Author: patriciarice
NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice presents the third book in her beloved School of Magic series: Victorian Edinburgh belongs to staid professors, not the flamboyant daughter of a Hindu princess. Lacking any of her Malcolm family’s psychic abilities, Azmin Dougall flees her ancestral home of India for Edinburgh, fearing she’ll be a pigeon in a family of peacocks. But she’s willing to risk … pigeon in a family of peacocks. But she’s willing to risk everything to aid a friend’s escape from an abusive husband—and to test her newly discovered, weirdly-perceptive photography skills. Dr. Zane Dare is done with risk. Because his…
She’s the mistress of illusion; How can he trust her lessons on love?Lady Olivia Malcolm Hargreaves is a viscountess, a widow, a governess, the adoptive mother of a disabled toddler—but above all else, she is a survivor. When the father of the young children she’s been caring for arrives on Christmas Eve, drunk and ranting, his aura and her own sad experience tell her he’s dangerous.Heart … he’s dangerous.Heart hardened after the murder of his beloved wife, Simon Blair is an industrialist who has no use for another psychic Malcolm. His late wife’s weird family is more than enough interference.…
First in an enchanting series from a USA Today bestselling author: After inventor Andrew is asked to care for his cousin’s three children, he’s shocked when earl’s daughter Phoebe is sent as their governess. But even more surprising is his attraction to the magical lady!
Another episode in NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice’s exciting Crystal Magic series!A librarian searches for healing, a felon yearns for forgiveness, and an enemy stalks them both.Hannah Simon holds the library of her ancestors in her head, but she’s in danger of losing her steel-trap mind along with the information it holds. Her only hope is a legendary moonstone said to have healed in times … a legendary moonstone said to have healed in times of trouble. The artifact was last seen in Hillvale, a town that needs help as desperately as Hannah.After spending two years in prison for art…
She sees the future; he lives in the past. Danger shadows the present. . .Once a childhood TV star, now a tarot reader in the town of Hillvale—home of 325 people and countless ghosts—Amber Abercrombie is content now that she’s escaped the horror of her stage mother and the constant pressure to kill herself with dieting. Then her former teen-idol lover crashes into her tranquility, bringing with … into her tranquility, bringing with him the Death card.Now a Hollywood director, Josh Gabriel is on the brink of a marriage of convenience when his wealthy bride-to-be, the producer of his next film, is…
From bestselling author Patricia Rice, another romantic mystery from the peculiar town of Hillvale, CA. . .A chef who brews magic challenges a mayor with secretsAfter a childhood of being tossed from foster homes for claiming she can detect liars by their scent, Fiona Malcolm McDonald does her best to conceal her secret these days. But when she sniffs a wrongdoer and drives him off with jalapeño … sniffs a wrongdoer and drives him off with jalapeño cheesecake, she loses still another cooking job and is homeless again. She places her last hope on her mentor in Hillvale, a town as weird…
Succumb to temptation and follow the call to Hillvale- population 325 – a cozy little mountain town filled with love, mystery, and ghosts… Award-winning author Patricia Rice presents three romantic novellas from her celebrated Crystal Magic series—together for the first time in one collection.The Wedding Gift—Having overcome the obstacles of their past, Samantha Moon and Chen Ling Walker are … Gift—Having overcome the obstacles of their past, Samantha Moon and Chen Ling Walker are ready to walk down Hillvale’s eccentric version of a wedding aisle. Can they also conquer the complications of the present—a mysterious doll that won’t stay in…
He is Earth, she is Air, together they catch Fire….Mariah lives off the grid by waitressing, weaving ghostcatchers to send Hillvale’s ghosts across the veil, and keeping clear of electronics that haunt her—until the day her friend and mentor, Crazy Daisy, is murdered, and Mariah goes on the hunt for a killer.Her prime suspect is geologist Keegan Ives. Mysteriously arrived from the UK, he was … Mysteriously arrived from the UK, he was present when Daisy died, and he’s too handsome to believe—not that Mariah takes a dim view of guys lately or anything.Searching for missing journals to prove his…
An empathic woman searching for safety. . . An architect yearning for dreams. . . And the ghost house that endangers them both Teddy Devine-Baker arrives in her childhood home of Hillvale with a box of crystals and an attitude. Her empathic gift has ruined one relationship and most of her jewelry business, leaving her determined to learn more about a talent she’s never properly respected. … she’s never properly respected. Unfortunately, her empathy fails to work on tall, dark, handsome and annoying Kurt Kennedy, the aloof architect who warmed her heart as a child.Although his family owns most of Hillvale, Kurt avoids the…
From a New York Times bestselling author called a “masterful storyteller” (RT Book Reviews): When Samantha arrives at the old haunted town of Hillvale, she unravels long-ago fears and feuds — and attracts the attention of gorgeous local deputy sheriff Walker.