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  • Darkest Powers Trilogy by Kelley Armstrong

    Darkest Powers Trilogy by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    The SummoningThe Darkest Powers Series, Book I After years of frequent moves following her mother’s death, Chloe Saunders’s life is finally settling down. She is attending art school, pursuing her dreams of becoming a director, making friends, meeting boys. Her biggest concern is that she’s not developing as fast as her friends are. But when puberty does hit, it brings more than hormone surges...
  • The Secret Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Secret Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    All magic has a price…But what it cost me can never be given back.So I'll have to settle for vengeance. Don’t miss the epic finale for The Coven: Academy Magic in The Secret Witch. The problems for this sharp-witted heroine and swoon-worthy hero are only getting crazier...
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  • Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

    Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 78 ratings
    For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there is something more troubling than usual about his newest case...
  • Liam by Shannon Mayer

    Liam by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    My name is Liam, and I was an FBI agent, until I stepped into the world of Rylee Adamson. Now, I’m a Guardian, a wolf shifter whose very design is to protect those around him at any cost. The battle against Orion is done, the demons banished. In their wake, there are so many innocents who have lost their lives, their families, and their way. Three of them our now ours to raise—the ogre triplets...
  • Revival of the Court by Heather G. Harris

    Revival of the Court by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ding dong, the bells are ringing.You are cordially invited to the Wedding of Jinx and Emory.Unfortunately, so are the Connection. A shocking arrest throws the guests into disarray and threatens my happily ever after. I think I can calm things down but they quickly go from bad to worse when I’m hauled bodily away from my own wedding...
  • You Only Witch Once by Amanda M. Lee

    You Only Witch Once by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It’s the summer of 2002, and Winnie Winchester is a normal mother. She has the same highs, the same lows, and the same fears as any other mother of a fourteen-year-old girl. Of course, since she’s a witch – and her daughter can talk to ghosts – those fears are amplified to an unnatural degree...
  • 13 by Kelley Armstrong

    13 by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The exciting, page-turning LAST episode of Kelley Armstrong's acclaimed, bestselling Women of the Otherworld series!Savannah Levine, a young witch of remarkable power and a dangerous pedigree, staggers away from a bomb blast in New Orleans, glad that she's managed to rescue her half-brother Bryce from the supernatural revolutionaries who'd held him captive...
  • Awakening of the Pack by Heather G. Harris

    Awakening of the Pack by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I am seizing the patriarchy by the balls, and I’m going to give it a vasectomy. I may have been crowned Queen, but it rapidly becomes clear that the title doesn’t come with an iota of respect: in fact, it’s a death sentence. My enemies have handed me a crown and now they’re sitting back to see how long I can keep it. Challenges will be coming thick and fast, and I need to be prepared...
  • Sweet Murder by Tegan Maher

    Sweet Murder by Tegan Maher

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Librarian note: An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.What's a witch to do when the meanest man in the county drops dead in his coleslaw during her shift at the local barbecue joint? Noelle does what any good Southern girl would do: she flicks a wrist to clean up the mess, then thanks the stars for doing the world a favor. But that's just the beginning...
  • Sweep: Volume 2 by Cate Tiernan

    Sweep: Volume 2 by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Includes:Book 4 - Dark MagickBook 5 - AwakeningBook 6 - Spellbound Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • Rival Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rival Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After narrowly escaping death at the hand of the Order of Shadows, Harper finds herself thrust into the strange and beautiful world of the shadow demons. But crossing through the portal doesn't mean she is safe. The Order of Shadows is determined to bring her home and transfer the Prima line to the Harris family. They send their most vicious hunters after Harper...
  • Sweep: Volume 4 by Cate Tiernan

    Sweep: Volume 4 by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Includes:Book 10 - SeekerBook 11 - OriginsBook 12 - Eclipse The fourth Sweep collection Morgan Rowlands had thought her foes were defeated, but demons from the past still haunt her and her beloved, Hunter. Their magick is strong, but the darkness that torments them threatens to overwhelm even their love. Yet there is another, whose magick could save, or could destroy...
  • Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil by Christopher Pike

    Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    It's no dream. At last the truth of what happened during those hellish days has come back to her. In her five thousand years as a vampire, Alisa - or Sita, as she was originally called - has experienced the equivalent of fifty lifetimes. Every moment of her immortal life is seared deep into her being. Every person she has loved, every victim she has killed - their faces are forever part of her...
  • Burn by Paula Weston

    Burn by Paula Weston

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Suddenly, Gaby remembers everything. For a year she believe she was a backpacker chilling out in Pandanus Beach. Working at the library. Getting over the accident that killed her twin brother. Then Rafa came to find her and Gaby discovered her true identity as Gabe: one of the Rephaim. Over a hundred years old...
  • Wounded by Shannon Mayer

    Wounded by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker." When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. The clock is ticking and I can feel the weight of the final battle with the demon hordes looming over my head. The puzzle pieces are becoming clearer, but the casualty list is growing...
  • Sweep: Volume 3 by Cate Tiernan

    Sweep: Volume 3 by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Includes:Book 7 - The CallingBook 8 - Changeling Book 9 - Strife Morgan Rowlands holds profound magickal power. . . a power that some will stop at nothing to obtain. Though she knows she has much still to learn, magick has brought her more than she could ever have imagined: the love of her soul mate. Yet her dreams uncover something else - a dark force threatening her entire world...
  • The Angel Trap by Michelle Madow

    The Angel Trap by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Be careful who you trust, or you might walk into a trap.After putting her neck on the line to save Noah and Sage’s lives, Raven is on the brink of death. The only thing that might save her? Vampire blood.The problem is, no one’s supposed to know that vampire blood can heal humans. Anyone who finds out will be silenced. Which means Sage and Noah need to take Raven to a vampire they can trust...
  • Shimmer by Paula Weston

    Shimmer by Paula Weston

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Gaby thought her life couldn’t get more complicated.She’s almost used to the idea that she’s not the nineteen-year-old backpacker she thought she was. She can just about cope with being one of the Rephaim - a 140-year-old half-angel - whose memories have been stolen. She’s even coming to grips with the fact that Jude, the brother she’s mourned for a year, didn’t die at all...
  • The Elementals by A.L. Knorr

    The Elementals by A.L. Knorr

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Can they use their newfound powers to save their hometown, or will they die trying? The summer is over and the promised get-together results in an epic sharing of the transformational adventures that have gifted Akiko, Saxony, Georjayna, and Targa with their elemental powers...
  • Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge, Caitlin Davies

    Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge, Caitlin Davies

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    I hadn’t set foot in the human world for more than a few hours in over three and a half months. Sure, I was stronger and faster than I’d ever been before, and I had a shiny new sword, but I was seriously chocolate deprived. I don’t recommend quitting cold turkey. And the new sword was a problem — to my mind, anyway...
  • Harley Merlin and the First Ritual by Bella Forrest

    Harley Merlin and the First Ritual by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Five rituals to control Chaos. That’s all it takes. Now that Harley knows her enemy’s grand plan—to become a godlike Child of Chaos and punish those deemed “unworthy”—she’s got to figure out what the heck to do about it. Many of the missing magicals are still out there, and Katherine has vowed to kill everyone Harley cares about and make her watch.So that’s fun...
  • Shadow Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Shadow Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In Peachville, there's a fine line between good and evil.That line is about to be crossed...
  • Infinite Magic by Linsey Hall

    Infinite Magic by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Things aren’t looking great for Cass Clereaux. For one, her greatest fear has come true. She’s stuck in the Prison for Magical Miscreants while her nemesis, Victor Orriodor, is out in the world, putting the last pieces of his plan into place. He’s wreaking havoc, all while she’s stuck in a stone box, awaiting likely execution...
  • Through Blood, Through Fire by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman

    Through Blood, Through Fire by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray are finally united after waiting over a century to be together, but they become aware a dark threat is looming over a child of the Shadow Market: a lost Herondale, from a line of Herondales who have used the Market to hide from their fellow Nephilim. Now is the time for the lost Herondale to be discovered. Jem and Tessa have to find him before his enemies can...
  • Sweet Tea & Spells by Bella Falls

    Sweet Tea & Spells by Bella Falls

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Magic and mystery are only part of the Southern Charms of Honeysuckle Hollow… Lots of changes in town and in her life, including her ex-fiancé's upcoming wedding to her cousin, have Charli Goodwin trying to be on her best behavior...
  • Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • Fall of Night by Rachel Caine

    Fall of Night by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Thanks to its unique combination of human and vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big-time problems. When student Claire Danvers gets the chance to experience life on the outside, she takes it. But Morganville isn’t the only town with vampire trouble..
  • Dark Magick by Cate Tiernan

    Dark Magick by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • Bitter Blood by Rachel Caine

    Bitter Blood by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    For years, the human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas, have managed to co-exist in peace. But now that the threat to the vampires has been defeated, the human residents are learning that the gravest danger they face is the enemy within… Thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual constraints...
  • Bitter Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Bitter Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    So far, life in Peachville has been tough for Harper Madison. She's survived attacks on her life, learned how to control her magic and met the most gorgeous boy with an unbelievable secret. After her latest stunt at Brighton Hospital, life has gotten even more complicated. The Order of Shadows is determined to tighten their control on her life...
  • Outfox by Annabel Chase

    Outfox by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    No good deed goes unpunished… For years, my family was in possession of the top half of an ancient sword. Now this dangerous artifact has been stolen and it’s up to me to recover it. With the help of my friends, I must follow the trail of clues to find both halves of the sword before they can be reforged...
  • Changeling by Cate Tiernan

    Changeling by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Morgan Rowlands holds profound magickal power . . . a power that some will stop at nothing to obtain. Though she knows she has much still to learn, magick has brought her more than she could ever have imagined: the love of her soul mate. Yet her dreams uncover something elseÑa dark force threatening her entire world...
  • Wolf's Bane by Kelley Armstrong

    Wolf's Bane by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Paperback & ebook release of 2018’s serialized novel about the teen children of Elena & Clay from my Otherworld series. When Kate and Logan Danvers are targeted by a pack of Australian werewolves, they aren’t nearly as concerned your average sixteen-year-olds might be. The twins are werewolves themselves, children of the American Pack Alpha and her enforcer mate...
  • Strife by Cate Tiernan

    Strife by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Morgan Rowlands holds profound magickal power . . . a power that some will stop at nothing to obtain. Though she knows she has much still to learn, magick has brought her more than she could ever have imagined: the love of her soul mate. Yet her dreams uncover something elseÑa dark force threatening her entire world...
  • Gates of Paradise by Melissa de la Cruz

    Gates of Paradise by Melissa de la Cruz

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Schuyler Van Alen is running out of time. The Dark Prince of Hell is storming the Gates of Paradise, intent on winning the heavenly throne for good. This time he has his greatest angels by his side, Abbadon and Azrael—Jack and Mimi Force, as they are known in the Coven.Or so he thinks...
  • Elementals: The Complete Series by Michelle Madow

    Elementals: The Complete Series by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    This box set includes all five books in the USA Today recommended Elementals series and is over 1,400 pages of magic, adventure, mythology, and romance. Nicole Cassidy is a witch descended from the Greek gods... but she doesn't know it until she moves to a new town and discovers a dangerous world of magic and monsters that she never knew existed...
  • Awakening by Cate Tiernan

    Awakening by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • Wolf's Curse by Kelley Armstrong

    Wolf's Curse by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    For Kate and Logan Danvers, sixteen-year-old twins of the werewolf Alpha, nothing could ruin a summer faster than the words “supernatural teen leadership conference.” They expected a boring week of earnest political discussions and team-building exercises...
  • The Calling by Cate Tiernan

    The Calling by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Morgan, Hunter and other members of their coven go to New York for a few days in search of the Amyranth witches. Hunter, a Seeker for the Council, is looking for Killian, a young witch in danger. It seems that Ciaran, Killian's father, is looking for him and intending to wipe his magic...
  • Eternally Yours by Cate Tiernan

    Eternally Yours by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    After 450 years of living, Nastasya Crowe should have more of a handle on this whole immortal thing.... After a deadly confrontation at the end of Darkness Falls , the second Immortal Beloved novel, Nastasya Crowe is, as she would put it, so over the drama. She fights back against the dark immortals with her own brand of kick-butt magick..
  • Seeker by Cate Tiernan

    Seeker by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The fourth Sweep collection! Morgan Rowlands had thought her foes were defeated, but demons from the past still haunt her and her beloved, Hunter. Their magick is strong, but the darkness that torments them threatens to overwhelm even their love. Yet there is another, whose magick could save, or could destroy...
  • Zero Sum by B. Justin Shier

    Zero Sum by B. Justin Shier

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    My name is Dieter Resnick. I was planning to turn eighteen in May, but I don't think I'm gonna make it. I've just been drafted into a war. And this war isn't usual. It's kinda sorta fought with spells. Six months ago today, I was my high school's valedictorian. Now I'm Elliot College's newest combat-certified mage, and one of the few to survive a Talmax raid...
  • A Beautiful Evil by Kelly Keaton

    A Beautiful Evil by Kelly Keaton

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Myth and mayhem inhabit a richly reimagined New Orleans in this sequel to Darkness Becomes Her.After the epic graveyard battle at the end of Darkness Becomes Her, Ari and her friends know what they’re up against: Ari is facing the Medusa curse and is haunted by the image of what she will become...
  • The Coven by Cate Tiernan

    The Coven by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The first three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands never thought she was anything other than a typical sixteen-year-old girl. But when she meets Cal, a captivatingly handsome coven leader, she makes a discover that turns her whole world upside down: she is a witch, descended from an ancient and powerful line. And so is Cal...
  • Eternal Magic by Linsey Hall

    Eternal Magic by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Cass Clereaux has a few problems. Sure, she just saved her whole town and is now immortal, but immortality sucks. The same spell that made her immortal also takes away her magic. It’s kaput. Finito. Gone. Being a FireSoul and finding magical treasure is who she is. Now, she couldn’t find her left leg with a map. Not even if a dragon pointed the way...
  • Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan

    Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    You can run from your past, but it will always catch up. Nastasya has lived for hundreds of years, but for some reason it never seems to get any easier. She’s left behind her days of debauchery to find peace and forgiveness at River’s Edge, a safe haven for wayward immortals...
  • Fire by Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren

    Fire by Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Praised by Lev Grossman as "stunning, …raw, real, smart, very thrilling and very, very wicked,” The Circle, the first book in the internationally bestselling Engelsfors Trilogy, introduced a group of high school girls with special powers who became the Chosen Ones. As book two, Fire, begins, Minoo, Vanessa, Linnéa, Anna-Karin and Ida have been struggling with their own demons all summer long...
  • Davy Harwood by Tijan

    Davy Harwood by Tijan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Being empathic is the least of Davy's problems. She wants to go to college and live a normal life until someone gives her something she doesn't want. Now she has to deal with the supernatural and a prophecy that no one knows about...
  • The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton

    The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ancient lore leads to present danger in the final book in the dark and sexy paranormal romance trilogy about a descendent of Medusa, set in a richly reimagined New Orleans. Her fate is not set in stone. Having temporarily defeated Athena, Ari races to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries...
  • Dangerous by Kelley Armstrong

    Dangerous by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    This novella is no longer published online but can be found inDarkest Powers Bonus Pack 1How Derek and Simon’s dad disappeared and they ended up at Lyle House...
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