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A Crone to Pick by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsScout 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... -
Hex Type Thing by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHadley Hunter is feeling on top of the world.She’s embracing her new home on Moonstone Bay and coming into her own as a witch. Her boyfriend Galen Blackwood, who happens to be sheriff, is even involving her in his investigations.Unfortunately, the peace on Moonstone Bay is about to be threatened... -
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsGROUNDHOG 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... -
The Pink House by Cindy Kirk
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDeep 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... -
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Half Upon a Time by James Riley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLife’s no fairy tale for Jack. After all, his father's been missing ever since that incident with the beanstalk and the giant, and his grandfather keeps pushing him to get out and find a princess to rescue. Who'd want to rescue a snobby, entitled princess anyway? Especially one that falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says "Punk Princess," and still denies she's royalty... -
Dead And Beyond by Jayde Scott
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAmber Reed is a dead girl walking. Having just been turned by her gorgeous vampire boyfriend, eighteen-year-old Amber Reed is bestowed with the ability to see ghosts. Between trying to figure out how to control her bloodlust and solving the mysterious disappearance of a friend, Amber realizes someone wants to step into her shoes so badly, they’ll do anything to take her place... -
Forever and Beyond by Jayde Scott
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHidden from mortal eyes and divided into three factions are the creatures of darkness that coexist with mortals. In the witches’ town Morganefaire, an ancient legend tells the story of a mirror that was once shattered into four fragments, each able to entrap a powerful soul... -
Crazy for You by Jane Fenton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKate would feel silly for having a crush on a fictional pirate—if he wasn’t standing right in front of her. After discovering that her long-term boyfriend has been cheating on her, psychologist Dr. Kate Barnes decides she’s still going on their romantic Bahamas getaway—alone... -
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsFrom 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... -
The Key to Erebus by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe truth can kill you… Taken as a small child, from a life where faeries, sirens and mythical creatures are real and treacherous, Jéhenne Corbeaux is totally unprepared when she returns to France to stay with her eccentric Grandmother... -
The Accidental Familiar by Dakota Cassidy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the warlock's away, the familiar will play! A Halloween party gone wrong will keep the OOPs crew putting out one fire after anothert. Join them this Halloween for a ghoulishly, magic-filled tale!... -
Cain, The Quest by Elizabeth Loraine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCain, the Quest is book four in the vampire series Royal Blood Chronicles. royal blooded vampires are fighting evil in both this world and the underworld kingdoms of Althar in order to protect all the peaceful races, including humans... -
The Dark Prince by Elizabeth Loraine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElizabeth Loraine brings us the third book in her series of Royal Blood Chronicles. Katrina having lost the love of her life embarks on a new journey, to the new world. New evil stalks the Five and endangers not only their mission but the very existence of all the peaceful races of the world... -
Hoodoo Heaven: A Paranormal Women's fiction novella by Reggi Dupree
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome 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... -
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The Apprentices by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTwo 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... -
Accidentally Dead, Again by Dakota Cassidy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHe was just looking for a night of fun. After a wild work-sponsored Halloween party, entomologist Sam McLean wakes up with a spotty memory—and a pointy set of fangs. Sam’s one-night stand wasn’t just dressed as a vampire; she had the bite to match... -
Sleep with the Lights On by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThrough the eyes of a killer...Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull.Her cynicism wavers when a cornea transplant restores her sight... -
My Wicked Vampire by Nina Bangs
The actors at the Castle of Dark Dreams are accustomed to making all kinds of erotic fantasies come true, but when a night feeder with absolutely no inhibitions meets the woman of his dreams, the resulting thrill ride excites even the most jaded... -
The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsHelen Dunmore The Ingo Chronicles Series Collection 5 Books Set, (Stormswept, The Crossing of Ingo, The Deep, The Tide Knot and... -
The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDecember and Lilly have got their work cut out for them. Not only are they desperately trying to figure out the identity of the Lost Soul, and track him down, they've also got to investigate why Powell River's newest resident has got all of their men falling at her feet. But when they learn that the Nephilim might be involved, it becomes clear that they're all in extreme danger.. -
The Protectors by Elizabeth Loraine
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the beginning we were creatures of the night, killing humans and drinking their blood to sustain us. But in the passage of the centuries we have evolved and now walk amongst you both in daylight or night as peaceful, moral beings satisfied to hunt and drink the blood of animals... -
Gypsy by Trisha Leigh
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInconsequential: not important or significant. Synonyms: insignificant, unimportant, nonessential, irrelevant In the world of genetic mutation, Gypsy’s talent of knowing a person’s age of death is considered a failure... -
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” ( Shelf Awareness ) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time.When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate... -
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” ( Shelf Awareness ) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time.When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate... -
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The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time. When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate... -
Eye of Abernathy by RaShelle Workman
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Lips red as rubies, hair dark as night. Drink your true love's blood, become the Vampire, Snow White." EVERY THOUSAND YEARS THE VAMPIRE QUEEN SELECTS A NEW BODY, ALWAYS THE FAIREST IN THE LAND, AND THIS TIME SHE'S CHOSEN SNOW WHITE. Summary: Love Bleeds: Questions are answered. Necks are bitten. Kisses are traded. And Snow realizes sometimes love bleeds.. -
Deep Midnight by Heather Graham
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHosted by the Contessa della Trieste, an opulent Carnevale ball in Venice takes a terrifying turn for American book critic Jordan Riley. As festivity turns into frenzy, Jordan is rescued by a powerful man disguised as a wolf... -
Paranormal Payload by Mandy M. Roth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDestiny lies along an uncharted course... Project Exorcism, Book 1 Long ago, the Commission thought it had succeeded in ridding Earth of all supernatural beings. They were dead wrong. The supernaturals have not only survived the cold reaches of space, they have thrived. And grown more powerful... -
Peaches for Father Francis by Joanne Harris
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe tantalizing sequel to the blockbuster New York Times bestseller Chocolat Even before it was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, Joanne Harris’s Chocolat entranced readers with its mix of hedonism, whimsy, and, of course, chocolate... -
Should There Be by Jackie Ivie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA PIRATE’S CREED Piracy is Rafaele de Jesus y Santiago’s world. His motto. His creed. All he’s known. Vampirism only expanded his wake of destruction and his booty potential. There’s no order to his eternity. No goal. No direction. He’s got all he needs with the Brethren Code: Pillage, plunder, deceit, and self-gratification. He doesn’t even realize he’s lonely... -
Day After by Emi Gayle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDemon crypts. Vampire lairs. Glowing angels. Sexy sirens. The stuff of fiction. Or so Winn Thomas always thought. Since being accepted into the fold of the supernatural, he knows better... -
The Sight by Jude Watson, Judy Blundell
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA pair of supernatural mysteries from National Book Award winner Judy Blundell. Gracie has premonitions. They've haunted her since before her mother's death, and she can't get rid of them. She doesn't know how to deal with them and she doesn't want to--they've never led to anything good. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future--it just comes to her... -
Dead Vampires Don't Date by Meredith Allen Conner
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsKate Storm is your typical everyday mortal witch. She owns her own matchmaking business, hangs out with her vampire best friend, Morgan and enjoys the company of Big Al, her hit man channeling Chihuahua. Plus there’s a certain demon that she has her eye on. Life is pretty good until her first important non-human client winds up dead and his body is dumped at her back door... -
Finding Obscurity by Emma Shade
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLily Canton always knew she was unique. After she loses everything she has ever cared about ten years ago, Lily decides its time to find answers about her past and why she has special powers. But when you can’t control seeing the future, and you hold enough electricity inside you to black out an entire city block, it doesn’t always make life easy... -
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Devil at Midnight by Emma Holly
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor years, mercenary captain Christian Durand has done everything he can to protect his men. When a beautiful ghost appears to offer comfort, he assumes the strain has finally pushed him over the edge. All he knows for certain is that this woman tugs at both his heart and desires... -
Ageless Sea by M.R. Polish
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe crash was no accident. Fate carried Brady and his airplane to the isolated island where Karis was banished to live alone. She feared the worst as she sifted through the wreckage, sure that no one could survive. But there he was, barely breathing yet still alive. The closer she got to him, the more her powers awakened. He was like a magnet she was drawn to... -
An Enchanting Case of Spirits by Melissa Holtz
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz.Alyssa Mann isn’t adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter... -
Hawthorne by Sarah Ballance
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a terrifying encounter with the unexplained, it takes ten years and the news of her grandmother’s passing for Emma Grace Hawthorne to return to her childhood home. She seeks peace in saying a proper goodbye, but what she finds is an old love, a sordid family history, and a wrong only she can right. Living in the shadow of Hawthorne Manor, Noah Garrett has never forgotten about Emma Grace... -
The Flower Reader by Elizabeth Loupas
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRinette Leslie of Granmuir has the ancient gift of divining the future in flowers, but her gift cannot prepare her for the turmoil that comes when the dying queen regent entrusts her with a casket full of Scotland's darkest secrets. On the very day she means to deliver it to newly crowned Mary, Queen of Scots, Rinette's husband is brutally assassinated... -
The Lynx Who Purred for a Sidhe Prince by Scarlet Hyacinth
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratings[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, fae, HEA] Ally or admirer? When lynx shifter Corbin Mckenna falls for Sidhe prince Winter Tomacelli, he doesn't expect being forced into a political marriage... -
More Than Blood by Amanda Vyne
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGabrial Ferrar is a House Marshal, an enforcer of the laws of his people. But when his investigation into missing young girls lead him to a dark alley his path crosses with an incredible crossbreed whose blood promises him a lifetime of pleasure he’s willing to sacrifice everything to gain... -
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsNow a New York Times bestseller. From beloved bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen comes her long-awaited new novel, Lost Lake, about heartbroken people finding hope at a magical place in Georgia. Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal... -
Vampire of the Mists by Christie Golden
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsBE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR --- THE DARK POWERS OF RAVENLOFT MIGHT HEAR YOU. Jander Sunstar is a gold elf, a native of magical Evermeet in the Forgotten Realms. He is also a five-hundred-year-old vampire. Torn by rage and grief, Jander is transported into the nightmare realm of Ravenloft, where he gains the attention of the demiplane's master, Count Strand Von Zarovich... -
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Katrina, the Beginning by Elizabeth Loraine
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAs a vampire, being hunted was nothing new, finding out that I had to protect those hunting us was. Katrina is a young royal blooded vampire from a very old vampire family, chronicles her journey as leader of the Five from the age of seventeen. She, along with young members of each royal vampire family have been called to council... -
Guardian by Abra Ebner
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn Book Two, Guardian, Estella finds herself lost, but not alone as her new friend and Guardian Sam helps to nurse her back to reality after the horrifying events of last winter. Just as Elle gives into the inevitable, the White Cat returns, revealing a past secret no one knew and unlocking a key that could help Estella get it all back... -
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe... -
Pretty in Black by Rae Hachton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSome Things are Pretty. Some Things are Black. Love is both. The sun faded and night began to descend. The sky was a deep navy blue. Marcus sat his violin aside and dropped to one knee, as though he were about to propose. His eyes flickered with seriousness. He took my hand into his... -
The Fangover by Erin McCarthy, Kathy Love
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen rock-god vampire Johnny Malone commits suicide, the rest of The Impalers gather for an Irish wake and jam session to send their bandmate off in style. But alcohol-laced blood and grief make for one hell of a combination... When her brother, Johnny, dies, Stella Malone’s grief lands her in the buff arms of The Impalers’ bass player... -
Morning Star by Desiree Finkbeiner
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a mysterious stranger interrupts Brianna’s mundane routine, her eyes are opened to the dark underbelly of reality… immortal rogues, ancient conspiracies, prophetic revelations, savage tribes, mammoth dragonflies… She’s thrust into a race for her life when Kalen, a warrior from Ethos, discovers that she is harboring a secret… a secret that he’d give his life to protect...
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