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  • To Love a Witch by Amanda M. Lee

    To Love a Witch by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Bay Winchester is at a crossroads in her life. Her powers are growing, her personal life is settled, and there’s a young witch in crisis under her care. Things are … difficult. A good witch at heart, Bay knows that the teenager she’s trying to tame is dangerous. To keep Hemlock Cove safe, she’s isolated her at the campground property she owns with her boyfriend Landon...
  • Play Dead by Annabel Chase

    Play Dead by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In Fairhaven, there’s no rest for the wicked, the weary, or anyone in between.This time, the Wild Hunt is on its way to town, commanded by its ruthless leader who has a score to settle with Lorelei’s friend, the Night Mallt...
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  • 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...
  • Tiger's Eye by Barbra Annino

    Tiger's Eye by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Stacy Justice is looking forward to a lazy summer of hot dogs and beer; swims in the lake with her Great Dane, Thor; and hanging with her rekindled old flame, Chance. But when she gets a creepy anonymous call hinting that her father’s “accidental” death fourteen years ago was actually a murder, she’s too unsettled to relax...
  • Gray Witch by Hailey Edwards

    Gray Witch by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Famous monsters are resurrecting across Mississippi, each one recreating their own gruesome deaths through new victims. Every time Rue pins down one horror legend, another appears with its own bloodthirsty agenda. The summoners raising these vengeful spirits save their best for last, a cruel gift that shatters Rue. But she’s not the only one whose heart gets broken...
  • 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...
  • Gray Days by Hailey Edwards

    Gray Days by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Black Hat Bureau, Book 9The Black Hat compound is rubble on the ocean floor, the director hasn’t been seen since the explosion that demolished his life’s work, and old enemies have decided it’s open season on the remaining agents. Oh. And Arden has decided now is a great time for a surprise visit to force a confrontation with Rue...
  • Playing With Fury by Annabel Chase

    Playing With Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight......Well, maybe not all supernaturals. I tend to avoid using my fury traits, but when I reluctantly use my power of invisibility and then can't undo it, I don't know whether the gods are punishing me--or someone else is. At first my condition isn't so bad...
  • Dragon's Claw by Karen Chance

    Dragon's Claw by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A new novella in the New York Times bestselling Midnight's Daughter series! Everyone knows that vampires are hard to kill. But when Dory Basarab is called to a crime scene in a smelly basement in Queens, she discovers that that may no longer be the case. Somebody has developed a new weapon, a vamp killer, and left her plenty of clues to follow...
  • Forged in Magical Fire by Brenda Trim

    Forged in Magical Fire by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Guess who just discovered her Phoenix lineage? I'd rather go back to just being cursed. Hot flashes have nothing on bursting into flames...Imps are taking over Cottlehill Wilds, wreaking havoc at every turn. Chasing them around my store with unreliable magic, while not alerting the mundies, is harder than raising twins...
  • More than a Little Warped by Annette Marie, Rob Jacobsen

    More than a Little Warped by Annette Marie, Rob Jacobsen

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    As a conman-turned-MPD-Agent, I'm fairly new to the whole "upholder of justice" thing, but even for me, there are some lines you just don't cross. Agent Söze of the MPD's Internal Affairs department, on other hand, seems determined to slime his way across every ethical line in existence like an over-sized eel on a power trip...
  • Red Rook by Annabel Chase

    Red Rook by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    I thought my newfound freedom would allow me to shake off the stink of New York City and start a new life somewhere else, a place where nobody knows me as Death Bringer or Britt the Bloody. A place where I’m not associated with ridiculous prophecies.Looks like fate has other plans.When the city is attacked, I find myself on the wrong side of the border...
  • 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...
  • Demon Hunt by Annabel Chase, A. Blythe

    Demon Hunt by Annabel Chase, A. Blythe

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.The hunt is on... Former supernatural covert agent Alyse Winters is determined to identify the party responsible for her handler's death. Unfortunately, local problems continue to sidetrack her when humans start committing crimes while under a spell and a link to her past shows up in need of help..
  • Wrath and Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Wrath and Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Marnie Baranuik is confident that her new psychic detective agency will be a great success, and she has eight million business cards to prove it. But before the paint even dries on her open for business sign, she’s summoned to face the Demon King Asmodeus in His own playground, the revenant court, home of the undead nobility, to participate in a conclave of the most powerful immortals on Earth...
  • 13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison

    13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Red is now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name, Rowan, and trying to put the past behind her. But staying on the straight and narrow isn’t as easy as she had hoped . . . Hounded by those who would like her to participate once more in the changeling trade, Rowan is also haunted by dreams of the Hedgewitch’s cottage and the chained-up Eldritch, who swore revenge when she left him there...
  • Peta by Shannon Mayer

    Peta by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The long-awaited novella from Peta's point of view is finally here . . . My name is Peta, and I am a familiar. To stand at the side of an elemental as their familiar is a gift given to few familiars. Yet here I stand with my thirteenth—Larkspur, child of the earth. I do not want this charge, for all my previous have ended in deaths I could not prevent...
  • Wild Cards and Witches by Annabel Chase

    Wild Cards and Witches by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The truth shall set you free.Yeah, right.I might have broken away from the group now that I know the dirty secrets of Pandora’s Pride, but I am far from free. Those who know the truth still want to control me. They’re not about to let me walk away and live a quiet life in the mountains. There’s too much at stake...
  • 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...
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    demons  witches  mystery  fae  magic  vampires  paranormal  humor
  • Death Raiser by J.C. McKenzie

    Death Raiser by J.C. McKenzie

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Necromancy is a gift that keeps on giving……and my powers always deliver death.I may have narrowly escaped death during my last case with the Victoria Police Department, but now it appears another serial killer has stepped forward to fill the murderous void. This time, the dead aren’t talking. And while the souls are silent, the vampires won’t shut up...
  • Mind Magic by Eileen Wilks

    Mind Magic by Eileen Wilks

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    FBI agent Lily Yu’s mind is a dangerous place to be in the latest Novel of the Lupi… Thanks to the mindspeech lessons she’s receiving from the black dragon, Lily is temporarily benched from Unit Twelve—until her brain acclimates and the risk of total burnout passes. At least she has her new husband, lupi Rule Turner, to keep her occupied...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Deadly Knight by Annabel Chase

    Deadly Knight by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From the time I joined the Knights of Boudica, I’ve pretended to be just like all the others. A magic specialty or two. Skilled with a blade. An innate sense of justice.But normal is overrated, right?Now that I know there are more ancient and powerful stones out there, I won’t rest until I find them. If that means using more of my magic and risking exposure, then it’s a chance I have to take...
  • 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...
  • The Summer Palace by Kristen Painter

    The Summer Palace by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Newly crowned queen of the Radiant fae, Sparrow “Ro” Meadowcroft has two goals. First, to show her fae subjects that despite growing up in the mortal realm, she plans to honor all the customs and practices of her new world. Second, to reunite the Radiant fae with the Grym fae. Or at least broker peace between the two estranged kingdoms...
  • Defying Fate by S.M. Reine

    Defying Fate by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Elise Kavanagh has exorcised demons, slain gods, and come back from the dead. And she's done it all with the help of James Faulkner: a powerful witch, and the only person Elise has ever loved or trusted. But now the worst has happened. The Treaty protecting humanity from war between angels and demons has fallen. Elise has been taken by her greatest enemy and imprisoned in madness...
  • Magical New Beginnings by Brenda Trim

    Magical New Beginnings by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When life goes sideways, embracing the adventure is the fastest way to set things right.One day I was just a widow facing the prospect of an empty nest, living a life that was anything but enchanted. The next, I had discovered my magical roots, and my rightful place as the Guardian of the portal between the Faery and Earth.There was shock. And there was fear...
  • Enchant by Penelope Fletcher

    Enchant by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Rae’s fragile emotions are becoming unhinged. Lochlann demands she keeps the bond with his brother secret, and the duties of High Priestess threaten to crush her rebellious nature, diminishing her glow. Breandan is her warrior, her light in the dark, but even he cannot hope to protect Rae from her own blood, and the extremes his need to possess her push him to...
  • Lifestyles of the Witch and Ageless by Shéa MacLeod

    Lifestyles of the Witch and Ageless by Shéa MacLeod

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A paranormal women’s fiction cozy mystery – because midlife can be a real witch!There are a lot of things people never told you about being forty-something. Sure, they mentioned the hot flashes and reading glasses and the need for Kegels, but they never talked about fireballs sprouting from your fingertips or your sudden ability to turn rat-bastards into, well, actual rats...
  • A Familiar Hex by Rosemary A. Johns

    A Familiar Hex by Rosemary A. Johns

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Any Witch Way by Judith Berens, Martha Carr

    Any Witch Way by Judith Berens, Martha Carr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With only a creepy stone idol as their next clue, Lily and Romeo are off again. This time the clues will take them to Guatemala’s healing temple of Ichacál where the situation becomes life or death. Someone’s been kidnapping magical children from small Mexican villages. The locals don’t know knows who it is or how to stop them...
  • Murder & Marigold: A Witch Cozy Mystery by Mara Webb

    Murder & Marigold: A Witch Cozy Mystery by Mara Webb

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Astrid Atwood has just been invited to the Pirate Parade by the hottest police officer in town. A day of sailing around on the Raven Bay lake and flirting with Evan Brooks sounds like a dream, what could go wrong? Before she can even think of stepping foot on a boat, her mom warns her that the coven needs to stay on the shore to protect the sailors from angry water spirits...
  • Primrose & Poison: A Witch Cozy Mystery by Mara Webb

    Primrose & Poison: A Witch Cozy Mystery by Mara Webb

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Astrid Atwood is homeward bound.It was never part of the plan to move back to Raven Bay, but things just didn’t work out in the city...
  • Evil Eye by Alyssa Day

    Evil Eye by Alyssa Day

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For Jack Shepherd, tiger shapeshifter and former rebel leader, nothing in life has prepared him for this dead end. Dead End, Florida, to be exact. When swarms of treasure hunters descend on Dead End in search of legendary pirate Captain Jean Lafitte's fabled lost gold, chaos crashes down on the normally quiet town...
  • Crown of Lies: The Demon Detective by Annika West

    Crown of Lies: The Demon Detective by Annika West

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    If he learns who I am, he'll kill me. Half-demons don't belong in angel territory. But I'm kind of an expert at staying hidden and running my quiet magical business from my sister's cafe.So, imagine my surprise when an archangel tracks me down and offers me a new job...
  • Scorpion Trap by Pippa DaCosta

    Scorpion Trap by Pippa DaCosta

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Given a choice, I’d prefer never to return to Egypt. Isis doesn’t do choices. The old world is dead. Legend tells us the gods are myths. But some remain, like a noose around Ace Dante’s neck. And none are more dangerous than Isis. She demands the Soul Eater return to the land time forgot, break into a newly discovered tomb, and retrieve the skull from the sarcophagus inside...
  • Born To Be Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Born To Be Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The past has a way of catching up with you. If there's one thing that Tarot-reading magical artifacts hunter Sara Wilde has never been able to track down, it's the truth about her own past...
  • Panther Prowling by Yasmine Galenorn

    Panther Prowling by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch with three gorgeous husbands. Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I’m Delilah, a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. While the war in Otherworld is expanding, so is my newly renamed PI business...
  • 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.
  • Smoke and Magic by Ashley Meira

    Smoke and Magic by Ashley Meira

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sophia's life is about to take a hard left off a high cliff. Again. After spending a lifetime hiding her magic, Sophia is now practicing her arts with the most dangerous person she could possibly be involved with. Adam Pierce is a man with pretty eyes and heartwarming words... who just happens to be closely associated with the very people who cry for Fireborns like Sophia to be executed...
  • The Ambush by L.L. Frost

    The Ambush by L.L. Frost

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Within arms reach of her bakery and the protection it offers, Adie’s attacked! How will she escape when her opponent is so much more powerful? And what will happen when her guys smell another demon on her? Will the trust her word when she can’t tell them the truth?Join Adie on her (mis)adventures towards achieving a quasi-normal life among humans...
    Categorized as:
    witches  demons  mystery  magic  humor  paranormal  fantasy  poly
  • Witch Way to Go by Judith Berens, Martha Carr

    Witch Way to Go by Judith Berens, Martha Carr

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The mysterious expedition continues. Where is Lily Antony's witchy mother? Is she really dead?Another magical clue takes Lily Antony to a burned-down house in Colorado with her fave werewolf by her side. The house might be ruined, but the magical message hidden in the walls remains...Someone wants to keep Lily from finding out about her world-traveling mother...
  • A Familiar Curse by Rosemary A. Johns

    A Familiar Curse by Rosemary A. Johns

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Oxford’s Magic Kitten Shelter for Familiars!My name’s Astra, and I’m a witch. This morning, all I want is to take a hot bath without a demon frog familiar insisting that he’s a prince in disguise and to read my book without a unicorn nibbling it...
  • Charmed to Death by Gretchen Galway

    Charmed to Death by Gretchen Galway

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the eve of the winter solstice, reckless witches invite demons into the enchanted town of Silverpool. Can Alma find a human murderer amid the magical mayhem?Alma is a witch with an Incurable Inability to kill. That can be inconvenient in a world of demons, Shadow magic, and murder. Luckily Alma has discovered she has unusual, remarkable talents of her own. And they’re getting stronger...
  • Black Spells & Twisted Souls by Cece Rose

    Black Spells & Twisted Souls by Cece Rose

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Kayla Harlow is an unlucky witch. A dead boss, a demonic kitty in her bathtub, and a smoking hot detective… If only he wasn’t trying to pin her for the murder...
  • Queen of Light by Linsey Hall

    Queen of Light by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    No one knows I’m possessed by evil…Everyone thinks that I’m a hero… that I’ve driven the darkness from the land. What they don’t know is that I’ve driven it into myself. I'm fighting a curse that will lead to the death of all I love.Fortunately, my Fated Mate Iain senses something is wrong. When he learns about the curse, he vows to help...
  • Invasion: An Urban Fantasy by Willa Blackmore

    Invasion: An Urban Fantasy by Willa Blackmore

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Witchery... People think it's fun and easy. Whisper a spell, fire up a candle or two, then flutter your eyelashes at some sexy beast waiting in the wings. Bingo. Problem solved. Yes, that's how it goes... in movies maybe. Real life? A whole 'nother thing. And the only sexy beast waiting for me is the kind that rips your eyeballs out. My love life is a work in progress...
  • Ignite the Fire: Incendiary by Karen Chance

    Ignite the Fire: Incendiary by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Cassie Palmer is the Pythia, chief seer of the supernatural world. John Pritkin is a half demon and a legendary war mage. Mircea Basarab is a first-level master vampire and the general of the World Vampire Senate. Each is formidable enough alone. But they recently discovered that, together, they are far more than the sum of their parts...
  • 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...
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