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  • Requiem by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Requiem by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No matter how fast you are, you can’t outrun your past.When Ramirez receives a call from Shadow Company, he uncovers secrets from Simon’s covert operative days and an instruction: contact Simon. An agent Simon thought dead, has resurfaced, looking for vengeance and his help.Now, together with Monty, Simon must stop this agent from exacting revenge before it’s too late and countless lives are lost...
  • Wizard by Trade by Jim Butcher

    Wizard by Trade by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fantasy: For Harry Dresden, the only wizard listed in the Chicago phone book, when it rains, it pours. In fact, it pours toads, always a sign something bad is about to happen, But Harry takes such omens in stride, given that his rattletrap VW Bug needs constant upkeep, and his 30 pound guard cat wants regular meals...
  • College Arcane by John Conroe

    College Arcane by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Book 8 of the Demon Accords. College. A time of transition from youth to young adulthood. New lessons, new responsibilities, new distractions. A period of life treasured by most. Unless you happen to attend an institute of higher learning where the bullies are werewolves, the teachers are sadists, and the pretty girls are all deadly...
  • Magic & Misdeeds by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Misdeeds by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.When a new case leads to an old crime, Sheriff Nash is confronted with a ghost from his past...
  • Magic & Mischief by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Mischief by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. When a handful of Starry Hollow residents experience their worst nightmares in real life, witch-in-training Ember Rose must use her budding journalist skills to figure out the who, what, why, when, where and how before it's too late...
  • Out of House and Home by Drew Hayes

    Out of House and Home by Drew Hayes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With his wedding behind him, Fred is looking forward to nightly life finally settling down. Unfortunately, someone from his past has other, far less peaceful, plans in mind. Finding his clan under attack, Fred must scramble to discover who is working against him and how to fight back...
  • The Squirrel on the Train by Kevin Hearne

    The Squirrel on the Train by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Oberon the Irish wolfhound is off to Portland to smell all the things with canine companions wolfhound Orlaith and Boston terrier Starbuck, and, of course, his human, ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan. The first complication is an unmistakable sign of sinister agendas afoot: a squirrel atop the train...
  • Power by Robert J. Crane

    Power by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sienna Nealon seems like a woman beaten. Imprisoned by her enemies, facing the extinction of her entire race, she is up against overwhelming odds. But overwhelming odds have never stopped her before...
  • Reaping Wind by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Reaping Wind by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You reap what you sow, and when you sow death...vengeance comes to collect. The Dark Council threatens everything Simon holds dear. They want to erase Monty, kill Peaches and remove Simon's immortality—permanently. When Michiko goes missing, Simon realizes there is more at stake than he realizes. When Ken, Michiko's brother asks the Montague & Strong Detective Agency to find her...
  • Destiny by Robert J. Crane

    Destiny by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    NOTE: This is a tightly intertwined series wherein each book builds on previous volumes.In the aftermath of her confrontation with Sovereign, Sienna Nealon finds herself low on allies. The organization Century continues their genocide of the entire race of metahumans unchecked, working toward an ultimate goal that they have yet to reveal...
  • The Elementals by A.L. Knorr

    The Elementals by A.L. Knorr

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can they use their newfound powers to save their hometown, or will they die trying? The summer is over and the promised get-together results in an epic sharing of the transformational adventures that have gifted Akiko, Saxony, Georjayna, and Targa with their elemental powers...
  • Dragons & Demigods by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Dragons & Demigods by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Revenge is a dish best served cold…unless dragons are involved. Then make it hot, flaming hot. George Rott wants revenge. After the death of his daughter, Cassandra, he vowed to find and destroy all the dragons. When he locates one of their hidden enclaves within the city, he enlists the help of an angry and unstable demigod to make them all pay...
  • Forged by Benedict Jacka

    Forged by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Alex Verus faces his dark side in this return to the bestselling urban fantasy series about a London-based mage.To protect his friends, Mage Alex Verus has had to change--and embrace his dark side. But the life mage Anne has changed too, and made a bond with a dangerous power. She's going after everyone she's got a grudge against--and it's a long list...
  • Dead Weight by G.P. Robbins

    Dead Weight by G.P. Robbins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Newly promoted Detective Jace Smithson has his hands full with solving the murders of ten men and the kidnapping of a unicorn capable of producing diamonds. On the surface, the crime appears to be a classic tale of greed and violence, but digging deeper reveals something sinister has come to Cauldron City...
  • Hired Luck by Mel Todd

    Hired Luck by Mel Todd

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New city, new job, new threat?With my best friend going to college to learn how to use her magic, I'm job hunting in Atlanta. We're sharing an apartment and I've never been happier. The last thing I needed was to be involved in a murder investigation. Now the police are sure I had something to do with it. News alert: I don't. I've got a job, Jo's going school...
  • Rune of the Witch by Heather G. Harris

    Rune of the Witch by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone wants to be normal but no one wants to be ordinary. When my most hated enemy, Bastion, comes to me for help I tell him to take a long walk off a short pier. I’m not helping the griffin assassin that once killed my lover. But when the Crone visits my coven, she tells me that I have to help him find his daughter or else I won’t achieve my full potential...
  • Demon Lord Academy: An Urban Fantasy Adventure by Shane Hammond

    Demon Lord Academy: An Urban Fantasy Adventure by Shane Hammond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Have you ever felt like you were destined for greater things?My life was far from perfect, revolving around a dead-end school and caring for my sickly mother. It’s not until a chance encounter with a beautiful and mysterious blonde that I learn the truth about myself.You see, I’m not just an ordinary human. I’m a demon lord, potentially one of the strongest that’s ever lived...
  • Crazy For Brew by Annabel Chase

    Crazy For Brew by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. It's the first annual Spellbound Day and the community has come together to celebrate recent seismic changes. Local lawyer Emma Hart is on top of the world, reveling in her new marriage and her promotion within the coven's academy. When residents begin acting strangely, the entire town is thrown for a loop...
    Categorized as:
    animals  magic  paranormal  urban  adult  angels  book  contemporary
  • Six Furlongs by Mark Hayden

    Six Furlongs by Mark Hayden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Saddle up for the ride of your life...In Clerkswell, the great and the good assemble for a Samhain party. In Manchester, Mages prepare for the Warden Hustings. But on a tree in the Furness Peninsula hangs the body of a man. Someone thinks they have settled a score, but all they’ve done is start a feud...
  • Crumbs and Misdemeanors by Nancy Warren

    Crumbs and Misdemeanors by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bread is supposed to be the staff of life—not a murder weapon.Every baker has their weak spot. For Poppy it’s bread. So, when The Great British Baking Contest hits bread week, she’s as fragile as an overbaked croissant. Just when she needs to keep all her focus on flour, water, yeast and salt, another ingredient enters the mix. Death...
  • Finding the Fox by Ali Sparkes

    Finding the Fox by Ali Sparkes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy . . . until something extraordinary happens one day. Whilst frightened for his life, he inexplicably changes into a fox! Before long, both a government agent and an ambitious young journalist are on his tail...
  • Burned by Benedict Jacka

    Burned by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus is back in the seventh in the “gorgeously realized”* urban fantasy series from the national bestselling author of Veiled. I’m used to people wanting me dead. But, this time, I’m not the only one on the hit list—and time is running out... Diviner Alex Verus finally made one too many enemies on the Council of Mages, and now one of them is angry enough to have him executed...
  • Hammered by Kevin Hearne

    Hammered by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully—he’s ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he’s asked his friend Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare...
  • Brutal Asset by John Conroe

    Brutal Asset by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Book 3 of the Demon Accords. Partnered in an uneasy alliance with federal law enforcement, Chris Gordon has been hunting down the outlaw gang, Loki's Spawn, who attacked his vampire girlfriend. But when he finds unexpected hostages who trigger his baser instincts, Chris is thrown into a search for answers to dark questions...
  • Hexed by Kevin Hearne

    Hexed by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty—when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they’re badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War II...
  • Duel Nature by John Conroe

    Duel Nature by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Chris and Tanya have been assigned as Coven Rovers, traveling the country and trouble shooting the supernatural community. It's a job that's part cop and part auditor, one that should be long periods of boredom mixed with small parts of action...
  • Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    As a curious six-year-old, Clayton didn’t resist the bite—he asked for it. But surviving as a lone child-werewolf was more than he could manage—until Jeremy came along and taught him how to straddle the human-werewolf worlds, gave him a home…and introduced him to the Pack...
  • Trapped by Kevin Hearne

    Trapped by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    After twelve years of secret training, Atticus O’Sullivan is finally ready to bind his apprentice, Granuaile, to the earth and double the number of Druids in the world. But on the eve of the ritual, the world that thought he was dead abruptly discovers that he’s still alive, and they would much rather he return to the grave...
  • Charmed Caper by Lucía Ashta

    Charmed Caper by Lucía Ashta

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Not a day over fabulous.Marla Gawama is the new detective of Gales Haven.She knows nothing about sleuthing, but her nan assigned her the job, and what Bessie Gawama wants, she gets.Marla does her best to carry out her new detective doo-ties. She even dons her comfortable running shoes and sets out to get ’er done...
    Categorized as:
    animals  magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Mom’s The Word by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Mom’s The Word by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Magical medieval artifacts are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They are the perfect target for magical thieves.Look out Lucy Heron. It’s not the usual menace looking to steal a strange magical crown.Good thing Lucy and the Silver Griffins are on the case.Meanwhile, the Underfoot Brigade are on a case of their own. Monsters are in the underground tunnels. Time to find out why...
  • One Mom Army by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    One Mom Army by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leave it to a Magical Mom to clean up the streets of the city of Los Angeles. Lucy Heron, Agent 485 is on the job, and trying to keep things together at home.It’s not an easy job…. Especially when pipes are bursting, your kids are trying to solve crimes and a dangerous new monster is polluting the city.Gives a whole new meaning to the LA smog...
  • Rogue Mom by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rogue Mom by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Has anyone noticed Los Angeles is going to the monsters?​The City of Angels is under attack and the Silver Griffins are calling all agents.What monster is making the rounds and threatening to expose magic?Mr. No has returned and is invading dreams. The sinister Dwarf has figured out how to sap away magicals’ dreams and aspirations...
  • Chosen by Benedict Jacka

    Chosen by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    I don’t publicly advertise that I’m a mage, but I don’t exactly hide it either, and one of the odd things I’ve learnt over the years is just how much you can get away with if you’re blatant enough. Hide something behind smoke and mirrors and make people work to find it, and they’ll tear the place down looking for what’s there...
  • Hunted by Kevin Hearne

    Hunted by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    For a two-thousand-year-old Druid, Atticus O’Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he’s being chased by not one but two goddesses of the hunt—Artemis and Diana—for messing with one of their own. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus, Granuaile, and his wolfhound Oberon are making a mad dash across modern-day Europe to seek help from a friend of the Tuatha Dé Danann...
  • Blue Shadow by Brad Magnarella

    Blue Shadow by Brad Magnarella

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B07B7LF8PPThe price of normalcy In the hopes of curing his curse and returning to his fiancé, Jason Wolfe agrees to command a corporate monster-hunting unit. But the team isn’t exactly what he had in mind… A priest, a ninja, a zombie, and a guy who looks like he should be working crew on the carny circuit...
  • Magical Mayhem by Lucía Ashta

    Magical Mayhem by Lucía Ashta

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not a day over fabulous.Marla figured returning to her small hometown would be the start of a simple life—albeit one with magic.She figured wrong.Magic was part of the deal, but the new role assigned to her wasn’t. What does she know about detecting?Nothing at all, a fact made plainly obvious during her first day on the job...
  • Pawsitively Swindled by Melissa Erin Jackson

    Pawsitively Swindled by Melissa Erin Jackson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Appearances can be deceiving.Amber Blackwood, Edgehill’s secret resident witch, recently found her parents’ grimoires and the powerful time spells within. The malevolent Penhallow clan has been ruthlessly seeking the grimoires so they can travel back in time to undo their clan’s cursed magic...
  • Tricked by Kevin Hearne

    Tricked by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Druid Atticus O’Sullivan hasn’t stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that they’ve chopped up his body in the Arizona desert...
  • Pyro by A.L. Knorr

    Pyro by A.L. Knorr

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will she give up her greatest secret for the greatest opportunity? Saxony has barely stepped off the plane from her life-altering summer in Venice when friction in her family rises up to meet her...
  • Witch in Training by Elle Adams

    Witch in Training by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Blair is one step closer to finally getting her own wand and becoming a real witch-in-training. The only person standing in her way is the notoriously grumpy wand-maker wizard. One small problem: he's just hired her to find him a new assistant, and the job is cursed. With every possible employee turning into a rodent, it's up to Blair to get to the bottom of the mystery...
    Categorized as:
    animals  magic  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Book Of Ill Deeds by Phaedra Weldon

    The Book Of Ill Deeds by Phaedra Weldon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ginger Blackstone had been looking for a change in her life. Getting a call from her home town’s Sheriff with the message, “We’ve arrested your grandmother for murder,” wasn’t it.Three bodies later and Ginger finds herself, and the hot new small-town doctor, up to their broomsticks in trouble...
    Categorized as:
    animals  magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • A Score to Kettle by Eryn Scott

    A Score to Kettle by Eryn Scott

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A ghost mystery for readers who don't usually enjoy the paranormal."The residents of Pebble Cove were wary of the new commune at The Pines even before someone ended up dead.Rosemary is excited to cater her first even at the newly opened commune's full moon festival. When a young woman is found murdered in her yurt, it's clear these rich wannabe hippies aren't as peaceful as they pretend...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  urban  animals  cozy  mystery  fiction  ghosts  fantasy
  • Magic 101 by Mercedes Lackey

    Magic 101 by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Before Buffy ever staked out a vampire, before anyone was “Grimm,” before the “Supernatural” Winchester brothers locked horns with things that go bump in the night, there was Diana Tregarde. Diana Tregarde. Occult investigator. Witch. And Guardian. Pledged to protect and shield the innocent from the deadly menaces of the Dark, the things most people have never seen--and would never want to...
  • Hidden by Benedict Jacka

    Hidden by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Alex Verus is a diviner who can see probable futures - a talent that's gotten him and his friends out of many a tough scrape. But what happens when someone doesn't want Alex's help?Alex's friend, the life mage Anne, distanced herself from him when she found out about his past as a Dark apprentice. Now she's in serious trouble, but wants nothing to do with him...
  • Death Knell by Hailey Edwards

    Death Knell by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Luce is back in the third book of The Foundling, the bestselling fantasy series perfect for fans of Shannon Mayer, Jenn Stark and the Sookie Stackhouse novels War burned her. Famine nearly killed her. Now Death is at her heels. After her two worlds clashed apocalyptically, Luce Boudreau needed some time out. But Destiny had other ideas...
  • Dresden Files Roleplaying Game: Vol 1: Your Story by Leonard Balsera, Jim Butcher

    Dresden Files Roleplaying Game: Vol 1: Your Story by Leonard Balsera, Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tell Us Your StoryBeneath the "normal" surface of the world are things and people which most of us don't want to know about, and will do our best to forget about if we ever come near them. People won't see what they don't want to see.But that's most of us. And you-you're not most of us...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Misty Falls by Joss Stirling, Джос Стърлинг

    Misty Falls by Joss Stirling, Джос Стърлинг

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Misty is a one-girl disaster zone. Born with a Savant 'gift' that means she can never tell a lie, her compulsive truth-telling gets her into trouble wherever she goes.So when she meets Alex: gorgeous, confident, and impossibly charming, Misty instantly resolves to keep her distance . . . Someone so perfect could never be hers, surely?But a dark shadow has fallen across the Savant community...
  • Paper & Blood by Kevin Hearne

    Paper & Blood by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Kevin Hearne returns to the world of the Iron Druid Chronicles in book two of a spin-off series about an eccentric master of rare magic solving an uncanny mystery in Scotland.There’s only one Al MacBharrais: Though other Scotsmen may have dramatic mustaches and a taste for fancy cocktails, Al also has a unique talent. He’s a master of ink and sigil magic...
  • (Un)wise by Melissa Haag

    (Un)wise by Melissa Haag

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The dreams start, and Bethi’s very normal life goes down the toilet. She soon realizes the dreams are actually memories from past lives…and not just hers. She sees the lives of other women like her. The recalled memories follow the same terrifying pattern: Dog-men chase her, and she sees her eventual tormented death. Learning from the past, Bethi sets out to find a way to live this time around...
  • Probationary Agent by Judith Berens, Martha Carr

    Probationary Agent by Judith Berens, Martha Carr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Senior year. Two semesters remain before Raine Campbell and her friends graduate from the School of Necessary Magic. What are the chances of two, nice and quiet semesters? Chances are pretty slim. Louper finals are in full swing. Raine’s friends are trying to figure out their plans post high school. A teacher is being threatened...
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