Nine Crows for a Kiss by Vernon Oickle

The nine remain forever on alert, vigilant and ready to react. Forces which threaten or pose danger to those they are destined to protect ought to take heed, for these black birds—these sentinels that have watched over this town for the past three centuries, defending the weak and the vulnerable—will not stop until their work …

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Cover of Lucid by Jenna Boholij. The cover is white, with large black type for the title. There's a wispy cloud-like shape, and below, an old house in a field in greytone.

Lucid by Jenna Boholij 

As she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake in the opening of Lucid, Charlie Marin reveals herself to be the antagonistic force driving Jenna Boholij’s literary thriller. 

Charlie has a successful job, compassionate family and friends, and a boyfriend in Winnipeg, but she cannot move past the death of her twin Cara, who died at age thirteen. The details of how she died are hidden away, but this loss makes Charlie numb to her circumstances and all possibilities for her future.