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Mob Sorcery 5 by K.D. Robertson
A Yakuza demigod lurks in the city, wounded but not defeated, and Vince needs to bring her down for good. He needs a team fit for slaying a god, even if he has to ask for favors from old bosses and cross boundaries to build it. Aulfair's powerful conglomerates prepare for the implosion of one of their own... -
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A Lost Treasure by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow do you find something no one wants to admit even exists? With her life turned upside down, it's almost a relief for Hallie to be asked to work a case. She is tasked with helping the Conclave Investigators follow up on a suspected theft, and also help track down one of their own - Special Investigator Girard Abbott has gone missing. But nothing is straightforward... -
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![Power Mage 4 by Hondo Jinx]()
Power Mage 4 by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsUNLEASH THE BEAST! Deep in the heart of Texas, Brawley vows to build a base, explore Red Haven, and protect his women. Seven orders. Seven amazing powers. Seven beautiful teachers. He needs to work hard, crack strands, and avoid the attention of those hunting him. And oh yeah, his family and friends want to know why he’s shacking up with five gorgeous women and stockpiling a mountain of ammo... -
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Bitter Ashes: The Complete Series by Sara C. Roethle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWorlds collide in over 1,300 pages filled with gods, necromancy, and magic! Madeline is cursed. A touch from her, even accidental, can kill, and she’s haunted by the victims she never meant to hurt. Alone, isolated, and remorseful, she thinks life can’t get any worse--until she’s kidnapped in the middle of the night and thrown into a secret world more twisted than her darkest nightmares...Categorized as:
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Dan the Destroyer by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCut Class. Kick ass. Save the frigging world. Having obliterated Roderick’s Raiders, Dan vows to lead three hundred elves and gnomes to an ancient red elf fortress in the Wildervast, an untamed region created by a powerful succubus queen... -
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Dan the Adventurer by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSkip class. Kick ass. Save the frigging world. During Dan Marshall’s second year of college, the real world melded with a homebrew Towers & Trolls adventure. Dan got barbaric and battled giant spiders, an apocalyptic death cult, and an undead necromancer bent on flooding the universe with eternal darkness... -
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Power Mage 6 by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTHE SEVENTH STRAND. THE ULITIMATE TRUTH. THE FINAL BATTLE. After the Chop Shop bloodbath, Brawley goes full power mage and vows to destroy his enemies. The end is here... -
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All of Him by Lauren Dawes, Anita Maxwell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn assassin in training. A seductive stranger. An impossible battle to win. Taer has lost everything. Haunted by suffocating guilt, she’s barely living as she waits to mete out her revenge on the dark elf who destroyed her life. But when her only ally refuses to help, she’s forced to ask another—an arrogant male who is a riskier choice than she could have ever imagined... -
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Hardcore Dungeon Core by A.J. Markam
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe thought it was all a game… until he lost everything. Tragedy has struck, and now Ian must try to reverse it. Inside the virtual reality video game known as OtherWorld, he will recruit new allies…. Play politics with a duchess and an emissary of the Church of Eternity…. Square off against a trio of bounty hunters…. Meet a vastly powerful dungeon core who can bend reality itself…... -
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Broken Dove by KC Kean
I’ve spent my whole life wishing to escape the chains of my unfortunate circumstances. But it turns out freedom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially when my loyalty is repaid with betrayal. It’s time to move on, to embrace my new life in The Vale, and get a grasp on my powers... -
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Revenge by Lauren Dawes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn assassin in training. A seductive stranger. An impossible battle to win. Taer has lost everything. Haunted by suffocating guilt, she’s barely living as she waits to mete out her revenge on the dark elf who destroyed her life. But when her only ally refuses to help, she’s forced to ask another—an arrogant male who is a riskier choice than she could have ever imagined... -
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Black Sun Light My Way by Jo Spurrier
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author . .. original, dramatic, unputdownable . .. Sierra has always battled to control her powers, but now her life and Isidro's depend on keeping her skills hidden from the Akharians as they draw closer to Demon's Spire... -
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Dan the Barbarian by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCut class. Kick ass. Save the frigging world. When college sophomore Dan Marshall's life morphs into a hybrid of Penn State and a homebrew tabletop RPG adventure, he grabs his talking two-handed sword and hits campus, seeking gold, girls, and glory... -
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Alex in Haremland: An Alice in Wonderland Spoof by Logan Jacobs
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMy name is Alex, and I am just a normal office worker from Denver. But I’m also “the Dreamer. ”. Or at least that’s what the beautiful cat-girl said after I woke up in All-the-Land and saved her from a monster in a crazy forest full of smiling flowers and trees. The Dreamer is the prophesied savior of this land... -
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The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon
Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade – but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory. As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret – one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals... -
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The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
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The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMore information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. -
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Master Mage by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne spell to save us all…. No more miss nice mage. This is war. This is survival. This is my destiny. I am the Stone Keeper and I will win. No matter the cost. -
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Marvel Mage by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNow the spells are mine…. I used to say I worked better under pressure…I was wrong. This countdown clock on my arm might just break me. Stellan is missing. Someone stole him from me. They ripped him right out of my hands and hid him somewhere I can’t find. I’m desperate to save my soulmate but Second Realm is dying…without me, they have no chance but neither does Stellan... -
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Wonder by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsEver Wondered. .. Who You Really Are? Alice Wonder gets an offer from a Wonderland Monster. A little help to locate the Six Impossible Keys in exchange of knowing who she really is and why she killed her classmates in the school bus. Alice agrees, knowing the consequences might put the whole world in danger. One step into the truth, she realizes she needs the Pillar for help... -
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Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle
A lot can change in three years. For Perry and Dex Foray, it’s been a step in the right direction, a step toward living a normal life. They’re happily married, they have their own media company, they’ve done what they can to leave their sordid and scary past behind them. But something has changed recently. Perry’s biological clock is ticking... -
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Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall
Critter wrangler rule #15: Always look a gift horse in the mouth. And if it has sharp teeth, never, never get on its back. For ten years, Kyra Greene thought she was the only Valkyrie this side of the rainbow bridge. Until she gets a stunning message from her cousin, Gunora, asking for bail money. But facing the ghosts of her past isn’t on Kyra’s to-do list... -
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Midnight Mage by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHe put a spell on me. .. Or at least he must have, because none of this makes any sense. None of this can be real. I’m not a mage with magical powers…I’m just me. Ellie Sutton. Your average, everyday seventeen-year-old high school human student. My biggest concerns are bullies, failed exams, and missing the express subway twice in one day... -
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Spellcast by McKenzie Hunter
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI longed for magic. Now I have it. Powerful magic. It has caused chaos in the supernatural world like never seen before. It’s not only my magic that’s the problem—it’s also a spell I cast that changed everything. To save my friend, I reversed vampirism, earning me the top spot on the magical elite’s most wanted list. They want me stripped of my magic or dead. Preferably the latter... -
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![Magic Marked: Complete Trilogy by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero]()
Magic Marked: Complete Trilogy by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe put a spell on me. .. Or at least he must have, because none of this makes any sense. None of this can be real. I’m not a mage with magical powers…I’m just me. Ellie Sutton. Your average, everyday seventeen-year-old high school human student. My biggest concerns are bullies, failed exams, and missing the express subway twice in one day... -
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A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA promise broken. Her future torn up. But she still has a job to do. Betrayed by her blood family, all Hallie's plans for her future are in ruins. She has no time to lick her wounds as Special Investigator Girard wants her help looking for some members of the elite who have gone missing in Hallie's territory... -
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Ink, Blood, and Other Afflictions: Episode One by Kristen Coar
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDo not read this book. Seriously. It’s completely unhinged. . . . Still here? Well, crap. Fine. Just remember. I warned you. Vera would have been a typical librarian—except for that one time she opened the wrong book and got possessed by a dark goddess. Now, every time she ends a life, she experiences the kind of mind-blowing orgasm that could crack the foundations of her apartment... -
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Hookah by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA Plague Scarier than Death. Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who'd lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much. A Cure Larger than Life. The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar's darker pasts... -
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A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsShe can see the truth, but when she's accused of murder, no one believes she's innocent. Hallie works as a skip tracer - hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town... -
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The Neon Boneyard by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDaniel Faust has clawed his way from the gutter to a penthouse suite, carving a bloody swath across the Las Vegas underworld. He's buried his enemies and more than a few friends along the way. If there's one thing a modern-day sorcerer knows for certain, though, it's that the past never stays buried forever...
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