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  • Caffeinated Calamity by Amanda M. Lee

    Caffeinated Calamity by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The only witch in the world? It might feel like it to Stormy Morgan but she knows better.Twenty minutes away, in a town called Hemlock Cove, witches have taken over. Sure, the bulk of the town is made up of frauds looking to shore up their tourism industry, but there are real witches, too. There’s a family, last name of Winchester, and they’re notorious...
  • Wrong Side of Forty by Jana Deleon

    Wrong Side of Forty by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For many, midlife is the beginning. It was a day like any other day for Marina Trahan…until she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Before that eye-opening wake-up call, Marina would have described her life as average or uneventful, maybe even boring. But now, chaos and confusion reign supreme...
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  • When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire

    When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Toby's getting married!It's hard to be a hero. There's always something needing October "Toby" Daye's attention, and her own desires tend to fall by the wayside in favor of solving the Kingdom's problems. That includes the desire to marry her long-time suitor and current fiancé, Tybalt, San Francisco's King of Cats. She doesn't mean to keep delaying the wedding, it just sort of...happens...
  • Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    For a thousand years, powerful earth vampire Carwyn ap Bryn has served others. God. His family. His friends. But tragedy and loss disrupt his peaceful existence, causing him to question everything he has committed his eternity to. Brigid Connor has known about vampires since they rescued her from a painful childhood...
  • The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire

    The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Things are slow, and October "Toby" Daye couldn't be happier about that. The elf-shot cure has been approved, Arden Windermere is settling into her position as Queen in the Mists, and Toby doesn't have anything demanding her attention except for wedding planning and spending time with her family.Maybe she should have realized that it was too good to last...
  • Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This desert oasis has gone to the dogs, and Vista de Lirio is about to get bloody.(Not the dogs though. The dogs are fine.)Comedian Evy Lane thought she’d done it all, but taking on the role of mistress of ceremonies for the Desert Fancy Dog Show may be her most challenging gig yet...
  • The Ghost and the Baby by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Baby by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    While the residents on Beach Drive prepare for the welcomed arrival of a new baby, they are blindsided by the newest resident’s plans to close down Marlow House.No one is prepared for the deadly secrets the new neighbor unwittingly conceals.Walt knows more than he realizes. If he can just remember...
  • Republic by Lindsay Buroker

    Republic by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After the notorious outlaws Amaranthe and Sicarius helped overthrow the corrupt faction controlling the empire and brought in a great war hero to lead the nation to prosperity, they finally earned their pardons--and some time off. A tropical vacation cruising around in a private submarine? Perfect. But their trip is interrupted by a summons from the new president: they're needed back at home...
  • The Ghost of Second Chances by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost of Second Chances by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Clint Marlow's partner in crime is found murdered in the basement of Marlow House, Clint is the likely suspect. The only problem, Clint is dead. But that doesn't matter to the FBI agents investigating the case. Clint looks alive to them.

 Meanwhile, Danielle’s housemate Walt is coming to terms with his new reality, which is complicated with the FBI underfoot...
  • The Ghost and the Bride by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Bride by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Family and friends gather at Marlow House for Ian and Lily’s wedding.When an unexpected guest shows up Danielle tries to figure out who he arrived with and why...
  • Evalle and Storm by Dianna Love

    Evalle and Storm by Dianna Love

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 7 ratings
    New York Times bestseller Dianna Love’s Beladors are back with a special story for Evalle and Storm! This the book fans have been waiting for - Evalle and Storm's. To bond or not to bond should be a simple question, but nothing is ever easy in the life of this particular Skinwalker and Belador couple...
  • The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
  • Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    Deadly Forecast by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As her wedding day approaches, Abby Cooper has a disturbing premonition of her fiancé’s murder. Her husband-to-be, FBI agent Dutch Rivers, has been assigned to a suicide bombing case, and Abby’s spirit guides warn her of imminent danger. Abby vows to do everything in her power to keep Dutch safe and get him to the altar...
  • The Ghost Who Dream Hopped by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost Who Dream Hopped by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Officer Brian Henderson knows there is something just not right about Walt Marlow, and he’s determined to find out what it is.  Meanwhile, Beverly’s dead husband visits Danielle in a dream hop, telling her about his wife’s part in his death...
  • The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psychic? Check. Haunted by a malevolent spirit who is making life a living hell? Check. In love with a smoking hot Scot, who is the reincarnation of the man creepy malevolent ghost murdered two centuries before? Check. Friends and family think you’re losing your mind? Check...
  • The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

    The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life-- and death...
  • The Ghost Who Lied by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost Who Lied by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ian has lived across the street from Marlow House for over a year and has no idea Walt Marlow is his neighbor.All that is about to change.(Did I mention—Walt Marlow is a ghost...
  • Rough Justice by Kelley Armstrong, Xavière Daumarie

    Rough Justice by Kelley Armstrong, Xavière Daumarie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mallt-y-Nos. Matilda of the Hunt. The lone woman who rides with the Wild Hunt, tasked with finding killers who've escaped justice and letting the hounds reap their souls. For Olivia Taylor-Jones, Matilda isn't just a legendary figure from Welsh lore. She is Olivia's past, and her future, one she's finally embraced.Having accepted her role as Matilda, Olivia must now lead her first Hunt...
  • Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The door to Addison Lockhart's room opens. Five-year-old Sara Belle walks in. The child seems lost and confused. Addison reaches out, grabs Sara's hand, and the room goes black.Addison's eyes open to find she's been transported several decades into the past. She's sitting in the back seat of a car. Sara is beside her. The car stops at an intersection...
  • Guardian: Zhen Hun, Vol. 1 (Guardian: Zhen Hun (Seven Seas Edition) #1) by Priest

    Guardian: Zhen Hun, Vol. 1 (Guardian: Zhen Hun (Seven Seas Edition) #1) by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zhao Yunlan is Chief of the Special Investigations Department: a secret group of uniquely skilled individuals who investigate strange happenings in modern-day Dragon City. Although laid-back and cheeky to those who don't know him, this tenacious and cunning man fits well into his role of the Guardian...
  • The Accidental Siren by Jake Vander Ark

    The Accidental Siren by Jake Vander Ark

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mara Lynn is the most beautiful girl in the world. James Parker is the ordinary boy who discovers her power. James had his summer all planned out. He would enjoy the carefree days in the woods behind his castle home, avoid the maniacal Danny Bompensaro (and the worm-like scar on the back of his head), and shoot an epic movie with his best friend Whit...
  • A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She thought she could see everything. Time is proving her wrong. Ten years ago, Natalya’s ability to remember the future cost her the life she wanted when her vision of her fiancé’s death tore them apart. Ever since, she's considered her precognition more of a curse than a gift...
  • Shadows Before the Sun by Kelly Gay

    Shadows Before the Sun by Kelly Gay

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The electrifying sequel to the acclaimed urban fantasies The Better Part of Darkness, The Darkest Edge of Dawn, and The Hour of Dust and Ashes! After filling out mountains of paperwork, Detective Charlie Madigan sets out for a death-defying trip into heavenly Elysia to rescue her partner Hank and bring the siren home...
  • Ghosts Gone Wild by Danielle Garrett

    Ghosts Gone Wild by Danielle Garrett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There’s never a good time for a ghost crisis. However, it's particularly inconvenient while I'm trying to tackle my first wedding season. Between twelve hour days, an assistant with a case of butter fingers (not the chocolate kind), and the flood of tourists in town, I’m struggling to keep a grip on my sanity. All I want is three months of peace from the spirit world...
  • A Witch Before Dying by Heather Blake

    A Witch Before Dying by Heather Blake

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Darcy Merriweather is Salem, Massachusetts’ newest resident Wishcrafter—a witch who can grant wishes for others. While Darcy isn’t able to grant wishes for herself, she does possess a certain knack for solving problems—including the occasional murder… When Darcy is hired by Elodie Keaton to clean up her missing mother’s disorderly home, the Wishcrafter is certainly up for the task...
  • Dark Nebula by W.J. May

    Dark Nebula by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nothing is as it seems anymore. Leery from the horrifying incident at the end of her first year at Guilder Boarding School, Rae Kerrigan is determined to learn more about her new tattoo. Her expectations are high, an easy senior year and a happy reunion with Devon, the boy she's not supposed to date. All hopes of happiness turn into shattered dreams the moment she steps back on campus...
  • Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk

    Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the secret lockup of the Authority, the council that decides what can and can't be done with magic, an undead magic user has possessed one of the prisoners. He wants his freedom-and then some. Now Allie Beckstrom and her lover, Zayvion, are the first line of defense against the chaos he's about to unleash on the city of Portland..
  • Butter, Sugar, Magic by Jessica Rosenberg

    Butter, Sugar, Magic by Jessica Rosenberg

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Embracing a midlife transformation has never been more delicious.At best, she’s expecting a kitschy candy dish, at worst a beloved taxidermied pet, so when Cassie—newly divorced, single mom with zero prospects—discovers she’s inheriting a fully stocked bakery along with a beautifully furnished apartment from a great aunt she’d never even heard of, she’s convinced she must be dreaming...
  • Cast in Fury by Michelle Sagara

    Cast in Fury by Michelle Sagara

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When a minority race of telepaths is suspected of causing a near-devastating tidal wave, Private Kaylin Neya is summoned to Court—and into a PR nightmare. To ease racial tensions, the emperor has commissioned a play, and the playwright has his own ideas about who should be the focus...
  • Deadly Night by Heather Graham

    Deadly Night by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Flynn brothers have inherited more than a New Orleans plantation. They've inherited a ghostly presence…and a long-kept secret. Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors—especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white...
  • Writing Wrongs: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Christine Gael

    Writing Wrongs: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Getting divorced at 48 is hard. Almost as hard as discovering that your ancestors were part of a coven that was hunted to extinction...And you're nextCricket Hawthorne's marriage has been on life support for the past two decades, but finally pulling the plug and starting over at dang near 50 is tougher than she'd imagined...
  • Protecting Truth by Michelle Warren

    Protecting Truth by Michelle Warren

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seraphina’s keeping a secret from her Wandering team: she’s perfecting her fighting skills. But telling Sam and Bishop the truth would only alert them to her plan: to go back in time, save her mom, and finish what she started...
  • Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater

    Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A little bit of sin is good for the soul.Gadriel, the fallen angel of petty temptations, has a bit of a gambling debt. Fortunately, her angelic bookie is happy to let her pay off her debts by doing what she does best: All Gadriel has to do is tempt miserably sinless mortal Holly Harker to do a few nice things for herself...
  • The Mortal Bone by Marjorie M. Liu

    The Mortal Bone by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the bond Maxine Kiss shares with the demons tattooed on her skin is deliberately severed, the demon hunter is left vulnerable and unprotected. For the first time in ten thousand years, the demons have a taste of freedom. And as the little demons grow more violent and unpredictable, Maxine starts to fear they will lose their minds without her...
  • Disembodied Bones by C.L. Bevill

    Disembodied Bones by C.L. Bevill

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Leonie Simoneaud was once one of the elusive Lake People, Acadian descendants in Louisiana with odd psychic powers. As a thirteen year old she rescued an outsider child, Douglas Trent, from a maniacal pedophile named Monroe Whitechapel. Consequently she was shunned by most of the Lake People for imperiling them to the external world...
  • Kiss The Night Goodbye by Keri Arthur

    Kiss The Night Goodbye by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sometimes the past not only haunts, but destroys... One hundred years ago, Michael Kelly hunted down and killed the sorcerer responsible for murdering his lover. Now the brother of that man is out for revenge, and he intends to destroy all that Michael holds dear in the process...
  • Cast in Sorrow by Michelle Sagara

    Cast in Sorrow by Michelle Sagara

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    THE END OF HER JOURNEY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING... The Barrani would be happy to see her die. So Kaylin Neya is a bit surprised by her safe arrival in the West March. Especially when enemies new and old surround her and those she would call friends are equally dangerous... And then the real trouble starts...
  • The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

    The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. And it's not his attitude that's the problem: it's the trail of magical accidents - lately, disasters - that follow in his wake. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained, and his powers are escalating out of control...
  • Where There's a Witch by Madelyn Alt

    Where There's a Witch by Madelyn Alt

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Taking a break from her job at Enchantments, Stony Mill's finest mystical antique shop, Maggie O'Neill visits a carnival where she senses some bad spirits. And when a construction worker is suspected of killing a young woman, it's up to Maggie and the N.I.G.H.T.S. ghosthunting team to uncover the dark spiritual energy leaking into their town before it spoils everyone's fun...
  • Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn’t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie...
  • The Dragon Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

    The Dragon Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and the sanctuary of Trinity must prepare for attack. Seph monitors the Weirwalls, while Jack and Ellen train their army of ghosts to face an onslaught of wizards. Even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting traps around the town's perimeter. To Jason Haley, it feels as though everyone but him has a role to play...
  • The Watchers by Lynnie Purcell

    The Watchers by Lynnie Purcell

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Watchers is the first book in The Watchers Series. It focuses on 16-year-old Clare Michaels and her journey to her mom's hometown of King's Cross. Long aware of her heritage - that she is the daughter of a fallen angel - The Watchers focuses on her first interaction with the world she has always hidden from...
  • Oath Bound by Rachel Vincent

    Oath Bound by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Tower Syndicate will fall... The secret daughter of the head of an infamous Skilled crime family, Sera Brandt has hidden her past, her potential and especially her powers. But when a tragedy strikes her other family, Sera needs justice. And the only way to get it is to reveal her heritage–including a rare Skill–and take the reins of the Tower Syndicate from her cunning and malicious aunt...
  • One Hex of a Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn

    One Hex of a Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wedding bells turn to sour notes for Emerald O'Brien. Her fiancé is wounded by gunfire, her ex-husband becomes the prime suspect, and her maid of honor is being stalked. Now it's up to Emerald to divine if the incidents are related...
  • Some Enchanted Éclair by Bailey Cates

    Some Enchanted Éclair by Bailey Cates

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FLOUR POWER When Hollywood invades Savannah’s historic district to film a Revolutionary War movie, magical baker Katie Lightfoot, and her witches’ coven, the Spellbook Club, take a break from casting spells for casting calls. One of the witches snags a part as an extra, while Katie’s firefighter boyfriend, Declan, acts as on-set security...
  • Breathless by Brigid Kemmerer

    Breathless by Brigid Kemmerer

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Too many secrets. Not enough time. Nick Merrick is supposed to be the level-headed one. The peacemaker. Since it’s just him and his three hotheaded brothers against the world, that’s a survival tactic. But now he’s got problems even his brothers can’t help him survive. His so-called girlfriend, Quinn, is going quick as mercury from daring to crazy...
  • Secrets by Melinda Metz

    Secrets by Melinda Metz

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rae Voight has a problem. Thoughts are running through her mind that aren't hers. Is she going crazy? Or could something else-something even stranger -- be going on? As Rae unravels the mystery of where these thoughts are coming from, she also unlocks terrifying secrets of her past, including the truth about her dead mother. But knowing the truth may not be a good thing for Rae...
  • Blood on the Bayou by Stacey Jay

    Blood on the Bayou by Stacey Jay

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The second book in a new urban fantasy series featuring mosquito-sized fairies with poisonous bites that drive humans insane. It's only been three weeks since Annabelle helped solve the murder of Grace Beauchamp, and in the process, she discovered a secret world of invisible, magic-working people who have decided she might have what it takes to join their ranks...
  • The Grimrose Path by Rob Thurman

    The Grimrose Path by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I looked at the metal coated with blood—so very much blood—the same color as the darkest crimson rose. I was undoing this. I was making this right. And I’d like to see the son of a bitch who thought he could stop me. Bar owner Trixa Iktomi knows that inhuman creatures of light and darkness roam Las Vegas-especially since she’s a bit more than human herself...
  • Crimes Against Magic by Steve McHugh

    Crimes Against Magic by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    It’s been almost ten years since Nathan Garrett woke on a cold warehouse floor with nothing but a gun, a sword, and no idea of who he was or how he got there. His only clue … a piece of paper with his name on it. Since then, he’s discovered he’s a powerful sorcerer and has used his abilities to work as a thief for hire...
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