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  • A Broken Vow by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Broken Vow by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When life rushes at you from all sides, you widen your stance to keep from getting toppled over—you brace yourself. But no matter how well you prepare, some things you just don’t see coming. Assuming my role as the druid representative for the Lakeshore Guild of Empowered Ones is both an honor and a curse...
  • A Fated Bond by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Fated Bond by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Magic, dragons, elves, and vampires are my new normal. At any point, I might get attacked by an angry book, be on the shit-list for forgetting to hook up my battle bear’s keg, or get called to investigate a gruesome magical murder. And how cool is that? Well… the investigating part, not so much the murder...
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  • A Throne Of Feathers and Bone by Shannon Mayer, Kelly St. Clare

    A Throne Of Feathers and Bone by Shannon Mayer, Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 51 ratings
    Chosen. Framed by my father’s murderer. Running from the fae courts. Fated to never touch the man who sets my blood on fire. Life was looking up for me not long ago. Now, it’s looking all the way down. This latest shitstorm? Yeah, it takes the cake and the beetroot tickle. The father who shunned me from birth lays cold and dead. The courts are in turmoil and after blood. My blood...
  • A Culling Tide by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Culling Tide by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. The world is about to tilt on its axis. Good versus Evil. Light versus Dark. There’s a balance to the world's alignment and every thousand years the Earth Realm, the Fae Realm, and the Spirit Realm collide, igniting a period of rebalancing. The Culling...
  • A Shaman's Power by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Shaman's Power by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The focus of my life as an urban druid is to stand as a guardian of nature. The focus of my life as Fiona Cumhaill to stand as a guardian of my family. Seriously. Don’t screw with my family. It’s a no-brainer, drop everything, and take up the fight topic for me—If you need me, I will come...
  • Midlife Blues: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Victoria Danann

    Midlife Blues: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    "(Danann) has an excellent sense for pacing, comedic timing, and natural dialogue. One of the best things I've read over the past few years. " - Nora. S. Rita Hayworth is not just the only American in town. She's also the only human! For all the everyday heroines over forty who know it's NOT TOO LATE for magic! Unique in setting, tone and content...
  • Healthy Progress by Erin R. Flynn

    Healthy Progress by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and things are going well. No, really! I know that sounds crazy after I broke down and couldn’t tell what was a dream or reality. But I have help. I asked for help which is hard for me. I have someone I can trust to get help from. All of that is progress for my life. Sad, but true. It was a setback on a better path and those will happen...
  • Wavering Aftermath by Erin R. Flynn

    Wavering Aftermath by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and I’m about to do something smart… Or something really, really stupid. I give it a 50/50 chance, but keeping quiet on what’s going on with me has bitten me in the arse too many times for me not to admit it. And since my mother’s journal isn’t helping and is heartbreaking to read, it’s time to trust the people who say they care about me...
  • Lightness Falling by Stacey Marie Brown

    Lightness Falling by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In gaining the crown, Kennedy lost friends, her first love, and her heart. And now her throne is being threatened. In this time of turmoil, radical groups surface trying to kill her and take down the kingdom. Kennedy is forced to go undercover and penetrate one of these groups with the help of the one person she has sworn against ever seeing again. Lorcan Dragen...
  • Lingering Threats by Erin R. Flynn

    Lingering Threats by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and… I’m stressed. Shocker, I know, but being a college senior at the top supe university is hard. Well, now that the curriculum is what I need and challenging. And I’m also the ruler of a whole world including two realms that have been warring for thousands of years that I’m trying to bring together. I also have five mates...
  • Chosen Fool by Scarlett Dawn

    Chosen Fool by Scarlett Dawn

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The second saga in the bestselling, Forever Evermore series continues with Chosen Fool, where deception runs deep and Caro’s transitioning life turns even more deadly…. Caroline Jules has received news of a lifetime. She’s going to be Queen to ‘her’ people. Instead of running, as any sane criminal would, she faces the mêlée with all the wits and savvy that her difficult life has honed...
  • Taken by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Taken by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Join Sunaya one last time for this final installment in the Baine Chronicles series. .. Even as Sunaya's fairy-tale romance with her handsome, powerful Chief Mage is celebrated in the media, all Sunaya wants is to get past the endless duties and social engagements of her new role, and spend a bit of private time with Iannis...
  • Adjusting Course by Erin R. Flynn

    Adjusting Course by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and… Uuuuggghhhh! I’m so tired of saying the same things over and over again without enough changing. I get the dirty councils out of the way, and new villains pop up in the form of fairy elders and ancients. I get them handled and the commanders are the problem. I smack them into line and the nobles are my issue...
  • Recruited by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle

    Recruited by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Flushed with the signing bonus to end all signing bonuses, Julie has one more recruit in mind. Herself. Despite Lillie’s bequeathment giving her options she had never imagined she’d have, Julie knows it’s time to move on. The assassination attempts on the heirs keep coming, and completing her military training puts Julie in the position to do more to protect the people she cares about...
  • The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos by Anne Rice

    The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos by Anne Rice

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An enchanting, hypnotic trilogy of witchcraft, adventure, and romance from the beloved author of Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, The Mayfair Witches is a wondrous journey through the centuries, across the globe, and between the human and demonic worlds. Now all three novels in Anne Rice’s spellbinding series have been collected for the first time in this stunning eBook...
  • Zombie's Bite by Karen Chance

    Zombie's Bite by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When Dorina Basarab, half human, half vampire, assassin-for-hire, hits New Orleans, she thinks it's for a typical job: take out a mad master vamp before he can wreak havoc on the city. But when the elusive master suddenly shows up at her hotel, things get complicated, especially when Dory realizes that the murder he has in mind is his own! And that the Big Easy is about to get a whole lot harder.
  • Claimed by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Claimed by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fenris and Mia's story continues in the second book of this Baine Chronicles spinoff trilogy. .. Now that Fenris and Mina have finally admitted their feelings for each other, for the first time, they both face something they’d thought impossible—settling down with someone who accepts and loves them for who they are...
  • A Trial of the Heart by J.E. Larson

    A Trial of the Heart by J.E. Larson

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The trials begin. Skylar arrives in the Inner Kingdom, but the danger of the trials is only half the battle she will have to face. The courts of the High Fae are as treacherous as they are mysterious to a foreign outsider. Skylar will have to navigate obstacles in the trials, along with the politics and mind games of the other fae creatures living in the Inner Kingdom...
  • House of Mages and Raven by Meg Xuemei X

    House of Mages and Raven by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    “Mine! ” he growls in the throes of passion. “Are you mine too? ” I challenge him. Before he can promise anything, his betrothed shows up at his door. The demon queen is pushing for a final claim on him, and a war unlike any other rages between us. I don’t stay down, but when she brings in Barbie 2. 0, an upgraded version of me, to tempt him, to replace me—. Everything crumbles around me.
  • 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...
  • A Fairy Good Brew by Samantha Silver

    A Fairy Good Brew by Samantha Silver

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Enchanted Enclave, where coffee, chaos and cauldrons are a way of life. Invited to the paranormal world at last, Tina and Kaillie's trip gets off on the wrong foot - literally - when they stumble on a fairy's body just after arriving in Palm Rings. Between navigating this whole new world, meeting relatives they didn't know they had, and being accused of murder, Eliza has her hands full...
  • Heir of the Fae by Linsey Hall

    Heir of the Fae by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Our fae courts are at war, yet we're still fated. My fated mate is the Seelie Fae king. He’s powerful, dangerous, and sexy as hell. Except, I don’t want a fated mate. Especially since he thinks I'm a lying snake. Turns out I’m Unseelie, and our courts are at war. When my new Unseelie magic goes haywire and I nearly destroy my city, I can’t fix it alone...
  • A Familiar Hex by Rosemary A. Johns

    A Familiar Hex by Rosemary A. Johns

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Welcome to Oxford’s Magic Kitten Shelter for Familiars! My name’s Astra, and since arriving in the quaint magical village of Witch Hollow in Oxford with my demon kitten familiar, Satan, I’ve faced murders, curses, and even cold coffee. But today is my scariest challenge yet: a visit from my fierce grandma...
  • A Grimoire Grump by Kat Healy

    A Grimoire Grump by Kat Healy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’ve found me. The hearth and its color-changing flames have made that abundantly clear, but apparently the “they” could be anyone: whoever just got nailed by Flora’s protection wards, the human strangers in town with their fae-like markings, the rival coven, or even my own family...
  • Budget Cuts for the Dark Arts and Crafts by Sarina Dorie

    Budget Cuts for the Dark Arts and Crafts by Sarina Dorie

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Clarissa Lawrence’s lifelong dream of being a witch living in a magical realm came true when she learned she was descended from a powerful witch. Those dreams are shattered now that she has been drained of her magic. She doesn’t know if she will ever be able to cast spells again, let alone survive teaching juvenile delinquent students who can hex her...
  • Risky Rewards by Jen Bair

    Risky Rewards by Jen Bair

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s hard to bluff when you don’t know the rules. When a dead stockbroker needs help following the breadcrumbs of his past, who does he call on? Enid Walsh, unwilling lackey of the dead. But after putting Craig the Crowbar behind bars, the last thing she expects is for Craig’s boss to show up looking for answers...
  • House of Demons and Bones by Meg Xuemei X

    House of Demons and Bones by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sy. I’m no longer a dirty little secret. Two powerful heirs now know about Barbie and me, but they intend to keep it that way to protect us. Killian has yet to decide which woman he’ll choose. He can’t have everything—he must choose love or the crown. While Barbie’s luck runs out, my star rises with three heirs courting me. It turns out I’m not just a monster that feeds on sex and violence...
  • Blood of Destiny by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of Destiny by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    What do you do when you make a stupid deal with a sleazy Angel in a moment of panic? Xandra is about to find out. But first, she has to tell Kallen what she did and he is not going to be happy about it, to say the least. In this sixth addition to the Witch Fairy series, Xandra finds out that just because they're all called Angels doesn't mean that they all act like Angels.
  • The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 02 by Miyuki Tonogaya

    The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 02 by Miyuki Tonogaya

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Sparks fly between the handsome descendant of a snow spirit and the oblivious coworker he has a crush on! A romantic comedy in an office setting that takes coworkers to lovers to new heights within a winter wonderland of emotions! Snow spirit descendant Himuro finds himself infatuated with his somewhat offbeat and aloof colleague, Fuyutsuki...
  • Blood of Half Gods by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of Half Gods by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How did she get herself into this? Trapped for two weeks with her biological father in the outback. With Giants. Xandra's convinced this trip is going to be a nightmare, and the fates are determined not to let her down. But, with Kallen and her friends by her side, there isn't anything she can't handle. Right?
  • All Is Faerie in Love and War by Isla Frost

    All Is Faerie in Love and War by Isla Frost

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    If the devil is knocking at your door, don't open it. A simple enough rule to follow. .. or so you'd think. When a criminal has magic too dangerous to merely lock up, we send them to a blackout prison. Hell would've been a better destination for this guy. As a lowly cop in the LVMPD's Rapid Response unit, I'm used to dealing with all kinds of dumpster-fire scenarios...
  • Halfway Hexed by Kimberly Frost

    Halfway Hexed by Kimberly Frost

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Duvall, Texas. A small town that’s about to be in some big trouble. Tammy Jo Trask is finally ready to embrace her mixed-up magic, but not everyone in town is what you’d call supportive...
  • Sever And Split: A Fae Portal Fantasy by Teshelle Combs, Leigh Ferguson

    Sever And Split: A Fae Portal Fantasy by Teshelle Combs, Leigh Ferguson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Magic belongs to the fae. It’s always been so. But when Bri, a free-spirited human, and Era, an order-seeking fae halfling, come together for their annual family dinner, magic breaks every rule, and a nightmare is unleashed on both sides of the portal...
  • Revenge Hunter by Amelia Shaw

    Revenge Hunter by Amelia Shaw

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I couldn't be more furious with Fin. He's crossed my boundaries and betrayed me for the last time. But I have a secret, that not even he knows. I stole something off the Black Mage's person last time we almost died fighting him, and that artifact is going to lead me to the truth. But instead of finding what I need, I get my my ass handed to me by a pack of goons...
  • Shadow Blood by Bonnie Lamer

    Shadow Blood by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Xandra has been acting strangely since coming back from the Shadow realm and Kallen is not sure what to do about it. Torn between his passion and his conscience, he needs to get to the bottom of whatever is going on before his world flips upside down and he loses the most important thing in his life. Xandra...
  • Wings of Dragca by G. Bailey

    Wings of Dragca by G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Death or the throne? Queen or survivor? Isola and her dragon guards are shaken after the events that forced them into hiding in Dragca Academy. With the queen of the supernaturals on earth offering Isola, and what is left of her people, a permanent home. .. will Isola leave Dragca to save the dragon she loves? Or will the last dragon Ice queen rise. .
  • Blood Prophecy by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood Prophecy by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Fairy mercenaries may be back in their own realm, but the Witches still want Xandra dead. Fearing an ancient prophecy, the Witches are determined to keep Xandra from destroying the world. Still new to her magical powers, she must learn to use her Witch magic in order to protect herself and those she loves. Now, if only she can get her magic to cooperate...
  • Scars by Hannah McBride

    Scars by Hannah McBride

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE SCARS OF THE PAST. Addie Markham escaped her brutal past but is struggling to find her place now that she's free. With her daughter finally safe, she has the chance to find her own love. But the horrors she endured are anything but forgotten. Maybe she's simply too damaged for love. BROKEN MATES. Nikolai Dashkov is the Alpha of the first pack...
  • Deception by B.C. Burgess

    Deception by B.C. Burgess

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A Magical Journey of Epic Romance. Layla. Layla Callaway has found comfort in her new role as a coven member, and she’s declared her love for the heartthrob who led her home, but as beautiful as her life appears, it’s shadowed by the evil threatening to rip it away. Quin...
  • Promising Changes by Erin R. Flynn

    Promising Changes by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and… Things are getting better. They’re not all better. That’s not possible in the weeks since I made the deal with all fairies. A little better. I have hope we might not completely self-destruct, so that’s better than where we were over the summer at least. And I think fairies are starting to see me as a person more...
  • Blood Lines by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood Lines by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Given an impossible task by the Angels, Xandra takes the first step in completing it when she travels to the Fae realm to protect the one man she would like to kill herself. Along the way, she discovers that Kallen has been keeping yet another secret from her. One that could tear them apart forever. Will she stay with him, or will she fall into the arms of another?
  • A Witch's Rite by N.E. Conneely

    A Witch's Rite by N.E. Conneely

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Michelle is getting used to her new life, one with clans, parents, a loving grandmother, and a boyfriend. But her old responsibilities are still around. The police still need her help, and balancing all her obligations is becoming more difficult, but police cases won’t wait for anyone, and when the police call, she has to answer. It starts out like any other case...
  • Blood of Dragons by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of Dragons by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It turns out that some of the fairy tales Xandra learned as a child were true after all. Xandra's world is turned upside down when her changed destiny comes back to haunt her. Her only way back to the life she craves is by standing up against beings who are stronger than she is. With her relationship with Kallen hanging in the balance, she had better hope fate is truly on her side this time.
  • Stolen Relics by Karina Espinosa

    Stolen Relics by Karina Espinosa

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Are all the fairy tales real? Mackenzie Grey is back at the Supernatural Investigative Unit and her first big case is not what she expects. Tasked to find stolen relics that are attached to a legend even Kenz herself is having a hard time believing. This leads to a target getting put on her back, and she finds help from an unexpected enemy. Unfortunately, the SIU isn’t all Kenz has to worry about...
  • Last Gift by Kelly St. Clare

    Last Gift by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    The pendant, gem, dagger, and robe of a dead woman have decided my fate. Now over three hundred magus look to me to save them from the impossibly powerful demon king. It’s safe to say my life took a little turn. But defeating a mere demon army would make life too simple, apparently. The demon king’s magic also permeates the knolls, driving the wedge of discord deep in the coven...
  • Autumn Dawn by Lizzy Ford

    Autumn Dawn by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three months after turning Dark and being granted a second trial, Summer has succeeded in winning back not only her soul, but saving that of the Master of Dark as well. She leaves the hospital with some doubts as to whether or not she and Decker can be together, given all they’ve been through and how Dark his deeds were...
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    magic  witches  urban fantasy  paranormal  fantasy
  • Blood of the Exiled: Book 10 of The Witch Fairy Series by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of the Exiled: Book 10 of The Witch Fairy Series by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's time to check on the Witches. Something Xandra would rather not do, but she has an obligation to make sure they are safe. She is their princess, after all. Even if they would prefer she wasn't. Her grandfather has shaken things up a bit since the last time she saw him...
  • Blood of Egypt by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of Egypt by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "A simple honeymoon. That’s all we wanted. See some interesting sights and do absolutely nothing except be happy with each other. Instead, we get Egyptian Gods, Archangels and Witches with the usual amount of doom and gloom that accompanies them. ". Join Xandra and Kallen as they join forces with Eliana Brennan to stop the Archangel who is seeking vengeance. .
  • Bloodlust by Karina Espinosa

    Bloodlust by Karina Espinosa

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The countdown has begun. Mackenzie Grey is tying up loose ends before she says goodbye to the life she knows. In doing so, that means closing up all her cases that are left open at the Supernatural Investigative Unit, and nothing prepares her for the blood thirsty vampires roaming the streets of New York City. It is time to rein them in and bring order back to the city...
  • Realms of Lightning and Dragons by J.S. Malcom

    Realms of Lightning and Dragons by J.S. Malcom

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    According to prophecies, I’m the veil witch meant to save Faerie. The problem being, nowhere in those prophecies was it mentioned that I could pull it off twice. They say desperate times call for desperate measures, but I doubt they meant anything as risky as what I have planned. But things have gone from bad to worse to downright abysmal...
    Categorized as:
    fae  magic  witches  new adult  fantasy  paranormal  suspense  vampires
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