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  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 97 ratings
    A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages...
  • Hazards in the Hidden City by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Hazards in the Hidden City by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.A wedding on an enchanted island of magic. A guest list of gods, immortals, shifters, dragons, and druids. And a sentient city waking after centuries…What could go wrong?When Fiona’s magnet for mayhem weighs in on her special day, there’s no escaping the fallout…or the island...
  • Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

    Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.A flying demon feeding on human energies...
  • Dead Serious Case #3: Mr Bruce Reyes by Vawn Cassidy

    Dead Serious Case #3: Mr Bruce Reyes by Vawn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tristan Everett was finally getting used to the strangeness that was his life. Being able to see the dead and helping them solve their unfinished business and cross into the light wasn’t so bad after all, especially when he was accompanied by his best friend, dead drag queen Dusty Le Frey...
  • Tiger's Destiny by Colleen Houck

    Tiger's Destiny by Colleen Houck

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    With three of the goddess Durga's quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tiger's curse. But the trio's greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal...
  • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

    Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free...
  • Rise of the Fae by Linsey Hall

    Rise of the Fae by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Darkness rises. But so do I. The false queen has taken everything from me. My throne, my people, and worst of all, my mate. Her dark curse has stolen Tarron’s mind and compels him to try kill me.I’ll do anything to cure him and stop her. When a prophecy tells me to go find the Dragon Bloods, I know I’ll be walking into a deadly situation. It won’t stop me...
  • Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

    Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 75 ratings
    The third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs...
  • The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life...
  • Dead Serious Case #2: Mrs Delores Abernathy by Vawn Cassidy

    Dead Serious Case #2: Mrs Delores Abernathy by Vawn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the business of unfinished business...It’s been over six months since a freak accident left pathologist Tristan Everett able to see ghosts, something he has yet to confess to his boyfriend...
  • Betrayal of the Court by Heather G. Harris

    Betrayal of the Court by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Death. Theft. Marriage. It’s an average day in the Other Realm.Someone keeps bludgeoning people in the Other realm to death. A couple of the murders were virtually in our back garden, so Emory has asked me to try and find the culprit. I’d feel better if I didn’t have Shirdal along with me, cracking jokes and on the verge of a deadly killing spree of his own...
  • Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy

    Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Inspector Danny Hayes has something very important to ask his boyfriend Tristan Everett. Over the past six months they’ve survived reapers, chaos monsters, and biblical storms, not to mention averting an apocalypse. So, what’s left to do but pop the big question?Tristan is ready for a break from world-saving, spectral crises, and most definitely from ghosts...
  • Ties that Bond in Gretna Green by Linzi Day

    Ties that Bond in Gretna Green by Linzi Day

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s Valentine’s week in the Gateway, and Niki McKnight is preparing to conduct her first bondings for the fated, soul-bonded mates of the Kingdoms.She was a registrar who married thousands of people in her former job—this will be a breeze ... Right?Wrong!The bondings don’t quite go to plan. Cue hilarity, heartbreak and mysterious magical prophecies for some of our favourite characters...
  • The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire

    The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong...
  • Reign by Chanda Hahn

    Reign by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Going to the Fae plane against Jared's orders has cost Mina dearly. Her decision haunts her as a new danger surfaces back on the human plane. The Grimms are fading from existence. To save her family's future, Mina Grime will have to travel to the past with the help of her Fae Godmother and a pair of magic shoes...
  • The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 75 ratings
    The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death...
  • A Gilded Iron Blade by Kai Butler

    A Gilded Iron Blade by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Saving the city was supposed to be the hard part...Parker Ferro can’t catch a break. After saving San Amaro from destruction for the second time and reconciling with his boyfriend, his current plans are to relax on his couch until his ears stop ringing.Unfortunately, the thousand realms he just saved have a way of yanking him back into service and the dead have come back to haunt him...
  • Shaker of Earth by Jordan L. Hawk

    Shaker of Earth by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charleston is reeling beneath the onslaught of demons unleashed by the vampire spirit Drugoy and his human host Yuri. Alone and drained almost to the point of death, Gray and Caleb must make their way across a city gone mad in hopes of putting an end to Yuri and Dru. But the other drakul isn’t the only enemy they have to worry about...
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    lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Fluke and the Fantastic Finale by Sam Burns

    Fluke and the Fantastic Finale by Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For centuries, the Believer cult has preyed on arcane mages from their place in the shadows. Now, for better or worse, Sage has taken arcane magic public, and all eyes are on him. While he’s not comfortable in the spotlight, neither is the cult that wants him dead.But the Believers aren’t quite ready to give up yet...
  • Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot

    Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Prepare for more spooky, swoony YA from BookTok star @Merrowchild! Charlie Frith and his new love, Sam, have just saved the dead from the living! Now it's time to focus on being a normal couple - if such a thing exists?But when a new threat lurks in the shadows, this time to the living, and all who Charlie and Sam hold near, they must put everything on the line - including their lives - to work...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  magic  mlm  romance  fantasy  young-adult  horror
  • His Prince by Mary Calmes

    His Prince by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jason Thorpe was content living a quiet life in New Orleans. He and his best friend Ode opened their cozy curios shop in the French Quarter, and he was making some new, albeit interesting, friends….Then Jason met Varic Maedoc, the prince of the vampyrs, and his life changed forever...
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    lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  angst
  • Fable by Chanda Hahn

    Fable by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    All that gillters is not gold. When something precious is stolen from sixteen-year-old Mina Grime, she will do anything in her power to get it back, even if it means traveling to the dangerous Fae plane and battling one of the strongest fairy-tale villains yet...
  • Witchy Tales by Amanda M. Lee

    Witchy Tales by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
  • Smolder by Mika Nix

    Smolder by Mika Nix

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I was hired to protect him, but will our smoldering attraction ignite into love?When my hot headed brother found his fated mate, a deep, aching desire opened up inside of me for my own. Everyone knows dragons are covetous, jealous… possessive. I am all of these things, but never more so than when I set my eyes on Dempsey for the first time.Beautiful. Awkward. Sweet. Shy. Perfect...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  mlm  magic  lgbtq  romance  fantasy  dragons  shapeshifters
  • Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

    Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead.Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo...
  • Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Parker Ferro is not okay. In the heart-pounding conclusion to the San Amaro Investigations series, Parker faces down enemies on all sides, including one within his own family. With his city under lockdown, Parker is fighting for everyone and everything that he cares about. The fate of the thousand realms rests on his shoulders...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  paranormal  magic  lgbtq  myths  romance  fantasy  urban-fantasy
  • Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cold cases, old enemies, ex-lovers, and vengeful spirits are making life dangerous for psychic medium Simon Kincaide and his boyfriend, homicide detective Vic D’Amato. The ghosts of Myrtle Beach are restless, trapped by love, secrets, scandals, and spells, keeping Simon busy protecting the living from the unhappy dead...
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    lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dead of Night by Pandora Pine

    Dead of Night by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one is more surprised than Cold Case Detective, Ronan O’Mara when he answers his doorbell one night to see members of Salem’s Wiccan community standing on his doorstep with an unbelievable story to tell. According to them, members of their coven are being murdered in a modern-day witch hunt and they want Ronan to look into the matter for them...
  • Without a Trace by Ariana Nash

    Without a Trace by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The windswept Scottish Highlands.Everything has changed.With new names and new lives, Dom & Kempthorne should be living their happy ending, but it’s not over yet.Kage Mitchell knows they’re alive and he’s discovered the single most devastating secret Kempthorne has yet to tell Dom.There is no other option. Kage Mitchell must die.But he’s the least of Kempthorne’s concerns...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Contested Crown by Kai Butler

    Contested Crown by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I can’t give him up, even if it costs me my life...Miles and Cade are on the run. Without money, protection, or allies they have only each other to rely on as they flee the most powerful mage house in the country. Unfortunately, the outside world is even more dangerous than the lion’s den they just escaped from...
  • The Oak Wood Throne by Kai Butler

    The Oak Wood Throne by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A new case won't solve Parker's old problems...Parker Ferro needs a vacation. His boyfriend is MIA on a high profile murder investigation, the fae courts have him on call at all hours, and he’s still cleaning up the mess from his last big case. Of course that’s nothing compared to the demands of the debt he owes the spirit of San Amaro...
  • Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker

    Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    History isn’t always what it seems… Twelve months after his change, Alec MacAidan is still getting used to his many vampire talents. While most vampires would give anything to have more than one supernatural power, Alec craves nothing more than peace and time alone with Cronin. But when Alec meets entities from outside this realm, he’s left powerless in their presence...
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    lgbtq  magic  mlm  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  age-gap
  • Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker

    Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    History isn’t always what it seems. With the battle of Egypt behind them, Alec and Cronin are enjoying the thrill of new love. Though fate doesn’t wait long before throwing them back into the world of weird.They know Alec’s blood is special, though its true purpose still eludes them. And given Alec’s inability to be changed into a vampire, Cronin is free to drink from him at will...
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    lgbtq  magic  mlm  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  age-gap
  • The Hidden Library by Heather Lyons

    The Hidden Library by Heather Lyons

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sometimes, the rabbit hole is deeper than expected . . .Alice Reeve and Finn Van Brunt have tumbled into a life of secrets. Some secrets they share, such as their employment by the clandestine organization known as The Collectors’ Society. Other secrets they carry within them, fighting to keep buried the things that could change everything they think they know...
  • Blood Magick by Nora Roberts

    Blood Magick by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about the land we’re drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love… Book Three of The Cousins O’Dwyer TrilogyBlood Magick County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O’Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries...
  • Immortals by Ednah Walters

    Immortals by Ednah Walters

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Nothing can stop Raine Cooper when she wants something...Raine finally knows that her gorgeous neighbor, Torin St. James, is a legend straight out of Norse mythology, and that her feelings for him are strong. Torin is crazy about Raine too, breaking the one rule he lives by: Never fall for a mortal...
  • Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

    Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong.In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward...
  • Tension by Kiki Burrelli

    Tension by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Huxley's best friend is his rock.Huxley Might's position as agent within the elite Lunar Council Enforcement Agency has prepared him for a life of service. Being an Alpha is about control and sacrifice. He doesn't have siblings to pass the duty to. It's up to Huxley to become the next Alpha and ensure the Might family legacy continues...
  • The Hound of the Burgervilles by E.J. Russell

    The Hound of the Burgervilles by E.J. Russell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This case is really going to the dogs… After I try a little off-the-books interrogation to locate my selkie almost-boyfriend’s nearly-ex-husband (don’t ask, it’s complicated), I’m in the doghouse again with my bosses, who bust me back to surveillance. Ugh...
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    paranormal  mlm  lgbtq  magic  myths  romance  mystery  urban-fantasy
  • Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts

    Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces.Mermaid Annika is from the sea, and it is there she must return after her quest to find the stars...
  • Haven by Morgan Brice

    Haven by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    (Set in the world of Fox Hollow, but can stand alone). Old secrets, hidden psychics, secret shifters, ghosts, scandals—and true love. A series of long-ago disappearances leads cold case private detective Austin Williams to investigate a troubled sanitarium. Jamie Miller is new in town, temporarily running the local historical association, and he willingly signs on to help solve Austin’s mystery...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  mlm  lgbtq  magic  romance  fantasy  mystery  ghosts
  • The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this darkly magical, romantic YA fantasy debut, a closeted teenage psychic in small-town Washington foresees the death of his sworn enemy, and is forced to work with him to save his life. Sparks fly, but the dead are restless, and some ghosts don't want to stay buried...Perfect for fans of The Raven Cycle, Cemetery Boys and Sixteen Souls...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  mlm  magic  romance  fantasy  young-adult  mystery
  • Ruler by Kiki Burrelli

    Ruler by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Warriors. Outsiders. Alphas.It all started with a mouse and a note. After that, Faust kept receiving strange messages delivered by forest animals. He’s no cartoon princess and this sh*t is weird but not life-threatening. He ignores it until he receives a flurry of notes all with the same message, help me, and there is no way Faust can ignore the odd messages any longer...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angels
  • Illuminate by Lisa Oliver

    Illuminate by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stefan de Marco was looking for a position... again. Being a high scoring magical anchor was only useful in his world when he had someone to partner with. His slender body and elfin looks meant he was usually only chosen to anchor people who believed his duties should extend well past working hours, and that wasn't something Stefan was interested in...
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    lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Family Affair by Karen Chance

    A Family Affair by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "A Family Affair" is a novella connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of urban fantasy novels. It is designed primarily as an "added feature" to the series, and is intended for those already reading the books...
  • The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare, Wesley Chu

    The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare, Wesley Chu

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series that follows High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood as they tour the world after the Mortal War. The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Shadowhunters novel...
  • The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards

    The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis...
  • A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

    A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Fall in love, break the curse.Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction...
  • Salmon and the Hazel by Sam Burns

    Salmon and the Hazel by Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jesse’s only priority in life is protecting the people he loves, so he’s determined to see Rowan Harbor’s wards rebuilt. There’s just one problem: they’re missing an ingredient that can’t be ordered online.Jesse volunteers to search for the missing component in the realm of the fae, but his boyfriend, Sean, isn’t letting him go alone...
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    lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  angst  book
  • Animal Instinct by Stephen Osborne

    Animal Instinct by Stephen Osborne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Private detective Duncan Andrews has the home-team advantage when it comes to solving paranormal crimes: His best friend, Gina, is a centuries-old witch. His dog is a zombie. And his boyfriend, Robbie, is a ghost.Duncan certainly has his work cut out for him with this case...
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