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  • Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

    Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic...
  • Highlander's Destiny by Mariah Stone

    Highlander's Destiny by Mariah Stone

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Fiery passion. Fierce enemies. Forbidden attraction. A modern British spy and a medieval Highlander fight for a shared destiny of love and freedom.Scotland, 2022. Horses, tents, and handsome Highland warriors—preparations for the Battle of Bannockburn reenactment are in full swing when British intelligence agent Danielle Field visits Stirling Castle...
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  • The Last Highlander: Scottish Paranormal Romance by L.L. Muir

    The Last Highlander: Scottish Paranormal Romance by L.L. Muir

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Heaven save me from moody Highlanders!"Dezi MacInnes has a wedding to plan and time's a tickin'. She's dealing with an unknown venue, which means a lot of time on site with a tape measure. But a cranky Highlander guards every inch like a Doberman, and if she can't get him out of her way, he's going to drive her to drink...and one of her biggest events could end up a giant disaster...
  • The Highlander's Fury by Maeve Greyson

    The Highlander's Fury by Maeve Greyson

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An immortal Fury nearing burnout from vanquishing evil. A raging Highlander determined to remain miserably alone. The goddesses’ plan to save them both with the greatest magic of all.An average day in the life of an immortal flex powers, locate evil, administer justice. Until Ciara’s goddess mothers convince her to seduce a brooding mortal. All she must do is swap places with his betrothed...
  • The Passion of Mary Magdalen by Elizabeth Cunningham

    The Passion of Mary Magdalen by Elizabeth Cunningham

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    For the millions of readers fascinated by Dan Brown's revelations about Mary Magdalen in The Da Vinci Code, here, at last, is their chance to meet the Gospel's most provocative woman face to face-on her own terms.Make way for a new Magdalen. Born on a Celtic isle to eight warrior-witch mothers, Maeve is raised to be as brave as any hero...
  • Highland Thirst by Hannah Howell, Lynday Sands

    Highland Thirst by Hannah Howell, Lynday Sands

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New York Times bestselling authors Hannah Howell and Lynsay Sands combine talents in their most thrilling book yet. Set in the rugged Scottish Highlands, here is the spellbinding tale of two men destined to live by night with a hunger only the blood of Outsiders can quench--and a passion only two extraordinary women can satisfy. .
  • Infinity by Maggie Shayne

    Infinity by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    For five centuries, Immortal High Witch Nicodimus has been suspended in an eternity of darkness. His heart was stolen away in the ultimate betrayal by his love Arianna... Now Arianna discovers a way to bring him back. But the power that returns Nicodimus to her arms also summons an ancient enemy. To fight this dark danger, they must confront the past--and reclaim infinity..
  • 브링 더 러브 1 by Zestkyo, 제스트쿄

    브링 더 러브 1 by Zestkyo, 제스트쿄

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    아름다운 외모와 멋진 매너로 사교계에서도 인기가 높은 힐데브란트가의 장녀 레아. 하지만 그녀에겐 누구에게도 말 못할 고민거리가 있다...
  • Shadow Schemes by Tilly Wallace

    Shadow Schemes by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A lost child will uncover old secrets.... After her triumphant performance as goddess of the night at a royal banquet, Sera is instructed by the Mage Council to stay out of public sight. She is tasked with settling a restless spirit who has been roused by the fate of a descendant...
  • If He's Noble by Hannah Howell

    If He's Noble by Hannah Howell

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell delivers adventure and instant attraction in this all-new Wherlocke Family novel... For Lady Primrose Wootten nothing has been ordinary since her father the Baron died and his wayward family filled the estate with greed and treachery. Primrose knows if she can just track down her brother, he can send the odious relations on their way...
  • If He's Tempted by Hannah Howell

    If He's Tempted by Hannah Howell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Lady Olympia Wherlocke has the gift of foresight. When Lady Agatha Mallam asks Olympia to locate her brother so he can rescue her from an arranged marriage, she knows exactly where to find Lord Brant Mallam, Earl of Fieldgate. What happens next is something she never envisioned… Since his betrothed died, Lord Brant Mallam has drowned his sorrow with wine and women...
  • My Immortal Highlander by Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands

    My Immortal Highlander by Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Lynsay Sands and Hannah Howell return to the windswept Highlands of 16th century Scotland in the captivating story of identical twin brothers trapped between the curse that has been their legacy and the two women whose love is their destiny . . . As identical twins, Bothan and Calum MacNachton share a bond stronger than most brothers, one forged by a terrible secret...
  • A Curative Touch by Elizabeth Adams

    A Curative Touch by Elizabeth Adams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I have known for some time that I was not like my sisters…In an out of the way corner of Hertfordshire, a girl is born with an extraordinary ability. Keeping it secret is paramount...
  • One Enchanted Evening by Lynn Kurland

    One Enchanted Evening by Lynn Kurland

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Time-travel romances have made Lynn Kurland a bestseller in the here-and-now. A duty-bound knight has taken on the task of rebuilding the most dilapidated castle in all of England. A costume designer gets her chance to shine by showcasing her fairy- tale designs at an upscale party in an authentic medieval castle...
  • Kiaran: A Scottish Time Travel Romance by Hazel Hunter

    Kiaran: A Scottish Time Travel Romance by Hazel Hunter

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The last escapee arrives, the final highlander meets his match, but time has run out for them both. When falconer Kiaran Mag Raith’s kestrels find an unconscious woman on their morning hunt, he expects that she is for him. But unlike the other women who have become the mates of his clan brothers, her tattoo does not match his...
  • Love Beyond Boundaries by Bethany Claire

    Love Beyond Boundaries by Bethany Claire

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes the love we need the most is that which we give to ourselves.   With a thriving physical therapy practice, it’s easy for Allanah to lose herself in her work. But when the sudden death of her best friend sends her reeling, she is forced to rethink her priorities...
  • The Dragon and the Watcher: Scottish Paranormal Romance by L.L. Muir

    The Dragon and the Watcher: Scottish Paranormal Romance by L.L. Muir

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What self-respecting treasure hunter wouldn't follow a dragon with an empty pickup and a shovel?Ander McFie, The Dragon, must protect the "big secret" from the rest of the world and convince the watchers there is no "secret" to keep.Macklyn Delaney has come to Inverness, Scotland, to bring that dragon to his knees...
  • Highlander's Protector by Mariah Stone

    Highlander's Protector by Mariah Stone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forbidden love, unstoppable passion, and more than one daring rescue—for fans of Outlander!Three years in medieval Scotland has been more than enough for accidental time traveler David Wakeley. He wants nothing to do with chivalry and valor, but rescuing a Highland princess may be his ticket back to the twenty-first century...
  • A Touch of Magic: Scottish Paranormal Romance by Diane Darcy

    A Touch of Magic: Scottish Paranormal Romance by Diane Darcy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nicolette Blair (no, not those Blairs) is an all-powerful witch!Okay, maybe not, but she intends to be. She might be the least potent witch in her family, and she might be an accountant (hey, D’s get degrees!), but darn it, she has plans!Her formidable father has given up on her and has set her up as a bookkeeper in town...
  • Ruin by Donna Grant

    Ruin by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant seamlessly blends the magic of Scottish and Norse tradition in the enchanting new installment of her instantly acclaimed Kindred: The Fated series.Love…against all odds.Banished by his father and laird, Rory Sutherland does what he swore he’d never do—return to Scotland...
  • Christmas Reunion by Mariah Stone

    Christmas Reunion by Mariah Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Christmas wish for love and family bridges the centuries.When Rogene and Angus Mackenzie host a medieval Christmas feast for the seven other couples in their time traveler’s club, the joy of blended traditions warms the great hall at Eilean Donan Castle. All they’re missing are the couples now living in the twenty-first century. But Christmas is a time when anything can happen...
  • Interwoven by Melanie Rachel

    Interwoven by Melanie Rachel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    England’s best mages are called to Pemberley in their youth. Elizabeth can’t understand why she’s always left behind.Not only does her father neglect to correct what must be an oversight, he won’t allow her to use her most powerful magic at all. Each year, he further restricts Elizabeth’s movements...
  • Quest of the Highlander by Cynthia Wright

    Quest of the Highlander by Cynthia Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A HIGHLANDER NO MORELennox MacLeod was raised on the Isle of Skye as grandson of the powerful clan chief, yet his kind heart and artistic talent set him apart from other Highland warriors. When Lennox uncovers a shocking secret about his parentage, he angrily leaves the Highlands behind, vowing to discover his father’s true identity...and where he really belongs...
  • The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At twenty-nine, Nora Cameron's life feels adrift, her days are spent working in her parents’ bakery, and her nights are spent alone watching Hallmark movies. She yearns for something beyond her predictable existence, though she has no idea what that might be. That is, until fate intervenes, and Nora is swept into an unforeseen adventure to Scotland...
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  • Pemberley by Mary Smythe

    Pemberley by Mary Smythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You need not be afraid, Elizabeth. Nothing will harm you while I am here.When Elizabeth Bennet visits Pemberley on a summer holiday tour with her aunt and uncle Gardiner, her greatest fear is encountering Mr Darcy. She has been haunted by guilt for her past misjudgment of Mr Darcy, and regrets refusing his proposal...
  • All For You by Lynn Kurland

    All For You by Lynn Kurland

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    FALLING THROUGH TIME IS DANGEROUS…Peaches Alexander is thrilled to receive an unexpected invitation to a weekend party given by the handsome, eligible Duke of Kenneworth. The only Stephen de Piaget, a stuffy medieval studies scholar who seems determined to get in the way...
  • Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In Victorian England, a young woman inherits her father’s curiosity shop and all its ghostly secrets in a bewitching novel by the author of Salt & Broom.It’s 1851 in old York. Lizzy Grimm struggles to save her late father’s charmingly creepy yet floundering antique shop, Grimm Curiosities. Then, during a particularly snowy December in this most haunted city in England, things turn…curiouser...
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    witches  fantasy  christmas  paranormal  historical
  • Opening Gambit by Tilly Wallace

    Opening Gambit by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This pawn is going to take control of the game… Seraphina Winyard is an abomination—a female mage. The first magic wielder of her sex to reach adulthood in three hundred years, she is treated like a zoological exhibit and leads a restricted life. Determined to escape and control her own destiny, she seizes a chance for freedom. But when her guardian is murdered, suspicion falls on the young mage...
  • Highland Thirst by Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands

    Highland Thirst by Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling authors Hannah Howell and Lynsay Sands once again combine their talents to deliver their most thrilling book yet. Set in the rugged Scottish Highlands, here is the spellbinding tale of two men destined to live by night with a hunger only the blood of Outsiders can quench--and a passion only two extraordinary women can satisfy. . . Embrace The Dark Side. .
  • Eternal Love: The Immortal Witch Series by Maggie Shayne

    Eternal Love: The Immortal Witch Series by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Raven is a witch from the 1690s who flees the hangman’s noose in England to find a haven in Massachusetts Bay where the witch hysteria is about to tear her and her lover apart.Arianna’s beginnings were in the Scottish Highlands where her sister died to save her, and an immortal warrior loved her beyond reason and life itself...
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls by Shane K.P. O'Neill

    For Whom The Bell Tolls by Shane K.P. O'Neill

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A WAR RAGES AROUND US EVERY DAY. THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE ALL MANKIND. THE ULTIMATE EVIL. The battle for souls has raged since the truce that followed the First Great War of the Angels. God has struck the ultimate blow and sacrifice to gain the advantage and defeat His fallen angel and estranged son, Lucifer...
  • Mael by Hazel Hunter

    Mael by Hazel Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When an Englishwoman lands in medieval Scotland, quite literally on a massive highlander, she demands some answers. Rosealise Dashlock is not messing about. In her no-nonsense way, she wants to know the name of this Scottish warrior, why they share the same tattoos, and what mysterious force immediately draws her to him...
  • The Haunting of Castle Dune by Bethany Claire

    The Haunting of Castle Dune by Bethany Claire

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The vacation of her nightmares might just hold the key to her heart. Eleanor Ackard always knows the right thing to do to help her patients when it comes to their relationships, but when an almost-vacation with her immature boyfriend makes it clear that she needs to take her own advice, she rethinks her plans and sets off on a solo vacation to Scotland...
  • Madness in Meryton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Jayne Bamber

    Madness in Meryton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Jayne Bamber

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jane and Elizabeth Bennet return home from Netherfield, and two days of heavy rain confine them indoors with their quarrelsome younger sisters, a mother in perpetual need of smelling salts, and their tedious cousin, Mr. Collins...
  • The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan

    The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Return to the world of A Secret History of Witches with the bewitching tale of Ursule Orchiere and her discovery of magical abilities that will not only change the course of her life but every generation that comes after her. Brittany, 1741There hasn’t been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations...
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    witches  fantasy  magic  paranormal  historical
  • Curse of the Nandi by Vered Ehsani

    Curse of the Nandi by Vered Ehsani

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jane Austen meets Lara Croft: a paranormal detective refuses to let danger and death inconvenience her in colonial Kenya. Mrs. Knight's most exciting adventure yet! Mrs. Beatrice Knight is preparing to start a life of marital bliss, or at least marital satisfaction, with her new husband who fortunately is very much alive and can’t float through walls...
  • Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The dead of night, Jess, I wish they'd leave me alone." Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him every day, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together...
  • Hold a Highlander by Rebecca Preston

    Hold a Highlander by Rebecca Preston

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Carissa stumbles upon a strange door and enters it to ancient Scotland, she’s thrilled at a chance for a new life, especially with the handsome Hugh, but witch hunters and obsession threaten to ruin what she’s just found…Winning the trip to Scotland couldn’t have come at a better time for poet Carissa Knox...
  • Stones of Nairobi by Vered Ehsani

    Stones of Nairobi by Vered Ehsani

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some stones should never be moved. Not easily befuddled, the intrepid supernatural sleuth Mrs. Beatrice Knight Timmons can’t fathom how the ancient tombstone of a legendary warrior-king ended up in Nairobi. All she knows is that her life is on the line once again as she embarks on her most dangerous mission yet: to retrieve a corpse and the soul it once housed. Mrs...
  • Castle Shade by Laurie R. King

    Castle Shade by Laurie R. King

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat—all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure.The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia...
  • Disenchanted by Kara Pleasants

    Disenchanted by Kara Pleasants

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As a renowned wizard, Fitzwilliam Darcy thinks he is familiar with most of the spells, enchantments, and magic practised in the wizarding world. When he reluctantly joins his friend Bingley in Meryton, a small town not known for its magic, he is startled to stumble upon the rare gift possessed by Miss Elizabeth Bennet...
  • MacGowan's Ghost by Cindy Miles

    MacGowan's Ghost by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Gabe MacGowan—a sexy, brooding, guilt-ridden widower and father to mischievous seven-yearold Jake—is the proprietor of Odin’s Thumb Inn and Pub in a misty Scottish seaside village. He decides to sell the inn and move, not only to give his son a more stable environment, but to escape the ghosts who haunt him—in particular his dead wife...
  • Thunder On The Moor by Andrea Matthews

    Thunder On The Moor by Andrea Matthews

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Maggie Armstrong grew up enchanted by her father’s tales of blood feuds and border raids. In fact, she could have easily fallen for the man portrayed in one particular image in his portrait collection...
  • A Heart So Wicked by Chasity Bowlin

    A Heart So Wicked by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    One youthful indiscretion has left Kit Wexford with a reputation in tatters and an unfortunate nickname—Wicked Wexford. But it was her father’s financial ruin that altered her life irrevocably and saw her scrubbing floors in her cousin’s country home. Treated worse than the servants, she tolerates the lowering existence because to do otherwise would see her brother and herself in the workhouse...
  • Revenge of the Mantis by Vered Ehsani

    Revenge of the Mantis by Vered Ehsani

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    African Myth meets Victorian Manners“Proof that paranormal can be fun & witty…” “I love this story & the quirky, practical Beatrice Knight…” “Wit, adventure & an air of mystery…” All is proceeding as it should for Beatrice Knight. That is, until the African Lightning God lands in her barn and announces that Mrs. Knight’s arch nemesis is about to pay an unsolicited visit...
  • The Fourth Mandate by Vered Ehsani

    The Fourth Mandate by Vered Ehsani

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Beatrice Knight is as delightful as Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody…” “Her handy cane is like a Swiss Army Knife on steroids…” “Wonderfully different, quirky & had me laughing out loud …” Having offered her firm and unequivocal resignation, Beatrice Knight is certain she is clear of her former employer, the Society for Paranormals, and is now free to proceed with her life and a wedding...
  • Lydia Dare Wolf Bundle by Lydia Dare

    Lydia Dare Wolf Bundle by Lydia Dare

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Lydia Dare's debut trilogy, Regency England has gone to the wolves! Praised by readers and by reviewers as delivering "tension-packed romance... sizzling hot, sensual" (Star-Crossed Romance), Lydia Dare is one of the most-acclaimed new writers around. Now find out why with the first three Lydia Dare books for one low price...
  • Love Beyond Dreams by Bethany Claire

    Love Beyond Dreams by Bethany Claire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Magic lingers inside all who call Cagair Castle home. Gillian Wright dreams of the same man every night—his kind eyes and gentle smile as familiar to her now as her own reflection. She looks forward to her nights spent with him, but when she starts to hear his voice in the winds around Cagair Castle, she can’t help but wonder if he’s more than a figment of her imagination...
  • Love Beyond Belief by Bethany Claire

    Love Beyond Belief by Bethany Claire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA TODAY Bestselling Author Bethany Claire continues her Morna's Legacy Series beautifully with Love Beyond Belief The best surprises are the ones you never see coming. All Sydney Pearce needs is some time away from the stress and chaos of running her own restaurant. Maybe then she’ll be able to remember why it was such a dream come true to open the place...
  • The High Priest's Daughter by Katie Cross

    The High Priest's Daughter by Katie Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Never Underestimate the Power of a Liberated Witch. Despite swirling rumors of war, seventeen-year-old Bianca Monroe is living without restraint for the first time. With no curse to hinder her and her enemy, Miss Mabel, imprisoned in an impervious dungeon, she’s finally free. Nothing lasts forever...
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