Harper Quinnell
Harper Quinnell writes about very human people making very questionable choices, usually with excellent sarcasm and terrible timing. Her stories wander across genres—romantic comedy, fantasy, cozy crime, and whatever else refuses to leave her brain—but they all come back to the same things: sharp dialogue, flawed characters, and the uncomfortable hilarity of trying to be a decent human in a chaotic world. When she's not writing, Harper is probably overthinking a single sentence, pretending coffee is a personality trait, or mentally editing conversations that already happened. Her books are for readers who like their emotions real, their humor dry, and their characters just self-aware enough to know they're a bit of a mess. She firmly believes that found family can save you, love can annoy you into growth, and no one is beyond redemption—though some people are definitely on probation.
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 Cozy Paranormal Mystery Collection: Three Standalone Witchy Woman Mysteries
Paranormal Cozy MysteryThree 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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What He Promised: A Small Town Mountain Man Romance
Contemporary RomanceLexi 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
Sci-Fi RomanceShe 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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Enchanted Listing: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery with Magical Home Staging
Paranormal Cozy MysteryEvery 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
Paranormal Cozy MysteryDeath 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
Paranormal Cozy MysteryThe 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
Contemporary RomanceHe'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
Cozy MysteryThe 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
Contemporary RomanceWhen 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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