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  • Three Sisters Island collection by Nora Roberts

    Three Sisters Island collection by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Dance Upon the Air: When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband - and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago . . . But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease...
  • Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In her most thrilling novel yet, author Fiona Quinn exposes the dark forces threatening America. The Hydra, a monstrous group that includes a secret society that will do anything for power, is ready to strike, and only Lexi stands a chance to stop them. Lexi Sobado and her mentor Spyder McGraw work as a covert team to thwart the four-headed monster they’ve codenamed The Hydra...
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  • Gulf Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Gulf Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. In this woman’s action adventure, with an explosive psychic twist, USA Today bestselling author Fiona Quinn takes her reader into a world of international crime, terror, spies, and resistance networks...
  • Weakest Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Weakest Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    20-year-old Lexi Sobado is a woman with a psychic gift caught in the middle of a sinister web of crime and corruption. The victim of a stalker, Lexi finds herself romantically entangled with the special agent charged with protecting her. Thing is, Lexi herself has worked for the intelligence community in the past...
  • Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If she fails, her whole team could be destroyed. Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is more than ready for her marriage with ex-SEAL Striker Rheas. But getting her happily ever after is fraught with hurdles when her psychic abilities start going haywire, giving her vague warnings of impending danger. As it turns out, identifying threats can be overwhelming when everything and everyone is the potential source...
  • A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne

    A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family. Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago...
  • Witch Light by Susan Fletcher

    Witch Light by Susan Fletcher

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    1692. Corrag, a wild young girl from the mountains of Scotland, has been imprisoned as a witch. Terrified, in a cold, filthy cell, she awaits her fate of death by burning – until she is visited by Charles Leslie, a young Irishman, hungry to question her. For Corrag knows more than it seems: she was witness to the bloody and brutal Massacre of Glencoe...
  • Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    More of this is true than you would believe. In her most thrilling novel yet, USA Today bestselling author Fiona Quinn exposes the dark forces threatening America. The Hydra, a monstrous group that includes a secret society that will do anything for power, is ready to strike, and only Lexi stands a chance to stop them. It’s a mind-bending plot of control and destruction...
  • The Death Dealer by T.M. Cromer

    The Death Dealer by T.M. Cromer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 2 in the Sentinels of Magic series. Trevor Blane is getting his story! If you enjoyed The Thorne Witches and continued with The Unlucky Charms books, you’ll probably be wanting more Trevor Blane. Well, his & Soleil's story is coming in early spring. Stay tuned for a the blurb!
  • Paws and Effect by Sofie Kelly

    Paws and Effect by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Magical cats Owen and Hercules and resourceful librarian Kathleen Paulson are back in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Faux Paw. .. Kathleen is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, Detective Marcus Gordon, while they visit charming Mayville Heights on business...
  • Life Ghost On by Jane Hinchey

    Life Ghost On by Jane Hinchey

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who knew a Bridal Expo could be so thrilling? Especially when you’re the bride-to-be with a meddling family and a flamboyant wedding planner named Seb. I thought everything was sorted for my upcoming nuptials with Kade Galloway, but Seb insisted on attending the expo. As soon as we entered Firefly Bay’s town hall, the noise was deafening, and the atmosphere was chaotic...
  • Langdon by Dale Mayer

    Langdon by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Langdon hasn’t been in a good place for a long time, but it was time enough to chase away the woman he’d loved since forever. Unable to reach her to make it right, he realizes she’s disappeared—and not by choice. He then finds out why Molly was kidnapped and by whom. Molly would do just about anything for Langdon, yet being used as leverage to force him to act wasn’t part of the plan...
  • The Archer's Heart Book Three by Astrid Amara

    The Archer's Heart Book Three by Astrid Amara

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the ancient kingdom of Marhavad, noblemen dominate the lower castes, wielding mystic weapons, known as shartas, against any who oppose them. For generations the rule of Marhavad’s kings has been absolute. But now the line of succession is divided, and whispers of revolution are heard in even the royal palace. Keshan Adaru, an outspoken man of unearthly charms, welcomes these changes...
  • Faux Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Faux Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Magical cats Owen and Hercules from A Midwinter’s Tail are back and ready to help librarian Kathleen Paulson pounce on a killer art thief…. Normally, the arrival of an art exhibition at the Mayville Heights library would be cause for celebration. But thanks to the overbearing curator and high-tech security system that comes with it, Kathleen’s life has been completely disrupted...
  • Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind, Dick Hill

    Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 70 ratings
    Book Four of The Sword of Truth—the series first begun in Wizard's First Rule—returns listeners to the world of Richard Cypher, a simple woods guide who never dreamed he would be named the Seeker of Truth and become caught up in magic, war, and dangers so extraordinary that the fate of his entire world would hang on his actions and decisions...
  • The Cats Came Back by Sofie Kelly

    The Cats Came Back by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson often seems to gets mixed up in murder, but luckily, her very special cats always find a way to help her close a case . . . The charming Minnesota town of Mayville Heights is hosting a music festival, and the whole place is bustling with musicians and tourists...
  • Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest...
  • A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Checking out! Emma Lee Raines, proprietor of a small-town Kentucky funeral home, Eternal Slumber, is a “Betweener,” helps ghosts stuck between here and the ever-after— only murdered ghosts. After Emma Lee solves who murdered them, only then can they cross over to the Great Beyond, Big Guy In The Sky. Emma Lee is up against a cold case that happened before she’d even gotten her “Betweener” gift...
  • Walker by Dale Mayer

    Walker by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Having precog abilities didn’t guarantee having answers, but it did mean Walker knew when trouble was in a specific area. In this case it was Finland and involved someone associated with Levi and a friend to Walker. So he wants in on this job – even if Levi doesn’t have a job there. Yet. However, a quick phone call to Terk confirms Walker’s suspicions. And he’s already on the move...
  • Magical Musing by D.K. Bolton

    Magical Musing by D.K. Bolton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Maeve has a choice to make, but her heart makes it easy. .. When shadowy forces threaten Maeve’s newfound friends and the town’s magical balance, she must embrace her inner witch and stubborn bulldog, Frank, at her side. But it’s not just shadowy forces that Maeve has to contend with—there’s also her family’s deeply buried secrets...
  • The Archer's Heart Book Two by Astrid Amara

    The Archer's Heart Book Two by Astrid Amara

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the ancient kingdom of Marhavad, noblemen dominate the lower castes, wielding mystic weapons, known as shartas, against any who oppose them. For generations the rule of Marhavad’s kings has been absolute. But now the line of succession is divided, and whispers of revolution are heard in even the royal palace. Keshan Adaru, an outspoken man of unearthly charms, welcomes these changes...
  • A Tale of Two Kitties by Sofie Kelly

    A Tale of Two Kitties by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this charming mystery from the bestselling author of Paws and Effect, two magical cats have powers of detection that prove indispensable to librarian Kathleen Paulson…. With a well-placed paw on a keyboard or a pointed stare, Kathleen’s two cats, Hercules and Owen, have helped her to solve cases in the past—so she has learned to trust their instincts...
  • Bound by Megan Derr

    Bound by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ingolf von Dirchs is all that remains of the royal house of Kria. The bastard son of the dead Kaiser, he barely escapes the winter palace before it is overtaken by the armies of Salhara, Kria's oldest and bitterest enemy...
  • North of the Sunlit River by Jessica Bryant Klagmann

    North of the Sunlit River by Jessica Bryant Klagmann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of This Impossible Brightness comes a heartrending trek through grief, hope, and the Alaskan wilderness as a young woman seeks the truth that will heal her. Eila Jacobsen is adrift, reeling from her father’s recent death and still suffering from the loss of her best friend...
  • Copycat Killing by Sofie Kelly

    Copycat Killing by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the third Magical Cats mystery, small town librarian Kathleen Paulson and her very special cats must go on the hunt to find a clever killer. .. It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding...
  • Dead And Beyond by Jayde Scott

    Dead And Beyond by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Amber 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...
  • Murder Without Magic by Ripley Hayes

    Murder Without Magic by Ripley Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Peter and Lorne have taken the plunge: moved in together in a little house by the sea. Peter has his dream job, and Lorne has his dream kitchen, and so what if things go bump in the night next door? they can ignore it. The ghost with a violent streak isn’t so easy to ignore. Nor is the dead body in next door’s garden...
  • The Violin Maker's Secret by Evie Woods

    The Violin Maker's Secret by Evie Woods

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Brand New Book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! Hewn by a master and passed down through generations, one violin charts its own course through history…...
  • Magical Mischief by D.K. Bolton

    Magical Mischief by D.K. Bolton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The once-dormant halls of Stonewick Academy are stirring, and Maeve Bellemore is at the heart of it all. With magic rekindling in the ancient corridors and long-forgotten allies returning, the Academy is on the brink of opening its doors for the first time in decades...
  • Sunrunner's Fire by Melanie Rawn

    Sunrunner's Fire by Melanie Rawn

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Andry, the new Sunrunner Lord of Goddess Keep, must master potentially deadly magical knowledge before he can confront the ancietn foe who nearly destroyed the Sunrunners ages ago.   But the enemy is mobilizing to strike again, drawing on forbidden lore to play an ever-shifting game of treachery and betrayal.
  • The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy...
  • Sleight of Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Sleight of Paw by Sofie Kelly

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When a local do-gooder is killed, small town librarian Kathleen Paulson and her magical cats have to dig up trouble in the second mystery in the New York Times bestselling series. Kathleen never wanted to be the crazy cat lady. But when Owen and Hercules followed her home from mysterious Wisteria Manor, she realized her mind wasn’t playing tricks on her—her cats have magical abilities...
  • The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

    The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Blends mythology, magic, archaeology and women. Traces four women, their path to the Masada massacre. In 70 CE, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Four bold, resourceful, and sensuous women come to Masada by a different path...
  • Fires Of Ballian by M.L. Rhodes

    Fires Of Ballian by M.L. Rhodes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A hundred years ago, the high sorcerer of Velensperia launched a swift and deadly attack against the draegans—a race of dragon shapeshifters who’d always lived in harmony with the humans. The draegans were all but destroyed, with the few who remained, scattered and in hiding. But after a century of cruel repression, a group of them have united and begun to fight back...
  • Murders and Metaphors by Amanda Flower

    Murders and Metaphors by Amanda Flower

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard - with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest...
  • Echoes of Evil by Heather Graham

    Echoes of Evil by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Something lurks beneath the surface…. Brodie McFadden is supposed to be on vacation, getting some sunshine and deciding if he wants to join his brothers and the Krewe of Hunters, a special paranormal investigation unit of the FBI. But a diving excursion with an old navy buddy to a historic shipwreck uncovers a crime scene—and the corpse is new...
  • No Friends in Abergwyn by Ripley Hayes

    No Friends in Abergwyn by Ripley Hayes

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Abergwyn seemed a lot more exciting with Lorne. And that was before the camper van convoy arrived. Peter Tudor was coming to terms with his quiet life as a district nurse when a bunch of strangers turn up to visit his maybe-boyfriend Lorne Stewart. They bring a mysterious package, secrets and jealousy from the past, and magic that even sceptical Peter can't ignore...
  • Tulle Death Do Us Part by Annette Blair

    Tulle Death Do Us Part by Annette Blair

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    National bestselling author Annette Blair’s “fast-paced, fascinating” (Fresh Fiction) Vintage Magic series continues as clothing boutique owner Madeira Cutler takes on a murder from the past that won’t stay dead. .. Maddie’s love of classic fashion has made her Vintage Magic boutique a success—even if the visions she experiences when touching certain items often lead her into trouble...
  • A Seamless Murder by Melissa Bourbon

    A Seamless Murder by Melissa Bourbon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With a needle and thread, Harlow Jane Cassidy is capable of magic. Her neighbors in Bliss, Texas, on the other hand, are capable of murder. .. . Any garment Harlow stitches together has the power to grant the deepest desire of whomever wears it. So when she’s asked to sew aprons for a local women’s group, Harlow must get to know each member...
  • Double Take by Catherine Coulter

    Double Take by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she had left. Now, after dinner with friends, strolling along San Francisco's Pier 39, she realizes that she's happy...
  • Hoodoo Heaven: A Paranormal Women's fiction novella by Reggi Dupree

    Hoodoo Heaven: A Paranormal Women's fiction novella by Reggi Dupree

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome 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...
  • The Shoppe of Spells by Shanon Grey

    The Shoppe of Spells by Shanon Grey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When is a whole more than the sum of its parts? When it has ties to the quaint little town of Ruthorford, GA, as Morgan Briscoe discovers when a cryptic message threatens to change her life forever...
  • The Apprentices by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    The Apprentices by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Two 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...
  • The Bastard Prince by Megan Derr

    The Bastard Prince by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 20 ratings
    Reyes O'Bannon lives a fairly quiet life, despite his role as the King's secretary. His days are filled with appointments, paperwork, and avoiding the romantic attentions of Kinnaird, the Duke of Keyes; attentions that become harder to ignore with each passing day. .
  • Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing...
  • Darkfall by Janice Hardy

    Darkfall by Janice Hardy

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    War has come. Nya’s the one who brought it. And the people love her for it. With Baseer in shambles and Geveg now an impenetrable military stronghold, Nya and the Underground have fled to a safer location—without Tali...
  • The Tarot Cafe, #4 by Sang-Sun Park

    The Tarot Cafe, #4 by Sang-Sun Park

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The spirit of Shandy visits Pamela's dreams in the hopes of reconciling with his sister, Fay, before he leaves the Earth forever. With a tragic past of betrayal, cruelty and eventual friendship, Shandy will do whatever it takes to make peace with the sister, who's the cause of his unexpected death...
  • The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore

    The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Helen Dunmore The Ingo Chronicles Series Collection 5 Books Set, (Stormswept, The Crossing of Ingo, The Deep, The Tide Knot and Ingo).
  • Such a Witch by Celia Kyle, Marina Maddix

    Such a Witch by Celia Kyle, Marina Maddix

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Their chemistry can really raise the dead. .. No one suspects that straight-laced witch Aurora Rhonelle comes from a family of powerful necromancers — a fact they never let her forget. So what if she prefers Anne Klein over Anne Rice and pastels over shades of black? That shouldn't make her any less respectable. Unfortunately, never having raised a dead human does damage her street cred...
  • Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, Jackson's kisses keep coming, and despite the occasional moodiness of her ghostly housemate, Sunni is looking forward to the season. It's spring break in Firefly Junction and the Stockton Traveling Carnival has come to town. Sunni finds herself saddled with an uninspiring story assignment...
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