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  • A Danger Destroyed by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Danger Destroyed by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.It is the Time of the Colliding Realms—the Keening—the Culling.Everything that happened over the past eighteen months has led to this moment. The good and the bad. The triumphs and the tragedies. Now my family by blood, by choice, and by circumstance face the battle to balance our world’s alignment.United as Team Light...
  • Freaky Rites by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Rites by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Northern California beckons the Mystic Caravan crew and they’re looking forward to some down time after their previous stop. Emotions are running high and the workers are desperate to return to their normal lives. Poet Parker and Kade Denton, for instance, have a new camper to move into and they’re both excited at the prospect of an adventure that has nothing to do with monsters...
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  • Freaky Places by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Places by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is heading to the West Coast, and while everyone is happy for the change of scenery there's a pall settling over the group. Poet and Kade are in a good place and planning for a change, but it's something Poet can't focus on because she feels as if someone is watching … and whoever it is has evil in his or her heart...
  • The Killer Clown Calamity by Amanda M. Lee

    The Killer Clown Calamity by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes’ life is in turmoil. Her relationship with her boyfriend Jack is going well but Casey, the newest member of the Legacy Foundation, has dropped a bombshell and Charlie feels as if things are spinning out of control. While waiting for DNA results to prove (or disprove, for that matter) Casey’s identity, the team gets called out on a weird case...
  • The Incubus Impasse by Amanda M. Lee

    The Incubus Impasse by Amanda M. Lee

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

    Follow the Crumbs by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There’s a prominent threat on the block… and he might just be sharing Stormy Morgan’s roof.She’s a new witch but she has a big problem… and it talks. Her new roommate Krankle may look cute but he’s a huge pain in her posterior. He’s also hiding something. Before she can focus on that, however, the unthinkable happens.On the highway leading out of town, three vehicles are involved in an accident...
  • Freaky Hearts by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Hearts by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Poet Parker his having a rough time of it … and then some. She owes her boss Max Anderson everything for saving her from a life on the streets, but Mystic Caravan’s favorite psychic is struggling because that loyalty caused her to lose a shot at true love...
  • Freaky Games by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Games by Amanda M. Lee

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

    All Spell Breaks Loose by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. The big day is quickly approaching for Emma Hart. The best laid plans go awry, however, when a potion causes her to lose important memories. Without Emma's crucial memories, the coven worries that their hard work to undo the curse on Spellbound will remain at a standstill...
  • Spelldriver by Gina LaManna

    Spelldriver by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    With a wedding on the horizon and her father tucked safely away in prison, the future is looking bright for Lily Locke. Unfortunately, life on The Isle is never calm for long… and when a Ranger is killed brutally in plain sight, Lily and her fiancé—the renowned Ranger X—find themselves hunting a murderer more ruthless than any they’ve ever encountered before...
  • Gemstones, Elves, and Other Insidious Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Gemstones, Elves, and Other Insidious Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I’d been compromised, then turned against those I loved. But no one controlled me. No one took anything I didn’t willingly offer. Not for long, anyway. If the elves wanted a war, I’d bring it. The instruments of assassination would come out to play. The dragon slayer would wreak bloody, sticky vengeance. And then I was getting freaking married — no elves invited...
  • A Dangerous Witch by Debora Geary

    A Dangerous Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's the end of an era. This is the final release in the world of A Modern Witch. If you haven't met my witches yet, this is not the book you want to read . Go find A Modern Witch and begin where it all started. I figure the final book doesn't need much introduction. Take one last journey with your favorite witches as an oversized marble calls another member of Witch Central on a journey..
  • An Unlikely Witch by Debora Geary

    An Unlikely Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A toddler and a snowman. Everyone in Witch Central knows about Jamie Sullivan's precog vision. The one he saw when he first laid eyes on the woman who would one day be his wife. Now Nat and Jamie have it all. A fiery, adorable daughter, the kind of marriage that lasts to forever and beyond, and deep roots in the love, antics, and magic of Witch Central's leading family...
  • Hemlocked and Loaded by Annabel Chase

    Hemlocked and Loaded by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. Emma Hart has a lot on her paranormal plate--a wedding to plan, a trespasser to defend, and a longstanding curse to break. When a pixie dies under mysterious circumstances, her endless list of Things To Do grows even longer...
  • Witchy Tales by Amanda M. Lee

    Witchy Tales by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Look out Hemlock Cove, Aunt Tillie is on a rampage. What else is new, right? She’s determined to move her wine business to the next level, and she needs twenty-four hours of peace and quiet to do it. There’s only one thing standing in her way. Well, make that a whole family of obstacles … and one ticked-off FBI agent...
  • Nightfall's Prophet by T.A. White

    Nightfall's Prophet by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    How long can a vampire hold a grudge? The answer, it turns out, is an eternity.Aileen Travers is about to get a lesson in the nature of vendettas and how far some will go to avenge any slight. When a representative of the vampire council sweeps into town, he brings with him a deadly conspiracy that could wind up threatening the very foundation of Aileen’s life...
  • Witches Under Way by Debora Geary

    Witches Under Way by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Lizard and Elsie are under way, but the WitchLight journey isn't an easy one.  There are bumps and obstacles inside their own hearts. There are meddling witches, helpful knitters, and a fearsome duo with water pistols. And there is the greatest challenge of all... the one they will pick for each other...
  • Witches in Flight by Debora Geary

    Witches in Flight by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Ghosts from Lizard's past--and the man who wants to be her future. The empty places in Elsie's soul--and the temptations of raspberry-laced courage. Walk once more with Jennie's students as they come to the end of their WitchLight journeys. Ah--just read it. You know you want to :-)...
  • Darkness Unleashed by McKenzie Hunter

    Darkness Unleashed by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Midwest Pack stands together—and they might fall together.We’ve always kept our existence hidden from humans, but when a video of a were-animal in a violent confrontation goes viral, the other denizens take drastic measures to protect themselves from exposure. Alliances are broken and friendships strained as the vampires, witches, and elves all work to protect their own interests...
  • Amuletto Kiss by Gina LaManna

    Amuletto Kiss by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hold your loved ones close, islanders… Life for Lily Locke has not been normal ever since she learned of her witchy heritage, but now more than ever, her world is spiraling out of control. When a series of strange events begins to tear her beloved island apart, it’s up to the famed Mixologist to seek out the most powerful wizard in the world and spare him from death...
  • My Magical Life to Live by Brenda Trim

    My Magical Life to Live by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's no magic in any realm that can fix this mess. I've just got to dig in and get to work.One day I'm fighting beside my best friends in the Fae realm, and the next I can't light a candle without burning down my house.I always thought witches weren't supposed to have hot flashes unless we were cursed.But then the day came when I discovered that I'm cursed...
  • Like a Fine Magical Wine by Brenda Trim

    Like a Fine Magical Wine by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After a harrowing visit to the Underworld, I finally shifted into my Phoenix. Flying doesn't stop Fate from insisting that I fight for my life, though. All of these brushes with death are for the birds. Catching the local murderer red-handed should have put a stop to the constant danger I'm in...
  • Witches on Parole by Debora Geary

    Witches on Parole by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Two pendants. Two students. And it’s entirely possible they didn’t volunteer. World-famous (and now retired) photographer Jenvieve Adams has a debt to repay—and a soft spot for witches who have lost their way. Or so she thinks, until they actually show up...
  • The Witch's Secret Love by Deanna Chase

    The Witch's Secret Love by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lily Easton is a witch who makes a living writing satire for an advice column in Befana Bay’s weekly newspaper. Although she pretends to be jaded in love, it turns out, she’s a romantic at heart. It’s just too bad that she’s fallen for Braxton Kirkwood, a man who’s sworn off love. Frustrated by her lack of love prospects, Lily throws herself into work...
  • Misfits, Gemstones, and Other Shattered Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Misfits, Gemstones, and Other Shattered Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Two more elves were at large in Vancouver, but thankfully they’d been keeping a low profile while I faced the most daunting task of my twenty-seven years — planning and executing my wedding. I was dealing with a disgruntled grandmother with an extensive guest wish list of the magically inclined, all of whom didn’t particularly like each other...
  • Ghost of a Potion by Heather Blake

    Ghost of a Potion by Heather Blake

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It’s Halloween in Hitching Post, Alabama, and potion shop owner Carly Bell Hartwell has an especially spooky customer to handle…With all the ghosts that haunt her at this time of year, Carly doesn’t exactly rush to celebrate Halloween.  Even a costume ball organized by her boyfriend Dylan's mother, Patricia Davis Jackson, holds little allure...
  • Winter Fire by Lizzy Ford

    Winter Fire by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A beautiful, fire witchling with a dangerous secret- A race to save the Light from permanent Darkness- A threat that awakens an ancient evil- If Beck, the Master of Light, has learned anything, it’s never to trust a pretty girl – or more specifically, his own judgment relating to those of the opposite sex. Girls have been a source of trouble for him, but he’s working to right those wrongs...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A Reckless Witch by Debora Geary

    A Reckless Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    With great power comes great responsibility. So says the tradition of witching. One teenage witch missed that lesson… As a child, Sierra Brighton traveled the world. She swam with the baby whales, danced in storm funnels, and lived in complete magical freedom. And then Momma died and Sierra ended up in foster care, an unhappy and very secret witch...
  • Second Chance Magic by Michelle M. Pillow

    Second Chance Magic by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Secrets broke her heart... and have now come back from the grave to haunt her.So far, Lorna Addams’s forties are not what she expected. After a very public embarrassment, she finds it difficult to trust her judgment when it comes to new friendships and dating...
  • An Imperfect Witch by Debora Geary

    An Imperfect Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The tattoos on your heart matter more than the ones on your skin. Two years ago, Lizard Monroe was Berkeley's newest delinquent on parole. Now she's a hot young realtor with a great life, an awesome guy, and enough friends to chase away the ghosts of her past. Almost. The crystal ball has spoken - life isn't done messing with her yet...
  • Buried Secrets by Leighann Dobbs

    Buried Secrets by Leighann Dobbs

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

    Wuthering Frights by H.P. Mallory

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A father she never knew existed, An impossible decision that had to be made, A lie she must keep to herself at all costs, And the realization that every choice she makes has consequences. Fairy and law enforcement agent, Dulcie O'Neil, has just discovered that her father is the Head of the Netherworld, and a double-dealing, illegal potions importer. Worse yet, she's now working for him...
  • Best Wishes by Helen Harper

    Best Wishes by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Saffron Sawyer is on her own. She’s no longer part of the Office of Faery Godmothers - in fact, she’s no longer part of anything, even if her magic is stronger now than she could have ever dreamed possible. Thwarted at every turn and stalked by monsters in the streets, her life feels like it's falling apart. But Saffron isn’t going to give up hope...
  • 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...
  • Magic Without Mercy by Devon Monk

    Magic Without Mercy by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Allison Beckstrom’s talent for tracking spells has put her up against some of the darkest elements in the world of magic, but she’s never faced anything like this. Magic itself has been poisoned, and Allie’s undead father may have left the only cure in the hands of a madman...
  • 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...
  • A Witch Central Wedding by Debora Geary

    A Witch Central Wedding by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    An important note from Debora: If you haven’t read my A Modern Witch series, please do that before you read A Witch Central Wedding - it won’t make any sense otherwise. This is a gift to my existing readers - a story they insisted needed its time in the sun. It’s a Witch Central wedding - and you’re invited :). This is a short read, about the length of two chapters in my series books...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Widdershins by Charles de Lint

    Widdershins by Charles de Lint

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    While bitter conflict rages between the magical North American "animal people" and the more newly-arrived fairy folk, the long-awaited romance between Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell begins to blossom...
  • 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...
  • Priestess Dreaming by Yasmine Galenorn

    Priestess Dreaming by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    We're the D'Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. Menolly is a vampire married to a gorgeous werepuma. And me? I'm a Moon witch married to three gorgeous husbands, and I'm about to journey through the veils to search for a long lost legend..
  • 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...
  • Autumn Storm by Lizzy Ford

    Autumn Storm by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A girl with no memory, hidden in plain sight. A boy with no hope, freefalling into Darkness. Autumn doesn’t know why she remembers a boarding school she’s never visited, or why her reflection isn’t always … hers. There’s another girl in the mirror, a dark-haired ghost that emerges one night to guide her to a cliff near the school...
  • To Seduce a Witch's Heart by Nadine Mutas

    To Seduce a Witch's Heart by Nadine Mutas

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00WYKHE0SAn irreverent demon is her last hope of finding her sister. If she can control him...Desperate to save her demon-abducted sister, witch Merle MacKenna breaks the law when she summons Rhun, another demon, from the magical prison of the Shadows...
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