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  • The Fae Artifactor by Honor Raconteur

    The Fae Artifactor by Honor Raconteur

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    People really have to stop kidnapping her…. Sevana has quite enough on her plate, what with her wonky magical core still spastically melting or exploding things on her. She has every intention of seeking professional help, if such a thing exists, but is stopped before she can even go back home. That is to say, she’s kidnapped. AGAIN...
  • 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...
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  • Everspell by Donna Grant

    Everspell by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant “skillfully melds history and legend” (RT Book Reviews) in an exciting new series – The Kindred...
  • Reign by Donna Grant

    Reign by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant blends the magic of Scottish and Norse tradition in the final installment of her acclaimed The Fated series.Magic holds both beauty and danger…As Lady of the Varroki, Malene was powerful and revered. But after a battle, she awakens in Norway as Dagny, a witch with no memories of her past...
  • Dragon on Top by G.A. Aiken

    Dragon on Top by G.A. Aiken

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Try a little dragon tenderness.   I am Glheanna the Decimator. I am a warrior. A soldier. I know no fear. No pain. No mercy. I do, however, know acute embarrassment! How could I not after getting dumped by a bastard dragon in front of my own troops? So I tuck tail and return to my cave, drowning my sorrows in ale—as is my family’s way...
  • Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    From the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget... The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason...
  • The Story Collector by Evie Woods

    The Story Collector by Evie Woods

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything…One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life...
  • Demon of the Dead by Lauren Gilley

    Demon of the Dead by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    “The blood of the living shall welcome the blood of the dead. I am the keeper of the Fault Lands, and the dead shall keep me.” For generations, the Corpse Lords of the Fault Lands have watched over the fire mountain of Aeretoll, preventing it from erupting and laying waste to the North...
  • 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...
  • Brutus by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Brutus by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes BRUTUS, a Paranormal Romantic Comedy that will surely cause evil vampires to kidnap the author.CAN THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST IMMORTAL WARRIOR WIN THE HEART OF THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST IMMORTAL WOMAN?Brutus is not your average immortal warrior...
  • Clock Strikes Midnight by Alex Lidell

    Clock Strikes Midnight by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    At the stroke of midnight, anything can happen. Lera is walking a dangerous tightrope. By night, she takes off her veil to hunt the dark creatures leaking into the mortal world. By morning, she is Leralynn of Osprey again, failing her classes and dodging Deputy Headmaster River’s keen scrutiny. River is watching Leralynn like a hawk...
  • Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace

    Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay...Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation...
  • Master of Storms: Dragon Shifter Romance by Bec McMaster

    Master of Storms: Dragon Shifter Romance by Bec McMaster

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The old eddas speak of dreki—fabled creatures who haunt the depths of Iceland's volcanoes and steal away fair maidens.Solveig wants none of such myths. Mated—and spurned—by the devilishly handsome Prince Marduk, the furious dreki princess refuses to be the laughingstock of her court. Marduk will beg for her forgiveness. Or he will die.A political alliance that ended in ruins..
  • 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...
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    mystery  magic  witches  suspense  m-f  fantasy  paranormal  historical
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mystery  suspense  witches  fantasy  m-m  queer  historical
  • The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She is someone's darkest desire Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Finley Stirling, the FBI agent working the case...
  • 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...
  • Stones of Nairobi by Vered Ehsani

    Stones of Nairobi by Vered Ehsani

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some stones should never be moved. Not easily befuddled, the intrepid supernatural sleuth Mrs. Beatrice Knight Timmons can’t fathom how the ancient tombstone of a legendary warrior-king ended up in Nairobi. All she knows is that her life is on the line once again as she embarks on her most dangerous mission yet: to retrieve a corpse and the soul it once housed. Mrs...
  • Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From the brilliant imagination of Kerrelyn Sparks comes a bold new fantasy romance series in which passion and magic collide. Behold the Embraced… Gwennore has a talent. An Elf able to track down the cause of an illness and heal it, she’s a valuable asset to her people...
  • 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 Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris

    The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat.Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend...
  • 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 First Chill Of Autumn by W.R. Gingell

    The First Chill Of Autumn by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Llassar is an occupied country– but nobody seems to know it. Fae began to filter slowly into the land shortly after the birth of the crown princess, Dion ferch Alawn, supposedly fleeing a dark threat in Faery known as the Guardians. But that was fifteen years ago, and now there isn’t a town in Llassar that isn’t populated by or under the control of the fae...
  • 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 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...
  • Wicked Memories by Nina Bangs

    Wicked Memories by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Return to the Castle of Dark Dreams, where USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs lures readers into a world of pleasure, adventure, and revenge… Thorn Mackenzie was a young Viking when he met Sparkle Stardust long ago. She used him and then abandoned him. Over a thousand years later, he has finally found a way to repay her...
  • Coven of Consequence by S.L. Prater

    Coven of Consequence by S.L. Prater

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    There’s something terribly wrong with the Castleway Circus.When mortals happen inside its big billowy tents, they don’t always come out again, and the clown specters who haunt it won’t leave me alone. My partner, Quiet, insists we go and investigate. I’d rather have my hands nailed to a moving train—better chance of surviving that as a vampire than whatever haunts the circus...
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    vampires  witches  suspense  magic  m-f  praise-kink  dual-pov  mystery
  • The Red Lily by Juliette Cross

    The Red Lily by Juliette Cross

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Black Lily resistance needs a larger army if they are to defeat the vampire monarchy. In order to do so, former lieutenant and traitor to the vampire Crown, Nikolai must seek help from the red-hooded temptress he needs to avoid at all costs. The secret he carries could prove dangerous for her if she gets too close...even though keeping her close—very close—is the only thing on his mind...
  • Shifter Island by Lilly Wilder

    Shifter Island by Lilly Wilder

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Rejected by my mate, I find love again with two bear shifters on a tropical prison island.My fated mate rejects me because of the nasty scar I got on my face while protecting my clan.Exiled by my family, I make my way to Isla Paraiso, an island that used to be a prison for the most dangerous bear shifters of Venezuela...
  • Feint and Doublecross by Tilly Wallace

    Feint and Doublecross by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    An unexpected move could place Sera in check…or will it be checkmate?A strange beast stalks unfashionable Southbank, taking victims in a horrific fashion. Naturally the Mage Council sends Sera to track the supernatural killer, while pressuring her to marry one of their hand picked suitors...
  • The Eight by Katherine Neville

    The Eight by Katherine Neville

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy...
  • When a Princess Proposes by Kerrelyn Sparks

    When a Princess Proposes by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Aerthlan’s five Embraced queens have reigned for twenty years, in peace secured by the power of their magic. But now a new and insidious threat has appeared, to test a new generation.DESIRE AND DECEPTIONAll Princess Eviana needs is an escape. Possessed of an unfortunate and unusual Embraced gift, which she’s been banned from using, she required no training...
  • Dragon Queen by Carina Wilder

    Dragon Queen by Carina Wilder

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With all that's happened, it's time for the dire wolves to rise up against their greatest threat. But Gwynne, blinded by a mother's love, has plans of her own. Will the conflict between the alphas finally be tear their clan apart? And which dragon will triumph? This is the fifth and final instalment of the Sought by the Alphas Serial...
  • To Wed an Obsidian Villain by Vasilisa Drake

    To Wed an Obsidian Villain by Vasilisa Drake

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    A possessive dragon shifter. A girl determined to kill him. A fated connection they can’t deny.Lenora Tashe is nothing special.Which is why the village decides to sacrifice her to the obsidian dragon that’s been terrorizing them for decades.But Lenora has her own plan. She’s going to stop the dragon shifter from ever threatening her homeland again—or die trying...
  • 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...
  • The Angels' Share by James Markert

    The Angels' Share by James Markert

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some believed he was the second coming of Christ. William wasn’t so sure. But when that drifter was buried next to the family distillery, everything changed. Now that Prohibition has ended, what the townspeople of Twisted Tree, Kentucky, need most is the revival of the Old Sam Bourbon distillery...
  • The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack

    The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts—and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems...
  • Veiled in Moonlight by C.J. Archer

    Veiled in Moonlight by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a young gentleman is murdered by a shape shifter, Charlie and Lincoln interrogate their contacts and uncover a plot with links to the royal family—and links to more than one member of the ministry's committee. At the heart of the mystery is a sinister love triangle, corruption, lies, and treason...
  • Unmasking Miss Appleby by Emily Larkin, Rosalyn Landor

    Unmasking Miss Appleby by Emily Larkin, Rosalyn Landor

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Book #1 from the series: Baleful Godmother🎧Listening Length = 11 hours and 37 minutesA captivating Regency romance from a USA Today bestselling author! Performed by Audie-winning narrator Rosalyn Landor. When she turns 25, Charlotte is bestowed with an extraordinary gift: the ability to change shape...
  • House of Striking Oaths by Olivia Wildenstein

    House of Striking Oaths by Olivia Wildenstein

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 63 ratings
    I WILL BECOME QUEEN OF LUCE… OR DIE TRYING. There are few people I loathe more than Dante Regio, but my aunt Bronwen, my former grandfather Justus, and my Shabbin grandmother Meriam sit right alongside the Faerie monarch on my list of despicable beings. Especially after they assist the pointy-eared ruler with my kidnapping...
  • The Vandal and the Virgin by Michele Mills

    The Vandal and the Virgin by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Julia’s having a tough day. She’s learned that sacrificing virgins is still a thing in her homeland, and SHE is the virgin to be sacrificed. When alien conquerors capture her land, she’s immediately bound and delivered to the King of the Vandals. But this notorious alien is in for a rude awakening...
  • Naming of the Queen by J.J. Makenzie, Jennifer Peel

    Naming of the Queen by J.J. Makenzie, Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    What is the cost of a name? Everything.The princess always knew her name would come with a price, but she never knew how steep the cost would be. Falsely accused of killing her husband’s family, she’s on the run with the father she never knew. With help from him and a band of outcasts, she’s learning just how much she might have to pay, not only to save herself but all of Greatland...
  • The White Hare by Jane Johnson

    The White Hare by Jane Johnson

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For fans of Alice Hoffman and Kate Morton, The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and daughters finding a new home for themselves, the secrets they try to bury, and the local legends that may change their lives.In the far west of Cornwall lies the White Valley, which cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea at White Cove...
  • 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...
  • Trial by Fire by Carina Wilder

    Trial by Fire by Carina Wilder

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Something's changed. The ritual left Gwynne stronger, more powerful. Improved, or so the alphas tell her. But now that she's back in her own time, she's confronted with a new future and a destiny unlike anything she'd imagined for herself...
  • Tales of a Monstrous Heart by Jennifer Delaney

    Tales of a Monstrous Heart by Jennifer Delaney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Be careful of the dark and those that call it friend.Katherine Woodrow is Fey, and all she wants is to graduate from the Institute of Magic. But when the prejudiced mortal council threaten her position at the institute, she is left with only one option: accept a Mage Partnership with the elusive Lord Blackthorn.Emrys Blackthorn is a riddle Kat is fearful of solving...
  • The Only Option by Megan Derr

    The Only Option by Megan Derr

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    A desperate dragon. A lonely necromancer. A marriage neither wants. When he is summoned to the royal castle, Rochus anticipates nothing more than a particularly difficult assignment. The bothersome journey is almost made worthwhile when he is propositioned by a young, beautiful dragon, Tilo, who seems untroubled by the fact that Rochus is a necromancer...
  • Stone Hearts by S.E. Wendel

    Stone Hearts by S.E. Wendel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Magick stolen can be reclaimed, and curses cast can be broken…574 AD, Isle of AlbionSmall and flightless, Carys lives on the fringes of her clan, pitied by other gargoyles and despised by her mother. Her lonely heart longs for a mate, one who can see past her malformed wings, but all she can think of is the haunting face she visits in an old well...
  • Immortal Desire by Maggie Shayne

    Immortal Desire by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Two enthralling paranormal romances in one volume from the New York Times bestselling author.In Destiny , the Immortal High Witch Nidaba is captured by a madman. After endless torment, she escapes-but is deeply altered. Centuries later, she is found by Nathan King, who loved her long ago. But the beautiful woman he cherished has been replaced by a bitter, angry shell of her former self...
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