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Beware of Chicken 2 by CasualFarmer
A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming? ?? ? Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body. And you know what? Things ain’t actually all that bad. I mean, last year was pretty hectic... -
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Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe tenth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences. Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands... -
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![Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor]()
Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe eleventh book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series. I would have trusted this man with my life. Until a couple of days ago, anyway. You know what they say - hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Max is quite accustomed to everything going wrong. She's St Mary's, after all. Disaster is her default state... -
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A Dragon's Dare by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsLife is a balance—at least that’s what I’m told by people smarter than me. Try as I might to spend quality time with Sloan, family, friends, and companion animals my magnet of mayhem often has other ideas. Adulting is hard. So when I move an adolescent dragon into my backyard why don’t I anticipate the craziness that will ensue? Maybe Sloan’s right and I am ridiculous... -
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![Challenge of the Court by Heather G. Harris]()
Challenge of the Court by Heather G. Harris
I’m supposed to be meeting with Emory’s dragon Court and amazing them with my suave wit and shining intellect. Instead I’m on the trail of a kidnapper. Someone has stolen away a centaur teenager, Alfie, from a magical circus. The circus master has hired me and Gato to find out who took him – hopefully before Alfie swims with the fishes... -
![The Something Girl by Jodi Taylor]()
The Something Girl by Jodi Taylor
From the bestselling author of The Chronicles of St Mary's. The Nothing Girl has grown up… It’s life as usual at Frogmorton Farm – which is to say that events have passed the merely eccentric and are now galloping headlong towards the completely bizarre... -
![Mermaid Mimosa by Gina LaManna]()
Mermaid Mimosa by Gina LaManna
When the king of the mermaids is poisoned, Lily is called to help with a problem she’s never faced before—one beneath the surface of the water. As she sets about creating a potion to save his life, however, she realizes this is only one part of a much, much larger problem... -
![A Crown of Cruel Lies by Lana Pecherczyk]()
A Crown of Cruel Lies by Lana Pecherczyk
Fae can’t lie. That’s the golden rule woven into the people of Elphyne, but for deaf Elf Guardian Aeron, he knows this isn’t true. Lies are told between the lines, in misdirection, and in false hope. When he turns up at the Spring Court with his newfound, broken human mate in his arms, he learns the most cruelest lie of all. He is not who he thought he was... -
![That Ain't Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire]()
That Ain't Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsNow a Hugo-nominated series! The eighth book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Crossroads, noun:. 1. A place where two roads cross. 2. A place where bargains can be made. 3. See also "places to avoid. "...Categorized as:
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Skullduggery by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsOkay. I’ll admit I’ve got problems. But surrender is word wholly absent from my vocabulary. My grasp on magic is shaky at best and my dependence on spider’s silk is a battle I’m still fighting. But while my heritage and my health might be problematic, I’m certainly not going to roll over and give up. Not me. Not ever... -
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Dark Light by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe second novel in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author Jodi Taylor. Betrayed, terrified and alone, Elizabeth Cage has fled her home. With no plan and no friends, she arrives at the picturesque village of Greyston and finds herself involved in an ages-old ceremony that will end in death... -
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Mirrors of Time by Juliette Harper
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNOTE: This expanded version of Mirrors of Time includes the material previously published as the novel To Love a Witch. Time. The Fourth Realm. Is it a discovery or a trap? Seconds away from making a clean getaway to a fantasy honeymoon in Paris with Lucas, Jinx gets sucked down a time-bending portal tunnel — with Glory... -
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Soul Eater by Lindsey Sparks
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHumans know that immortals live among them, and the world is forever changed. .. Kat Dubois saved the human world from a deadly virus…and she couldn’t be more miserable. Her life as she knew it is over. She has become a prisoner held captive in a gilded cage, courtesy of her newfound fame...Categorized as:
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Witch on Third by Juliette Harper
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJinx and crew have just survived Briar Hollow's first annual paranormal festival -- SpookCon1 as Tori calls it, but on the last night, they get a nasty surprise... -
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Underground by Lindsey Sparks, Julia Whelan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhen immortals clash, mortals will pay the ultimate price. Kat Dubois has been sidelined. With a single word from Heru—no—her plans to save humanity from the Cascade Virus one mortal at a time are put on hold indefinitely. But Kat’s not willing to sit by, watching the world as she knows it crumble around her... -
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Afterlife by Lindsey Sparks
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor Kat Dubois, death is only the beginning. .. Kat is on a mission, and the fate of the universe depends on whether or not she succeeds. She must journey into the heart of the underworld and track down Isfet before time runs out. Before the bonding withdrawals claim her bond-mate’s life and her ticket out of the afterlife vanishes. Before the Mother of All attacks... -
![A Song of Sky and Sacrifice by Lana Pecherczyk]()
A Song of Sky and Sacrifice by Lana Pecherczyk
When famous human musician Melody wakes two thousand years after a nuclear winter, she thinks she’s landed on the right side of a war. Fae are called the Tainted. They’re warped, mutated creatures who horde the bounty of the new magical land. It’s her job in the human city to sling propaganda in the form of daily songs performed to a select tower of elite...Categorized as:
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Underground by Lindsey Sparks
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWhen immortals clash, mortals will pay the ultimate price. Kat Dubois has been sidelined. With a single word from Heru—no—her plans to save humanity from the Cascade Virus one mortal at a time are put on hold indefinitely. But Kat isn't willing to sit by, watching the world as she knows it crumble around her... -
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Judgement by Lindsey Sparks
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen our universe falls in the gods' crosshairs, only one woman can stand against them. .. Kat Dubois. Immortal. Ex-assassin. Humanity's last hope. Kat has finally embraced her role as the Nejeret figurehead, diving headlong into the mission to forge an alliance between her people and the human race. Only then, will they finally be able to defeat the Senate... -
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June , A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is an epic love story one hundred years in the making…. Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them... -
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A Haunting Touch by Ward Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNightmare on memory lane. I’m Darla. I’m a psychometrist. I can read thoughts and emotions left upon objects. Some people call my ability a “gift. ” Some people are idiots. You see, my ability isn’t providing easy answers when I try to learn who killed one of my inn’s guests, a developer about to cover a scenic meadow with condos. The dead developer created another problem... -
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Midlife in Glimmerspell by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn impending divorce. A hot homicide detective. And spontaneous time travel. Midlife in Glimmerspell is proving to be magical. If I thought the first half of my life was a bumpy ride, I’d better buckle up because I’m about to go over the hill and off the rails. *A laugh out loud Paranormal Women’s Fiction Novel by New York Times Bestseller Addison Moore*... -
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Outcast by Lindsey Sparks
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWar has broken out among the immortals. It’s time to choose a side. Kat Dubois never asked to be the emissary for the good guys. Diplomacy isn’t her strong suit, and patience isn’t one of her personal virtues. But when a millennia-old god asks you to do a job to further the war cause, you do that job…especially when you’re the opposition’s most wanted... -
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The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley
Nicola Marter was born with a gift. When she touches an object, she sometimes glimpses those who have owned it before. When a woman arrives with a small wooden carving at the gallery Nicola works at, she can see the object’s history and knows that it was named after the Firebird—the mythical creature from an old Russian fable... -
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No Dominion by C.E. Murphy
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRecently widowed after nearly fifty years of marriage, Gary Muldoon had given up on adventure. Then shaman Joanne Walker climbed into the back seat of his cab, and since then, Gary has trifled with gods, met mystics, slain zombies and ridden with the Wild Hunt. But now he must leave Joanne’s side to face a battle only he can win... -
![Ignite the Fire: Incendiary by Karen Chance]()
Ignite the Fire: Incendiary by Karen Chance
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... -
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Something Witchy This Way Comes by H.P. Mallory
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsA witch’s work is never done, and in bestselling author H. P. Mallory’s mesmerizing new novel, Jolie Wilkins finds that the real magic is only just beginning. For smart and sexy witch Jolie Wilkins, being Queen of the Underworld is a royal pain... -
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Crucible Zero by Devon Monk
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe national bestselling author of Infinity Bell returns to her “fresh and unique”* world where the truce between the ruling Houses has shattered and chaos now reigns. Only one woman has the power to save the world—but she could also destroy it. .. Matilda Case never thought of herself as a hero... -
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Markham and the Anal Probing by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMarkham and the Anal Probing. And then there was the day when Markham managed to get himself snatched by aliens – or so we thought at the time. I was summoned to Dr Bairstow’s office to find Markham and Peterson already present. We looked at each other. ‘Any clues? ’ I asked. They shrugged. ‘You can go in now,’ said Mrs Partridge, so in we went. He looked up from his desk. ‘There you are. ’...Categorized as:
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The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell
Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them behind its doors. “Have you travelled a long way? ” she asked carefully. . A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Well, yes,” he said slowly. “Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait. ”. London, 2015... -
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Once Haunted, Twice Shy by H.P. Mallory
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSassy, spirited Peyton Clark is back—and she’s not alone! After agreeing to let the spirit of Drake Montague inhabit her body, Peyton soon discovers that the twentieth-century French policeman may be dead but his lothario longings sure aren’t... -
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Ink Witch by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Sparks
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe gods are gone. Her brother is missing. One retired assassin must confront her past to save his future…. Immortal Kat Dubois has traded in her sword for a flask. Hard drinking helps ease the grisly memories of her former an assassin of immortals... -
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Heat of the Moment by Lori Handeland
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA spell that tore three sisters apart is broken four hundred years later, when the magic in their blood reunites them. Now, one of them will discover her gift—and reignite a love long thought lost…. Flame-haired Becca Carstairs was born to be a veterinarian. Since childhood, her affinity for animals has been special, and her healing touch nothing short of magic... -
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Ink Witch by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Sparks
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe gods are gone. Her brother is missing. One retired assassin must confront her past to save his future…. Immortal Kat Dubois has traded in her sword for a flask. Hard drinking helps ease the grisly memories of her former an assassin of immortals... -
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![The Witch Is Back by H.P. Mallory]()
The Witch Is Back by H.P. Mallory
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe witching hour has arrived in bestselling author H. P. Mallory’s captivating and sexy new novel, starring the most dazzling denizen of the undead, Jolie Wilkins. Funny and feisty witch Jolie Wilkins is back—or rather, she’s back to her humble beginnings... -
![Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time by Tracy L. Higley]()
Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time by Tracy L. Higley
What if you stumbled into a timeless party, in a secret garden only you could see? Kelsey Willoughby doesn’t have time to pursue her writing dreams. Imagination doesn’t pay the bills, and she’s busy saving her beautiful city bookshop from online competition, hotel developers, and the sneaking suspicion that nobody reads anymore. Not to mention all those voices telling her she doesn’t have talent... -
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Black Friday by Karen Chance
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlso available on Karen Chance's Website as a free short. Cassie needs to do her Christmas shopping, so where better to go than Hell, after all they have the best prices, especially on Black Friday. -
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Be Witched by H.P. Mallory
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn this sexy and spellbinding original short story, available exclusively as an eBook, bestselling author H. P. Mallory presents the exciting Underworld from a never-before-seen point of view—through the eyes of Rand Balfour, a drop-dead gorgeous warlock and the love of Jolie Wilkins’s life... -
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The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFrom the author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Doors, another fantastical, stand-alone novel in which a trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with finding and protecting hidden magical objects—ordinary items with extraordinary properties... -
![The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley]()
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
The Invincible Ninth Roman Legion Marches from York to Fight The Northern Tribes. and then Vanishes from the Pages of History. Archaeologist Verity Grey has been drawn to the dark legends of the Scottish Borderlands in search of the truth buried in a rocky field by the sea... -
![In the Air Tonight by Lori Handeland]()
In the Air Tonight by Lori Handeland
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFour centuries ago, in a small Scottish village, three baby girls escaped the wrath of a witch hunter. Today, one young woman will learn about her secret history, her heart's destiny, and the sisters she never knew she had. .. With her blue-black hair and dark eyes, Raye Larsen has never fit in with the Scandinavian community of New Bergin, Wisconsin... -
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Mark of the Witch by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne comes the first novel in her thrilling new trilogy, THE PORTAL She was born to save what he is sworn to destroy. .. A lapsed Wiccan, Indira Simon doesn't believe in magic anymore... -
![The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr]()
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr. Eliza Jekyll must turn to her dark side, Miss Lizzie Hyde, to stop a madman targeting London’s most important scientists and sorcerers terrorizing the city with dark magic in this third Electric Empire novel—a dazzlingly original steampunk fantasy set in the gritty world of alternate Victorian London, with echoes of H G. Wells classic, The Time Machine. Being two people in one body isn’t easy... -
![The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence]()
The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThe secret war that defines the Library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, family, and the world seem certain to fail...Categorized as:
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![Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore]()
Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsDer Pariser Bäcker Lucien Lessard und der Künstler Henri Toulouse-Lautrec haben eines gemeinsam: beide sind erschüttert über den Tod ihres Freundes Vincent van Gogh... -
![Forever (Montgomery/Taggert (Publication order) #24) by Jude Deveraux]()
Forever (Montgomery/Taggert (Publication order) #24) by Jude Deveraux
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom A Knight in Shining Armor to The Mulberry Tree, Jude Deveraux's bestsellers sparkle with stunning originality, heartfelt wit, and adventurous passion. Now, this superb storyteller mixes the flavor of a classic fairy tale with a very modern love story -- set in a town locked in the shadows of an abiding evil -- in this imaginative new novel. Forever. . -
![The Silver Witch by Paula Brackston]()
The Silver Witch by Paula Brackston
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA year after her husband’s sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her disturbing visions of Mat’s death. Instead, the lake in the valley below her cottage seems to spark something dormant in her – a sensitivity, and a power of some sort... -
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The Hypnotist by M.J. Rose
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBook three of The Reincarnationist series. Haunted by his inability to stop the murder of a beautiful young painter twenty years ago, Lucian Glass keeps his demons at bay through his fascinating work with the FBI's Art Crime Team... -
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Forever and Always by Jude Deveraux
"This is Jude Deveraux at her most pleasurable," hailed Booklist in praise of her powerful bestseller Forever . .. .Now Deveraux brings back her gifted heroine, Darci Monroe, in a riveting new novel of endless love and shadowed secrets. Forever and Always. Darci's psychic abilities have always guided her through hardship. . -
![Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love by George R.R. Martin]()
Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love by George R.R. Martin
A groundbreaking and “wonderful” (Library Journal, starred review) anthology of fantasy, science fiction, and romance from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, edited by the acclaimed George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois...
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