Rating: 4.5⭐️
Another new book, another new to me author , series and universe to explore. What fun!
Several great elements here that I love. Lorelei Clay is an enigma. She’s powerful but exactly where she draws the power from or what she is, well, here, there’s only the tiniest bit of clues.
I love a good mystery.
The town itself is another. Its history is part of the narrative and twines itself perfectly with the mystery and Lorelei’s investigation into the missing girl and her own discoveries of the community around her.
Chase has created in Lorelei Clay an intriguing older woman, one of tightly controlled emotions and magic. I instantly connected with her, the ghosts of the crumbling castle she’s renovating, and the weirdness of the small town community that keeps inserting itself into her isolation.
I can see myself gobbling up these books like the best book binge evah.
Love the covers. It seems that the publisher has a similar style for its authors.
Now onto the next.
A definite winner. Check it out. Oh and no romance, so no spice. But ghosts and a mystery. Great characters.
Cover by Trif Designs, love it
Crossroads Queen series:
Dead to the World #1
Dead of Night #2
Dead Last #3
Dead Wrong #4
Dead Weight #5
Play Dead #6
Dead Heat #7
Half Dead #8
Dead End #9 – April 17,2025
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Dead to the World (Crossroads Queen Book 1)
Blurb
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.
- Publisher: Red Palm Press LLC (May 11, 2023)
- Publication date: May 11, 2023
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
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