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Tessa's finally getting the hang of her career as a grim reaper. She’s returned home from the reaper conference feeling confident in all things job-related. She even has a new special ability - the power of the scythe. What she isn't so confident about is her budding relationship with Silas St. Onge. He's onto her secret double life, and Tessa can't decide whether to keep putting him off or come clean with the truth.

The goal of this show is to bring you into the locker room. Being a current player I have the ability to do that. When my playing days are over I will continue to leverage my relationships to bring you inside the locker room. We will speak on prevalent sports stories of the week no matter the sport. My co-hosts are just fans, not journalists or anything of that nature, although we ill have sports journalists join the show from time to time. They are instructed to share their true feelings about whatever subject matter from a fans point of view (tell it like it is). This will be in contrast to ...

Willow’s got an awful lot on her plate. She’s trying to decide whether to buy a second veterinary clinic, enjoying being Crosby’s girlfriend instead of his best friend, and trying to stay on top of all the responsibilities she already has. But when her friend, Julia, finds herself in trouble in the Fae realm and the remnants of the Trio show up to pressure Willow to join their witch council, her plate’s suddenly overflowing. Will Willow be able to solve everyone’s problems and still focus on her own? Or will she throw her hands up and let her best friend go down for murder?

Things have been going pretty well at the retirement home for witches and other paranormals lately. Possibly too well. When Steve Grace's friend, Rhea Kaufman, is found dead in her garage right after he dropped his car off to her, he becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Now, Zoey has to get his name cleared. But in the process, she just may learn a thing or two about her fiance that she hadn't known before. Can she figure out who killed Rhea, clear Steve's name, and get on with the wedding plans?

Someone or something is leaving gruesome death markers for the citizens of Crystal Springs. It’s the curse, the townspeople whisper. And to Cascade Lorne, brand new witch at 50, it sounds ridiculous. Until two days before the opening of her business, when she stumbles across a corpse wearing her face. The message is clear. She and other people in town have been marked for death - and payment will come due on All Hallows Eve. Has Crystal Springs’ troubled past unleashed a ghoul with a homicidal bag of tricks no one will be able to escape?

Life was back to normal, but then the Trio showed up. After the crazy events of the dog days of summer, Willow’s life was mostly back to normal. She was back to small-town veterinarian life, with a dash of witchiness tossed in for good measure. But then a strange group of witches and their guards shows up on her farm. Aunt Dru is acting all weird and secretive. And, apparently, Willow needs to be tested to see if she can keep her power. The big dog of the group, Crone Marian, is particularly scary.

It's all fun in the sun, until other reapers start to die.... Tessa Randolph is a reaper, one of the few endowed with the abilities of the real grim reaper. And now, she's been offered a spot to attend the annual reaper conference in Miami. But things get off to a rocky start when another reaper dies on the plane. And none of the other reapers saw his soul depart for the hereafter. Tessa takes it upon herself to figure out why.

Zoey's been doing everything in her power to keep Sunnyside Retirement Community open for business, but her residents don't help with that a lot. She's had more than her fair share of threatening messages from the bosses, but she's kept the place afloat with sheer will and steel determination. However, that might not be enough. The bosses have arrived in town, and they're out for blood. When the lead boss goes missing, Zoey has to figure out who's behind it, put a stop to it, and keep her retirement community open. Before the doors are closed. For good.

Poppy Legend, 40 years old and feeling just a touch behind in life, is sailing back to the last place she wants to go: home. Sure, she snagged a fantastic concierge gig on the inaugural voyage of a billionaire’s cruise line, which promises to revitalize her island home Celebration Cay - the place she ran away from years ago. Not that she has time to worry about what’s waiting in the future.

Tessa Randolph is feeling defeated. On the outs with her boyfriend and suddenly without a job, she's scrambling to pay the rent. She doesn’t exactly have the kind of life she wants. Tessa needs a change. And the ability to afford the wet food her cat Pepper thinks she deserves at every meal. Against her better judgment, but without a better offer, Tessa takes a job from one of the scariest of bosses: her mother, who has a deadly sharp tongue. And just like that, she learns that the life insurance agency at the edge of Mist River isn’t what it seems to be.

Things are already going sideways for Zoey Rivers. Her mother, recently back from the dead, isn’t responsive, and Zoey’s dad isn’t making matters easier. But when the Sunnyside Retirement Home for Witches’ almost-resident psychic Iris goes missing, apparently unable to foresee her own troubles, Zoey’s day gets a 1,000 times more complicated. And, of course, that’s not the end of it. The police detective seems bent on fingering a resident or staff member for the crime.

Someone has an axe to grind. Literally! Paige Murphy has settled into her new life as a writer and bookshop owner. Business booms when an infamous Hollywood director announces he’s hidden a treasure that could bring fame and fortune to whoever finds it...and his clues lead a bevy of actors and adventurers to Comfort Cove! But when the body of one of those actors is found on the beach, Paige’s detective brother sets his sights on Paige’s hunky new assistant as the killer.

Not all gambles pay off in aces! Now that Paige Murphy has the beachfront book shop she inherited from her aunt back on its feet, she sets her sights on finding a place of her own to live. And the sooner the better after the plumber finds a dead body buried in the book store’s basement. Was sweet Aunt Nora a killer? And just who was the person under the pipes? Paige must roll the dice and bet on herself to uncover the mystery behind this cold case.

Sunnyside Retirement Witches Community gets its fair share of visitors. Some of them like the entertainment, and others enjoy volunteering. But when one of the sightseers ends up dead, Zoey Rivers has to figure out what happened. The residents come up with a fantastic idea: Since the retirement complex seems to have more than its fair share of murders, they figure it might be a good idea to have a psychic on staff. So, Zoey hires Iris. And all the information she pulls from the ghosts of the growing list of victims points to Zoey herself.

Willow Morgan lives a quiet life in Superior Bay. Winter lasts for up to nine months there, and the biggest event of the year is the summer dog show. People come from all over to attend. It brings money and prestige to town. But when Willow’s landlord is poisoned to death, she quickly finds herself in a tricky situation. People are canceling their appointments, afraid when they learn someone was murdered in her clinic. And one of her employees is acting super strange.

Paige Murphy loves her new life in Italy, where she can sip wine, eat pasta, and while the days away working on her romance novel. But all that changes when her beloved aunt falls ill, and she must fly back home to Texas — a place she thought she’d left behind. In a blink, she finds herself with a failing beachside bookstore, jealous cousins out to get her, and pesky suitors who won’t leave her alone. As if that wasn’t enough, buried treasure and hidden secrets could prove to be deadly!

Caring for elderly witches at the retirement home in Sunnyside, California, is a full-time job for Zoey Rivers. But when one of them is blitzing, causing magic to act even weirder than normal, things get...well, downright wacky. And when a local insurance agent winds up dead, some of the people Zoey is responsible for become the prime suspects.

Zoey Rivers has a pretty great job as head of staff at Sunnyside Retired Witches Community. She's good at handling the magical messes that are part and parcel of providing a home for elderly (and some slightly senile) witches. But when the messes turn from slightly sloppy to hugely horrible, Zoey realizes there's more involved than just her residents.

A monthly take on record collecting, featuring Record Collector Editor Paul Lester and Rare Record Price Guide Editor Daryl Easlea.