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Dead to the World
A Paranormal / Urban Fantasy Novel by Annabel Chase
Book 1 of the Crossroads Queen Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Small Town,
- Ghosts,
- Supernatural Mystery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Heroines who talk to the dead and fry perfect bacon
- Fixer-upper mansions next to cemeteries
- Small town supernatural politics with secretive main characters
Lorelei Clay isn't like other people. She isn't even like other supernaturals. Her specialties are the nightmares of the living, communication with the dead, and cooking bacon until it's golden brown and perfectly crispy—no magic required.
Six months ago she moved to the ultimate fixer upper, a monstrosity from the Gilded Age that borders the local cemetery in the sleepy Pennsylvania town of Fairhaven. Lorelei is content to spend the next few years in solitude, renovating the house and avoiding humanity, until a missing young woman disrupts her plans.
Lorelei's search for the teenager means crossing paths with the residents she's successfully avoided so far, including the human police chief, the coven, a cursed vampire, the assassins guild, the werewolf pack, and the mysterious and infuriatingly alluring owner of The Devil's Playground, an elegant nightclub that caters to the local supernatural clientele.
Lorelei plans to find the girl quickly and return to the privacy of her castle walls before anyone learns her secrets, but you know what they say about the best laid plans…
Dead to the World is the first book in the Crossroads Queen urban fantasy series.
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