KARMA'S STAKE by L.A. Boruff, Lacey Carter Andersen, and Helen Scott

Title:  KARMA'S STAKE
Series:  Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow #5
Author:  L.A. Boruff, Lacey Carter Andersen, and Helen Scott
Publisher:  L.A. Boruff
Publish Date:  02.25.2022
Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content.
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused.
Received from:  L.A. Boruff
Goodreads link: Karma’s Stake
Date completed: 03.11.2022
 
Description from the publisher:
For the ladies of Mystic Hollow, the stakes have never been higher...

Emma always thought her best friend just didn't want love in her life. But when a guy from her past comes walking back into their little town, she realizes the truth: her best friend never got over her first love.

Only, he's not the same shy guy from high school. He's a vampire. And he's in trouble.

As the ladies band together to solve a new mystery, Emma's connection to Mystic Hollow grows stronger through her tough bear shifter, but the secrets they uncover just might leave one of the ladies with a broken heart.

That is, if they discover the truth in time.
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KARMA'S STAKE is the sixth book in the Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow series.  Though each does stand on its own, for maximum enjoyment and understanding read them all and in the order of release.
 
This story is full of adventure, fashion, true love, and feminine giggles.  Plus, one possessive, growly, handsome bear shifter.  I loved it.
 
Beth, Carol, Deva, and Emma (Karma) are powerful witches individually, but now that they have reunited in Mystic Hollow, they are becoming an unstoppable combination.  These women are the type that have each other’s backs no matter what, and they have magic… strong magic… to back them up.
 
This series is wonderful.  There hasn’t been a bad story in the bunch, and it just keeps moving along with a stick-to-my-seat fascination. I even loved the cliffhanger – a portend of what is to come in future books.
 
Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via BookSprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
 
Mystic Hollow Series (with Helen Scott and Lacey Carter Andersen):
0.5 Cookies and Cover Ups (Girdles and Ghouls Anthology)
1.      Karma’s Spell 
2.      Karma’s Shift  
3.      Karma’s Spirit
4.      Karma’s Sense 
5.      Karma’s Stake 
6.      Karma’s Source (coming soon)
 
Also from L.A. Boruff:
·         Blood Moon Rising (Goddess of Virtue)
Academy’s Rise Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Hell Fire
2.      Dark Water
3.      Dead Air
Coven’s End (with Lia Davis):
1.      Kane
2.      Voss
3.      Quin
4.      Jillian
Demons and Demigods Series (with J.L. Burns):
1.      The Devil’s Delight  
2.      Chaotic Creations (releases 03.02.2022)
3.      Divine Deviations (releases 04.13.2022)
Fanged After Forty Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Bitten in Midlife 
2.      Staked in the Midlife 
3.      Masquerading in the Midlife
4.      Bonded in the Midlife (releases 03.23.2022)
The Firehouse Feline Series (with Laura Greenwood and Lacey Carter Andersen):
1.      Feline the Heat
2.      Feline the Flames
3.      Feline the Burn
4.      Feline the Pressure
An Immortal Midlife Series:
1.      Fatal Forty
2.      Fighting Forty 
3.      Finishing Forty
Immortal Quest Series (with J.L. Burns):
1.      Realm or Ruin
2.      Echoes of Ancients 
3.      Heart and Shadow
Immortal West Series (with Kerry Adrienne):
1.      Undead (releases 03.09.2022)
2.      Hybrid (releases 05.11.2022)
3.      Fae (releases 07.06.2022)
Lucifer’s War Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Devil’s Consort
2.      Devil’s Assassin
Magic & Metaphysics Academy Series (with Laura Greenwood):
1.      Magical Mischief
2.      Magical Mistake
3.      Magical Misfit
Meowing Medium Series (with Molly Fitz):
1.      Secrets of the Specter  
2.      Gifts of the Ghost
3.      Pleas of the Poltergeist (releases 2022)
Midlife Mage Series (with Daphne Moore):
1.      Unveiled
2.      Unfettered  
3.      Unbowed
Prime Time of Life Series:
1.      Borrowed Time
2.      Stolen Time 
3.      Just in Time  
4.      Hidden Time 
5.      Nick of Time (releases 02.23.2022)
Shifting into Midlife Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Pack Bunco Night
2.      Alpha Males and Other Shift (releases 03.30.2022)
Southern Soil Series:
1.      Literary Yours
2.      Snow Cure
The Tales of Clan Robbins Series:
1.      Outlaw of Ladies
2.      Princess of Thieves
3.      Alpha of Exiles
An Unseen Midlife Series:
1.      Bloom in Blood (formerly War of Fangs)
2.      Dance in the Night (formerly War of Fire)
3.      Bask in Magic (formerly War of Wings)
4.      Surrender in Dreams (releases 10.12.2022)
Valentine Pride Series (with Laura Greenwood):
1.      Unicorn Mates
2.      Unicorn Luck
3.      Unicorn Truth
4.      A Platypus and Her Wolves  
Witching After Forty Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      A Ghoulish Midlife
1.1 Cookies for Satan
1.2 I’m with Cupid
2.      A Cursed Midlife
2.1 Birthday Blunder
2.7 A Girlfriend for Mr. Snoozerton
3.      A Haunting Midlife  
4.      An Animated Midlife  
4.5 Faery Odd-Mother
5.      A Killer Midlife (releases 02.28.2022)
6.      A Grave Midlife (releases soon)
7.      A Powerful Midlife (releases soon)
8.      A Wedded Midlife (releases soon)
 

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