becoming way too attached to my ghostly squatters… Like Cher, I’d like to turn back time. Now.

No can do.

Whatever. I have wine, good friends, and an industrial-sized box of superglue. What could possibly go wrong?

Everything, apparently.

All in all, it’s shaping up to be a wonderful midlife crisis…

Titles in the Good to the Last Death series include – It’s A Wonderful Midlife Crisis – Who’s Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway? (May 2020) – A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis (August 2020) –

(I’m going to give a fair warning – this story ends on a cliffhanger. It’s well worth it, even if you (like me) absolutely hate cliffhangers, this story is so worth that wait to continue the story. If I’d known I might have waited and bought them all at once to binge – or not, hard to tell now, after the fact.)

Sucks To Be Me by Kristen Painter

Posted February 20, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Series / 0 Comments

When 49-year-old Belladonna Barrone’s mobbed-up husband does her the favor of dying in a car accident, she thinks she’s finally free of the crime family she unwittingly married into. Then the boss tells her that she has to complete her husband’s last job before that freedom is truly hers.

No big deal, she figures. Until things go south in ways she never imagined. Suddenly she’s thrust into a whole new world that makes the mob look like kindergarten. Vampires and werewolves are real? How is that freaking possible?

Her dreams of a new life disappear faster than wine at book club as more problems arise from her husband’s dark dealings and the unbelievable complications caused by her supernatural entanglements. Only her strength and determination (and some wild new friends) will see her through this next chapter, but the odds are against her.

How much more can her life suck? She’s about to find out…

Titles in the First Fangs Club series include – Sucks To Be Me – Suck It Up Buttercup –

Magical Midlife Madness by K.F. Breene

Posted February 19, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Series / 0 Comments

“Happily Ever After” wasn’t supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that’s exactly what my life becomes.

Do-over.

This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I’m ready to carve my own path.

Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills. I’ll be taking care of a centuries-old house that called to me when I was a kid. It’s just temporary, I tell myself. It’ll just be for a while.

That is until I learn what the house really is, something I never could’ve imagined.

Thankfully forty isn’t too old to start an adventure, because that’s exactly what I do. A very dangerous adventure that will change my life forever. I have a chance to start again, and this time, I make the rules.

Titles in the Leveling Up series include – Magical Midlife Madness – Magical Midlife Dating –

Suddenly Psychic by Elizabeth Hunter

Posted February 18, 2020 by Marsha in Paranormal Women's Fiction, Series / 0 Comments

Every woman goes through changes in their forties.
Just not… these changes.

Robin Brannon was a normal wife, mom, and antique shop owner until a brush with death turned her day-to-day life upside down. Now she and her two best friends are seeing things that belong in a fantasy novel. Ghosts. Visions. Omens of doom. Nothing that belongs in the peaceful mountain town they call home.

Added to that, Robin’s marriage is on the rocks, her grandmother’s health is failing, her mother is driving away the customers at her shop, her teenage daughter refuses to get her drivers’ license, and her left knee aches every darn morning.

Robin doesn’t have the time, energy, or knees to unearth the secrets buried at the bottom of Glimmer Lake, but fate doesn’t seem to care. Some secrets are just dying to be exposed.

Titles in the Glimmer Lake series includes – Suddenly Psychic – Semi-Psychic Life –

There’s A New Genre In Town! And A Whole Lot of Paranormal Women’s Fiction To Enjoy Starting Today!

Posted February 18, 2020 by Marsha in Discussion Post, Paranormal Women's Fiction / 0 Comments

I’ve been looking forward to today’s releases since I first heard of this project through Eve Langlais’ newsletter. You can learn more through this group of amazing writers’ Facebook page HERE. Or on their official website, Paranormal Women’s Fiction. For the moment, these titles are in Kindle Unlimited, so if you have that subscription service through Amazon (which I thankfully do) then you can grab these books right now. At some point, I know that, at least, Eve Langlais’ book will be going out of KU and to all markets in around ten days or so – I do not know if that is true for all of the titles in this project, but I’ll be checking out author websites later today and will update what I discover.

The reason I’m excited about these new titles and series is very simple. Seasoned Paranormal Women’s Fiction. Think of it as a new genre (which it’s not really since there are a lot of Paranormal Romance stories with women main characters who are over 35, but it is getting a lot more attention and releases recently which is a very good thing). An exciting new road to travel for Paranormal stories of women who are no longer in the first blush of love but are probably at least over 35 (which is the starting age for “Seasoned Romance”), have lived life with all its beauty and ugliness and are moving on to something new – not always totally willingly. So, yes, I’m excited to see Paranormal go into the Women’s Fiction genre in such a huge way with such a strong presence as these well-known and loved authors will bring with them.

So. Let’s get to the books! If you’ll click on that “Read More” down in the corner, please, you’ll see the covers of all of these titles within this particular project. To be completely honest with you each title is linked to the Amazon page where you can download or order these titles. So, full disclosure, these cover pictures have my Amazon Affiliate link in them.

As far as I’m aware, each of these titles is the beginning of a new series – which makes me a very happy reader. I do not know if any or all will be in KU throughout that series, but you are getting in at the beginning of several new series when you check out these titles. So… Happy Reading your Paranormal Women’s Fiction titles. 🙂

Oh, in no particular order, here are the websites, title, a link to the review done here at Keeper Bookshelf (book title link), and series for these books should you prefer a more direct to the author link:

Magical Midlife Madness by K. F. Breene (Leveling Up series) Website Link

Midlife Bounty Hunter formerly Grave Magic Bounty by Shannon Mayer – New Cover (The Forty Proof series) Website Link

Betwixt by Darynda Jones (Betwixt & Between series) Website link

Let It All Burn by Denise Grover Swank (From The Ashes series) Website Link

Second Chance Magic by Michelle M. Pillow ( Order of Magic series) Website Link

Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M. Roth (Grimm Cove series) Website Link

Halfway There by Eve Langlais (Midlife Mulligan series) Website Link

Wrong Side of Forty by Jana DeLeon (Marina at Midlife series) Website Link

Witching for Grace by Deanna Chase (Premonition Pointe series) Website Link

Suddenly Psychic by Elizabeth Hunter (Glimmer Lake series) Website Link

It’s A Wonderful Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman (Good to the Last Death series) Website Link

Writing Wrongs by Christine Gael (aka Christine Bell (CR), aka Chloe Cole (PNR) (Crow’s Feet Coven series) Website Link