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  • A Danger Destroyed by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Danger Destroyed by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.It is the Time of the Colliding Realms—the Keening—the Culling.Everything that happened over the past eighteen months has led to this moment. The good and the bad. The triumphs and the tragedies. Now my family by blood, by choice, and by circumstance face the battle to balance our world’s alignment.United as Team Light...
  • Shifting Shadows by Patricia Briggs

    Shifting Shadows by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Mercy Thompson’s world just got a whole lot bigger… A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, “one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today” (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews), and the characters she calls friends… Includes the new stories… “Silver” “Roses in Winter” “Redemption” “Hollow” …and reader favorites “Fairy Gifts”...
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  • Sucker Punch by Kristen Painter

    Sucker Punch by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Newly appointed vampire governor of New Jersey, Belladonna Barrone is fast discovering that life as a vampire isn’t much easier than life as a mobster’s wife. But that experience certainly taught her some things about how to handle the problems that come with being governor. That is until a friend is kidnapped by the fae and his life put in danger, all because of her actions...
  • Magic & Marriage by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Marriage by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    When a television show called Natural Selection decides to film in Starry Hollow, the whole town is abuzz. The paranormal version of The Bachelor is the talk of the nation and the ideal vehicle to show off the town’s charm. Everyone is excited—except the chosen bachelor’s grandmother...
  • Freaky Reapers by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Reapers by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Poet Parker put the past behind her. At least she thought she did. Life on the streets wasn’t what she had in mind for her forever and she jumped at the chance to join Mystic Caravan Circus when an invitation was extended. She didn’t look back. That was ten years ago, and now Poet is going back to the exact area she used to haunt … and she’s nervous. The friends she left behind are scattered...
  • Freaky Witches by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Witches by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is heading for the Midwest … and their first stop is Michigan. Hemlock Cove to be exact. Poet Parker is looking forward to what she believes will be a quiet time. Hemlock Cove isn’t big, after all, and Mystic Caravan is essentially serving as the centerpiece for a paranormal festival in a town where everyone pretends to be witches...
  • Freaky Rites by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Rites by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Northern California beckons the Mystic Caravan crew and they’re looking forward to some down time after their previous stop. Emotions are running high and the workers are desperate to return to their normal lives. Poet Parker and Kade Denton, for instance, have a new camper to move into and they’re both excited at the prospect of an adventure that has nothing to do with monsters...
  • Magic & Misfits by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Misfits by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.Bentley Smith is tired of being the red-headed stepchild in the office of Vox Populi and is determined to prove his mettle by warming up the cold case involving Sheriff Nash’s murdered father. The deeper he digs, however, the more uncomfortable he becomes when the information he unearths implicates one of Starry Hollow’s very own...
  • Freaky Places by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Places by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is heading to the West Coast, and while everyone is happy for the change of scenery there's a pall settling over the group. Poet and Kade are in a good place and planning for a change, but it's something Poet can't focus on because she feels as if someone is watching … and whoever it is has evil in his or her heart...
  • Follow the Crumbs by Amanda M. Lee

    Follow the Crumbs by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There’s a prominent threat on the block… and he might just be sharing Stormy Morgan’s roof.She’s a new witch but she has a big problem… and it talks. Her new roommate Krankle may look cute but he’s a huge pain in her posterior. He’s also hiding something. Before she can focus on that, however, the unthinkable happens.On the highway leading out of town, three vehicles are involved in an accident...
  • Freaky Hearts by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Hearts by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Poet Parker his having a rough time of it … and then some. She owes her boss Max Anderson everything for saving her from a life on the streets, but Mystic Caravan’s favorite psychic is struggling because that loyalty caused her to lose a shot at true love...
  • Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson: Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, Clint Hilinski

    Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson: Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, Clint Hilinski

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 35 ratings
    Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a bus for a vampire...
  • Only the Quiet by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Quiet by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Izzy Sage is settling into her new life despite the pall hanging over her past.While the memories of the catastrophe that took her parents when she was a child remain elusive, she finds she’s comfortable in her new environment… even though she happens to have taken up the same position her father held when he was killed...
  • Freaky Lies by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Lies by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Mystic Caravan Circus is a place of magic and mayhem. Unfortunately for Poet Parker these days, it’s also packed full of lies. It’s been more than a week since she found out an unsightly Her boss Max is her boyfriend’s father. Despite giving Max an ultimatum, he’s yet to tell Kade Denton the truth, and that’s left Parker in a sticky situation...
  • Magic & Maladies by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Maladies by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.A wedding may be a new beginning for Bentley and Meadow, but it's an ending for one of their obnoxious guests. When Sheriff Nash starts showing more wolf than warmth during the investigation, paranormals sit up and take notice, especially ones in positions of power...
  • Tiger's Eye by Barbra Annino

    Tiger's Eye by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Stacy Justice is looking forward to a lazy summer of hot dogs and beer; swims in the lake with her Great Dane, Thor; and hanging with her rekindled old flame, Chance. But when she gets a creepy anonymous call hinting that her father’s “accidental” death fourteen years ago was actually a murder, she’s too unsettled to relax...
  • All Spell Breaks Loose by Annabel Chase

    All Spell Breaks Loose by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. The big day is quickly approaching for Emma Hart. The best laid plans go awry, however, when a potion causes her to lose important memories. Without Emma's crucial memories, the coven worries that their hard work to undo the curse on Spellbound will remain at a standstill...
  • Magic & Mischief by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Mischief by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. When a handful of Starry Hollow residents experience their worst nightmares in real life, witch-in-training Ember Rose must use her budding journalist skills to figure out the who, what, why, when, where and how before it's too late...
  • Spelldriver by Gina LaManna

    Spelldriver by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    With a wedding on the horizon and her father tucked safely away in prison, the future is looking bright for Lily Locke. Unfortunately, life on The Isle is never calm for long… and when a Ranger is killed brutally in plain sight, Lily and her fiancé—the renowned Ranger X—find themselves hunting a murderer more ruthless than any they’ve ever encountered before...
  • Magic & Mythos by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Mythos by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.Big changes are afoot for Ember Rose. The descendant of the One True Witch is grappling with the fallout from a recent decision regarding Sheriff Nash and Alec, while also navigating new witchy waters with her daughter, Marley...
  • Gemstones, Elves, and Other Insidious Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Gemstones, Elves, and Other Insidious Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I’d been compromised, then turned against those I loved. But no one controlled me. No one took anything I didn’t willingly offer. Not for long, anyway. If the elves wanted a war, I’d bring it. The instruments of assassination would come out to play. The dragon slayer would wreak bloody, sticky vengeance. And then I was getting freaking married — no elves invited...
  • Magic & Mishaps by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Mishaps by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.Ember Rose is working hard to smooth the path for her relationship with the stoic vampire Alec Hale. She hits a massive bump, however, when a body is discovered drained of blood and Alec is one of the key suspects. Sheriff Nash insists that his interest in Alec isn't personal, but Ember isn't convinced...
  • Only the Lonely by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Lonely by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Isabella “Izzy” Sage spent her formative years on Belle Isle in Detroit, playing next to the gate that separates the living from the dead as her parents drew a paycheck from the grim reaper council. Then the impossible happened, tragedy struck, and Izzy found herself an orphan...
  • Blaze of Fury by Annabel Chase

    Blaze of Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.I’ve had enough.I’ve been at odds with my family for as long as I can remember.And I’ve been at odds with myself.Light and dark. White and black. Good and evil.To hell with the scales of justice, right now I’m willing to use every fury trait at my disposal to right the recent wrong done to my beloved Chief Fox...
  • Badge of Honor by Hailey Edwards

    Badge of Honor by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Epilogues: Part IHadley has worked her butt off to earn her title as Potentate of Atlanta. All that’s left for her is the gauntlet. A show of prowess for the citizens of Atlanta. A taste of what their new POA can do. She’s ready to dazzle them and bring home the prize.Until an old friend gets kidnapped. The price of his freedom? Her flunking the gauntlet...
  • Hemlocked and Loaded by Annabel Chase

    Hemlocked and Loaded by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. Emma Hart has a lot on her paranormal plate--a wedding to plan, a trespasser to defend, and a longstanding curse to break. When a pixie dies under mysterious circumstances, her endless list of Things To Do grows even longer...
  • Freaky Seas by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Seas by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is heading to Charleston and – per usual – trouble is not far behind.For Poet Parker, who is grappling with saying goodbye to her assistant, she’s looking forward to quiet nights on the beach and quality time with her boyfriend. All that changes when the sea starts giving up its dead … and they appear to be hungry.Under normal circumstances, zombies wouldn’t be a big deal...
  • A Drop in the Potion by Annabel Chase

    A Drop in the Potion by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. A new discovery by the remedial witches offers the chance to obtain a key ingredient for a spell that *may* bring an end to the curse on the long-suffering town. Naturally, Emma is the first to volunteer for the task--oblivious to the potential danger she faces...
  • Amuletto Kiss by Gina LaManna

    Amuletto Kiss by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hold your loved ones close, islanders… Life for Lily Locke has not been normal ever since she learned of her witchy heritage, but now more than ever, her world is spiraling out of control. When a series of strange events begins to tear her beloved island apart, it’s up to the famed Mixologist to seek out the most powerful wizard in the world and spare him from death...
  • Undying Magic by T.J. Green

    Undying Magic by T.J. Green

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Winter grips White Haven, bringing death in its wake.It’s close to the winter solstice when Newton reports that dead bodies have been found drained of their blood.Then people start disappearing, and Genevieve calls a coven meeting. What they hear chills their blood.This has happened before, and it’s going to get worse. The witches have to face their toughest challenge yet – vampires...
  • Darkness & Light by Elle Casey

    Darkness & Light by Elle Casey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The animosity between Darkness & Light continues to grow, as do Jayne's supernatural, elemental abilities in the Green Forest. Long-lost friends arrive, new friends leave, passion burns, and mysteries abound...
  • A Touch of Magic by Annabel Chase

    A Touch of Magic by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. Changes are afoot for Emma Hart now that her secret is out and her love life has taken a dramatic turn. Will life suddenly be a bed of roses for the plucky heroine or will she get pricked by the thorns? A Touch of Magic is the seventh book in the Spellbound paranormal cozy mystery series...
  • Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep

    Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gunning for me, I don’t need another problem, but a new one has come to town...
  • Like a Fine Magical Wine by Brenda Trim

    Like a Fine Magical Wine by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After a harrowing visit to the Underworld, I finally shifted into my Phoenix. Flying doesn't stop Fate from insisting that I fight for my life, though. All of these brushes with death are for the birds. Catching the local murderer red-handed should have put a stop to the constant danger I'm in...
  • Collards & Cauldrons by Bella Falls

    Collards & Cauldrons by Bella Falls

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Magic and mystery are only part of the Southern Charms of Honeysuckle Hollow… Charli Goodwin’s leaving Honeysuckle Hollow again…but only temporarily. Led by her grandmother, she and other ladies from their small Southern supernatural town are headed to Charleston for a special witch convention...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  magic  witches  vampires  fae  fantasy  paranormal  humor
  • Champagne, Misfits, and Other Shady Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Champagne, Misfits, and Other Shady Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I had everything I’d ever wanted — a successful business with a second bakery in the works, a sexy fiance who I adored, and good friends who loved to laugh almost as much as I did.So of course it couldn’t possibly last.Unfortunately, this time the trouble was homegrown in Vancouver, threatening my own backyard and those who were under my protection — whether they wanted to be or not...
  • Amber Gambler by Hailey Edwards

    Amber Gambler by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The other family business at The Body Shop is slow after word gets out that Frankie had clients die—cease to exist?—on her watch. Considering they were dead to begin with, she understands why the news shook the spirit community’s faith in her, but it’s a hard hit to her bottom line.When a spirit appears in her office, ready to sign a contract, she’s eager to please...
  • Magic & Murder by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Murder by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. Short on both cash and time, Ember Rose does her best as a single mom in New Jersey, serving up attitude along with repossession notices. When a repo job goes sideways, she and her daughter find themselves in imminent danger--until a visit from estranged relatives turns their world upside down...
  • Mosaics and Magic by Nancy Warren

    Mosaics and Magic by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Beware the crystal ball...When Lucy and Rafe are given a crystal ball as a wedding present, she’s shocked when it foretells doom. For the newlyweds, this was supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. But when a terrible accident befalls one of their wedding guests, Lucy and Rafe must postpone their honeymoon. And as the evidence begins to unravel, it becomes clear this was no accident...
  • Rituals by Kelley Armstrong

    Rituals by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 40 ratings
    The fifth book and the exciting conclusion to bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series, in which she mixes hard-hitting crime writing with phenomenal world-building to create a brand of fiction all her own.Olivia Jones must make a choice. Caught between two rival supernatural forces, Liv was granted a brief period in which to make her decision...
    Categorized as:
    witches  vampires  magic  fae  mystery  fantasy  paranormal  suspense
  • Witch out of Time by Elle Adams

    Witch out of Time by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the town of Fairy Falls holds the paranormal world's annual Halloween celebrations, Blair finds herself playing host to the leaders of the region's most prestigious witch covens. Donating her room to a grumpy elderly witch is bad enough, but when a valuable sceptre is stolen from Blair's house, Blair is tasked with finding the thief...
  • Witch Is When Everything Went Crazy by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is When Everything Went Crazy by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An apple a day... A love struck cat, a wedding, and a hit-and-run murder-there's never a dull moment for P.I. (and budding witch), Jill Gooder. But how will she cope when the magic goes to a whole new level?...is no substitute for a custard cream...
  • Lover's Knot by Karen Chance

    Lover's Knot by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    One of the most powerful vampires in existence has gone missing, which is fine with Dorina Basarab. As a dhampir, a half human, half vampire hybrid, her job is killing vampires, not saving them. But then the man sent to find the missing vampire also goes missing, and he happens to be her lover, Louis-Cesare...
  • A Witch's Concern by N.E. Conneely

    A Witch's Concern by N.E. Conneely

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Michelle has been figuring out what her life is like now that the demon has been killed, and Sylvia and Varro are dead. Even the clans of witches trying to attract her to their way of life have backed off and given her a chance to grieve. Her relationship with Elron is stronger than ever, but there are things left unsaid...
  • Dragon's Egg by B.R. Kingsolver

    Dragon's Egg by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When did I become everyone’s paranormal Miss Fixit? When the Lords of the Icelandic Elves summon me to use my talents to find a lost Dragon's egg, I find it hard to say no. I've seen what a Dragon can do, and a young, just-hatched Dragon is a being of pure destruction. But word of the egg gets out, and the race to find it begins...
  • The Undercover Witch by Gina LaManna

    The Undercover Witch by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From the Magic & Mixology world by USA Today bestselling author Gina LaManna... My mother says trouble began the day I was born, but I’d disagree. I think trouble started the day I crashed my broomstick into an undercover cop car. My name is Ainsley Shaw, and I’m a Guardian Witch. The title sounds fancier than it is—really, I’m a glorified bodyguard for magical people...
  • Experimental Magic by Iris Beaglehole

    Experimental Magic by Iris Beaglehole

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It's the Spring Equinox in Myrtlewood, complete with strange disappearances, a quest to uncover heritage and a journey beyond the veil...Rosemary and Athena are just settling into their new life in the unapologetically magical village of Myrtlewood...
  • Wuthering Frights by H.P. Mallory

    Wuthering Frights by H.P. Mallory

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A father she never knew existed, An impossible decision that had to be made, A lie she must keep to herself at all costs, And the realization that every choice she makes has consequences. Fairy and law enforcement agent, Dulcie O'Neil, has just discovered that her father is the Head of the Netherworld, and a double-dealing, illegal potions importer. Worse yet, she's now working for him...
  • Halfway Hexed by Kimberly Frost

    Halfway Hexed by Kimberly Frost

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Duvall, Texas. A small town that’s about to be in some big trouble. Tammy Jo Trask is finally ready to embrace her mixed-up magic, but not everyone in town is what you’d call supportive...
  • Hex After Forty by M.J. Caan

    Hex After Forty by M.J. Caan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Torie Bliss thought that being over forty and having your husband dump you over your favorite meal would be rock bottom. Then she learned that the perfect life he had created for them was built on a foundation of lies.A very public fall from grace leaves her penniless and homeless...
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