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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
    · 14 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...
  • A Culling Tide by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Culling Tide by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
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  • Midlife Soul Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Midlife Soul Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You’d think I’d already been in hell, married to my ex. But just this one time, you’d be wrong.Surprise, surprise, the Dark Council has been plotting to force my hand. They know that I love Crash. Yes, I said the L word.And they know I’d do anything to bring him back from hell—even though it means it puts both our souls into great danger. And puts my knees into running mode. (Cue the Advil...
  • Trouble With the Cursed by Kim Harrison

    Trouble With the Cursed by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rachel Morgan must keep her friends close—and her enemies closer—in the next Hollows novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison.Rachel Morgan, witch-born demon, has one unspoken rule: take chances, but pay for them yourself...
  • Blaze of Fury by Annabel Chase

    Blaze of Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.I’ve had enough.I’ve been at odds with my family for as long as I can remember.And I’ve been at odds with myself.Light and dark. White and black. Good and evil.To hell with the scales of justice, right now I’m willing to use every fury trait at my disposal to right the recent wrong done to my beloved Chief Fox...
  • Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I've been told I'm a force to be reckoned with. That I blow onto the scene like a tornado.At age forty I've stopped caring if that's a compliment or a dig. Now I just wear it like a badge of honor. So when life threw me a curveball and I ended up going from a cushy job in New York City to the tiny Southern town of Grimm Cove I thought I was ready for anything.Ha! Not quite...
  • A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number!Midlife's a bumpy journey. The ride is a freaking rollercoaster. The crisis is real.With my life back to normal--normal being a very relative word--one would think I'd catch a break.One would be very wrong...
  • Power by Kristie Cook

    Power by Kristie Cook

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Power, the next installment of the Soul Savers Series, takes you on a hot and edgy ride with twists and turns you'll never see coming, leaving you breathless and once again begging for more. As the stakes rise, can she find her true power? As the Amadis prepare for war, Alexis returns to Florida with orders to relax, regenerate and replenish her depleted power...
  • Follow the Crumbs by Amanda M. Lee

    Follow the Crumbs by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
  • Leopard's Hunt by Christine Feehan

    Leopard's Hunt by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this pulse-pounding novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Leopard series, animal instinct unites two elite shifters whose heads are at war with their hearts. Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell...
  • Wrath by Kristie Cook

    Wrath by Kristie Cook

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Will a mother’s wrath make her cross the line? I didn’t want to cry. For once in my life, tears evaded me. Perhaps because I refused to grieve this loss, because it wasn’t a loss in my eyes, in my heart. It was a call for war, yes. But not a loss. I wouldn’t allow it. Besides, I was too mad to cry, even in my exhaustion, and anger would get me much further...
  • You Light Up My Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    You Light Up My Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Midlife is definitely a journey. The road has massive potholes.And the crisis… it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Being forty is supposed to be freaking fabulous not fatal. Taking on a daunting new job minus the description isn’t the smartest move I’ve ever made, even if it was to save a friend. Hopefully, it doesn’t turn out to be the stupidest… or deadliest...
  • Crest by Emma Raveling

    Crest by Emma Raveling

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Illusion. Power. Identity. Tensions are reaching a fever pitch everywhere Kendra Irisavie turns. Darkness settles over elementals as a new threat stirs suspicions of a betrayal from within. Details of recent events spread through Haverleau, prompting doubts over Irisavie leadership. The mysterious Selkie Kingdom finally opens its doors, but the gesture only fans the flames of division...
  • A Dangerous Witch by Debora Geary

    A Dangerous Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 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..
  • Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back--and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series. Dorina Basarab is a dhampir--half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate's newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory's fey friends goes missing...
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    demons  fae  magic  witches  fantasy  urban fantasy  humor  vampires
  • An Unlikely Witch by Debora Geary

    An Unlikely Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • Whose Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway? : A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel: Good To The Last Death Book Two by Robyn Peterman

    Whose Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway? : A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel: Good To The Last Death Book Two by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number!Midlife's a journey. Enjoy the ride. Crisis included.Never knew that life after death was far more dangerous than real life.Never in my forty years did I think my new normal would be gluing body parts back onto ghosts and hosting a houseful of dead squatters...
  • Gray Tidings by Hailey Edwards

    Gray Tidings by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Corpses are vanishing from New Orleans morgues, there’s talk of a sea monster in Lake Pontchartrain, and Hiram Nádasdy is turning the French Quarter upside down in search of a witch with the power to bring the dead back to life.When the director assigns Rue the case, she suspects he’s sending her hunting all right. For her father, not the creature...
  • Demons Forever by Sarra Cannon

    Demons Forever by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Harper has come so far from her life as a foster child. She never imagined what her future would hold when she was first brought to the small town of Peachville. Since that day she’s faced great evil, found some of the answers she’s been looking for, and fallen deeply, madly in love. But her biggest challenge and her greatest lessons are still ahead of her...
  • The Underworld by Lizzy Ford

    The Underworld by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The time has come for Gabriel to claim his underworld. Accompanied by the deceptive Dark One, he risks everything to find his mate and take his place as the deity Death. Between him and the only woman he’s ever loved: a handful of rebelling death dealers, the deity Karma and the Dark One’s mate, a human-turned-demon who holds his soul in the palm of her hand...
  • Gray Witch by Hailey Edwards

    Gray Witch by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Famous monsters are resurrecting across Mississippi, each one recreating their own gruesome deaths through new victims. Every time Rue pins down one horror legend, another appears with its own bloodthirsty agenda. The summoners raising these vengeful spirits save their best for last, a cruel gift that shatters Rue. But she’s not the only one whose heart gets broken...
  • Mortal Sins by Eileen Wilks

    Mortal Sins by Eileen Wilks

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    FBI agent Lily Yu is in North Carolina with her lover and mate, Rule Turner, Lu Nuncio of the Nokolai werewolf clan. He is there to take custody of his son from the boy's grandmother. It's a purely personal trip until Rule, in wolf form, finds three bodies in a shallow grave. They carry the stench of death magic, which makes the murders a federal crime...
  • Darkness, Kindled by Samantha Young

    Darkness, Kindled by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Ari Johnson wishes adjusting to living with her boyfriend was her only source of excitement and anxiety. She wishes a lot of things. But then wishing was what got her here in the first place. Ari chose to be a Guild Hunter. She wanted to hunt dangerous Jinn and destroy them before they could harm innocent people...
  • The Faerie War by Rachel Morgan

    The Faerie War by Rachel Morgan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Driven by action, suspense, and a strong heroine, this deliciously detailed, bestselling YA fantasy will keep you turning the pages right up until the epic conclusion... Violet Fairdale is in big trouble. Her home is gone, her beloved forest lies in ruins, the guy she gave her heart to has deserted her—and she doesn’t remember any of it...
  • Winter Fire by Lizzy Ford

    Winter Fire by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • Ride the Storm by Karen Chance

    Ride the Storm by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Reap the Wind returns to the “fascinating world”* of Cassie Palmer. Ever since getting appointed the chief seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been playing catch up. Catch up on the training she missed being raised by a psychotic vampire instead of at the pythian court. Catch up on the dangerous world of supernatural politics...
  • Black Wings, Gray Skies by Hailey Edwards

    Black Wings, Gray Skies by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Monsters with a taste for children are nothing new, but fairy tales never mentioned this nightmarish predator. Rue has her hands full tracking the creature hunting the streets of Charleston, but a call from home divides her attention—and her loyalties...
  • New World Order by Elle Casey

    New World Order by Elle Casey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Will the fae will be able to make the sacrifices they must to survive? Jayne Sparks and her Light Fae changeling friends face off in the final battle against their enemies. But the identify of their true enemies isn't as clear as it once was. Are they the ones breaking down their doors ..
  • Black Truth, White Lies by Hailey Edwards

    Black Truth, White Lies by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When one of Santa’s reindeer meets a grisly end during the annual A Downtown Dickens Christmas Festival, Rue realizes her enemies are closing in on her location, and Samford will pay the price.But when one creature turns into two, and two into three, and then three into four, Rue knows the problem is bigger than a singular threat to her new hometown...
  • Darkness & Light by Elle Casey

    Darkness & Light by Elle Casey

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The animosity between Darkness & Light continues to grow, as do Jayne's supernatural, elemental abilities in the Green Forest. Long-lost friends arrive, new friends leave, passion burns, and mysteries abound...
  • Witches' Brew by B.R. Kingsolver

    Witches' Brew by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Washington, D.C., has never been boring, but this is ridiculous. Warring witch covens. Werewolf packs fighting for territory. Rumors of Human sacrifice. Minor problems leading up to Beltane, when the portents say the veils between worlds will shred...
  • Witches Under Way by Debora Geary

    Witches Under Way by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 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: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 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 Raging by Yasmine Galenorn

    Darkness Raging by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Panther Prowling returns to the Otherworld where one of the D’Artigo sisters faces a terrifying challenge that’s more personal than she ever could have imagined.   We're the D'Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch...
  • Blood of Destiny by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of Destiny by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • Dire Blood by S.M. Reine

    Dire Blood by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Elise Kavanagh died while killing the mother of all demons, and her fight should be over. But nothing is ever that easy where the Godslayer is concerned. Elise has been resurrected--and she came back as a demon. Now the most powerful witch in the world, James Faulkner, has been dragged to Hell and accused of violating an ancient treaty. The punishment is eternity in Hellfire...
  • Last Wish by Helen Harper

    Last Wish by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It's not easy pretending to be dead - especially when it feels as if you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Between an unfulfilled prophecy, the demon-occupied Lowlands, the continuing power of murderous Aifric Moncrieffe - not to mention her constant yearnings for Byron - Integrity Adair has a lot to worry about...
  • Robert: A Forty Proof Novella (Forty Proof) by Shannon Mayer

    Robert: A Forty Proof Novella (Forty Proof) by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **This is Robert's story before he became the Robert you know in the Forty Proof Series.**In 1876, we were called to Savannah, Georgia to help with an infestation of demons. If we'd known what we, my wife Evangeline, and I, were walking into, we'd have run the other way.As it was, we shared tea with a vampire and stepped into a battle we did not understand until it was too late...
  • Ruled by Steel by S.M. Reine

    Ruled by Steel by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Only a demon can save the souls trapped in Hell. Elise Kavanagh failed to prevent the Breaking, and now Hell is spilling onto Earth. Now she's delved deep into the City of Dis in an attempt to stop the infernal armies--but even the legendary Godslayer is unprepared to face Dis's fiercest demons, not to mention the responsibility of liberating the humans they've enslaved...
  • Blood of Half Gods by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood of Half Gods by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • Shatter the Earth by Karen Chance

    Shatter the Earth by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ironically for the time traveling, chief seer of the supernatural world, time has never been on Cassie Palmer’s side. There has always seemed to be too much to learn, too much to master, and never enough hours in a day...
  • Grave War by Kalayna Price

    Grave War by Kalayna Price

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Grave witch Alex Craft is getting pulled back into deadly fae politics in Grave War. Grave witch Alex Craft has forged an uneasy truce with the world of Faerie, but she's still been trying to maintain at least some semblance of a normal life in the human world...
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    magic  fae  witches  urban fantasy  fantasy  paranormal  mystery  death
  • Second Chance Magic by Michelle M. Pillow

    Second Chance Magic by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • Queen’s Gambit by Karen Chance

    Queen’s Gambit by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—the feared and hated cross between a vampire and a human—or so she has always believed. She spent most of her life on the fringes of her two worlds, yearning to belong to one or the other, but despised and distrusted by both...
  • Haunted Moon by Yasmine Galenorn

    Haunted Moon by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. My sister Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I’m Camille, a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. I’m a priestess of the Moon Mother, and I’m training under the Queen of Darkness...
  • Bad Witch by Lauren Dawes

    Bad Witch by Lauren Dawes

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A rookie cop. A team of supernatural detectives. A power hungry witch on a killing spree.My name is Cat McKenzie, and I’m in over my damn head. I’d finally come to grips with the fact that not all Supernaturals are a**holes when the witch downstairs is murdered and I’m rescued from certain death by the fae assassin responsible for revealing the existence of Supernaturals to humans six months ago...
  • Blood Prophecy by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood Prophecy by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • Oaths of Blood by S.M. Reine

    Oaths of Blood by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Werewolves are immune to every illness and can heal any wound. It should be impossible for one to become possessed by a demon. But that's exactly what Seth Wilder is facing: a werewolf gone insane from possession. He has no choice but to deliver her to the only exorcist in America, Elise Kavanagh, who also happens to be a powerful demon known as the Godslayer...
  • A Kiss of Shadow by Linsey Hall

    A Kiss of Shadow by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Accepting the throne could be a death wish....My corronation is near, but everything is more dangerous than ever. As the king and I travel to the High Court of the Fae for our wedding, a stalker lurks in the shadows. Someone doesn't want me to be queen, and they're willing to kill me to keep me off the throne.A Kiss of Shadow is the second in a new fantasy romance trilogy by Linsey Hall...
  • Blood Lines by Bonnie Lamer

    Blood Lines by Bonnie Lamer

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
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