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Black Hollow
Series · 18
books · 2016-2020

Books in series

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Loving the Monster Within

2016

Penelope Harbough has dedicated her life to her job at a home for battered women and children. With such a stressful and heartbreaking job, she finds her solace in the arms of Frank - a gargoyle statue that sits atop her building watching over the city. She spills her heart to him daily while watching the sun rise. Asald sold his soul for the woman he loved. After upsetting the prince of Hell, he is cursed to become the monster he feared was inside him. To make up for some of the guilt, he takes it upon himself to protect the women of the shelter. A vigilante. A modern day winged Robin Hood, of sorts. Until he's forced to reveal himself... Love trapped him but can it save him, too? When Penelope learns the truth, will she run screaming or will love prevail?
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Reviving Love

2018

Welcome to Black Hollow, the most paranormal town in America. When your mayor is a Griffin and the local diner is run by mermaid's serving fish and chips, you know you’ll never have a mundane day. Sarah hasn’t been in a relationship since she left her abusive ex-husband. When her close friends invite her to a weekend in Black Hollow she takes her first step toward moving on. What she doesn’t expect is to meet a man or Frankenstein’s monster in Adam's case. Adam has lived his life hidden from the world, tired of the stares from strangers. He roamed for centuries tortured with not being able to age or die. He found solace in Black Hollow, it was the perfect place to be himself and forge friendships with other immortals. Until Sarah comes along and he finds the one thing he can’t live without. Complete acceptance and love. Nothing is ever as easy as that though, someone wants to keep humans out of Black Hollow and Sarah is the first victim. Can Adam save her and his future?
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Silver Linings

2018

Silver DeTourney hit rock bottom and the only place left to go was Black Hollow. The mysterious Seraphine offered him a job and a place to stay. He never expected to find a home and a family. Cade Osiris was content to hide from the world and lose himself in his work, letting the days pass him by. Cursed by a god and turned into a mummy he only lived half a life until he saw Silver. A misunderstanding between them led Silver to hide again, this time with the help of the Black Hollow residents. Cade is left to make a grand gesture to win Silver back.
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One Man's Curse

2019

Ravenna Burroughs thought she was being offered the perfect job in Black Hollow. One that gave her access to the oldest books on magic. Here she could finally find out how to break a curse and fix her family’s magic problems. What she didn’t expect to find…. The family, that her’s cursed. Derrick Ainsworth and his whole family were cursed thousands of years ago. Something changed and the curse was setting in earlier and earlier. He wasn’t willing to let another year go by without ending it. He never expected the key to fixing his family began with the descendant of the one who cursed them. Derrick is running out of time to save his family from turning into the mindless moaning Zombies everyone thinks they are. Ravenna never put a face to the names of the cursed, but now she can’t forget them. She knows time is running out to save those she has come to love. Together they find out what really happened to their ancestors and that one person won't let the curse end.
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It's the Little Things

2019

A sister lost and a paranormal bank threatened with collapse. Kerry Underwood begged her sister not to take the job in Black Hollow. Now, her sister's missing, and Kerry must go to the community she can't even find on a map in search of her. However, Black Hollow is nothing like she expected, and she fears the truth of a real paranormal town put her sister in danger. To make matters worse, the rugged bank manager who lured her sister to Black Hollow keeps stonewalling Kerry, keeping the answers she desperately needs close to his powerful chest. Arden McCarthy, leprechaun and bank manager at The End of the Rainbow Savings & Trust, is in a desperate hunt to uncover the threat to his bank's funding. However, the private investigator he hired to ferret out the culprit has vanished along with any leads she uncovered. To complicate matters, the investigator's sister arrived in Black Hollow and keeps sticking her nose in his business. Frustrated with the mysterious leprechaun, Kerry resists her desire for Arden, while fearing he's weaving his way into her heart.
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Resurrecting His Heart

2019

Julian Anders owns the Raven’s Call Mortuary in Black Hollow, Mass. Julian chooses to be behind the scenes in the mortuary and prefers his life to be the same…solitary. Truth is, this choice is a result of his curse. Julian is a necromancer. He despises the curse and using his powers; powers that have cost him relationships in the past. Staying alone is the best way to protect himself…he won’t go through that sort of pain again. Jenner Channing’s grandfather has just passed away and something is off about his death. She doesn’t buy that it was of natural causes, and obviously, neither does the Medical Examiner. When Jenner asks for help to get to the bottom of her grandfather’s death, Julian and his employees, Ella and Deron (and the resident ghost, Agnes), jump in to help her find closure. The last thing Jenner expected was to find herself falling for Julian Anders. The last thing Julian expected was for Jenner Channing to capture his heart. As the investigation unfolds, will the challenges prove to be too much for their budding romance or has Julian finally found someone to accept him, curse and all?
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Sacrificing Love

2019

Welcome to Black Hollow, the most paranormal town in America. When your mayor is a Griffin and the local diner is run by mermaid’s serving fish and chips, you know you’ll never have a mundane day. Toussaint didn’t believe love was worth the risk of possible heartache. Lust and Danger roll in with a new visitor. Toussaint has to solve the mystery of who’s ransacking the town before it escalates to murder. After watching his brother destroyed over the loss of his spouse, Toussaint swore he would avoid love and save himself the heartache. He wasn’t prepared for the day Ivy Grange rolls into town, car loaded with bridal shower decorations and a horribly ugly creature she swears is a dog. As Toussaint starts to soften towards Ivy, strange events start happening around town. He starts missing time and showing up with bloody knuckles. It isn’t until Ivy finds out the truth about Black Hollow and what creature Toussaint really is that things get worse. Faced with the choice of giving up his own life to save Ivy’s, he doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice everything for love.
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To Trick the Devil

2019

A man wanting to die. A demon wanting to live. However, Satan controls the fates of both. Jackson Lantern has walked the globe for centuries thanks to a deal he struck with the devil. Too vile for Heaven and banished from Hell, Jackson lives out his existence in Black Hollow, a loner who has witnessed the passing of everyone he's ever loved, vowing never to risk love again. Meredith Vanth tortured souls for Satan, punishing evil-doers for their sins until the suffering she inflicted became too much. Escaping Hell, she's discovered the life she craves in Black Hollow. However, the Prince of Darkness wants her back in his kingdom carrying out the punishments he decrees. Of course, Lucifer is always prepared to make a deal. Twice, Jackson has conned the devil and won. He's Meredith's only hope for the life she desires. However, can she convince Jackson To Trick the Devil one more time?
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Fairly Sweet

2019

Alizon Bishop escaped Salem during the infamous witch trials. In Black Hollow, she found a haven, a family and peace. Her candy shop was her passion until one day it wasn't. A stranger turns up and her world is flipped upside down and he shows her there's more to life than chocolate. Lucan O'Brien was half fairy and half-human. Though he wondered how much of him was really a fairy. After all, he couldn't fly, he was the size of a normal human and he possessed none of the traits of a fairy. He didn't fit in the fairy world or the human world. Lucan arrives in Black Hollow a town where he could belong finally and finds a woman he could love. But someone is killing witches and Alizon has a target on her back. Did he finally find his home only to lose the woman who makes it worthwhile?
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Accepting Love

2020

What's a gargoyle to do when he finally finds his mate and she turns out to be a blood-thirsty mormo on the run and afraid to trust anyone. Aristide likes his quiet life, reading and running the town bookstore. It isn't until a mormo shows up needing help does he realize he's not really been living, merely existing. Tamiko Gray has been a prisoner for more years than she can remember. Forced to use her powers to lure men to her room where her captors are waiting to rob them. Desperate for freedom she escapes and finds herself in the mysterious town of Black Hollow. When Tamiko's captors are closing in she's left with the choice of running again or letting her new friends help her. She never expected the quirky paranormal town would help her see she is worthy of accepting love.
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A Cupid's Burden

2020

Adrian Lovejoy is a cupid who has lost his faith in love. He has been jaded by broken unions and the flippant attitude people seem to have about love. People don’t deserve love, they’re too stupid to hold on to it. So, Adrian is done; done with love and done being a cupid. Hoping to anger the Cupid Council enough to have them strip his powers, Adrian has been on a quest to screw up any and all unions he can. The Cupid Council doesn’t want to lose this promising young cupid. In their desperation, they enlist the services of Dr. Mara Washington to help Adrian get back on track. Mara is a relatively new psychiatrist in Black Hollow and is also a human. When she agrees to counsel this wayward cupid, she never would’ve dreamed that someone could get under her skin like Adrian Lovejoy. Will Mara Washington be able to pull Adrian out of his funk or will Adrian get his wish to be stripped of his powers? One thing is for sure; neither of them expect what they find.
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April's Fool

2020

The time for clowning around is over as Professor Compton's Phantom Circus arrives in Black Hollow. April McCray merely wants to enjoy spring break, avoiding the crowds of rambunctious children attending the circus. However, the Powers That Be yank her banshee from her peaceful evening, shoving her into the nightmare of a dark-haired stranger as she tries to warn him of a loved one's soon demise. Once she's safely back in her own home, April can't stop thinking about the man with the pale-red eyes. Wyatt Compton refuses to be anyone's fool, especially whoever is murdering his family. He has to uncover the killer before he strikes again, this time killing Wyatt's grandfather, but how can he do that among a group of shapeshifters? The circus comes to Black Hollow, bringing a killer along with it, thrusting April and Wyatt together in a race to save his grandfather. Can they stop whoever desires to kill the ringmaster, or has the circus finally met its end?
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A Blessing in Disguise

2020

Cailean Muir fled his home, seeking refuge in the rumored town of Black Hollow. The only place where paranormals are able to live free of fear and persecution. It sounded too good to be true, but he had to escape those that wanted to keep him locked in his gilded cage.. Tristan Falkenberg loves his life in Black Hollow. Owning a restaurant with his twin sister isn’t always easy, but he’s proud of their success. He has friends he considers family, a lake house that provides everything he could need, and an otter as a best friend. Life can’t get better, until he meets Cailean and Tristan is shown there is more to life than he thought possible. Love, lust and friendship blossomed when their eyes met, but would it be enough to fight the outside forces that longed to tear them apart?
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Resisting Love

2020

Living with her brother is one thing; living with her brother and his new husband is something else entirely. Now, Nerissa Falkenberg is eager to give the lovebirds their own nest, while she drafts the plans for her dream home. When Pascal gets the call to build Nerissa’s new home, he leaps at the chance. This is the lady Pascal has loved from afar for longer than he will admit and now is his chance to build more than just a home. However, while Nerissa’s brother is away on his honeymoon, all hell breaks loose at their restaurant throwing her plans into chaos. To compound matters, secret relatives she swore to never see again show up. Will this nightmare ever end?
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Through Thick and Thin

2020

Starburst has spent most of his adult life hiding. Hiding from himself, from the town he called home and from the man who’d been by his side for it all. But time is running out; Starburst has to decide if hiding behind his Unicorn is worth sacrificing the man he’s kept under lock and key before it’s too late. Seren has stood by his best friends’ side since the day their world collapsed and left the two of them to fend for themselves. He watched as his best friend, retreated into his animal form, and never came back. Now, the clock is ticking and he’s in for the fight of his life. Say goodbye to what he could have had or fight for what he wants. Life has never been easy for either man. They’d found solace in their friendship, but now that same friendship is being put to the test.
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Blood Shadows

2020

The past has returned. So have the nightmares. Miles Lysander struggled for decades to put the past behind him and recapture the serenity he experienced before the Korean Conflict. With the help of Deana Abbington, he is almost there. However, a stranger has appeared in Black Hollow, bringing back memories of time Miles would prefer to forget. Seeing her grandfather on her doorstep excited Deana Abbington, and she couldn’t wait to show him around town. However, a run-in with her grandfather’s past, brings the visit to a quick boil, and Deana is put between one of the people in her Struggling Paranormals Anonymous group and the man she strove to be like her entire life. Can the present survive the collision with the past?
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Finding Her Wizard

2020

Nestled between redemption and damnation, Crimson Moon Hideaway was supposed to be a safe haven for the paranormal. Thanks to an unlikely nemesis, it’s anything but a refuge. Jianna has a Valkyrie spirit and is fed up with Thad McNally’s stunts. Dumping Thad’s body in a watery grave sounds like a great idea but isn’t a viable option. So, she calls in reinforcements to protect the resort and her people. Jianna never expected hunky, heartthrob Hollywood actor, Caleb Weston, to offer her aid. Or that he is the infamous Merlin. Merlin is no stranger to trouble. He’s solved countless problematic situations during his lifetime. The legend of King Arthur is only the tip of the iceberg. After his recent breakup with his long-time fiancée, he’s eager to help his best friend protect a paranormal oasis. But he gets more than he bargained for... a goddess bent on world domination, and a mate already married to another man. Caught in the crosshairs of a goddess’ schemes, are they too late to halt her diabolical plans?
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The Krampus' Heart

2020

Klaus Nichols is finally getting his dream of opening his own toy and skateboard store. His Krampus family has been in the toy business for generations back in Germany, so making children happy is in his blood. Contrary to what lore says, Krampuses don’t haul misbehaving children to hell or beat them with sticks. Thankfully, in Black Hollow, he’s accepted and supported. Carys Evans, enchantress and guidance counselor at Black Hollow Academy, has been tapped as the chairperson of this year’s Christmas festival in Black Hollow. Carys wants this to be the best festival the town has ever seen. She even has the new toy store owner volunteer to handle the Secret Santa program, or so she thinks. When Klaus and Carys meet, the experience is less than stellar for both of them. They soon find out that first impressions are sometimes wrong. As the store opening and Christmas festival approach, they find out that danger is lurking and Klaus is the target. Joining together, will they be able to make both of their goals successful or will this Christmas be memorable for the wrong reasons?

Authors

Cassidy K. O'Connor
Cassidy K. O'Connor
Author · 25 books
I'm a born and raised Floridian who loves to travel. I married my high school sweetheart, we have three awesome kids and one crazy dog. I love all things Ireland and visited twice! Reading is essential to life and writing is an extension of that. If my books can make you laugh or give you that tingly feeling in your belly I've done something right!
Robbie Cox
Robbie Cox
Author · 29 books
I live in sunny Florida where I spend my days taxiing the family to various places while jotting down the many crazy thoughts inside my head. I enjoy a freelance career writing for several magazines sharing some of my interesting viewpoints on life and those around me. I can usually be found on my back porch watching the squirrels chittering at the birds while enjoying a cigar, a scotch, and the many characters that talk to me inside my head.
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