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  • 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...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 & 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Fable by Chanda Hahn

    Fable by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Book 3 in the UnEnchanted Series. All that glitters is not gold. When something precious is stolen from sixteen-year-old Mina Grime, she will do anything in her power to get it back, even if it means traveling to the dangerous Fae plane and battling one of the strongest fairy-tale villains yet...
  • Grave War by Kalayna Price

    Grave War by Kalayna Price

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Grave witch Alex Craft is getting pulled back into deadly fae politics in Grave War. Grave witch Alex Craft has forged an uneasy truce with the world of Faerie, but she's still been trying to maintain at least some semblance of a normal life in the human world...
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    magic  fae  mystery  urban fantasy  fantasy  paranormal  witches  death
  • 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...
  • Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Okay. I’ll admit I’ve got problems. But surrender is word wholly absent from my vocabulary.My grasp on magic is shaky at best and my dependence on spider’s silk is a battle I’m still fighting. But while my heritage and my health might be problematic, I’m certainly not going to roll over and give up.Not me. Not ever...
  • Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This desert oasis has gone to the dogs, and Vista de Lirio is about to get bloody.(Not the dogs though. The dogs are fine.)Comedian Evy Lane thought she’d done it all, but taking on the role of mistress of ceremonies for the Desert Fancy Dog Show may be her most challenging gig yet...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Betrayals by Kelley Armstrong

    Betrayals by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois...
  • Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    As her wedding day approaches, Abby Cooper has a disturbing premonition of her fiancé’s murder. Her husband-to-be, FBI agent Dutch Rivers, has been assigned to a suicide bombing case, and Abby’s spirit guides warn her of imminent danger. Abby vows to do everything in her power to keep Dutch safe and get him to the altar...
  • The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

    The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life-- and death...
  • Best Wishes by Helen Harper

    Best Wishes by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Saffron Sawyer is on her own. She’s no longer part of the Office of Faery Godmothers - in fact, she’s no longer part of anything, even if her magic is stronger now than she could have ever dreamed possible. Thwarted at every turn and stalked by monsters in the streets, her life feels like it's falling apart. But Saffron isn’t going to give up hope...
  • Over the Moon by Hailey Edwards

    Over the Moon by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Dell has persuaded the Bloodless army to fight alongside her pack in Butler, but she still has to get there. Halfway home, the rift detonates, blasting out a magic surge that sweeps across the globe, frying electronics and spells alike. Leaving her with no way to get home except on her own two--or four--feet...
  • The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Psychic? Check. Haunted by a malevolent spirit who is making life a living hell? Check. In love with a smoking hot Scot, who is the reincarnation of the man creepy malevolent ghost murdered two centuries before? Check. Friends and family think you’re losing your mind? Check...
  • 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...
  • Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater

    Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A little bit of sin is good for the soul.Gadriel, the fallen angel of petty temptations, has a bit of a gambling debt. Fortunately, her angelic bookie is happy to let her pay off her debts by doing what she does best: All Gadriel has to do is tempt miserably sinless mortal Holly Harker to do a few nice things for herself...
  • Thorns of Decision by Breeana Puttroff

    Thorns of Decision by Breeana Puttroff

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Quinn Robbins was prepared for her mother to be angry. After all, she'd disappeared for two days without warning; to visit the world on the other side of the Dusk Gate that nobody else knows exists. What she wasn't prepared for was seeing her mother calmly sitting there, waiting for her return, as if Megan Robbins somehow knew the secret, too...
  • Cast in Sorrow by Michelle Sagara

    Cast in Sorrow by Michelle Sagara

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    THE END OF HER JOURNEY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING... The Barrani would be happy to see her die. So Kaylin Neya is a bit surprised by her safe arrival in the West March. Especially when enemies new and old surround her and those she would call friends are equally dangerous... And then the real trouble starts...
  • As You Wish by Helen Harper

    As You Wish by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    It’s a dirty job when you’re a faery godmother … but someone’s got to do it. Saffron Sawyer’s world is spinning out of control in more ways than one. Her newly acquired pooch, Pumpkin, hates her guts and it’s highly possible that the trolls are reneging on their promise of temporary peace...
  • 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...
  • Gifted by Kelley Armstrong

    Gifted by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Contains two holiday stories, one Otherworld Pack and one Cainsville.Gabriel’s Gargoyles - (Cainsville short story, Gabriel Walsh as 10 year old narrator.) Cainsville was where a boy could walk the streets safely at any time, day or night. Where everyone was genuinely glad to see you, and didn’t think you were odd if you wanted to keep to yourself. Because Cainsville was odd, too...
  • Magical New Beginnings by Brenda Trim

    Magical New Beginnings by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When life goes sideways, embracing the adventure is the fastest way to set things right.One day I was just a widow facing the prospect of an empty nest, living a life that was anything but enchanted. The next, I had discovered my magical roots, and my rightful place as the Guardian of the portal between the Faery and Earth.There was shock. And there was fear...
  • Raven Calls by C.E. Murphy

    Raven Calls by C.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Something wicked this way comes… Suddenly, being bitten by a werewolf is the least of Joanne Walker’s problems. Her personal life in turmoil, her job as a cop over, she’s been called to Ireland by the magic within her. And though Joanne’s skills have grown by leaps and bounds, Ireland’s magic is old and very powerful… In fact, this is a case of unfinished business...
  • Widdershins by Charles de Lint

    Widdershins by Charles de Lint

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    While bitter conflict rages between the magical North American "animal people" and the more newly-arrived fairy folk, the long-awaited romance between Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell begins to blossom...
  • Rough Justice by Kelley Armstrong, Xavière Daumarie

    Rough Justice by Kelley Armstrong, Xavière Daumarie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mallt-y-Nos. Matilda of the Hunt. The lone woman who rides with the Wild Hunt, tasked with finding killers who've escaped justice and letting the hounds reap their souls. For Olivia Taylor-Jones, Matilda isn't just a legendary figure from Welsh lore. She is Olivia's past, and her future, one she's finally embraced.Having accepted her role as Matilda, Olivia must now lead her first Hunt...
  • Blood of Dragons by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of Dragons by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It turns out that some of the fairy tales Xandra learned as a child were true after all. Xandra's world is turned upside down when her changed destiny comes back to haunt her. Her only way back to the life she craves is by standing up against beings who are stronger than she is. With her relationship with Kallen hanging in the balance, she had better hope fate is truly on her side this time...
  • Cast in Silence by Michelle Sagara

    Cast in Silence by Michelle Sagara

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Don't ask. Don't tell. Stay alive. A member of the elite Hawk force that protects the City of Elantra, Kaylin Neya has sacrificed much to earn the respect of the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani she works alongside. But the mean streets she escaped as a child aren't the ones she's vowed to give her life guarding...
  • Writing Wrongs by Christine Gael

    Writing Wrongs by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Getting divorced at 48 is hard. Almost as hard as discovering that your ancestors were part of a coven that was hunted to extinction...And you're nextCricket Hawthorne's marriage has been on life support for the past two decades, but finally pulling the plug and starting over at dang near 50 is tougher than she'd imagined...
  • The Book of Dreams by O.R. Melling

    The Book of Dreams by O.R. Melling

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a landscape of Canadian myth and magic, the fairy tale continues... The gateways between Faerie and the Earthworld have been destroyed by the Enemy. The only hope of ever bridging the two worlds again lies with Dana, a troubled teenager now living in Toronto. In a dream, Dana is told by her fairy mother, Edane, that the key to restoring the gateways is in The Book of Dreams...
  • Lost Souls by Kelley Armstrong, Xavière Daumarie

    Lost Souls by Kelley Armstrong, Xavière Daumarie

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth...
  • The Watchers by Lynnie Purcell

    The Watchers by Lynnie Purcell

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Watchers is the first book in The Watchers Series. It focuses on 16-year-old Clare Michaels and her journey to her mom's hometown of King's Cross. Long aware of her heritage - that she is the daughter of a fallen angel - The Watchers focuses on her first interaction with the world she has always hidden from...
  • Dark Nebula by W.J. May

    Dark Nebula by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Nothing is as it seems anymore. Leery from the horrifying incident at the end of her first year at Guilder Boarding School, Rae Kerrigan is determined to learn more about her new tattoo. Her expectations are high, an easy senior year and a happy reunion with Devon, the boy she's not supposed to date. All hopes of happiness turn into shattered dreams the moment she steps back on campus...
  • Wish List by Helen Harper

    Wish List by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    You don’t have to be mad to work at the Office of Faery Godmothers. But you do have to be magic. Saffron Sawyer is a faery on a mission. She may no longer have the same rose-tinted spectacles about her job as she once did, but she’s still determined to be the best faery godmother that there is...
  • Etched in Silver by Yasmine Galenorn

    Etched in Silver by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A novella set in NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Yasmine Galenorn’s Otherworld series.Camille D’Artigo, a wicked-good witch and an Otherworld supernatural agent, is on the trail of a sadistic serial killer, when an unexpected—and dangerously seductive—ally comes to her aid, setting in motion a magical ritual that may end up binding them together, body and soul...
  • Where There's a Witch by Madelyn Alt

    Where There's a Witch by Madelyn Alt

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Taking a break from her job at Enchantments, Stony Mill's finest mystical antique shop, Maggie O'Neill visits a carnival where she senses some bad spirits. And when a construction worker is suspected of killing a young woman, it's up to Maggie and the N.I.G.H.T.S. ghosthunting team to uncover the dark spiritual energy leaking into their town before it spoils everyone's fun...
  • The Summer King by O.R. Melling

    The Summer King by O.R. Melling

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sequel to the critically-acclaimed "The Hunter's Moon" This second book in a series "shimmering with magic, myth, and romance" ("Booklist"), follows sixteen-year-old Laurel as she tries to understand the cause of her twin sister's mysterious death. Honor believed in Faerie, a parallel land of mischievous immortals. Laurel doesn't...
  • A Haunting at Midwinter by Kai Butler

    A Haunting at Midwinter by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A paranormal PI. A cop who doesn’t believe in ghosts. And one very pissed off poltergeist. What a way to ring in the New Year.Parker Ferro is San Amaro’s top magical private investigator. It helps that he’s the only supernatural investigator in the city...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  magic  fae  paranormal  m-m  urban fantasy  fantasy  queer
  • The Mortal Bone by Marjorie M. Liu

    The Mortal Bone by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the bond Maxine Kiss shares with the demons tattooed on her skin is deliberately severed, the demon hunter is left vulnerable and unprotected. For the first time in ten thousand years, the demons have a taste of freedom. And as the little demons grow more violent and unpredictable, Maxine starts to fear they will lose their minds without her...
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