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Magic Strikes - Hot Tub by Ilona Andrews, Gordan Andrews
Published in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV... -
Magic Bites - Fernando's by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews
Published in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.During Magic Bites, Curran sees Kate and Crest in Fernando's... -
Kate's Origin by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsPublished in Small Magics, and part of Curran's POV.This is the story Jim tells Curran about Kate’s Daddy... -
Magic Bites - Fernando's by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPublished in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.During Magic Bites, Curran sees Kate and Crest in Fernando's... -
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Cold Flame by Susan Copperfield
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLeaving behind her royal life should have solved most problems for Rachel of New York. While wandering the Royal States buys her peace for a while, her sister’s suicide drags her back into the cutthroat world she’d left behind. The RPS hunting her down to deal with her sister’s body is bad enough, but one nameless bachelor at a wedding in Illinois changes everything. Again...Categorized as:
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Forbidden by Jana Oliver
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsRiley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them… Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father’s been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer...Categorized as:
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A Guiding Light by Susan Copperfield
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here and here.In the Royal States of America, magic rules all, but life—and love—always finds a way. Once upon a time, Adam had been betrothed to North Dakota’s heir, and she’d been his everything, his reason for living...Categorized as:
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A Questionable Client by Ilona Andrews
In a world beset by magic waves, Kate Daniels works as a mercenary. She is tired, hungry, and there is foul-smelling blood on her boots. All she wants to do is to go home, but when Mercenary Guild offers her a job she can't refuse, she finds herself protecting a man against Russian wizards.(In anthologyDark and Stormy Knights...Categorized as:
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Cast in Peril by Michelle Sagara, Michelle Sagara West
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIt has been a busy few weeks for Private Kaylin Neva. In between angling for a promotion, sharing her room with the last living female Dragon and dealing with more refugees than anyone knew what to do with, the unusual egg she'd been given was ready to hatch. Actually, that turned out to be lucky, because it absorbed the energy from the bomb that went off in her quarters... -
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she'll never win... -
Crave Me by Lexi C. Foss
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsOnce upon a time, a series of portals opened on Earth, allowing magic to spill into the human world.Houses were created. Supernaturals were assigned. And a new balance was formed.All new arrivals are required to join a House.But this is the tale of a Goddess who refused and the House King who brought her to heel.Nyx.Mistress of Night.My newest obsession.The daring female killed one of my men... -
The Darkest Edge of Dawn by Kelly Gay
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIt takes a strong woman to keep the peace in a city of endless night. . . . Deep beneath Underground, a cunning bid for power and revenge has begun—one that threatens to make Atlanta the new battleground in the ultimate confrontation between good and evil. The powers of hellish Charbydon have the upper hand after plunging the city into primordial night... -
Feudlings in Flames by Wendy Knight
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAri thought being in love with her prophesied nemesis sucked. But being responsible for her best friend's kidnapping? It sucks worse. Ari and Shane thought they’d beaten Fate and ended the three-hundred year war plagu-ing their people. They thought love had won. But they were so, so wrong...Categorized as:
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Finding Magic by Stacia Kane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKaren Marie Moning has called Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts series “dark, sexy urban fantasy at its finest.” Now, in this breathtakingly suspenseful eBook novella, Kane has written a prequel to her thrilling series...Categorized as:
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Forsaken by Jana Oliver
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsRiley Blackthorne just needs a chance to prove herself—and that’s exactly what the demons are counting on... Seventeen-year-old Riley, the only daughter of legendary Demon Trapper, Paul Blackthorne, has always dreamed of following in her father's footsteps... -
Untouched by Jus Accardo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsUntil he met Dez, Kale’s days were filled with violence and death. He was used as a weapon of destruction by the power hungry men of Denazen. He’s a Six. A person with an abnormal ability. Some people call them gifts, but not Kale. Kale’s touch means instant death. But now there’s Dez, the girl he can touch, and they’re hunting down Sixes and warning them about Denazen...Categorized as:
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Crucible Zero by Devon Monk
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe national bestselling author of Infinity Bell returns to her “fresh and unique”* world where the truce between the ruling Houses has shattered and chaos now reigns. Only one woman has the power to save the world—but she could also destroy it...Matilda Case never thought of herself as a hero... -
Fever Moon: The Fear Dorcha by Karen Marie Moning, Al Rio
An all-new Mac & Barrons story by #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Marie Moning, marvelously adapted into a full-color graphic novel by writer David Lawrence and illustrator Al Rio In "Fever Moon", we meet the most ancient and deadly Unseelie ever created, the Fear Dorcha. For eons, he's traveled worlds with the Unseelie king, leaving behind him a path of mutilation and destruction... -
There by Denise Grover Swank
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJulia Phillips’ world is an alternate universe away. Trapped in a land where government leaders want her dead, Julia is forced to run for her life with Evan and Reece, the two boys who brought her here. They’re on their own in a hostile landscape ruled by scavengers and thieves...Categorized as:
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Heroes 'Til Curfew by Susan Bischoff
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the world of the Talent Chronicles, kids with supernatural abilities, Talents, are taken away to government-run research facilities from which they do not return. In this sequel to HUSH MONEY, all Joss wants is to be left alone—with Dylan. But as more Talents are imprisoned by the government, everyone’s looking for a leader...Categorized as:
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Faceless by Jus Accardo
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Brandt Cross, and I died. Again… I'm living in the body of a Six named Douglass Cain, a certifiable scumbag whose ability is on Zendean Industries—AKA Denazen's—most wanted list. There’s some serious bad going down, and Ginger, the leader of the Underground, sent me undercover to obtain information because people are dying...Categorized as:
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Harken by Kaleb Nation
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMichael Asher is a prodigy for hire, born with the unexplainable ability to read someone’s thoughts through their eyes. Truth-seekers venture from all over the world to his small California hometown, desperate to know the truth about spouses and business partners, willing to pay the highest price for his gift... -
A Castle of Sand by Bella Forrest
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsWhat Sofia has with Derek feels like a sandcastle; temporary and something that the waves of life and time will soon ruin... Since the return of Gregor Novak, the island has turned several shades darker. His hatred toward Sofia and thirst for fresh blood lead to a brutal war igniting between father and son... -
Whispers in Autumn by Trisha Leigh
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn 2015, a race of alien Others conquered Earth. They enslaved humanity not by force, but through an aggressive mind control that turned people into contented, unquestioning robots. Except sixteen-year-old Althea isn’t content at all, and she doesn’t need the mysterious note inside her locket to tell her she’s Something Else... -
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Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsTwenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books... -
The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt was only meant to be a brief detour. But then Lauren finds herself trapped in a town called Lost on the edge of a desert, filled with things abandoned, broken and thrown away. And when she tries to escape, impassable dust storms and something unexplainable lead her back to Lost again and again...Categorized as:
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All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJuliet Carpenter thought of the coven as family, but when she falls for a man who betrays them all, she’s left alone and desperately searching for a reason why. Caleb Leigh has spent the past year in hiding, unable to escape his demons. When Juliet finds him again, her need for vengeance clashes with the hunger still burning between them... -
The Year of the Great Seventh by Teresa Orts
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSophie has always felt out of step—an outsider, even amongst friends in her high school with all the hype about celebrity culture. Her life in L.A. seems to have been already written for her, but when her junior year starts, it all takes a drastic turn. When she crosses paths with the school's heartthrob, Nate Werner, they fall for each other in a way neither can understand... -
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind... -
Shattered by Donna Augustine
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsI thought I could be a hero. That was before I helped destroy the world. Now, as I stand among the rubble of what used to be, I wonder how we're ever going to pick up the pieces. Everyday is a struggle, and people are getting desperate. Creatures that never should have existed are picking away at the dwindling numbers of the human race... -
Host by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a post-apocalyptic ice age envisioned by Faith Hunter in Bloodring and Seraphs, humans continue their fight to survive amid the warlike forces of Light and Darkness - and struggle to understand the seraphic and demonic beings who have invaded their world.... After risking her life to save the residents of Mineral City from a fallen seraph of the underworld, Thorn St... -
Seraphs by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLiving among humans in a post- apocalyptic ice age, neomage Thorn St. Croix is a source of both fear and fascination for the people of Mineral City?and now she faces her ultimate test. Deep under the snow-covered mountains beyond the village, an imprisoned fallen seraph desperately needs her help... -
Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 33 ratings"Dark fantasy has a new heroine." --- SFXWhen the dead call, she answers.Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues---like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death... -
Lure of the Wicked by Karina Cooper
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNaomi West was plucked from one prison and placed undercover in another: the gilded cage that is Timeless, New Seattle’s premier spa and resort, where owner Phinneas Clarke—the most seductive man Naomi has ever met—may be hiding a killer. She’s an agent of the Holy Order, trained to hunt the guilty and render justice... -
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The Witchkin Murders by Diana Pharaoh Francis
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFour years ago, my world—the world—exploded with wild magic. The cherry on top of that crap cake? The supernatural world declared war on humans, and my life went straight to hell. I used to be a detective, and a damned good one. Then Magicfall happened, and I changed along with the world. I’m witchkin now—something more than human or not quite human, depending on your perspective...Categorized as:
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Keepers and Killers by Donna Augustine
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsThe Alchemy Series, Book #2: The story of Jo and Cormac continues on in this fast paced drama. It's very hard to work with someone who tried to murder me. But when the mysterious senator reappears on the scene, I'm desperate enough to take whatever help I can get, even if it is from Cormac. Dealing with him is nothing compared to losing a few hundred lives and that's the best case scenario... -
Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsBound by blood, condemned by fate. As a bloodtracker, Liv is extremely powerful. And in a world where power is a commodity that can get you killed, Liv's learnt to survive by her own rules. Rule number one? Trust no one. But when a friend's daughter goes missing, Liv is bound by a potent magical oath. She can't rest until the child is safe. And that means trusting her dangerous ex, Cam... -
Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIn a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA)... -
Steel Lily by Megan Curd
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAVERY PIKE is a commodity. No, more than a commodity. Her existence is guarded at all costs. She’s a water Elementalist, the strongest of her dwindling kind. She creates steam to provide energy to fuel Dome Four: the only thing standing between humanity and an earth ravaged by World War III. No steam, no Dome. No Dome, no life. Or so she thinks... -
Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRetra - now called Naif - has escaped from Ixion, the island of ever-night. She doesn't know if her friends on the island survived the battle between the Ripers and the rebels. But she does know that she must return home, behind the sealed walls of Grave, to find out why the Ripers have been seen there talking to the councillors... -
The Mark by Marilyn Bunderson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTori always thought the birthmark on her ankle was just a freckle. But when she discovers it's really a set of strange symbols and that others have the same mark, she soon realizes they'll all need to work together to save their real homelandan ancient culture that's been hidden for centuries... -
The Survivors by Amanda Havard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1692, when witch trials gripped the community of Salem, Massachusetts, twenty-six children were accused as witches, exiled, and left for dead. Fourteen of them survived. The Survivors is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors and their descendants, who have been content in hiding for over three centuries... -
Here by Denise Grover Swank
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives...Categorized as:
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Hush Money by Susan Bischoff
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThey call their abilities Talents, and that’s what they call themselves as well. Talents are people born with supernatural powers, feared by the population at large. Possession of an “unregistered ability” has become illegal, and those who are discovered are forcibly removed to government-run research facilities. For Talents, keeping their secret is the most important thing in their lives... -
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Dark Light of Day by Jill Archer
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsArmageddon is over. The demons won. And yet somehow…the world has continued. Survivors worship patron demons under a draconian system of tributes and rules. These laws keep the demons from warring among themselves, and the world from slipping back into chaos. Noon Onyx grew up on the banks of the river Lethe, the daughter of a prominent politician, and a descendant of Lucifer’s warlords... -
The Siren by Kiera Cass
"You must never do anything that might expose our secret. This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are deadly to humans. You are, essentially, a weapon. A very beautiful weapon. I won't lie to you, it can be a lonely existence, but once you are done, you get to live... -
Mindspeak by Heather Sunseri
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsShe was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it. Seventeen-year-old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school classmates—she’s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people’s thoughts...Categorized as:
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Savor by Megan Duncan
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen Claire Miller turned eighteen all she wanted to do was celebrate her birthday, but after a night on the town with her best friend she awakes to a visitor she never expected. The rulers of her region, a vampire royal family, have chosen her to be turned as their new heir and vampire princess... -
Copper Girl by Jennifer Allis Provost
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSara had always been careful.She never spoke of magic, never associated with those suspected of handling magic, never thought of magic, and never, ever, let anyone see her mark. After all, the last thing she wanted was to end up missing, like her father and brother.Then, a silver elf pushed his way into Sara's dream, and her life became anything but ordinary... -
The Keepers by Donna Augustine
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTwo days ago, Jo Davids was a waitress by night and a college kid by day, with the unnerving problem of things floating around her. One day ago, Jo's sexy boss, Cormac, noticed her for all the wrong reasons when she witnessed a man transform into a monster in the basement of his casino. Today, Cormac ordered her shot. If he's real lucky, she won't die. Because if she does, all hope is lost...Categorized as:
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