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  • Wild Scottish Rose by Tricia O'Malley

    Wild Scottish Rose by Tricia O'Malley

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Is a rose without its thorns any less beautiful? Shona Scott would much rather putter in her garden than deal with brides that get hysterical over floral arrangements. Fed up, she quits the wedding business and renovates a small cottage on her property for holiday rentals. Without the weddings crowding her calendar, Shona will finally get some time to explore a newfound talent...
  • A Crone to Pick by Amanda M. Lee

    A Crone to Pick by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Scout Randall knows what she is, more than a witch, more powerful than she ever thought imaginable. She’s only hit the tip of the iceberg on what she can do. Now she has to grapple with another problem.When her former partner Evan was believed dead in a vampire attack, she blamed herself, mourned, and tried to move on. Now he’s back, and he’s more than anybody ever imagined, too...
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  • Three Sisters Island collection by Nora Roberts

    Three Sisters Island collection by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Dance Upon the Air: When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband - and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago . . . But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease...
  • The Best is Yet to Come by Jessica Redland

    The Best is Yet to Come by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Escape to the Lake District with million-copy bestseller Jessica Redland, for an uplifting story of family, friendship and love.Emma is having a fresh start.After a successful teaching career, an exciting new chapter awaits Emma – helping her fiancé Grayson run one of Beatrix Potter's farms...
  • A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne

    A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago...
  • The Last Of The Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

    The Last Of The Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. When her beloved Grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls...
  • A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil

    A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed...
  • South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber

    South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree...
  • Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper

    Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine. . .
  • Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Seth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, Seth had been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love...
  • The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

    The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places in The Matchmaker's Gift...
  • 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

    11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    GROUNDHOG DAY meets FLIPPED in this tale of a girl stuck in her birthday. It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited -- after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she's shared every birthday, are on the outs and this will be the first birthday they haven't shared together...
  • Paws and Effect by Sofie Kelly

    Paws and Effect by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Magical cats Owen and Hercules and resourceful librarian Kathleen Paulson are back in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Faux Paw...   Kathleen is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, Detective Marcus Gordon, while they visit charming Mayville Heights on business...
  • The Donovan Legacy: Charmed & Enchanted by Nora Roberts

    The Donovan Legacy: Charmed & Enchanted by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    In two tales of the Donovan family, Anastasia Donovan is afraid to reveal her true self to her intriguing new neighbor, Boone Sawyer, while Rowan Murray is fascinated by her enigmatic neighbor, Liam Donovan. - She has published 101 New York Times bestsellers as of 2003, 29 of them reaching #1...
  • Blood Ransom by Sophie McKenzie

    Blood Ransom by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    CLONES RACHEL AND THEO NOW LIVE THOUSANDS OF MILES APART. THEY KEEP IN TOUCH, BUT THINGS JUST AREN T THE SAME. WHEN RACHEL DISCOVERS THAT EVIL SCIENTIST ELIJAH IS STILL WORKING IN SECRET FOR A SECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ABOUT TO MURDER DANIEL, SHE SETS OUT TO RESCUE THE LITTLE BOY, BUT HER PLANS BACKFIRE WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES...
  • Faux Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Faux Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Magical cats Owen and Hercules from A Midwinter’s Tail are back and ready to help librarian Kathleen Paulson pounce on a killer art thief…Normally, the arrival of an art exhibition at the Mayville Heights library would be cause for celebration. But thanks to the overbearing curator and high-tech security system that comes with it, Kathleen’s life has been completely disrupted...
  • Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

    Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    An enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go.Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways...
  • The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook...
  • Her One Wish by Marie Hall

    Her One Wish by Marie Hall

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ON SALE OCTOBER 26! Nixie is a genie with a problem. She's just killed her Master. Kind of a big no-no for her kind, but really, what did the ruling council of genie's expect her to do? It's not like she was given a handbook on how to be a "proper genie". She was never even supposed to wind up in Kingdom. She'd been born on Earth, Chicago specifically...
  • The Cats Came Back by Sofie Kelly

    The Cats Came Back by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson often seems to gets mixed up in murder, but luckily, her very special cats always find a way to help her close a case . . .The charming Minnesota town of Mayville Heights is hosting a music festival, and the whole place is bustling with musicians and tourists...
  • A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Checking out! Emma Lee Raines, proprietor of a small-town Kentucky funeral home, Eternal Slumber, is a “Betweener,” helps ghosts stuck between here and the ever-after— only murdered ghosts. After Emma Lee solves who murdered them, only then can they cross over to the Great Beyond, Big Guy In The Sky. Emma Lee is up against a cold case that happened before she’d even gotten her “Betweener” gift...
  • Sinister Sanctuary by Colleen Gleason

    Sinister Sanctuary by Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A nerdy (but sexy) scientist. A writer on deadline. A haunted lighthouse. And a secret worth killing for... Welcome to Wicks Hollow: a cozy town near Lake Michigan filled with quaint houses, eccentric residents, and more than its share of ghosts, murders, and sexy romance...
  • A Tale of Two Kitties by Sofie Kelly

    A Tale of Two Kitties by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this charming mystery from the bestselling author of Paws and Effect, two magical cats have powers of detection that prove indispensable to librarian Kathleen Paulson… With a well-placed paw on a keyboard or a pointed stare, Kathleen’s two cats, Hercules and Owen, have helped her to solve cases in the past—so she has learned to trust their instincts...
  • Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver, Geoff Taylor

    Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver, Geoff Taylor

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined...
  • Double Take: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter

    Double Take: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she had left. Now, after dinner with friends, strolling along San Francisco's Pier 39, she realizes that she's happy...
  • Lian / Roch by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Lian / Roch by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    LIAN The Hunter: Lian isn’t a happy puma. He’s a lethal Hunter who should be out fighting the enemy, not babysitting a human scholar. Still, he’ll do whatever necessary to rid the world of the evil goddess, Shakpi. And there’s the bonus of spending a few hours away from his family of Nurturers who have been smothering him with love...
  • Copycat Killing by Sofie Kelly

    Copycat Killing by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the third Magical Cats mystery, small town librarian Kathleen Paulson and her very special cats must go on the hunt to find a clever killer...It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been up all night helping her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    There's a new psychic on the scene, and he's ready for action: introducing Lucas Jordan, the latest addition to Noah Bishop's crackerjack Special Crimes Unit. Lucas Jordan has an extraordinary psychic skill that police all over the country find invaluable: he locates missing people...
  • The Pink House by Cindy Kirk

    The Pink House by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deep in the forest, on a sun-drenched patch of lush green grass, surrounded by lily-of-the-valley, sits a pink house. With turrets towering like neighboring trees, and a wide welcoming front porch, the old Victorian is impossible to miss. Except that everyone in town has—everyone but Hannah Danbury...
  • Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing...
  • Broken by Layla Frost

    Broken by Layla Frost

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Layla Frost… You know the deal by now. Fated mates. Nefarious baddies. Grumpy-sunshine. And all the spicy tension. I’d been called a lot of things.Cold.Cynical.Jaded. An antisocial basta—You get the point.I’d say it came with being an overworked doctor, but that wasn’t the case. In my own personal purgatory, I’d lost touch with what I was meant to do—who I was...
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    magic  m-f  paranormal  fantasy  insta-love  contemporary
  • The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman

    The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine...
  • Pale as Death by Heather Graham

    Pale as Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From the dark depths of Hollywood’s past The crime scene is horrific: the corpse of a young actress, drained of blood and cut in two. LAPD Detective Sophie Manning’s new case is high-profile and difficult—there’s no evidence to work with. And it’s a disturbing echo of the infamous Black Dahlia killing...
  • The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy...
  • Sleight of Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Sleight of Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When a local do-gooder is killed, small town librarian Kathleen Paulson and her magical cats have to dig up trouble in the second mystery in the New York Times bestselling series.Kathleen never wanted to be the crazy cat lady. But when Owen and Hercules followed her home from mysterious Wisteria Manor, she realized her mind wasn’t playing tricks on her—her cats have magical abilities...
  • Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts

    Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 53 ratings
    The breathtaking conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Jewels of the Sun and Tears of the Moon... Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate, the magic of legend... and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away - into a world filled with glamour and adventure, and the exotic life that is her destiny..
    Categorized as:
    mystery  magic  m-f  contemporary  fae  paranormal  fantasy  small town
  • Burn by Penelope Fletcher

    Burn by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Something deadly lurks beneath the surface of Marina's skin, a wildness, a magickal creature born from fire and ice. After crossing dimensions to the fiery land of dragons, where not only is she a princess, but descendant from one of the most powerful dragons in existence, Marina has chosen to enter the tournamnet Aver to win the Frost Wreath...
  • Hoodoo Heaven: A Paranormal Women's fiction novella by Reggi Dupree

    Hoodoo Heaven: A Paranormal Women's fiction novella by Reggi Dupree

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Hoodoo, Texas—Mayberry with magic, midlife, and a dash of murder.I expected my forties to be filled with imbalanced hormones and an ex-husband or two. Instead, I died for the second time, was gifted a Thor hand, then sent a summons to my hometown of Hoodoo, Texas.The one place I swore never to return after being accused of murder...
  • The Apprentices by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    The Apprentices by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Two years have passed since Janie Scott last saw Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary’s defiant son who stole her heart. On the other side of the world, Benjamin and his father are treating the sick and wounded in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. But Benjamin has also been experimenting with a magical new formula that allows him to communicate with Janie across the globe...
  • The Promise by Apryl Baker

    The Promise by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Armed with kick-ass shoes, can CJ stop a maniacal coven leader, save the town, and still get Mr. Melt In Your Mouth Gorgeous while surviving the darkness coming for her? The smoke from the fire burned her eyes, its heat caressed her skin and the taste of fear choked her. She was going to burn just as her ancestor did all those centuries ago in New Salem Village...
  • Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

    Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Cafe...
  • The Mage by Jean Johnson

    The Mage by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    This is the final book in the acclaimed series of "cursed brothers, fated mates, prophecies... destiny and magic."(Robin D. Owens) New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz hails Jean Johnson's writing as "fabulously fresh, thoroughly romantic, and wildly entertaining." Now, Johnson returns for the final book in the series of eight brothers destined to fulfill a strange prophecy...
  • Body at the Bakery by Stella Berry

    Body at the Bakery by Stella Berry

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cornish Cream Tea with a dollop of death on the side.When a body is found in her sister's bakery, Morgana rushes to Ellie’s aid. She’s supposed to have ‘abilities’ to see more than most, but she’s suppressed them for years. However, if she wants to help Ellie, then it’s time to dust off her pointy hat and get back on that metaphorical broomstick...
  • Suzanna & Megan by Nora Roberts

    Suzanna & Megan by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Synopsis Atop the rocky coast of Maine sits the Towers, a magnificent family mansion that is home to a legend of long-lost love, hidden emeralds -- and four sisters determined to save their home against all odds. New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the Calhoun Women -- Suzanna's Surrender -- Burned-out and tired as hell, all ex-cop Holt Bradford wanted to do was relax...
  • The Tarot Cafe, #4 by Sang-Sun Park

    The Tarot Cafe, #4 by Sang-Sun Park

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The spirit of Shandy visits Pamela's dreams in the hopes of reconciling with his sister, Fay, before he leaves the Earth forever. With a tragic past of betrayal, cruelty and eventual friendship, Shandy will do whatever it takes to make peace with the sister, who's the cause of his unexpected death...
  • The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore

    The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Helen Dunmore The Ingo Chronicles Series Collection 5 Books Set, (Stormswept, The Crossing of Ingo, The Deep, The Tide Knot and...
  • A Grave Search by Wendy Roberts

    A Grave Search by Wendy Roberts

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Julie Hall is finally adjusting to her new career: locating dead bodies with dowsing rods.The crime scene is drenched with blood, but the body is nowhere to be found.When a grieving mother requests Julie’s help tracking the body of her missing daughter, Julie is hesitant...
  • Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, Jackson's kisses keep coming, and despite the occasional moodiness of her ghostly housemate, Sunni is looking forward to the season.It's spring break in Firefly Junction and the Stockton Traveling Carnival has come to town. Sunni finds herself saddled with an uninspiring story assignment...
  • Double Trouble by London Lovett

    Double Trouble by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Firefly Junction meets Port Danby as Lola and Lacey take a trip to the Cider Ridge Inn in Double Trouble. Sunni Taylor is finally going to meet Lola Button, the quirky antique dealer who sold her some rather unusual old photos of Cider Ridge Inn. When Lola arrives with her best friend, Lacey Pinkerton, Sunni and Lacey find they have a lot in common...
  • Morgan's Fate by Dana Marie Bell

    Morgan's Fate by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His Fate is finally in front of him…and he’s never letting go. Morgan and Magnus Grimm return from their search for Skuld, Norn of the Future, only to find that she’s been living under their noses this whole time...
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