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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...
  • Asylum for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Asylum for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When her haunting past returns, will it destroy her future?Lenora Fletcher brims with joy. Embracing motherhood, the young woman is determined to give her child the love and attention she never received. But a chance meeting with her assumed-to-be deceased father rips away her happiness and plunges her into roiling confusion...
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  • The Healer's Secret by Helen Pryke

    The Healer's Secret by Helen Pryke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Book #1 in the Healer series.From medieval times to present day, the Healer saga spans generations of the Innocenti family, telling the stories of the women healers whose lives are entwined with legends, curses, and tragedy.Jennifer’s life isn’t going as she planned. Fired from her job and on the brink of divorce, her only salvation lies at the bottom of a wine bottle...
  • 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...
  • Letter to a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Letter to a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Only she can prove his innocence, but will it make her the killer’s next victim?Lenora Fletcher’s new role as Duchess of Blackmoore is put to the test when her brother-in-law is framed for murder. Desperate for help, he begs her to use her power to communicate with the dead to prove his innocence...
  • 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..
  • 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...
  • The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1640, Alys Bailey was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang. Today, Alys is said to haunt Lockwood Hall, the Tudor manor house where she died. When Nicole Rayburn travels to Lockwood Hall and begins to research Alys’s story for a new book, she discovers startling irregularities in Alys’s case. Nicole’s suspicions mount as every answer leads to more questions...
  • 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
  • What the Ravens Sing by Jacquelyn Benson

    What the Ravens Sing by Jacquelyn Benson

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    An arcane horror emerges from battle and blood. To stop it, Lily must risk becoming everything she fears.In a Europe devastated by four years of war, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford's arcane ability can uncover the truth behind the massacre, but a violent fate stalks him from the trenches. It's up to Lily to change its course...
  • 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. .
  • The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A tragic past. An uncertain futureTwelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip...
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    witches  fantasy  christmas  paranormal  historical
  • Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case...
  • 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...
  • Death of a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Death of a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My name is Lenora Fletcher. And I can communicate with the dead. Lenora expected her unique ability would condemn her to a life of solitude, shunned by society. But when she receives an unexpected marriage proposal hinging on it, Lenora is shocked...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Master of Restless Shadows: Book One by Ginn Hale

    Master of Restless Shadows: Book One by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Freshly graduated Master Physician Narsi Lif-Tahm has left his home in Anacleto and journeyed to the imposing royal capitol of Cieloalta intent upon keeping the youthful oath he made to a troubled writer. But in the decade since Narsi gave his pledge, Atreau Vediya, has grown from an anonymous delinquent to a man renowned for penning bawdy operas and engaging in scandalous affairs...
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    suspense  witches  fantasy  m-m  queer  magic  historical  mystery
  • 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...
  • The Color of Light by Karen White

    The Color of Light by Karen White

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    At thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found. At the time, Linc Rising, Lauren's boyfriend and Jillian's confidant, had been a suspect in Lauren's disappearance...
  • Precious Red Pearls: A Dark Sapphic Captivity Romance by Holly Hawthorne

    Precious Red Pearls: A Dark Sapphic Captivity Romance by Holly Hawthorne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Tonight, I find myself craving her wrath just as much as I do her pleasure...Being bought as a blood slave for Roseshire’s vampire elite is Pearl’s greatest fear—and the only thing she’s been raised to be.So when she’s purchased by the county’s most elusive and feared vampiress, Lady Veilthorn, and sequestered to her gothic manor on a night, Pearl has no doubt her young life is over...
  • Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman

    Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman’s survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned — it is a death sentence...
  • A Ghostly Guardian by H.P. Mallory, Fiction

    A Ghostly Guardian by H.P. Mallory, Fiction

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    London, 1880I’ve returned to London with my proverbial tail between my legs.After the death of my beloved husband, I took my broken heart and retreated to Paris, where I’ve been living for the last year.But finally deciding I need to face the ghosts of my past, I’ve returned.And now find myself sitting in a jail cell in Scotland Yard, the precinct of the London police...
  • 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 Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla by Lauren Willig

    The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla by Lauren Willig

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    In the latest Pink Carnation novel from national bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery....   In October of 1806, the Little Season is in full swing, and Sally Fitzhugh has had enough of the endless parties and balls...
  • Conspiracy To Murder by Heather Graham

    Conspiracy To Murder by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Don’t miss this heart-racing story from “the queen of romantic suspense,” New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Is she a suspect or a target? A year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she’s suspected murder all along...
  • Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

    Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive historical thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors...
  • The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There’s a reason: she’s living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past. But when a hungry journalist starts chasing her story, she’s confronted with whom she once was: Iris Chapel...
  • King of the Isles by Debbie Mazzuca

    King of the Isles by Debbie Mazzuca

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She'll find him a bride if it's the last thing she does. And it very well might be. Evangeline may be powerfully persuasive in her way, but convincing the notoriously wild Highland king Lachlan MacLeod to strengthen his alliances with a strategic marriage seems to be asking the impossible...
  • Strangers In The Night by Anne Stuart, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Strangers In The Night by Anne Stuart, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    These three spooky love stories include Anne Stuart's Dark Journey--Cloaked in the form of a stranger, he lived a lie with the one woman he couldn't deny himself. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Catching Dreams--He existed only in her dreams, until she found him in the flesh, and herself in a nightmare...
  • Blood Tide by Tess Oliver

    Blood Tide by Tess Oliver

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When four strangers move into Blackpool Cove the same week a tragic shipwreck befalls its shores, Trixie Muldoon waves it off as coincidence. Even the arrival of the appealing, young investigator, David Durham, does not convince her otherwise...
  • Mansions of Darkness by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Mansions of Darkness by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from the temples of ancient Eygpt to our present century...
  • Eyes of the Predator: The Pickham County Murders by Glenn Trust

    Eyes of the Predator: The Pickham County Murders by Glenn Trust

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***For Mature Readers*** Eyes scanning, searching, the predator sits motionless in a parking lot. His next victim is only feet away. Within hours a backwater south Georgia county will be rocked by two seemingly unrelated murders that signal the arrival of a serial killer in the rural southland...
  • The House of Lost Wives by Rebecca Hardy

    The House of Lost Wives by Rebecca Hardy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets. Lies. And four missing wives. 1813. Lizzie's beloved older sister Esme is sold in marriage to the aging Lord Blountford to settle their father's debts. One year later, Esme is dead, and Lizzie is sent to take her place as Lord Blountford's next wife. Arriving at Ambletye Manor, Lizzie uncovers a twisted web of secrets, not least that she is to be the fifth mistress of this house...
  • Witch of the Wild Beasts by Catherine Stine

    Witch of the Wild Beasts by Catherine Stine

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Evalina is imprisoned for witchcraft, will her supernatural bond with animals be her curse or salvation?In 1854, Evalina Stowe witnesses the murder of her brother by Dr. Dowdrick, an enraged client at the tailor’s where they work. Desperate to stop him, she rouses a swarm of wasps that sting the doctor while she stabs him with scissors, and then flees...
  • The Shadows of Stormclyffe Hall by Lauren Smith

    The Shadows of Stormclyffe Hall by Lauren Smith

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A thrilling gothic romance from Entangled’s Otherworld imprint… To defeat a dark evil, they must face his family’s past… Bastian Carlisle, the Earl of Weymouth, doesn’t believe in ghosts. Even though tragedy and mysterious hauntings have driven his family away from his ancestral home, Stormclyffe Hall, he is determined to restore the castle to its former glory...
  • Dangerous Heart by Fiona Paul

    Dangerous Heart by Fiona Paul

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cassandra Caravello and Luca are fugitives, on the run from the law and the deadly Order of the Eternal Rose. As they pursue the only evidence that could save them, their worlds—and their romance— are torn apart by spiteful friends and murderous enemies...
  • Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen

    Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The Royal Spyness series continues with an all-new mystery of "the British monarchy...a wedding in Transylvania...[and] wonderful characters." (#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Charlaine Harris). Penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs...
  • Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels

    Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It begins as a lark -- a harmless diversion initiated by Washington, D.C., hostess Ruth Bennett as a means of entertaining her visiting niece, Sara. But the seance conducted in Ruth's elegant Georgetown home calls something back; something unwelcome ... and palpably evil...
  • The Rogue by Trudi Canavan

    The Rogue by Trudi Canavan

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Discover the magic of Trudi Canavan with her brand new novel in the Traitor Spy Trilogy... Living among the Sachakan rebels, Lorkin does his best to learn about their unique magic. But the Traitors are reluctant to trade their secrets for the Healing they so desperately want...
  • Vampire Dragon by Annette Blair

    Vampire Dragon by Annette Blair

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    One the run from the mob, Bronte McBride needs the kind of protection that only the mysterious and handsome bodyguard Darkwyn—a former Roman warrior turned dragon—can give her. But Bronte's secrets could endanger both of them. Read Annette Blair's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community...
  • Defending the Dead by Sheila Connolly

    Defending the Dead by Sheila Connolly

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Abby Kimball has slowly accepted her recently discovered ability to see the dead, but none of the harmless sightings she’s experienced could have prepared her for the startling apparition of a centuries-old courtroom scene—where she locks eyes with a wicked and gleeful accuser...
  • Beneath the Opal Arc by Lee Colgin

    Beneath the Opal Arc by Lee Colgin

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    As the battle rages around him, Laurence stops to witness a witch casting a powerful magical arc. Werewolves race past, running for cover, but Laurence can’t tear his gaze from the vulnerable spellcaster.When Remy is injured, he doesn’t expect a vampire to come to his rescue...
  • The Light on Farallon Island by Jen Wheeler

    The Light on Farallon Island by Jen Wheeler

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    From debut author Jen Wheeler comes a spellbinding tale about the dangers a nineteenth-century woman encounters as she flees a tragic past to the menacing Farallon Islands. Thirty miles off the coast of San Francisco lie the Farallon Islands, known to sailors as the Devil’s Teeth...
  • The Light on Farallon Island by Jen Wheeler

    The Light on Farallon Island by Jen Wheeler

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From debut author Jen Wheeler comes a spellbinding tale about the dangers a nineteenth-century woman encounters as she flees a tragic past to the menacing Farallon Islands.Thirty miles off the coast of San Francisco lie the Farallon Islands, known to sailors as the Devil’s Teeth...
  • Blood of the Rose by Kate Pearce

    Blood of the Rose by Kate Pearce

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Rosalind Llewellyn had to join forces with her enemy, Christopher Ellis to defeat a rogue Vampire threatening Henry VIII, their alliance led to a surprising passion. Reunited after a years separation, they face a new threat that could destroy their last chance at happiness. Christopher is delighted by the spectacular rise at court of his friends George and Anne Boleyn...
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