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A bundle of books one (Girl, Alone) and two (Girl, Taken) in Blake Pierce’s Ella Dark Mystery series! This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with more than 100,000 words of listening.

Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other expat hiding out in the Bahamas and playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed-martial-arts pro, and not one you’d want to cross. In fact, Ruby would be a champion if she hadn’t been forced to walk away and hide out in the Bahamas. Because Ruby knows too much. She knows where the bodies are buried. And she knows when it’s time to get out of town. But what Ruby doesn’t know is why there is a dead tourist in the dumpster behind her seedy bar.

In On the Rocks (book one), Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other expat hiding out in the Bahamas and playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed-martial-arts pro, and not one you’d want to cross. In fact, Ruby would be a champion if she hadn’t been forced to walk away and hide out in the Bahamas.

When Alexis Blair, 29, is fired from her book publishing job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it’s time to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a bookstore of her own - even if that means leaving Boston and accepting a job in a curious bookstore in a small seaside town an hour away. But the odd shop, Alexis soon learns, is from more than just a rare, occult bookstore. Something strange is going on in the shop’s secret back room, with its eccentric owner, and in the small town itself.

A bundle of books one (The Witching Place: A Fatal Folio) and two (The Witching Place: Murder by Manuscript) in Sophie Loves’ Curious Bookstore cozy mystery series. This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with more than 150,000 words of listening.

Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other ex-pat hiding out in the Bahamas playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed martial arts pro and not one you’d want to cross. Her newest friend, a bouncer at the brothel next door, is no exception. When he comes to her with a sob story, she can’t turn away. When that story turns to a body he found this morning, Ruby sits up straighter. When it turns out that body belonged to a trafficked teenaged girl, Ruby’s sense of justice is lit.

When Alexis Blair is fired from her book publishing job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it’s time to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a bookstore of her own - even if that means leaving Boston and accepting a job in a curious bookstore in a small seaside town an hour away. Then a cryptic visitor comes into town, looking for a rare book, and willing to pay anything. But when he ends up dead, Alexis wonders: Was the price too high?

When Mia Bold, 30, learns that the pharmaceutical company she works for only cares about money, she quits on the spot, walking away from a high-powered career. Worse, her longtime boyfriend, instead of proposing as she expected, decides to break up with her. Mia’s true passion lies in her own podcast, devoted to debunking the occult and shining light on the truth. When Mia, at a crossroads, receives an invitation from a famous supernatural podcast inviting her to move to Salem and join their podcast as the skeptic-in-residence, Mia sees a chance to start her life over again.

When Alexis is fired from her job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it’s time to pursue her dream of opening a bookstore of her own, even if that means leaving Boston and accepting a job in a curious bookstore in a small seaside town. When Alexis scouts out books at an estate sale, she finds something she does not expect: a rare book, worth millions of dollars...and a dead body. Will Alexis be able to clear her name? And will she discover the mystery at the heart of her very own store?

In Skeptic in Salem: An Episode of Murder (Book 1), when Mia Bold, 30, learns that the pharmaceutical company she works for only cares about money, she quits on the spot, walking away from a high-powered career. Worse, her long-time boyfriend, instead of proposing as she expected, decides to break up with her. Mia’s true passion lies in her own podcast, devoted to debunking the occult and shining light on the truth. The daughter of a con-man father, Mia feels a moral responsibility to the truth, and to spare others from being conned.

Holly Hands. Twenty-nine. Single mom. Disgraced former boxing pro. Repo woman. Holly wonders if it’s a joke when she’s assigned her new job: to repo a helicopter. She can’t fly. She doesn’t even like heights. Yet where there’s a will, there’s a way. Holly can handle anything - as long as another dead body doesn’t come with it. Unfortunately for her, it does. Luckily, Holly has Lucky by her side - a neglected pit bull she found on the wrong side of a job, who refuses to leave her side - and who, like her, has nowhere to go but up.

When Mia Bold, 30, learns that the pharmaceutical company she works for only cares about money, she quits on the spot, walking away from a high-powered career - and from her longtime boyfriend, who breaks up with her. With the podcast taking off and a romance brewing, Mia and the crew film the first episode of their new TV show, in the haunted house of one of the original Salem witches. Mia’s working hard to debunk the unexplained happenings - when suddenly, someone dies unexpectedly. Even worse - the suspicion falls on her.