With several million books in print and New York Times and USA Today’s bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA Patricia Rice writes romance, mystery, and urban fantasy. Her books have won numerous awards, including the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice and Career Achievement Awards. She has also been honored as a Romance Writers of America RITA® finalist in the historical, regency and contemporary categories.
Book 1 of School of Magic
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-868-8
A BVC Original
Can a straitlaced engineer, three psychic children, and a lonely witch find love?
The daughter of an earl, Lady Phoebe Malcolm Duncan has the ability to talk to animals. She longs to be a veterinarian, but education requires more coin than she possesses. When the walls of her home come tumbling down, she has to take two steps back — to servitude.
Book 2 of School of Magic
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-873-2
A BVC Original
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 adopted 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.
Crystal Magic: Book 1
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-721-6
A BVC Original
A lawman haunted by his past…a scientist haunted by her future.
Samantha Moon arrives in Hillvale–population 325 lives and countless ghosts–in a fog as thick as the one circling the aging mountain town. Bereft of friends and family, money and memory, all she has to her name is a stray cat…
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Crystal Magic: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-731-5
A BVC Original
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.
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Crystal Magic: Book 3
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-739-1
A BVC Original
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.
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A Crystal Magic Collection
by Patricia Rice
$7.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-758-2
A BVC Original
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.
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Book 5 of Crystal Magic
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-780-3
A BVC Original
A chef who brews magic challenges a mayor with secrets.
After 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 jalapeno 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 as she is.
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Crystal Magic: Book 6
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-784-1
A BVC Original
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 him the Death card.
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Crystal Magic: Book 7
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 ISBN 978-1-61138-810-7
A BVC Original
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 of trouble.
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Crystal Magic: A Novella
by Patricia Rice
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-751-3
A BVC Original
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 one place and the dubious assistance of a feng shui master who moves in with them?
Crystal Magic: A Novella
by Patricia Rice
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-754-4
A BVC Original
While juggling the demands of their busy lives, Theodosia Devine-Baker and Kurt Kennedy find that love and living together require just as much work. Halloween always brings out Hillvale’s spooks, but when Teddy declares a ceramic dragon is sending smoke signals, Kurt wonders if it’s time to flee the eccentric community to look for a more normal life.
A Crystal Magic Novella
by Patricia Rice
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-755-1
A BVC Original
With Christmas excitement raising Hillvale’s spirits–both literal and figurative–Keegan Ives and Mariah are setting out on new careers and a new relationship. As the town’s future draws them in different directions, can their love survive an unanticipated bundle of joy?
The Crystal Magic series:
Sapphire Nights
Topaz Dreams
Crystal Vision
The Wedding Gift
The Wedding Question
The Wedding Surprise
Download an Ebook Sample of Sapphire Nights (Crystal Magic Book 1):
Unexpected Magic: Book 1
by Patricia Rice
$7.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-577-9
A BVC Original
As an astrologer, Lady Azenor Dougall sadly realizes her stars are a danger to her beloved siblings and has banished herself from her Scots home. As the Malcolm family librarian, she dutifully creates zodiac charts for her often eccentric and mysterious relations–until the day she realizes a dire conjunction of planets spells a fatal threat in a distant branch of the family.
Unexpected Magic: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-586-1
A BVC Original
The death of Celeste Rochester’s father on the voyage from Jamaica to London leaves her and her young siblings nearly penniless in a foreign country. Forced to battle lawyers for her inheritance and the roof over their heads, Celeste uses her only weapon: her mysteriously compelling voice.
Unexpected Magic: Book 3
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-599-1
A BVC Original
Scorned by suitors for her statuesque size, Harriet Stansbury bolts when her abusive stepfather begins negotiating with impecunious aristocrats to sell her for her dowry. When opportunity offers, she daringly takes a position in an eccentric household until she can claim her fortune.
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Unexpected Magic: Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-661-5
A BVC Original
Brighid Darrow, Countess of Carstairs, has endured years of a loveless marriage in order to aid her friends and the people of Northridge. Yet once she is widowed, the village shuns her with accusations of witchcraft–vilifying her unique gift of reading auras. Released from past restraints, Bridey rebelliously embraces her dream of establishing a forbidden school for midwives.
Unexpected Magic: Book 5
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-666-0
A BVC Original
A dying viscount, a bookish botanist, and the marriage of convenience that becomes… inconvenient…
Diagnosed with consumption, Viscount “Devil” Dare knows his days are numbered. With his greedy cousin scheming to throw Dare’s mother and sisters out of their home after his death, he can hardly refuse a mysterious lady’s solution–wedding vows.
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Unexpected Magic: Book 6
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-682-0
A BVC Original
Will Ives, the bastard son of the late marquess, is as strong, handsome, and smart as his brothers, but he has no interest in society or book learning. His unique gift for training highly-prized rescue dogs is all he needs. His peace is shattered the day the beautiful but eccentric Lady Aurelia demands his help in finding a child no one knows is missing.
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Rogues and Desperadoes Book 1
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-632-5
Philadelphia heiress Alicia Stanford has a thousand reasons never to trust a man again. Only, when she flees to hide her shame in the western wilderness, the tantalizing Mississippi keelboatman who takes her to freedom forcefully reminds her that she’s in a man’s world.
Originally published by New American Library (1989)
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Rogues and Desperadoes Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-118-4
Handsome, fiery-tempered Nicholas Saint-Just was known to all New Orleans as a lawless pirate, a wanton womanizer, and a murderer. Yet his plantation was the only security that Eavin O’Flannery Dupre had ever known. Having lost both husband and child, she offers to take care of her niece, his motherless daughter, and run his plantation home, with the understanding that she never wishes to be touched by a man again.
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Rogues and Desperadoes, Book 3
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-295-2
Laura Kincaid had loved Cash Wycliffe, the tenant farmer’s headstrong son, since childhood — even though she knew he was the last man on earth she should want. A ruggedly handsome gambler and shameless womanizer, he was everything a well-bred Kentucky lady should avoid. And while Cash — who had sought his fortune in the West and returned a wealthy man — was more exciting than ever, his eyes were fixed on Laura’s aristocratic cousin Sallie, a Southern belle as dazzlingly beautiful as she was coldly calculating.
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Rogues and Desperadoes, Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-124-5
“A gifted story teller”—Romantic Times
Abused and thrown from her wealthy home as a child, taken in and sheltered by peace-loving Quakers, Lady Alexandra Theodora Beaumont tries to lead the religious, obedient life of her adopted parents. But despite all her efforts, Pace Nicholls brings out the willful child she’d once been.
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Rogues and Desperadoes Book 5
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-101-6
Samantha Neely thought she might have to kill Sloan Talbott. Talbott had already tried to run her and her family out of town, and now she finally had her chance to confront the man she believed responsible for her father’s disappearance. To do so, she had to prove she was woman enough to bring down the handsomest, most sinfully dangerous man she’d ever met.
Rogues and Desperadoes Book 6
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-633-2
Maria Connolly has courage and beauty, but does she have what it takes to fight cattle thieves and a handsome but deadly gunfighter her father hired before he died?
A Prequel to Regency Nobles
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-306-5
Clever and determined, Lady Marian Lawrence arrived in London to snare a rich husband in hopes of saving her family from ruin—not an easy task given her biting wit and lack of beauty. Hiding her true self, she almost wins the hand of the wealthy, amiable Lord Darley—until Darley’s best friend blocks their path to the altar.
Regency Nobles Book One
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-173-3
Scarred in a duel over a feckless woman, Gavin Lawrence leaves America to take up his new duty as Marquess of Effingham, vowing never to care about others again. But lurking in the secret passages of his crumbling manor house is a courageous and exceedingly annoying young woman in terrible danger.
Regency Nobles Book Two
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-153-5
An Irish rogue and a duke’s daughter should have nothing in common except trouble…
Though enchanted by the selfless beauty of a duke’s granddaughter, Michael—a man of many names but none his own — has wisely kept his distance. But two years after the disastrous fire that brought Lady Blanche Perceval into his life, he is saddled with a lost, lying Irish waif and needs a woman’s understanding aid.
Regency Nobles Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-204-4
Neville Perceval, the bankrupt Duke of Anglesey, has been burdened since youth with more responsibility than one man should handle. He has finally accepted that he needs to marry a wealthy, gracious lady who will ease his burdens and smooth his political path.
Fiona MacDermot, the rebellious, untamed cousin of an Irish earl, has the freedom and independence Neville has never known. Like the duke, she needs cash to help starving villagers and orphans. Unfortunately, she’d rather earn a living than have anything to do with useless men, and the politicians she knows all belong at the wrong end of a rope.
Mystic Isle Prequel
by Patricia Rice
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN: 978-1-61138-358-4
Newly appointed priestess to the Temple of Aelynn, Tasia Olympus is burdened with the greatest task to face any leader — saving her acolytes from a tsunami and finding them a new home. Her ability to communicate with the goddess cannot tell her how to protect three dozen virgins and an equal number of soldiers and sailors as they flee their doomed island.
