S.E. Babin

USA Today Bestselling author S.E. Babin is a mom, a wife, and a military veteran. She has a passion for writing books filled with heroines you’d like to sit down and drink too much wine with and heroes who love those kinds of girls. Whether it’s mystery, romantic comedy, or light urban fantasy, all of her books have a funny vein running through them. Life can be sad. Our books don’t have to be!

Sheryl has a Master of Fine Arts in Popular Fiction and Publishing from Emerson College and spends way too much time hanging out in libraries and bookstores.

Blade of Hope

Blade of Hope

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Genres: Fantasy, Romance, YA Fantasy

Treachery rots the Kingdom of Thornwilde from within. A teenage girl may hold the key to its salvation.

Harlow grew up without magic, banned in the kingdom when she was only a child. Spoken of in hushed whispers by her sister, Nova, she knows it exists and knows having it is a death sentence.

When Nova abandons her and her foster parents die of fever, Harlow finds a strange stone and a brief note directing her to find work in the castle. When she arrives, Harlow is thrust into a world of glittering court politics and ruthless machinations.

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Booked for Homicide (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 1)

Booked for Homicide (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 1)

When a rare book order leads me right to a homicide, somehow I’m the one investigating…

I’m Dakota Adair, owner of Tattered Pages, a bookstore specializing in cool and quirky books. I inherited a grumpy Persian cat named Poppy who loves to make her displeasure known around the store… loudly. Things are good until I deliver a special order only to stumble over a body. Suddenly all eyes are on me. Now I have a handsome detective and an annoying reporter on my tail, hounding me about the case.

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Foreword Fraud (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 2)

Foreword Fraud (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 2)

Welcome back to Silverwood Hollow! Where the books are plentiful and the crime is cozy!

When a shady business owner winds up dead, I’m once again under the investigative spotlight of a handsome detective with nowhere to run…

After sitting in on a lecture given by a rare book trader, I’m excited to look into expanding Tattered Pages. But when the trader winds up dead the same day Cole and I attend her lecture, suspicion turns to those I care about the most.

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Copycat Killer (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 3)

Copycat Killer (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 3)

In my next case, imitation isn’t the sincerest form of flattery when it leads to murder…

Mary Ruth Steinman is a magnet for controversy, but she’s good for business. At least until my grumpy Persian meets her and tries to bite her. Soon, it’s all I can do to keep my business running and my cat happy. But when the author is found dead after a signing, Tattered Pages is thrust into the news once again.

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Fictional Fatality (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 4)

Fictional Fatality (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 4)

A Shelf Indulgence Novella!

Dakota and Poppy are back in this next cozy installment of the Shelf Indulgence series, but this one might be a case even their book smarts can’t handle!

When a man drops dead in the middle of town, no one expects foul play. Except Poppy. My grumpy Persian won’t stop yowling about the murder until I agree to take a quick peek into it.

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Bookmarked for Crime (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 5)

Bookmarked for Crime (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 5)

When a crime resembles the one in the newest cozy mystery release at Dakota’s store, she’ll have to team up with Poppy to catch a killer!

Dakota and Poppy are enjoying some much-needed vacation time, but when a body turns up in her best friend’s shop, she’ll have to put her amateur sleuth hat back on to solve the crime. The killer seems to be a local and knows where Dakota lives. When she receives a threatening note on her kitchen table, Dakota is forced out of her home … and into Hardy’s.

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Blade of Mercy (Book of the Virago 2)

Blade of Mercy (Book of the Virago 2)

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Genres: Fantasy, Romance, YA Fantasy

Corruption grows within the Stones of Luna, jeopardizing all the Lands of Lunamoor.

Harlow is safe in the Kingdom of Shadows, nursing her jagged heart but avoiding her sister. Sensing her reluctance to mend fences, Shade gives her a time limit to put herself back together and step up to become the warrior she's always meant to be. But when Bloom returns, bearing an urgent message, Harlow has no choice but to put her grievances aside and learn to harness her magic once and for all.

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Larceny (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 6)

Larceny (A Shelf Indulgence Cozy Mystery Book 6)

When a colleague asks Dakota for help investigating a series of unexplained thefts, she jumps at the opportunity. What she doesn't expect is to land in a whirlwind of murder, mayhem, and a mystery that might take everything from her.

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