Babaloo Publishing
The books we couldn't put down. Now they're yours.
A Swedish indie publishing house with a small team putting out the stories we wished we
could find on the shelf — in any genre that catches our attention. Thrillers, cozy
mysteries, dark romance, comedy, paranormal.
If a manuscript kept us reading past our bedtime, it has a home with us.
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A More Aligned You in Just One Lifetime: A Found Family Comedy — One Woman's Journey from Performance Reviews to Lining Up Her Planets
SatireShe lost her job. Then she found herself. Sort of. At fifty-nine, Henrietta Malone is blindsided when an algorithm replaces her. Overnight the world of performance reviews and all-hands meetings is gone. She leaves the building as Henrietta and re-enters her life as Hexa, landing in a semi-functioning collective where cats supervise, the neighbors keep binders, and soup is practically a love language. This is a satirical novel about starting over late and sideways. Hexa navigates house politics, a tribunal no one asked for, a fig-tree ceremony, market days that almost pay the rent, and friendships that feel suspiciously like family. There are crystals. There are chakras. There is also rent, an HOA, and a binder named Brenda Sue. Bills still exist. So do small rituals, slower mornings, and the stubborn possibility of becoming someone truer. Enough, it turns out, is wider than it sounds. For readers who like midlife reinvention with humor and heart, found-family chaos under one creaky roof, gentle parody of crystals, chakras, and alignment, a neighbor who files her feelings, cats who file nothing, and endings that land warm without going saccharine. Begin again today. Results not guaranteed. Sage not included.
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A More Aligned You in Just One Lifetime: A Found Family Comedy — One Woman's Journey from Performance Reviews to Lining Up Her Planets
She lost her job. Then she found herself. Sort of. At fifty-nine, Henrietta Malone is blindsided when an algorithm replaces her. Overnight the world of performance reviews and all-hands meetings is gone. She leaves the building as Henrietta and re-enters her life as Hexa, landing in a semi-functioning collective where cats supervise, the neighbors keep binders, and soup is practically a love language. This is a satirical novel about starting over late and sideways. Hexa navigates house politics, a tribunal no one asked for, a fig-tree ceremony, market days that almost pay the rent, and friendships that feel suspiciously like family. There are crystals. There are chakras. There is also rent, an HOA, and a binder named Brenda Sue. Bills still exist. So do small rituals, slower mornings, and the stubborn possibility of becoming someone truer. Enough, it turns out, is wider than it sounds. For readers who like midlife reinvention with humor and heart, found-family chaos under one creaky roof, gentle parody of crystals, chakras, and alignment, a neighbor who files her feelings, cats who file nothing, and endings that land warm without going saccharine. Begin again today. Results not guaranteed. Sage not included.
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A Cozy Paranormal Mystery Collection: Three Standalone Witchy Woman Mysteries
Three witchy women. Three small-town secrets. Three murders no one was supposed to solve. This collection gathers the first three standalone cozy paranormal mysteries from Harper Quinnell—complete, self-contained novellas that can be read in any order. Each book brings its own witch, its own familiar, and its own small-town world, linked by a shared sensibility: warm humor, coastal fog, and the quiet conviction that magic is useful, ordinary, and occasionally the only thing standing between an innocent person and a framed murder charge. Enchanted Listing: Home stager Mara Lockwood becomes the detective's favorite suspect when a sealed chimney reveals a body hidden by magic uncomfortably similar to her own. The Haunted Inn: Innkeeper Jeannie has to solve a murder alongside the ghost of the victim, while keeping her Bell Harbor sheriff and a house full of weekend guests from noticing that her inn is, in fact, haunted. Misfiled Magic: Museum curator Bess Alcott becomes the prime suspect in her mentor's death and must untangle what he was really protecting—and why someone wanted it badly enough to kill him for it.
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Badger: The Complete Trilogy — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
A criminal enforcer grabs the wrong woman off a Denver street on a Thursday afternoon. She's not the senator's daughter. She has opinions about the situation. "The Badger" has been waiting years for his shot at the big leagues. When his crime lord hands him a simple kidnapping job, he's ready. Truck stocked. Duct tape. Zip ties. A burner phone he's never used. The whole thing goes wrong inside five minutes. Kay Hessington is a substitute teacher and law school dropout with a coffee stain on her dry-clean-only coat and very specific opinions about his kidnapping procedure, his warehouse, and whether his entire intimidation package is actually skill or just good genetics. She has a long weekend. She is not as scared as she should be. What follows is a three-book story about a woman who files everything and a man who examines nothing, a contract dispute that requires a highlighter and page seven, a courtroom where the scariest man in Denver has been asked not to crack his knuckles, and the slow, precise, completely unplanned process of two people choosing each other. This volume contains the complete text of Badger: The Grab, Badger: The Contract, and Badger: The Ruling. A completed trilogy with a happily ever after.
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Badger: The Contract — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
The contract was bulletproof. Until she read page seven. Kay Hessington is not scared of "the Badger." She's not scared of his crime lord, the crew, his truck, or the warehouse she now apparently lives in. She is, if anything, too calm about all of it—a law school dropout with a coffee-stained coat, a highlighter, and a very specific opinion about the contract a Denver businessman has decided to tear up. The Badger was handed the job. The job came with a condition: so was she. She reads the contract in the truck on the way over. Four minutes. Page seven. The conduct clause. Marcus Holt has a lawyer and a technicality. He has never been in a room with a woman who used to be on track to graduate at the top of her class and got that taken from her by a man she can no longer be in a room with. He has never met a woman who will do the legal work and then stand back and let the most dangerous man in Denver deliver the conclusion. He is about to. Book Two of The Badger Trilogy—a dark romance comedy where the legal brain and the physical presence become the same problem, and neither one is alone anymore.
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Badger: The Grab — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
He had it under control. Until he kidnapped the wrong woman. "The Badger" has a plan. He's been waiting years for a real job—something bigger than protection rounds and intimidation leans. When his crime lord finally hands him the senator's daughter to grab off a Denver street on a Thursday afternoon, he's ready. Truck stocked. Duct tape. Zip ties. A burner phone he's never used. The whole thing goes wrong inside five minutes. Kay Hessington is not the senator's daughter. She's a substitute teacher. A law school dropout. She has a coffee stain on her dry-clean-only coat, a travel mug she brought into his truck, and very specific opinions about his kidnapping procedure, the condition of his warehouse, and whether his entire intimidation package is actually skill or just good genetics. She has a long weekend. She is not as scared as she should be. The Badger has days to fix his mistake before his crime lord finds out he grabbed the wrong woman. Kay has days to figure out why the most dangerous man in Denver cannot lie to her when she asks a direct question. Neither of them is prepared for what happens next. Book One of The Badger Trilogy—a dark romance comedy with forced proximity, a heroine who treats kidnapping like a scheduling issue, and a criminal whose intimidation package is about to get a performance review.
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Badger: The Ruling — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
She wasn't a lawyer. That was everybody else's problem. The courtroom was not part of the plan. Neither was the judge, the ruling, or the morning Kay Hessington sat in a row of people who went to law school and finished and realized she was the most dangerous person in the room. The Badger was in the back. Leaning against the wall. Not because anyone told him to be there—because she was there, and that was where he was going to be. The ruling changes everything. What Kay does next changes more. Because building a life together means answering questions from people who ask them. A brother who needs to know she's safe. Standing in stores he never would have entered before he grabbed the wrong woman off a Denver street. A new case that needs a highlighter and page four. She didn't plan this life. She chose it. He didn't plan her. He's not letting go. Book Three of The Badger Trilogy—a dark romance comedy where the verdict is in, the filing system has collapsed, and home turns out to be a man with a truck that announces itself in every parking lot in the city. HEA—earned, specific, and very quiet.
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Last Night at Halcyon Park: An Interactive Amusement Park Thriller with Multiple Endings for Adults
You wake up on the bathroom floor of an amusement park at midnight. Your phone is dead. The crowds are gone. The rides are still running. A man at a food stand is watching you. He says four words: "You're still here." Something is wrong at Halcyon Park. The gates are locked. A man in a staff cap keeps telling you to move—but never explains why. And the deeper you go, the more you realize: you're not the first woman to be alone here on a Friday night. Every choice you make changes what you see, who you trust, and how the night ends. Do you head for the gate or follow your friends' path? Do you confront the man who keeps appearing or run? Do you trust him when he says he's protecting you—even when the evidence says otherwise? An interactive thriller with 26 chapters, 10 decision points, and 8 endings—from narrow escapes to devastating revelations. Each playthrough takes 20–40 minutes. No two readings are the same. Grounded, atmospheric, and written for adult readers who want to be inside the story, not just watching it.
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Guest Mode: An Interactive Thriller with Multiple Endings for Adults
A Pick Your Path Thriller. You come home from vacation to find your Airbnb-rented house exactly as you left it. The guest was quiet, tidy, five stars. Then you read the review. He describes a fourth bedroom. Blue wallpaper. A wooden chair. A narrow bed. You have three bedrooms. You have never had blue wallpaper. Behind the linen closet at the end of the upstairs hall, there's a seam in the wall. Someone opened it and sealed it again—with your paint. And the hallway security camera has a six-hour gap on the third night. The room is real. It's been there longer than you have. And you're not the first person to find it. Eight endings. Some explain everything. Some explain nothing. Every choice is yours.
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The Other Mrs. Perry: A Gripping Domestic Psychological Thriller
Tammy Perry thought she had caught her husband having an affair. Then the woman claiming to be Neil Perry's other wife contacts her. At first, Tammy assumes it's a mistake. But when she and Dana begin comparing their lives, the similarities become impossible to ignore. The same routines. The same milestones. The same daughter's name. The same carefully constructed world built around their families. Neil hasn't just been unfaithful—he has been living two identical marriages. As the women start pulling at the threads of his double life, a pattern begins to emerge that stretches back years. Every decision. Every small rule inside their homes. Every moment they once believed was ordinary. Nothing happened by accident. And the deeper Tammy and Dana dig, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Because the man they married wasn't just lying. He was watching. A twisty psychological suspense thriller about marriage, deception, and the terrifying realization that someone has been quietly designing your life.
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The Good Boy Witness: A Pet Psychic Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Darcy's fresh start just got complicated. Fifty, divorced, and driving in circles through the Upper Peninsula in a teal rust bucket called The Pampered Paw, Darcy Walsh was, by any reasonable measure, doing fine. Then the cat started talking. Rinse, the tuxedo cat who came with her late grandmother's mobile grooming van, is telepathic, sardonic beyond reason, deeply unimpressed with Darcy's life choices, and apparently her problem now. Her grandmother, it turns out, was a pet whisperer—a gift that passes down whether anyone consents to it or not. Most animals just want to complain about late dinners and the mailman. But one is a grieving golden retriever who remembers the sound of his owner falling down a flight of basement stairs. He heard the argument that came before it. He watched a person walk out of that house like it had been an ordinary Tuesday. Lorraine Nordgren didn't trip. She was pushed. And the family she worked for has been burying secrets far uglier than a servant's bad luck. Now Darcy has a killer to name, a supernatural community she didn't know existed pulling her in, two traumatized German shepherds who need a home, and a soft-spoken local veterinarian who keeps turning up at the worst possible moments looking unreasonably good in a barn jacket. A warm, witty paranormal cozy with a sardonic cat, a midlife heroine finding her second act, and a small-town murder where the truth comes from four-legged witnesses—and the people who finally learn to trust them.
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4B: A Gripping Psychological Thriller
The woman in apartment 4B is going to die tonight. Nadia is certain of it. She hasn't left her apartment in two years. Not since the accident. Not since the panic attacks made the outside world feel lethal. Her window is her lifeline—her way of staying connected while staying safe. So when she begins to notice strange patterns across the street—late-night arguments, bruises, a woman silently asking for help—Nadia does what she can from a distance. She watches. She records. She calls the police. No one believes her. As Nadia's obsession deepens, the story she thinks she's witnessing begins to fracture. The footage doesn't line up. The details don't match. Trapped between her fear of leaving and her certainty that someone is in danger, Nadia is forced to confront the question she's been avoiding for years: what happens when the only safe place you have becomes the most dangerous one? A gripping psychological thriller about agoraphobia, surveillance, fear, and the cost of looking away.
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What He Promised: A Small Town Mountain Man Romance
Lexi Warren came to the mountain to disappear. No signal. No neighbors. No way to be found. After escaping an emotionally abusive relationship, she needs silence, distance, and somewhere safe enough to breathe again. Her brother Dylan's remote cabin sounds perfect—until she arrives and finds it isn't empty. Cade Lawson is over six feet of broad-shouldered, flannel-wearing, off-grid-living temptation. He's also her brother's best friend, and the man she's been fantasizing about since she was old enough to know what a crush was. Cade is keeping the promise he made years ago to stay away from her. But when Lexi shows up bruised, shaken, and running from a past that won't let go, his protective instincts go to war with a decade of self-control. A steamy, emotionally grounded brother's-best-friend romance about healing after gaslighting, reclaiming desire, and finding love where trust grows slowly and fiercely.
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Intersection: A Science Fiction Romance of Forbidden Love
She came to translate peace treaties. He came to survive one. Lydia Carrington accepts a contract on Nexus Station to escape Earth and do the work she knows best: translating between species who barely trust one another. Alien diplomacy is complicated, but it's predictable. Her new neighbor isn't. Rhen Vadaris is a Velorian diplomat trained to control every instinct—because his species bonds once, permanently, and interspecies bonding is forbidden by treaty. One moment of engineered proximity is enough to trigger a connection neither of them consented to. Now flagged as a security risk, Lydia and Rhen are quarantined while political forces debate whether their bond is a threat… or a tool. As the connection between them deepens, Lydia begins to suspect their meeting was never an accident—and that powerful systems are willing to weaponize intimacy to maintain control. A high-heat sci-fi romance about choice after coercion, visibility over secrecy, and two people who refuse to let their connection become infrastructure. Standalone with a guaranteed HEA.
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The First Mrs. Harmon: A Psychological Marriage Suspense
Christine Harmon is dead. She died of cancer. Her husband tells everyone that's the whole story. Allison knows she is the second wife. She lives in Christine's house. Sleeps in her bed. Inherits her routines. What she doesn't know—at first—is how carefully Christine's world was reduced while she was alive. Gregory Harmon is attentive, calm, and endlessly reasonable. He worries about Allison's stress. Suggests rest. Suggests therapy. Suggests help. Always gently. Always watching. Then Allison finds Christine's journals. The deeper Allison reads, the harder it is to ignore how familiar it all feels. The first Mrs. Harmon didn't survive this marriage. Now Allison understands the danger she's in—not because Gregory is violent, but because he is believed. The First Mrs. Harmon is a psychological thriller about coercive control, gaslighting, and the quiet mechanics of abuse that leave no bruises and no witnesses. It explores what happens when illness, caretaking, and love are used as tools—and when the truth survives only on the page. For readers who enjoy dark domestic suspense in the vein of modern psychological thrillers. Content note: Themes include psychological abuse and coercive control, gaslighting and emotional manipulation, serious illness and death (cancer), and threatened loss of autonomy. No graphic violence, but the emotional realism can be intense for sensitive readers.
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No Vacancy: A Psychological Domestic Thriller with a Twist
Mara Spencer needs the rental income to keep her grandmother's house. Her new tenant seems perfect. Quiet. Polite. Pays in cash. Two weeks later, she won't leave. Daria claims squatter's rights. She knows the law. She knows her way around Mara's kitchen. She knows things about Mara that no stranger should know. The police say it's a civil matter. The lawyers say eviction takes months. Daria says she's not going anywhere. But it's the questions Daria asks that keep Mara up at night. Questions about the past. About choices. About what a person can live with. Mara has spent ten years building a careful life. Now, a woman she's never met is taking it apart, piece by piece. And Mara is starting to think this isn't random at all. For readers who enjoy psychologically complex stories with morally ambiguous endings. Content note: Contains themes of guilt, trauma, revenge, gaslighting, and references to past suicidal thoughts. Depicts a hit-and-run accident (not graphic). No graphic violence.
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Enchanted Listing: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery with Magical Home Staging
Every house has secrets. This one just revealed its darkest. Mara Lockwood doesn't renovate houses—she glamours them. As Larkspur Hollow's only magical stager, she transforms neglected properties into dream homes with a wave of her hand and a well-placed illusion. But when her latest glamour flickers during an Open House, it reveals something no spell can beautify: a body hidden in the chimney. Now Mara is the prime suspect, and to clear her name she must navigate jealous rivals, scheming buyers, and neighbors with too many secrets—because someone else in this charming little town can cast illusions too. And that someone is a killer.
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The Haunted Inn: A Cozy Whodunit with a Ghostly Ally
Death is bad for business. Especially when the deceased refuses to check out. Jeannie Pollard just wanted to run a charming bed and breakfast—she got a haunted crime scene instead. Arthur Pendelton is dead in Room 7, and his ghost is tearing the place apart. The temperature is dropping. The furniture is flying. And he's desperate to communicate something the living world is ignoring: he was murdered. The sheriff doesn't believe in ghosts. The suspects are preparing to leave. Jeannie has only a short window to uncover which of her guests is a killer—before the truth slips away and her livelihood goes with it. With a best friend who reads tarot cards, a judgmental Siamese cat, and a ghost who expresses himself through household appliances, Jeannie dives into an investigation that's equal parts supernatural and unsettling.
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Misfiled Magic: A Cozy Paranormal Museum Mystery
The truth is out there. Too bad she can't remember where. Bess Alcott wakes up on the museum floor with no memory of the night before, priceless magical artifacts missing, and a dead body in the garden. As curator of the Crescent Bay Museum, Bess has spent three years tending the collection alongside her mentor—through dust, donors, and the occasional leaky roof. What she hasn't fully understood is the quiet magical system holding the place together beneath her feet. Now her mentor is dead, the system is failing, and she has eight blank hours in her memory she can't account for. Artifacts shift. Wards weaken. Things go missing that were never meant to move at all. With the museum open to the public and the past pressing in from every display case, Bess must untangle what's been misfiled, misplaced, or misunderstood before a long-buried mistake turns into a very visible disaster. A warm, gently humorous cozy paranormal mystery about responsibility, legacy, and the quiet work of keeping dangerous things safely contained.
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Backburn: A spicy forced-proximity novella of survival and second chances
He's spent ten years running from his past. She's hiding from her future. The wildfire that traps them together might be the only thing that saves them both. Janey Morrison came to the mountains to escape—a cheating fiancé, a shattered friendship, and the pitying stares that followed her everywhere. Alone in a rented cabin, she's determined to prove she doesn't need anyone—until the wildfire changes everything. Reid Mitchell has spent ten years in self-imposed isolation, hiding from the guilt that destroyed his career as a smokejumper. He's built a fortress in the wilderness where no one can get hurt—especially not because of him. But when he finds Janey trapped in an evacuation zone with the fire closing in, he breaks his most important rule: he lets someone in. Forced together in Reid's remote cabin as the wildfire rages, two broken people discover that sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't the flames outside—it's the connection burning between them. A character-driven novella about healing, second chances, and learning that the bravest thing you can do is let someone in. HEA guaranteed.
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A Lavender Lie: A Cozy Mystery with Elderly Amateur Sleuth, Baking Competition, and Small-Town Secrets
The annual Maplewood Harvest Bake-Off should have been a celebration. Instead, it became a crime scene. Frances Morrison, at seventy-two, knows her small town inside and out—who keeps the best garden, who gossips at church coffee hour, and exactly how long to bake her legendary snickerdoodles. What she never expected was watching her best friend become the prime suspect in an attempted murder. When celebrity food blogger Dolores Kingsley arrives promising to judge the competition, tension follows her like a shadow—she's built her empire on destroying small businesses with scathing reviews. Then she tastes Pauline Shepherd's lavender-honey cookies. And collapses. The evidence tells a damning story about poisoned extract and deliberate sabotage, but Fran knows something everyone else has missed: her friend is innocent. With her tech-savvy grandson Cody by her side and 48 hours before an arrest is made, Fran begins asking the questions no one else wants answered—because in a town where everyone knows your business, someone is keeping a deadly secret.
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By the Book: A Small-Town Closed-Door Romance
When Evie Parker takes over By the Book, she's determined to earn her place in Larkhaven Cove, one window display and one nervous smile at a time. Her overly helpful spaniel mix, Bark Twain, is more than ready to assist. Enter Cal Rivera, the quiet, competent lieutenant from Station Two, who wants a calm winter, steady shifts, and maybe a chance to stop feeling like life keeps starting without him. Between cocoa from The Toast, gossip as a love language, and borrowed checklists, help turns into something warmer. Then RSVPs stack for Evie's first big author signing, and Cal reports a safety issue to Town Hall. It's the right call for the crowd. It feels like betrayal to her. Can belonging survive the fire code? A cozy small-town rom-com about competence, care, and the mess we make when safety and heart collide. Warm, witty, and closed-door sweet.
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