The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson Genre : Fantasy, Horror Stand alone About the Book  : In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity,...

The Broken Girls by Simon St. James Genre : Thriller Stand alone About the Book  : Vermont, 1950. There’s a place for the girls whom no one wants–the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It’s called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it’s located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship...

The Silent Companions by Laura PurcellGenre : Horror, Historical FictionStand Alone About the Book  : When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury.   But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks.   Inside her new home...

House of Salt & Sorrows by Erin A. CraigGenre : YA, FantasyStand Alone About the Book  : In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.   Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a...

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender Pages : 329 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Delia’s new house isn’t just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females—an insane asylum nicknamed “Hysteria Hall.” However, many of the inmates were not insane, just defiant and strong willed. Kind of like Delia herself. But the house still wants to...

The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich Pages : 400 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : Three students: dead. Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace. Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear. The main suspect: Kaitlyn, “the girl of nowhere.” Kaitlyn’s diary, discovered in...

Blameless by Gail Carriger Pages : 355 Genre : Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, etc. Series : The Parasol Protectorate, Book 3 My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : Quitting her husband’s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly...

Changeless by Gail Carriger Pages : 374 Genre : Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, etc. Series : The Parasol Protectorate, Book 2 My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural...