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  • Fangs, Frost, and Folios by Elizabeth Hunter

    Fangs, Frost, and Folios by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An all-new holiday mystery for your favorite book-hunting vampires!Giovanni and Beatrice left vampire conspiracies and supernatural adventures for a peaceful family life. But peace only lasts so long for a vampire assassin and an undying scribe.The death of an old friend leaves Giovanni with a rare opportunity...
  • A Witch of a Time by Amanda M. Lee

    A Witch of a Time by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Winchester witches are all about love and family – and, well, snark and sarcasm – and no one knows that better than the family members themselves, plus the people who love them. Follow Clove, Thistle, Landon, Winnie and Aunt Tillie as they share their lives – and innermost thoughts – through a series of short novellas that take you from the present, to the past, and then back again...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  humor
  • Bear Facts: Shifters Unbound by Jennifer Ashley

    Bear Facts: Shifters Unbound by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shane’s bad day gets worse when his sanctuary on the mountains is invaded by an un-Collared wolf, who thinks attacking him is a great idea. Shane has no intention of getting involved in this lady Lupine’s complicated life, but there’s something about her that raises his protective instincts to the highest they’ve ever been...
  • Dead Witches Tell No Tales  (The Hollows, #3-4) by Kim Harrison

    Dead Witches Tell No Tales (The Hollows, #3-4) by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even in the Holllows - Cincinnati's home to all supernatural folk - vampires and werewolves can make strange bedfellows. Just ask Rachel Morgan, private investigator and witch. First her never-do-well boyfriend disappears into the night. Then the hunky protege of vampire crimelord Piscary starts eyeing her curves... not to mention her throat...
  • Heart of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Heart of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Keating Hollow, the enchanted village where love, cupcakes, and magic collide. There are only three things that were ever important to Noel Townsend—love, family, and magic. Two out of three aren’t bad. She’s blessed with a large close-knit family and her magic has never been stronger...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Psychic on the Rocks by Annabel Chase

    Psychic on the Rocks by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Rebecca Angelos prefers the company of animals to people, which is why she spends the majority of her time at her job at the animal shelter. Animals are simple—they appreciate her and don’t see her through the critical lens that she sees herself...
  • 101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer McMarin of the NYPD is in for the ride of her life when the Chief Quinns storm into her station, promote her to the rank of detective, and relocate her to Manhattan. Saddled with the dubious honor of being Chief Bailey Quinn’s primary rider is only the beginning of her woes.Her first case delves into the dark waters of the many ways in which a person can die...
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  demons  fiction
  • 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...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  urban
  • Feathers by Debora Geary

    Feathers by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Witch Central goes to Costa Rica for summer vacation...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • The Insider by Ridley Pearson

    The Insider by Ridley Pearson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    from Amazon.comThe Kingdom Keepers' senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced-albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman faced down his nemesis, the monstrous Chernabog, a new threat brews...
  • Shell Game by Ridley Pearson

    Shell Game by Ridley Pearson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    As the Disney Fantasy joins the cruise fleet, a special treat is in store for guests aboard its inaugural sail from Cape Canaveral to Los Angeles: the Disney Host Interactive teenage guides will be part of the Fantasy crew.Finn, Maybeck, Charlene, Willa, and Philby are to attend the cruise as celebrity guests, and to perform a ribbon cutting for the DHI server to go live...
  • Disney in Shadow by Ridley Pearson

    Disney in Shadow by Ridley Pearson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When Disney Imagineers installed hologram guides for the Magic Kingdom, using teenage models they had no idea the technology might backfire. But backfire it did: some nights when the kids go to sleep, they wake up in one of the Disney parks as a hologram...
  • Pride and Premeditation by Samantha Silver

    Pride and Premeditation by Samantha Silver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Pride comes before the fall... When one of Alice's best customers at the bookshop is murdered, she swears she's going to get to the bottom of it...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Lost Souls Paraagency and the Three Witches of Burberry by K.M. Waller

    Lost Souls Paraagency and the Three Witches of Burberry by K.M. Waller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Family legacies are a curse! Welcome to the Lost Souls ParaAgency, where agents work together to ensure the safety of humans and to prevent exposure of the paranormal community. The Assignment-stop witches from creating magical chaos in the small town of Burberry, South Carolina. There's no dead body... yet. And there won't be if Lex Dimas takes this assignment...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  family  fiction
  • Djinn Justice by Jenny Schwartz

    Djinn Justice by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Ancient Egyptian spell opens the door to a soul-sucking evil. Fay Olwen is still adjusting to life as one of a couple. She never expected to have a sexy leopard-were cuddling her at midnight in his huge bed in his gorgeous villa on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. But here she is, in love and in luck--finally! There's not a demon in sight...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fiction  mystery
  • Kingdom of Embers by Tricia Copeland

    Kingdom of Embers by Tricia Copeland

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her pale skin and weird diet make her a target at school. If only they knew the truth about her feeding habits…Seventeen-year-old Alena Scott is tired of pretending to be something she’s not. As an outlawed vampire-witch hybrid, she’s forced to abide by the oppressive secrecy imposed by her Vampire Chancellor mother...
  • Hummingbird by Helen Harper

    Hummingbird by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The best way to live in the Mage ruled city of Glasgow is to keep your head down and your mouth closed.That’s not usually a problem for Mairi Wallace. By day she works at a small shop selling tartan and by night she studies to become an apothecary. She knows her place and her limitations...
  • Splintered Mind by W.R. Gingell

    Splintered Mind by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Viv just wants work—any work. Well, not quite any work. But she’s desperate enough to accept a job offer as personal assistant to Jasper Renner—the rich and mysterious owner of the Renner Tea House—even though odd things happen whenever he’s around.She expects to deal with rich, entitled Melbournians and a full business schedule...
  • Vessel of Destruction by Kel Carpenter

    Vessel of Destruction by Kel Carpenter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If there is one truth that I hold to in my life, it is that when it rains, it pours. Perhaps that is why I built myself not for the everyday storms most experience. But for the hurricanes I have had to learn to withstand. I know what it is like to feel your heart crack in half like a tree that snaps under too much pressure...
  • Shadowed Flame by R.J. Blain

    Shadowed Flame by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Matia Evans has it all, except for one thing: she can’t see color. With an adopted family who loves her, a company she helps her father run, and more prospects than she knows what to do with, she’s in no place to complain that her world is limited to shades of gray, black, and white...
  • The Wolf's Secret by Claire Cullen

    The Wolf's Secret by Claire Cullen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When is a wolf not just a wolf? When he has magic running through his veins. Fleeing Samhain Pack to protect them from his berserker nature, Barrett is alone in the wilds—and lost to himself. Until he tracks a most interesting prey and finds himself face to face with a mage. But Evan is not just a mage, he’s something their pack desperately needs—a healer...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq  medical
  • Mallaroy by A.M. Juna

    Mallaroy by A.M. Juna

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kojarzycie ten moment, kiedy wasza bliźniaczka okazuje się zmiennokształtna, po czym znika, więc musicie podszywać się pod nią w nieludzkiej szkole? Nie? Erin Lanford chciałaby móc powiedzieć to samo. Jadąc do Mallaroy, spodziewała się wszystkiego, nawet własnej śmierci. To znaczy, wszystkiego poza palącym pragnieniem, by pociąć lidera wampirzej elity piłą mechaniczną...
  • A Battle of Blood and Stone by Sawyer Bennett

    A Battle of Blood and Stone by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Another day, another step closer to Hell on Earth being unleashed.With every piece that falls into place for the queen of the Underworld, Kymaris gains strength and power that will make it more difficult to defeat her when the time comes. It feels as if we’re in a desperate race to get just one step ahead of her, but my demise feels closer than it ever has before with still so much to do...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  angels  book  contemporary  demons  fae
  • Entangled by Jessica Sorensen

    Entangled by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alana Avery’s life is becoming complicated. The more she looks into her grandfather’s case, the guiltier he looks. And Jayse, her best friend in the world, has been acting strange, but refuses to tell her what’s going on.On top of everything going on at home, more tagged paranormal creatures are popping up everywhere, and her grandfather might be linked to one of their deaths...
  • Disembodied Bones by C.L. Bevill

    Disembodied Bones by C.L. Bevill

    Rated: 4.20 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 a child from a maniacal pedophile. Consequently she was shunned by most of the Lake People for imperiling them to the external world. As an adult she has been targeted by another madman, for a reason that has everything to do with that rescue...
  • A Charming Magic by Tonya Kappes

    A Charming Magic by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bubble, Bubble. . .Magic is floating all around Whispering Falls. There is a new flower shop, Magical Moments, and an upcoming wedding that has the town on cloud nine.Cures and Trouble. . .Arabella Paxton, the owner of Magical Moments is smart, beautiful and has her eyes on Oscar Park. Not even the dark cloud looming over Whispering Falls is going to stop her from what she wants. Magic Stirs. .
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  animals  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Five Mornings by Elizabeth Hunter

    Five Mornings by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One morning can change everything. Five mornings can change a life. Friends. Lovers. Enemies. Allies. Alex McCann and Teodora ‘Ted’ Vasquez never had a simple relationship. But you couldn’t call it a boring one, either. Five mornings in their past shape who they will become to each other. To their families. And to the mysterious town they call home...
  • The Search for Truth by Kaza Kingsley

    The Search for Truth by Kaza Kingsley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In The Search for Truth, Erec’s task involves finding the long lost Awen, and it is not only Erec’s crown on the line, but the Substance that holds Alpyium together. To complete the task, Erec must risk the life of his best friend, something he is not sure he can do. The only thing that can save him and Alpyium is a trip back to his own childhood...
  • Redemption by Denise Grover Swank

    Redemption by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The explosive conclusion to the bestselling series The Chosen.*Four shall fight. Two shall remain.*The game of immortal elements has advanced to an unexpected level since Will and Emma have joined. But was their union a part of Water's careful orchestration? Has the game swung to his advantage? With Emma's life -- and the lives of those she loves -- at risk, every move could be deadly...
  • Weaving Destiny by G.P. Ching

    Weaving Destiny by G.P. Ching

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Malini Gupta thought Jacob Lau was her destiny. But after months of failing to decipher how she fits into the Soulkeepers, frustration threatens to tear their relationship apart. And it doesn't help that a new Soulkeeper named Mara is ready to stop time itself to earn Jacob's love.When Malini faces her worst fears, and even death, she learns a funny thing about destiny...
  • Recon Mission: Bee by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Recon Mission: Bee by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Concerned that we hadn’t heard from her in over a year, Fish had dragged me all the way into the middle of Russia to follow up a lead on the whereabouts of our telepathic team member. Amanda, aka Bee. But what was supposed to be a simple reconnaissance mission — gathering intel so we could formulate a plan that might need to involve the rest of the team — went sideways within twenty-four hours...
  • Imprinted by Jim C. Hines

    Imprinted by Jim C. Hines

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jeneta’s magic could give us the stars…or destroy everyone she cares about.Seventeen-year-old libriomancer Jeneta Aboderin is a prodigy, determined to move on from the horrors she’s faced and use her power to create a better future. To show the world that magic isn’t a threat to be feared, but a tool of hope...
  • Witch Dust by Marilyn Messik

    Witch Dust by Marilyn Messik

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Sandra, daughter of illusionists, Adam and Ophelia, life’s never been run of the mill! But when Adam’s wandering eye lights on yet another conquest, it proves a chorus girl too far, and Sandra’s caught in the reverberations of her parents acrimonious parting...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts  humor
  • The Line That Binds by J.M. Miller

    The Line That Binds by J.M. Miller

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stained with heartache and cursed with vengeance, a stone well lies on a nineteenth-century estate, waiting for the Stockton line to wish again. When seventeen-year-old Lila Wayde's father loses his high-paying job in Las Vegas, the family relocates to a Pennsylvania estate bequeathed by an estranged aunt. Lila begins a new life there, one not corrupted by wealth and fake friends...
  • Risky Goods by Jami Gray

    Risky Goods by Jami Gray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An unexpected assignment, a jealous ex, and a game-changing serum trigger unexpected risks in a dangerous race against the clock. Rory Costas, Arcane Transporter, finds herself babysitting a trio of bad-ass Arbiters, including the highly distracting Zev Aslanov, as they track down a magical serum that shouldn't exist and a killer who's targeting the researchers behind it...
  • Frosted Croakies by Sam Cheever

    Frosted Croakies by Sam Cheever

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    'Tis the season for great folly...walawalawalawalala...ribbit. It's Christmas time at Croakies. The tree is up. The stockings are hung. And Christmas tunes are turning the atmosphere jolly. After a tumultuous Samhain, I've found my chi again and I'm starting to enjoy the season of love and giving. Yeah. You probably know how this is going to end...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • A Lonely Magic by Sarah Wynde

    A Lonely Magic by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing is what it seems…Fen, a street-smart orphan with anxiety issues, thinks she has her life under control. Then a gorgeous stranger tries to kill her. WTF?A mysterious boy and his sexy older brother come to her rescue, whisking her off to a glamorous Caribbean island and supposed safety. But the island’s atmosphere simmers with unnerving undercurrents...
  • Mercy for the Damned by Lisa Olsen

    Mercy for the Damned by Lisa Olsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You’d think having an angel come to visit you would be a good thing. So why did I feel like everything was about to get ten times worse as one knelt before me?”Mercy’s saga continues with Mercy for the Damned, Book III of The Fallen. When a new prophecy predicts a great evil if a fallen angel is allowed to remain in Midian, Mercy will move heaven and earth to free Adam from his deal with Raum...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  angels  book  contemporary  demons  fiction
  • Wolf Hunt by Jennifer Ashley

    Wolf Hunt by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Werewolf Logan Wright receives a mysterious phone call from Nadia, a beautiful demon woman he interviewed in his capacity as detective in the LAPD paranormal unit. She’s breathless and scared, and begs for his help. The former Packmaster—enforcer of pack law and official executioner for his wolf pack—has developed a fierce protectiveness for Nadia, and he drops everything to find her...
  • Embrace the Mystery by Caris Roane

    Embrace the Mystery by Caris Roane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mastyr Quinlan pursues the artist, Batya, with only one thing in mind but soon discovers that his desire for her is just the beginning of an earth-shattering affair… He doesn’t want a woman in his life… Quinlan must keep Grochaire Realm safe from the enemy at all costs. As ruler of his realm, a woman has no permanent place in his day-to-day existence...
  • Three Wishes by Debra Dunbar

    Three Wishes by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dar helped his foster sister become the ruler of Hel, and helped her free the enslaved humans from the elves. It’s about time he helped himself – to a fun week of mayhem in the Windy City. Collapsing a few buildings and corrupting politicians is an ideal vacation for a demon in Chicago, but Dar didn’t count on a beautiful angel sabotaging his fun and putting him to work...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  angels  audiobook  book  contemporary  demons
  • Protecting Truth by Michelle Warren

    Protecting Truth by Michelle Warren

    Rated: 4.10 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...
  • Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Just when she thought her dreams couldn't get any weirder, Ariel Donovan begins having vivid nightmares of a dog that she must follow. It leads her to find an item from her past that she must use to aid her in figuring out the Thornhill Society...but she's not the only one looking for it...
  • Cold Hearted by James A. Hunter

    Cold Hearted by James A. Hunter

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Yancy Lazarus just wants to be left alone. He wants play his blues music, smoke a few cigarettes, and otherwise leave the supernatural world to fend for itself. He especially wants to be left alone by the Guild of the Staff—the mage ruling body—where he used to work as a Fix-It man...
  • Shadow Magic by Cheyenne McCray

    Shadow Magic by Cheyenne McCray

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Bestselling author Cheyenne McCray's "Shadow Magic "is dark and dangerous. And deeply sensual..."THE SINS OF THE PASTWhen Hannah Wentworth temporarily flees her life in San Francisco to join her sister D'Anu witches in Otherworld, she vows to help them conquer the evil bent on destroying the human realm. But the only one who can help "her" happens to be the king of the Dark Elves...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fae  fiction
  • The Revealed by Sarah Kleck, Audrey Deyman

    The Revealed by Sarah Kleck, Audrey Deyman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The chemistry between Oxford University students Evelyn Lakewood and Jared Calmburry was immediate. After uncovering their shared and magical legacy—that they are the sole descendants of Merlin and the Lady of the Lake—their connection seems fated...
  • Darker Than Midnight by Maggie Shayne

    Darker Than Midnight by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    MICHAEL "RIVER" CORBETT--Confined in the state mental hospital and heavily drugged since the death of his wife, River cannot remember what truly happened the night he was arrested for her murder. But now someone is trying to kill him, and he is forced to run for his life. A fugitive from the law and from someone who wants him dead, all he wants is the truth...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  amnesia  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
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