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Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges!A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one... -
Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong
In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home...Categorized as:
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Ben Fortune by Elizabeth Dear
When my family finally left our little close-minded pack of assholes back in Utah to join a huge progressive pack in Northwest Louisiana, I thought I’d finally be free of the chains of judgment, scrutiny, and homophobia that had tainted my life with our old pack... -
This Fallen Prey by Kelley Armstrong
In This Fallen Prey, the next installment of New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrongs thriller series, Casey Duncan is about to face her toughest job as police detective in Rockton yet...Categorized as:
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A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsDetective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. Something bigger is happening in the small town they call home...Categorized as:
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A Scottish Highland Hideaway by Julie Shackman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘Julie Shackman knows how to bring the feel-good factor to fiction’ Woman’s WeeklyA brand new autumnal story of love, believing in yourself and starting over set in the Scottish HighlandsFor Bailey McArthur, her family and job mean everything... -
A Scottish Island Summer by Julie Shackman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘Julie Shackman knows how to bring the feel-good factor to fiction’ Woman’s Weekly Get ready to fall in love with the brand new spring romance set on the Isle of Skye from bestselling author, Julie Shackman. *Available to pre-order now!* When ambitious city girl, Darcie Freeman is sent to the Isle of Skye to conduct research for a travel guide, she’s horrified... -
Controlling the Dead by Annie Walls
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWith the help of her new companions, the path Kansas follows leads to more knowledge of the ever adapting famished. The team finds help in unlikely places, meeting more survivors, and discovers the possibility of a new beginning. When the team experiences a devastating loss, Kansas struggles to keep her humanity from fading and distorting like that of the surviving society around her... -
The Deepest of Secrets by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 33 ratings#1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong returns to the captivating town of Rockton in The Deepest of Secrets, the next installment in one of the most imaginative crime series on shelves today.It’s not always easy to live in the hidden town of Rockton, something Detective Casey Duncan knows firsthand...Categorized as:
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A Curse in Ash by Julie Zantopoulos
Everyone knows you don’t mess with Fae on a New Moon.But the Fae that Aisling Quinn deals with don’t need a thin Veil to cross and jeopardize her carefully created life. As a powerful witch, she’s battled for agency in realms determined to control her. Now, she has a circle of friends she loves, a job where she excels, and a craft she’s perfecting... -
Magical Midlife Madness by K.F. Breene
"Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes. Do-over.This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path... -
Boarlander Beast Boar by T.S. Joyce
Rebecca ‘Beck’ Anderson is in Damon’s mountains for one thing: to improve public relations between shifters and humans. She has a heap of reasons the shifter rights vote has to go their way, but when she meets her driver, Mason Croy, the sexy boar shifter is adding one more. Mason is smokin’ hot, and just her type if she wasn’t reeling from a divorce that has left her drained...Categorized as:
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Pleasantly Undead In Dark River by Grace McGinty
Raine and her guys are back!It's time to settle down, get into the swing of her eternal life. No more life or death-death situations. No more almost kidnappings. No more drama.She's going to reopen the Immortal Cupcake and become a boring member of Dark River for real.Except she can't bake. And there's an ancient vampire leaving her heads and other undesirable body parts on her front step...Categorized as:
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Vampire, Interrupted by Lynsay Sands
IT WAS A CASE SHE COULD SINK HER TEETH INTO... After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She's training to be a private investigator, and her first assignment is to find an immortal's mother. It seemed simple enough, until Marguerite wakes up one evening to find herself at the wrong end of a sword...Categorized as:
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Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsShe’s feeling the heat. Or it might be a hot flash. Sometimes it’s really hard to tell.It’s been four years since Monica lost the love of her life to a sudden and devastating heart attack. She’s held her family together and picked herself up with the love and help of her two best friends. Now Monica has a new business, a new wardrobe, and a new vision for the future.As in actual psychic visions... -
Make Her New by T.S. Joyce
Everyone has Hunter Kaid all wrong. Even his own brother writes him off as unintelligent, but not all smarts are the same. He just needs one person to understand him and listen to what he’s really saying. All of his life, he’s been searching for that one person who really takes the time to see him, and just when he’s about given up, he stumbles upon Sadey...Categorized as:
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Happily Undead In Dark River by Grace McGinty
There was no wake-up call quite like almost exsanguinating your main love interest while being compelled by your unhinged Maker. No longer hanging onto her past as Mika McKellen, human, Raine was determined to take her new life and live it at one hundred percent. She was no longer an unwilling victim...Categorized as:
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Let it All Burn by Denise Grover Swank
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDarcie Weatherby has a full plate—a preteen and sixteen-year-old twins, a wayward grandmother, a nightmare boss, and a manipulative ex-husband. The last thing she needs are hot flashes. Especially ones that start fires... -
A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones
Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there’s just too much going on right now. There’s a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels powerless to stop it. There’s her persistent and awesomely-rebellious daughter Auri, who’s out to singlehandedly become Del Sol’s youngest and fiercest investigator...Categorized as:
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Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur
In a reservation where magic has been unrestrained for entirely too long, there is no rest from the wicked… After dealing with the fallout of a shape-shifting, fire-throwing demon, Lizzie, Belle, and Aiden are hoping the reservation will finally catch a break from the constant influx of evil... -
Sucks To Be Me by Kristen Painter
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA Paranormal Women's Fiction for anyone who feels like age is just a number and midlife still has magic! When 49-year-old Belladonna Barrone’s mobbed up husband does her the favor of dying in a car accident, she thinks she’s finally free of the crime family she unwittingly married into. Then the boss tells her that she has to complete her husband’s last job before that freedom is truly hers...Categorized as:
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All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe
Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected how to be a good boyfriend.When a mysterious drifter named River disappears, though, Vie finds himself dragged into finding the missing boy... -
Death Dates The Oracle by Kristen Painter
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to Nocturne Falls, the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year.The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better.Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all.Eamon Underwood isn’t what you’d call a social butterfly... -
Definitely Not Paid Enough For This by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratings“Company policy forbids me from accepting power from customers in exchange for any product on the shelves, my blood, my soul, or my firstborn child…” When Ross started working night shift at a lonely gas station in Salem, he expected quiet nights. Instead, he found himself face to face—quite literally—with the supernatural... -
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Golden Chaos by Colette Rhodes
Life isn’t a fairytale, but for a few days I got to pretend it was. Now I’m back in my childhood bedroom in New York, eating breakup ice cream and listening to early 2000s emo music.Whatever, this was the wake-up call I needed. It’s time for Ria 2.0.No more bailouts.No more half-baked projects.No more impulsive decisions...Categorized as:
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Dangerous Tides by Christine Feehan
With her sensual blend of paranormal romance and breathless suspense, New York Times bestselling author “Christine Feehan boldly goes where no writer has ever gone”*. Now she introduces Libby Drake, of the magical Drake sisters—each mysterious, gifted, and enchanted by prophecies of love… Dr. Libby Drake is sensible and practical... -
Pawsitively Betrayed by Melissa Erin Jackson
Enemies wear many faces.The Here and Meow Festival has finally arrived! Amber Blackwood and her fellow festival committee members still have plenty to do before the celebration of all things feline begins. Even though Amber’s witchy past keeps interfering, she knows the show must go on. Edgehill’s livelihood depends on the festival’s success...Categorized as:
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Suddenly Psychic by Elizabeth Hunter
Every woman goes through changes in their forties. Just not… these changes.Robin Brannon was a normal wife, mom, and antique shop owner until a brush with death turned her day-to-day life upside down. Now she and her two best friends are seeing things that belong in a fantasy novel. Ghosts. Visions. Omens of doom. Nothing that belongs in the peaceful mountain town they call home... -
Of Tainted Heart by Olivia Wildenstein, Katie Hayoz
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsALL’S FAIR IN LOVE . . . AND MAGIC.SLATESomehow, we survived. It was supposed to be over. No more curses. No more magic. Just a calm, little life in Brume.For the first time ever, I’m ready for calm. So. Damn. Ready.Just so happens that the girl I love doesn’t like to leave things unfinished.Fine. So our little crew will assemble the Quatrefoil and bring magic back to the world... -
Destined for Doon by Carey Corp, Lorie Langdon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe second book in the popular new Doon YA series that takes on a classic story, Brigadoon, and spins it in a new way to give readers a fresh, modern experience. In this sequel to Doon, Kenna Reid realizes she made a horrible mistake-choosing to follow her dreams of Broadway instead of staying in the enchanted land of Doon...
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