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The Law by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFrom the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set after Battle Ground, that thrusts Chicago’s only professional Wizard, Harry Dresden, back into battle–both a legal one… and the kind with explosions.Not every danger comes in the form of a mega-threat like a Titan. Some predators are a lot cozier... more personal... -
Spells for the Dead by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNell Ingram faces a dark craft known as death magic in the newest pulse-pounding paranormal procedural in the New York Times bestselling Soulwood series.Nell Ingram is a rookie PsyLed agent, using the powers she can channel from deep within the earth to solve paranormal crimes. Together with her team, she's taken on the darkest magic and the direst foes...Categorized as:
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A Gilded Iron Blade by Kai Butler
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSaving 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... -
Tooth and Nail by Chris Underwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA murdered vampire. No witnesses. A blood feud ignited.Some folks say the only good vampire is a dead vampire. But when the murder of a vampire threatens the fragile peace between vampires and ogres, someone has to wade into the fray to sort the truth from the lies.Guess who gets that job.But there's more to this murder than an ancient blood feud... -
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The Heart's Blood Arrow by Kai Butler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn old nemesis is out for blood…Parker Ferro’s life would be easier if his enemies stayed gone. When the man responsible for the death of Parker’s mother breaks out of prison, Parker finds himself in the crosshairs of the Bureau of Paranormal Threats when he tracks the criminal down... -
Bent Out of Shade by Deborah Wilde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMiriam Feldman’s road to happiness is littered with potholes.Between her search for a vampire’s missing fiancée and getting answers about a creepy amulet tied to my parents’ murders, she's making enemies across the whole supernatural spectrum. Fun! Meanwhile, her daughter is acting out, and teen attitude is sooo delightful when you throw magic into the mix...Categorized as:
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Last Impressions by A.J. Aalto
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen an FBI Internal Affairs investigation lands the Preternatural Crimes Unit in a bureaucratic spank-fest, it feels like the perfect time for Marnie Baranuik to skip town and lend her expertise to a bear-sized Canadian cop who doesn’t want her help with his case, his love life, or his car stereo... -
Midnight Smoke by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSupernatural Squad might be small, but we're growing in power. The vampires and werewolves of London are beginning to respect me more and I feel like I know what I'm doing - even if I don't yet understand what I truly am.Unfortunately, there might be a few snags to deal with. I'm trying to avoid Lord Horvath, the black-eyed vampire leader who seems intent on a more intimate relationship...Categorized as:
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Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...Categorized as:
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Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParker 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... -
Eye of the Storm by Alyssa Day
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA monster hurricane, a long-lost father, the Irish mob, and a rogue vampire are all trying their darndest to smash Dead End, Florida into pieces -- and then another dead body shows up... -
The Librarian's Vampire Assistant, Book 3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes an uncomfortably hilarious Mystery with a heaping help of sexual frustration, THE LIBRARIAN’S VAMPIRE ASSISTANT, Book Three. (Yep! It’s a STAND-ALONE. But why not read them all because…fun!)FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR BOSS JUST CAN’T GET MORE AWKWARD...Michael Vanderhorst is not your usual vampire... -
Gifted by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContains two holiday stories, one Otherworld Pack and one Cainsville.Gabriel’s Gargoyles - (Cainsville short story, Gabriel Walsh as 10 year old narrator.) Cainsville was where a boy could walk the streets safely at any time, day or night. Where everyone was genuinely glad to see you, and didn’t think you were odd if you wanted to keep to yourself. Because Cainsville was odd, too...Categorized as:
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Further Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman by J.B. Lynn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTake three wacky aunts, two talking animals, one nervous bride, and an upcoming hit,and you've got the follow-up to JB Lynn's wickedly funny Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic HitwomanKnocking off a drug kingpin was the last thing on Maggie Lee's to-do list, but when a tragic accident leaves her beloved niece orphaned and in the hospital, Maggie will go to desperate lengths to land the money... -
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The Vampire and the Case of her Dastardly Death by Heather G. Harris, Jilleen Dolbeare
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI awoke dead. It was a real bummer. Being covered in blood and having fangs was the icing on an already terrible day.Things go from bad to worse when I get a summons to attend the vampire king’s court, where I get my marching orders...Categorized as:
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Scorched Heart by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMy parents were brutally murdered when I was five years old. Their killer has spent the last twenty five years in prison for his terrible crimes - but I still have unanswered questions. After all, I am the phoenix. When I die, I am reborn in fire and brimstone. It happens again and again and again. I have no idea where my strange ability came from and nobody to ask... -
Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn a reservation where magic has been unrestrained for entirely too long, there is no rest from the wicked…After dealing with the fallout of a shape-shifting, fire-throwing demon, Lizzie, Belle, and Aiden are hoping the reservation will finally catch a break from the constant influx of evil... -
Shadow Unit 9 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit. The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear...Categorized as:
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Tell Me a Secret by Chloe Garner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTina's old life ended the day she discovered her parents, murdered.Her new life began the day she walked into Tell's office, looking for someone who could do something about it... -
Eye of Danger by Alyssa Day
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's a PI who turns into a tiger. She can see how you'll die. The bad guys never stood a chance. EYE OF DANGER: The longest and most twisty installment of the Tiger's Eye mysteries yet! When Tess Callahan's long-lost and presumed-dead father comes back to town, running from the mob, she's not sure how to feel... -
Blood Money by Lisa Edmonds
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCharles Vaughan has always had great taste in women, and the Vampire Court's newest investigator, Alice Worth, looks very tasty indeed.After an epidemic of attacks by newly risen vampires terrorizes the city, authorities pressure Charles Vaughan and the Vampire Court to determine who is responsible... -
The Vampire Book Club by Nancy Warren
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI was a divorced, middle-aged witch banished to Ireland.My life could be summed up in a limerick.. -
Wings over Water by Mark Hayden
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow hard can it be to exorcise a few ghosts? Very. Roberta “Woody” Woodhouse is the Peculier Necromancer. Her job is to make safe the haunted places of England. A routine job in Yorkshire smells wrong. A long abandoned RAF airfield is haunted by the ghosts of airmen past... -
Paper Stars by Devon Monk
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne magical holiday. Some assembly required... Police Chief Delaney Reed loves the holidays in Ordinary, Oregon, the beach town where gods vacation and monsters reside. But this year, she has a lot on her plate. It isn’t just the creature who follows her home, or the terrible storm barreling toward town. It isn't that Mrs. Yates’s penguin has been stolen. Again... -
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The Forbidden by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe is someone’s darkest desirePlaying the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Finley Stirling, the FBI agent working the case...Categorized as:
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The Fox's Curse by Sarah Painter, Kate Rawson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDon't miss the exciting third installment in the best-selling urban fantasy mystery series, the Crow Investigations.A cursed Fox. A vengeful Silver. A whole lot of trouble. Lydia Crow has long suspected there is more beneath London than just trains but has never been keen to poke around in the dark... -
Hidden Trump by Mark Henwick
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“I knew I was going to be betrayed this week.”Amber Farrell, Denver PI, is coming to terms with being part of the paranormal community, but she’s about to find that includes very dangerous responsibilities for her. Nothing is quite what it seems, least of all, Amber herself, and to survive, she must form alliances with powerful groups whose interests are in conflict... -
Love Hurts by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn e-book short story by New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher, originally published in the anthology SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Also available in Side Jobs... -
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsThe song. That’s what London constable and sorcerer’s apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho’s 606 Club...Categorized as:
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Spells & Shelves by Elle Adams
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBookshop assistant Aurora "Rory" Hawthorn thinks reality will never be as interesting as fiction. Content to spend her time escaping into a good book to escape her micromanaging boss, the very last thing she expects is to be cornered by a group of terrifying strangers hunting down a journal that belonged to her late father... -
Shadow Unit 10 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit. The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear...Categorized as:
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Shadow Unit 4 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit. The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear.This collection contains Lucky Day by Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear Sugar by Leah Bobetand more...Categorized as:
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Shades of Memory by Diana Pharaoh Francis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRiley's lost the last damned thing she's willing to lose. She's declaring war and prisoners are optional.After escaping the FBI, Riley and her family have become fugitives, and not just from the law. Every bad guy on the planet wants a piece of Riley. Gregg has been kidnapped. Worse than that, Price's newly discovered magic is dangerously out of control, and her own is trying to kill her...Categorized as:
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Hex at a House Party by Gretchen Galway
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes it takes a magic touch to solve a murder. Twenty-six-year-old witch Alma may be a failed demon hunter, but she’s never lacked magical ability—just an Incurable Inability to kill... -
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Shadow Unit 3 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real.The BAU sends those cases down the hall.Welcome to Shadow Unit.The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear.Contains the novel, "Refining Fire" by Elizabeth Bear and Emma Bull, plus bonus material...Categorized as:
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Zoo Day by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShort Story included in Brief...Categorized as:
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Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA tightly woven blend of myth, magic, and the ties of a found family.Ghosts that speak in smoke. Spirits with teeth like glass. A parasitic, soul-eating spirit worm has gone into a feeding frenzy, but all the Jong-ro Police Department’s violent crimes unit sees is a string of suicides. Except for Kim Han-gil, Seoul’s only spirit detective. He’s seen this before...Categorized as:
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Deep State by Christopher Farnsworth
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s been four years since a new president ascended to the White House. Zach Barrows has not seen Nathaniel Cade, the President’s Vampire, since being fired from his position as Cade’s handler and sent to a small, cramped office in a government building in Nebraska.Once, he and Cade fought a shadow war against the monsters, spies, and demons that threatened the United States... -
The Phoenix Illusion by Lisa Shearin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe agents of Supernatural Protection & Investigation (SPI) are used to dealing with the weird and the wacky, but even they are stunned when a building from another world suddenly appears on an empty lot in New York. . . I’m Makenna Fraser, seer for SPI, and it’s just my luck that my birthday party is literally crashed by a building from another planet... -
Derivation by Lyn Gala
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDarren and Kavon have committed to each other, but magical rules are changing and that tests the strength of their bond. The death of a prominent Egyptian shaman and the shadowy remains of O'Brien's conspiracy to kill adepts and steal their magic also pressure the new couple...Categorized as:
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Murder Under a Mystic Moon by Yasmine Galenorn
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the USA Today bestselling author of the Otherworld novels. Medium Emerald O'Brien looks into the disappearance of a missing biker-only to stumble upon his dead body in the woods. The police believe a wild animal killed him, but Emerald is convinced the killer is one of human nature... -
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option... -
Killing Rites by M.L.N. Hanover
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJayné Heller has discovered the source of her uncanny powers: something else is living inside her body. She's possessed. Of all her companions, she can only bring herself to confide in Ex, the former priest. They seek help from his old teacher and the circle of friends he left behind, hoping to cleanse Jayné before the parasite in her becomes too powerful... -
High Stakes by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt may be less than a month since the doors of New Order opened but that doesn't mean Bo Blackman isn't busy. It's not just daft allegations about vampire dogs and complicated relationships that she has to deal with, however.When a woman is brutally assaulted, barely escaping with her life, Bo ensures she forms an integral part of the investigation... -
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The Silver Mark by Sarah Painter, Kate Rawson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingshe Silver Mark is the second installment in Crow Investigations, an exciting paranormal mystery series from best-selling author of magical fiction, Sarah Painter. London is Lydia Crow’s city so when a man is found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, she takes it personally. Even when it seems as if the Silver Family might be involved, Lydia refuses to back down... -
Bobbles and Broomsticks by Nancy Warren
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWho invited Death to the wedding?When an ancient beam falls on one of the guests at Charlie and Alice’s wedding rehearsal, it looks like the work of the death watch beetle, an insect that eats old timbers. But fledgling witch Lucy and the vampire knitting club aren’t so sure... -
My Dead Body by Charlie Huston, Scott Brick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPrivate eye Joe Pitt has been in hiding since exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattans Vampyres. But now a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. Then Joe is hired to find a missing girl who is carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind... -
Wait for Dark by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn SCU team investigates a string of accidents, only to uncover a deadly and deliberate monster in the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. In Clarity, North Carolina, the residents have fallen victim to an unfortunate series of events. Seemingly random accidents have taken the lives of several citizens in the small mountain town...Categorized as:
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Out of this World by J.D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLove, Supernatural StyleLove is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today’s hottest authors...Categorized as:
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Vignette by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA short story of the Dresden Files. Bob and Harry discuss the latter's Yellow Pages advert...
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