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  • Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

    Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 89 ratings
    For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there is something more troubling than usual about his newest case...
  • The Incubus Impasse by Amanda M. Lee

    The Incubus Impasse by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes is at a crossroads in her life. Her big secret is out – at least with the most important person in her life Jack Hanson – and now they have to deal with a whole new reality.Things are going relatively well when the Legacy Foundation is sent on a mission to Charleston. It seems women are dying under strange circumstances: open windows, no immediate sign of violence, locked doors...
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  • Freaky Games by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Games by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Look out Sin City, here comes the Mystic Caravan Circus. The city that never sleeps has something lurking in the darkness and Poet Parker can’t decide if it’s friend or foe. The rich history of the area comes into play when research uncovers a mine disaster more than a hundred years in the past … and a tragic outcome that still haunts the locale to this day...
  • Only the Quiet by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Quiet by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Izzy Sage is settling into her new life despite the pall hanging over her past.While the memories of the catastrophe that took her parents when she was a child remain elusive, she finds she’s comfortable in her new environment… even though she happens to have taken up the same position her father held when he was killed...
  • Freaky Lies by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Lies by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Mystic Caravan Circus is a place of magic and mayhem. Unfortunately for Poet Parker these days, it’s also packed full of lies. It’s been more than a week since she found out an unsightly Her boss Max is her boyfriend’s father. Despite giving Max an ultimatum, he’s yet to tell Kade Denton the truth, and that’s left Parker in a sticky situation...
  • A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number!Midlife's a bumpy journey. The ride is a freaking rollercoaster. The crisis is real.With my life back to normal--normal being a very relative word--one would think I'd catch a break.One would be very wrong...
  • Leopard's Hunt by Christine Feehan

    Leopard's Hunt by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In this pulse-pounding novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Leopard series, animal instinct unites two elite shifters whose heads are at war with their hearts. Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell...
  • Only the Lonely by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Lonely by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Isabella “Izzy” Sage spent her formative years on Belle Isle in Detroit, playing next to the gate that separates the living from the dead as her parents drew a paycheck from the grim reaper council. Then the impossible happened, tragedy struck, and Izzy found herself an orphan...
  • Blaze of Fury by Annabel Chase

    Blaze of Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.I’ve had enough.I’ve been at odds with my family for as long as I can remember.And I’ve been at odds with myself.Light and dark. White and black. Good and evil.To hell with the scales of justice, right now I’m willing to use every fury trait at my disposal to right the recent wrong done to my beloved Chief Fox...
  • The Vampire and the Case of the Hellacious Hag by Heather G. Harris, Alyse Gibbs

    The Vampire and the Case of the Hellacious Hag by Heather G. Harris, Alyse Gibbs

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to where the dead don’t always stay that way.When a human inspector drops dead in the Chrome Mine, things get messy fast. The dwarves are up in arms, swearing the mine is cursed, and when a second body turns up—this time without its head—all fingers point to the local hag.But I’ve met Matilda. She’s terrifying, sure, but she doesn’t seem like the elaborate crime scene type...
  • Gray Tidings by Hailey Edwards

    Gray Tidings by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Corpses are vanishing from New Orleans morgues, there’s talk of a sea monster in Lake Pontchartrain, and Hiram Nádasdy is turning the French Quarter upside down in search of a witch with the power to bring the dead back to life.When the director assigns Rue the case, she suspects he’s sending her hunting all right. For her father, not the creature...
  • Three Alarm Fury by Annabel Chase

    Three Alarm Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sightI've finally taken a big step in my personal life when my professional life heats up with a spate of behavioral issues that seem unrelated. When some of the issues become life-threatening, I know that time is running out, but I'm no closer to identifying the root cause...
  • Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I've been told I'm a force to be reckoned with. That I blow onto the scene like a tornado.At age forty I've stopped caring if that's a compliment or a dig. Now I just wear it like a badge of honor. So when life threw me a curveball and I ended up going from a cushy job in New York City to the tiny Southern town of Grimm Cove I thought I was ready for anything.Ha! Not quite...
  • Undying Magic by T.J. Green

    Undying Magic by T.J. Green

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Winter grips White Haven, bringing death in its wake.It’s close to the winter solstice when Newton reports that dead bodies have been found drained of their blood.Then people start disappearing, and Genevieve calls a coven meeting. What they hear chills their blood.This has happened before, and it’s going to get worse. The witches have to face their toughest challenge yet – vampires...
  • Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep

    Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gunning for me, I don’t need another problem, but a new one has come to town...
  • Amber Gambler by Hailey Edwards

    Amber Gambler by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The other family business at The Body Shop is slow after word gets out that Frankie had clients die—cease to exist?—on her watch. Considering they were dead to begin with, she understands why the news shook the spirit community’s faith in her, but it’s a hard hit to her bottom line.When a spirit appears in her office, ready to sign a contract, she’s eager to please...
  • The Viper’s Nest Roadhouse & Cafe by Seana Kelly

    The Viper’s Nest Roadhouse & Cafe by Seana Kelly

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’m Sam, the werewolf book nerd owner of The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore & Bar. Clive, Fergus, and I are moving into our new home, the business is going well, and our folly is taking shape. The problem? Clive’s maker Garyn is coming to San Francisco for a visit, and this reunion has been a thousand years in the making...
  • Haunting Charlie by Wendy Wang

    Haunting Charlie by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 39 ratings
    Ignoring the dead can get you killed...All Charlie Payne wants is to lead a normal life and to be a good mom. But Charlie’s not exactly normal. She's from a long line of witches and she can see the dead. Which sometimes makes even going to the bathroom awkward as ghosts have no boundaries.Susan Tate has inherited a beautiful old southern mansion on the coast...
  • Dragon's Egg by B.R. Kingsolver

    Dragon's Egg by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When did I become everyone’s paranormal Miss Fixit? When the Lords of the Icelandic Elves summon me to use my talents to find a lost Dragon's egg, I find it hard to say no. I've seen what a Dragon can do, and a young, just-hatched Dragon is a being of pure destruction. But word of the egg gets out, and the race to find it begins...
  • The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After battling a malevolent ghost that held the spirit of her friend Ian MacKinnon bound to the land for two hundred years, sixteen-year-old reluctant psychic, Riley Williams, felt as if she was finally easing into her new life in Scotland. Or so she thought...
  • Tracker by Shannon Mayer

    Tracker by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    "My name is Rylee, and I am a Tracker." When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. Bringing my allies together as war approaches is my number one concern. But that means I have to play nice with a vampire who is blackmailing me. If I don’t, I’m screwed and my family is dead...
  • Veiled Threat by Shannon Mayer

    Veiled Threat by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    "My name is Rylee, and I am a Tracker." When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot.Demons are putting rips in the veil in order to cross over and steal my friends and allies away.But, going after them isn't even close to simple...
  • A Family Affair by Karen Chance

    A Family Affair by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    "A Family Affair" is a novella connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of urban fantasy novels. It is designed primarily as an "added feature" to the series, and is intended for those already reading the books...
  • Buried Secrets by Leighann Dobbs

    Buried Secrets by Leighann Dobbs

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Even the ghosts have secrets in Dead Water .... For Celeste Blackmoore and her sisters, locating a hundred year old buried treasure in the gold mining ghost town of Dead Water sounds like an easy job ... until they find themselves facing threats from both sides of the grave...
  • The Vampire Book Club by Nancy Warren

    The Vampire Book Club by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Quinn Callahan is having a doozy of a midlife crisis.She's stuck in a dead end job, going nowhere, but she's been fine with it. She's 45 and divorced. Her husband left her for her best friend—so cliche! But it was all good—until Quinn, a practicing witch, broke a major rule, and found her boring existence turned upside down...
  • Cursed Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Cursed Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Now that I know where Gretchen Wyre lives--the witch who hexed my great-great grandmother and all her female descendants--it's time to break the curse. I enlist my grandmother Rowan and my grandmother Naomi--who's visiting from Ireland--to help. But just because we know where Gretchen is, doesn't guarantee success...
  • Diamonds Are a Ghost's Best Friend by Danielle Garrett

    Diamonds Are a Ghost's Best Friend by Danielle Garrett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Going to the chapel and we’re gonna get … haunted? I’ve got a ring on my finger and a date circled on the calendar, let the wedding planning begin! As luck would have it, the little wooded chapel I’ve got my heart set on, is plagued by the not-so-nice spirit of a former bride...
  • Big Ghosts Don't Cry by Danielle Garrett

    Big Ghosts Don't Cry by Danielle Garrett

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fresh off my Voodoo-tastic vacation to New Orleans, I find myself presented with the first test of my newly discovered magic. There’s been a murder in the neighboring town of Pine Shoals and the victim has decided she’s not cut out for the spectral life and needs a gentle push into the Otherworld...
  • Witch by Tara Brown

    Witch by Tara Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The old house at the end of the haunted street seems emptier with the people missing and the lives lost. Sam thinks he has Hanna all to himself now but The Roses have other plans. Ari and Aimee struggle to cope with the changes they've suffered through, the newest one being Giselle. She is thrust into the role of Vampire Royalty and with it come certain obligations and limitations...
  • Dark Magic by Adam J. Wright

    Dark Magic by Adam J. Wright

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Zombies on Main Street. Not my finest moment. The police aren’t exactly thrilled with me, but when a cold case heats up and starts to stink of the supernatural, suddenly the sheriff is in my office offering me a job. When the case hits boiling point, I’m dealing with monsters, black magic, and ritual killings. I even have to call on the two craziest witches in town for help...
  • For Whom The Spell Tolls by H.P. Mallory

    For Whom The Spell Tolls by H.P. Mallory

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A war between The Resistance and the Netherworld, A vampire who isn't all that he appears, And the ultimate price that must be paid. Dulcie O'Neil thought her luck couldn't get much worse but it's about to get a whole lot worse. Forced into declaring war against the Netherworld and her father, Dulcie will find herself fighting for everything she believes in...
  • Paper Stars by Devon Monk

    Paper Stars by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One magical holiday. Some assembly required... Police Chief Delaney Reed loves the holidays in Ordinary, Oregon, the beach town where gods vacation and monsters reside. But this year, she has a lot on her plate. It isn’t just the creature who follows her home, or the terrible storm barreling toward town. It isn't that Mrs. Yates’s penguin has been stolen. Again...
  • Shadow's Fall by Dianne Sylvan

    Shadow's Fall by Dianne Sylvan

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For three years, Miranda Grey-Solomon has kept her role as Vampire Queen of the South separate from her Grammy-winning music career. But now, her dual lives are starting to collide, threatening everything Miranda and David, her Prime, have worked for...
  • High Stakes by Helen Harper

    High Stakes by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It may be less than a month since the doors of New Order opened but that doesn't mean Bo Blackman isn't busy. It's not just daft allegations about vampire dogs and complicated relationships that she has to deal with, however.When a woman is brutally assaulted, barely escaping with her life, Bo ensures she forms an integral part of the investigation...
  • Tegan's Magic by L.H. Cosway

    Tegan's Magic by L.H. Cosway

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Something is rotten in Tribane city. The humans are descending into madness and Tegan is certain that Theodore has something to do with it. The sorcerer and his followers have sent her father to hell and she's determined to bring him back. She's not going to lie down and play dead this time, now she has magic on her side...
  • Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

    Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is called to Paris to present at a medical conference, she expects nothing more exciting than professional discourse on zombie reconstructive surgery.Unfortunately for Greta, Paris happens to be infested with a coven of vampires - and not the civilised kind...
  • Dark Serpent by Kylie Chan

    Dark Serpent by Kylie Chan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    John and Emma head to Wales to try and work out who — or what — Emma is. But rather than providing a clear path to their long hoped-for marriage the answer could tear them apart forever. Emma will be forced to betray either John, her beloved Xuan Wu, or her past and birthright. To make matters worse, John’s celestial home at Wudangshan is under attack from the Demon King...
  • Red Angel by Helen Harper

    Red Angel by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    With the dust still settling from the brutal attack on the Agathos court and Rogu3's school, Bo Blackman is forced to live with her newfound status as a celebrity. She's still determined, however, to track down those responsible - and to solve the mystery of Tobias Renfrew, the daemon billionaire who disappeared over fifty years ago...
  • Tegan's Power by L.H. Cosway

    Tegan's Power by L.H. Cosway

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Welcome to the city of Tribane, you can come in any time you like but you can never leave. Fearing Ethan’s transformation, Finn has decided to escape the city with his friends in tow. Unfortunately, a magical barrier has been erected preventing anyone from leaving. Along the way, he makes the acquaintance of a runaway half elf named Allora...
  • Crochet and Cauldrons by Nancy Warren

    Crochet and Cauldrons by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Every family has annoying relatives; mine just happen to be undead. My Grandmother, Agnes Bartlett, used to own Cardinal Woolsey’s knitting shop in Oxford then died and left her shop to me, without informing me that she wasn’t actually dead. She’s a vampire and part of the world’s strangest craft circle – the Vampire Knitting Club...
  • Tempt by Claire Farrell, Lynn O'Dell

    Tempt by Claire Farrell, Lynn O'Dell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    There’s a monster running around Dublin, and it’s up to Ava to catch it. The pressure’s on, and she’s becoming as cynical as Peter. But when a demon marks her friend, and a possible threat from England spells war, Ava’s left with a huge choice to make. The lives of one or many. With a little help, Ava has the chance to win all of her battles… if the darkness doesn’t take her over first...
  • That Old Black Magic by Michelle Rowen

    That Old Black Magic by Michelle Rowen

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Reluctant witch Eden Riley knows that codependent relationships aren't good, especially when you're possessed by a sexy but troublemaking demon. Darrak's physical form makes good girl Eden want to go bad, but the constant itch to use the soul-destroying black magic she's recently acquired might force Eden to explore her dark side in an entirely different way...
  • Last Breath by Debra Dunbar

    Last Breath by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What do a dead cosplayer and a ritual murder have in common? Plenty.Solaria Ainsworth isn’t a paladin, she’s not even an ordained Templar Knight, but she can’t resist poking her nose into police business when magicians are found murdered in Baltimore. When the murders spread to include those of the magical group Haul Du, she rethinks her participation in the investigation...
  • Bring Out Your Dead by Katie MacAlister

    Bring Out Your Dead by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Battling a demon lord is all in a day’s work for the Dark One named Sebastian. But now he must take on a horde of unhappy zombies and an obnoxious teen vampire if he wants to win the hand of the one woman who can make him whole. Ysabelle is a woman with a past, and not a whole lot of future if a certain demon lord has his way...
  • Malice In Wonderland by H.P. Mallory

    Malice In Wonderland by H.P. Mallory

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A broken relationship, tarnished with lies and deceit, A father who wants her dead, And a shocking surprise that could rock the very foundation of everything she believes in... Fairy and law enforcement agent, Dulcie O'Neil, has to face the fact that her father, the Head of the Netherworld, is also Public Enemy Number One...
  • New Order by Helen Harper

    New Order by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Bo Blackman is not adjusting to her new life as a fledgling vampire particularly well. Drinking blood sickens her and, despite her new enhanced physical skills and the attention she's receiving from Lord Montserrat, she's desperate to find a cure...
  • The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Tom Renfield, a drifter possessed of extraordinary powers, and Laura Bolte, the equally gifted daughter of an ancient family, are wed amid a supernatural tumult that threatens the thread that binds the bones...
  • The Final Formula by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    To a master alchemist like Addie, impossible is just another word for challenge. When a fiery explosion destroys the Alchemica, the premier alchemy institute in the United States, she’s left with nothing. No home, no colleagues, and no memory. Learning what happened seems impossible, but she still has one strength, and in her opinion, it’s the only one she needs...
  • Flesh Circus by Lilith Saintcrow

    Flesh Circus by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Cirque de Charnu has come. They will clean out the demons and the suicides, and move on. As long as they stay within the rules, Jill Kismet can't deny them entry. But she can watch--and if they step out of line, she'll send them packing...
  • Midlife Curses by Christine Zane Thomas

    Midlife Curses by Christine Zane Thomas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A Paranormal Women’s Fiction murder mystery for anyone who believes you can find your powers at any age.On the eve of my fortieth birthday, I pack up and move across the country. I'm ready to start over.And Creel Creek, Virginia is the last place either of my ex-husbands would ever think to look for me...
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