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  • Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain

    Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    from the book's foreword: "While Doggone Mess’s beginning was written before Plaidypus, there are important reasons for why I didn’t renumber the series and insert Doggone Mess before Plaidypus. Doggone Mess’s events after Plaidypus require Plaidypus to truly make sense."Originally a novella in the anthology Dirty Deeds published in Jan, 2021, this edition has been expanded into a full novel...
  • Sea Storm by Christine Feehan

    Sea Storm by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In one trade package together for the first time-two stories of the Drake Sisters from the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon. This two-in-one package from the #1 New York Times bestselling Drake Sisters series includes: Magic in the Wind Ever since Damon Wilder sought refuge in Sea Haven, he's heard the same breathless rumor so suggestive that it carries him to Sarah's cliff-top home...
  • Grim Reunion by Amanda M. Lee, Karen Krause

    Grim Reunion by Amanda M. Lee, Karen Krause

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Aisling Grimlock has a lot going on. Her boyfriend is keeping a secret … with her brother. She’s finally on her own collecting souls for the family reaping business. Oh, and her mother is back from the dead and may be eating people to keep herself alive. When trouble comes knocking and someone Aisling adores is left injured in the crossfire, she’s out for blood and vengeance...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Bite Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Bite Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Mae Dafoe is back in her hometown chasing ghosts. She’s forgotten what it’s like to be around her big crazy family, and it’s a big adjustment coming from the life she’s created for herself in the years she’s been gone. Three days here, and then she can go back to her apartment in the city, and far away from the swamps of Uncertain. All she needs is closure...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  drama
  • Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Trouble Play by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This desert oasis has gone to the dogs, and Vista de Lirio is about to get bloody.(Not the dogs though. The dogs are fine.)Comedian Evy Lane thought she’d done it all, but taking on the role of mistress of ceremonies for the Desert Fancy Dog Show may be her most challenging gig yet...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Tie Me Knot by Allie Brahms

    Tie Me Knot by Allie Brahms

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    So far, while working at a ghost matchmaking agency, the past week has gone 1) a murdered ghost bride who is very very pissed off (don’t blame her, I’d be pissed off too) 2) adopted by chinese hellhounds (I THOUGHT THEY WERE DOGS, OKAY) 3) wake up magically soul-bonded to the sexy demon slayer Zhen (While I agree he’s -expansive hand waving- HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!) I do not need a fourth incident...
  • The Gathering by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    The Gathering by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "Darkness is a tricky thing. Especially when it cloaks itself in light." Luka isn't dead. He's not beyond saving. Tess knows because she saw him with her own eyes. After what she saw, she's sure of one thing: If they don't rescue him soon, Luka won't be Luka anymore. If only she could convince the other members of the hub. They're not sure Tess saw what she claims she saw...
  • Witching for Hope by Deanna Chase

    Witching for Hope by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hope Anderson loves her life. She has a great business that’s thriving, the best friends a girl could ever have, and a coven she can count on. Oh, and she’s been single for over fifteen years and likes it that way… until the love of her life, Lucas King, walks back into town and throws everything she thought she knew about herself into chaos...
  • Savage by Kelley Armstrong

    Savage by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    No longer available online - now in the anthology, Men of the OtherworldSavage is about Jeremy Danvers finding Clay...
  • Only the Lonely by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Lonely by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Isabella “Izzy” Sage spent her formative years on Belle Isle in Detroit, playing next to the gate that separates the living from the dead as her parents drew a paycheck from the grim reaper council. Then the impossible happened, tragedy struck, and Izzy found herself an orphan...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Strength Enduring by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Strength Enduring by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the penultimate novel of the Talon Pack series from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan, an Enforcer must make the ultimate choice when it comes to a human woman with a secret she doesn't know she holds.Kameron Brentwood has only one thing on his mind: defeating the enemy. He doesn't have time for a human woman who sets his teeth on edge and makes his wolf prowl...
  • Secret Of The Rose by Ellen Dugan

    Secret Of The Rose by Ellen Dugan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The search for the Blood Moon Grimoire continues… Welcome back to William’s Ford, Missouri. The bewitching college town where magick and weirdness seems to happen on any day of the week that ends with the letter ‘Y’. Autumn Bishop, grad student, Seer, and the newest Witch in town, has her hands full in the second installment of the Legacy of Magick Series...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • Forever Broken by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Forever Broken by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the finale to the award-winning Talon Pack series from NYT bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan sets, the final Brentwood must find his mate as the war with the Aspens comes to a close.Cheyenne Liles has watched all of her friends mate into the Talon Pack and have their lives changed forever, one by one. She’s stood back, helpless to assist in the war with a rival Pack...
  • City of Night by Linsey Hall

    City of Night by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Welcome to the City of Secrets & SinWhen I inherit a haunted bookstore in New Orleans, I go from demon hunter to my dream job. Unfortunately, there’s a dark side to my beautiful new life—the gorgeous demon who seems to think he owns the place.The attraction between us is insane, and we can’t keep our eyes off each other...
  • A Nomadic Witch by Debora Geary

    A Nomadic Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Spring brings a traveler to Nova Scotia - a tiny babe who will turn Marcus's life upside down and reincarnate the horrifying events of his past. Can Marcus find his way through the pain to love and healing? And can the witching community finally learn to keep their astral travelers safe?A Nomadic Witch is book four of the top-rated A Modern Witch series...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Midnight Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Midnight Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    January Jaxson's settling into her life in Moonshadow Bay, and her new relationship with wolf-shifter Killian O'Connell. Her job with Conjure Ink is proving both fascinating as well as dangerous. But little does January realize that she's about to let the actual genie out of the proverbial bottle...
  • The Astonishing Strande Brothers by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Astonishing Strande Brothers by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some bonds are too strong to be broken. Even by death.“The Astonishing Strande Brothers” is a short story/extended epilogue that tells the tale of the reunion between Julian Strande and his long-lost brother Louis on a snowy holiday at the Strande Estate.It combines characters from both my Harrow Faire and Impossible Julian Strande series...
  • Shadow Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Shadow Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The holidays are here, and this year, they’re deadly…It’s my first Thanksgiving back in Moonshadow Bay, and everything is hunky-dory until the Witches Guild assigns me a research project for the upcoming Winter Solstice Festival. Not only do I melt down my computer, but I download a demon who ends up stuck in my house...
  • It Must Be Fate by Sinclair Kelly

    It Must Be Fate by Sinclair Kelly

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's gone . . . This ghost girl just can't catch a break. There's fury in my soul and pain in my heart as I try to come to terms with the latest shitstorm the universe has thrown in the way of our unlife's happy ending. But during the uncertainty following the abduction, we discover we're not alone. We have the love and support of those closest to us, even if we barely remember them...
  • Darkest Powers Bonus Pack 2 by Kelley Armstrong

    Darkest Powers Bonus Pack 2 by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Contains two companion stories to the Darkest Powers trilogy.In Facing Facts (short story set after The Reckoning), Tori discovers who her father is, and Chloe deals with a vengeful ghost. Narrated by Chloe. This was previously published in Enthralled.In Belonging (the novella set after The Reckoning), Derek's werewolf family comes to claim him. Narrated by Derek...
  • Belonging by Kelley Armstrong

    Belonging by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This novella is no longer published online but can be found inDarkest Powers Bonus Pack 2A novella that takes place after the events in The Reckoning. Written in Derek's POV...
  • Jade Calhoun Series Boxed Set by Deanna Chase

    Jade Calhoun Series Boxed Set by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author, Deanna Chase, the first three books in the Jade Calhoun series The boxed set of the first three books in the Jade Calhoun Series. Includes: Haunted on Bourbon Street Witches of Bourbon Street Demons of Bourbon Street. Book 4, Angels of Bourbon Street is available now!  amazon...
  • Atoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Atoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Chloe's POV set after The Darkness Rising trilogy.Chloe and Derek have adjusted to life in Badger Lake. It’s not perfect, but it’s safe and they’re learning the skills they’ll need when it comes time to make a decision about their futures. They’re comfortable and they’re settled . . . until a weekend camping trip with Maya and Daniel reunites them with someone they thought they’d left in the past...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  book  contemporary  demons  fiction  mystery
  • Rogue Wave by Christie Anderson

    Rogue Wave by Christie Anderson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After five months of blissful pretending, Sadie and Rayne are practically the couple of the year. At least, according to Sadie's friends at school they are. But she knows the truth. Their feelings are just an illusion. Now, with graduation and college right around the corner, Sadie realizes she can't put off the inevitable any longer. She has to make a choice...
  • A Mad Zombie Party by Gena Showalter

    A Mad Zombie Party by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The battle rages on.Ali Bell and Cole Holland's crew of zombie slayers thought they'd won the war against Anima Industries, the evil company responsible for capturing and experimenting on zombies in an effort to discover the secret to immortality. In the last epic clash, the slayers lost many of their crew and closest friends...
  • The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After battling a malevolent ghost that held the spirit of her friend Ian MacKinnon bound to the land for two hundred years, sixteen-year-old reluctant psychic, Riley Williams, felt as if she was finally easing into her new life in Scotland.Or so she thought...
  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • Fern Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Fern Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rachel Campbell is doing just fine on her own. The forty-seven-year-old divorced single mother of a nearly grown teenager, she's also a shape shifter. She isn't opposed to the idea of love, but she isn't looking for it, either. But then state trooper Lee Harrison moves in across the street...
  • Enchanted by K.K. Allen

    Enchanted by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This ebook is no longer available. For updated content, please see Book 1, Cursed, in the Enchanted Gods series...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  magic  paranormal  book  contemporary  death  fiction  myths
  • Charmed by Cambria Hebert

    Charmed by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life or Death? Not many people would choose death. But what if death chooses you? What if death doesn’t mean the end of your life, but the beginning? For a Death Escort, death is life. Death is your paycheck. Death is your job.And Charming is the best Escort the Grim Reaper has ever had.But when you piss off the Reaper, being the best doesn’t matter...
  • Protecting His Vampire Mate by Jay Castle

    Protecting His Vampire Mate by Jay Castle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BRYANAfter everything I've done, I don't deserve love. Especially not from Tobias Hawthorne—the brave, gorgeous, annoyingly perfect warlock who insists he's my fated mate.Actually, I might already be halfway in love with him, but Tobias doesn't need to know that. Because it can't happen. I can't put him in danger. Not when I've hurt so many people already...
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    paranormal  magic  ghosts  romance  vampires  mlm  lgbtq  fantasy
  • Sky Breaking 301 by Viola Grace

    Sky Breaking 301 by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Her magic is coming along, her kitten is still deadly, and she is about to make an actual friend. Controlling weather is simple by comparison. Sky Breaking seemed like a useful course, but its usefulness lay in the amount of credits that would count toward Imara’s degree. Once she is in the course, she meets the only other student, and they strike an unlikely friendship...
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    ghosts  magic  paranormal  book  contemporary  demons  dragons  fae
  • Willem by Victoria Danann

    Willem by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *A highwayman's ghost.*A beagle who thinks he's a bear.*A colony of witches. Yeah. Wimberley is a magical place. Willem is an out of work actor. He gave himself ten years to make it and never got a single paying job...
  • Flood Rising by Christie Anderson

    Flood Rising by Christie Anderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sadie is excited to start her new life on Ambrosia training to become a Water Keeper, and it’s even more thrilling to finally be in a semi-normal relationship with the love of her life, Rayne. But the Council has made great exceptions to the laws in order to let Sadie enroll at the Academy, and the Council doesn’t give out favors freely. They expect something in return...
  • Gray by Angelina J. Steffort

    Gray by Angelina J. Steffort

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Coming May, 15!„Good or bad is not who you are, it’s who you choose to be.“In the final showdown of The Wings Trilogy, Claire has to choose between temptation and destiny, and has to learn that there is more to her family history than she could have ever imagined..
  • Eternal Luck by Louisa Masters

    Eternal Luck by Louisa Masters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Luck brought us together… but can it last forever?I was working a dead-end job and living with too many roommates when I met Carlos. That meeting was our first stroke of luck, changing both our lives and tying us together. I’ll never regret it, but after eight amazing years, I’m starting to think he does...
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    paranormal  ghosts  magic  romance  mlm  contemporary  fantasy  lgbtq
  • Catalyst by Audrey Faye

    Catalyst by Audrey Faye

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The residences are coming, a teenage polar bear is stalking the northern border, and one of the old lieutenants is trying to slink his way home.Evan knows something about that walk. He also has serious pack responsibilities on his shoulders, these days. So of course his wolf has decided to be an idiot...
  • Legacy of Magick by Ellen Dugan

    Legacy of Magick by Ellen Dugan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    So it turns out Magick runs in the family... Autumn Bishop was just your average grad student...who happens to be a Seer. When she moves in with her long lost aunt and cousins, they look like a relatively normal family from the outside, however they turn out to be so much more...
  • Shadow Silence by Yasmine Galenorn

    Shadow Silence by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn invites readers to Whisper Hollow, where spirits walk among the living and the lake never gives up her dead…Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I'm Kerris Fellwater, and I'm a spirit shaman...
  • One Hex of a Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn

    One Hex of a Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wedding bells turn to sour notes for Emerald O'Brien. Her fiancé is wounded by gunfire, her ex-husband becomes the prime suspect, and her maid of honor is being stalked. Now it's up to Emerald to divine if the incidents are related...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc
  • Dealing with Demons by Melissa Haag

    Dealing with Demons by Melissa Haag

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some deals can’t be broken. According to the family curse, Tessa has until her next birthday to select her future husband. However, choosing would mean his premature death. Unwilling to condemn any man to that fate, Tessa searches for an explanation behind the curse and the rules that dictate her life. What she learns is more terrifying than she could have imagined...
  • The Devil's Angel by Rachel McClellan

    The Devil's Angel by Rachel McClellan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucien, a centuries old vampire, lives a solitary life with his mind and heart blocked to the past. But all that changes when he meets Eve, a witch who not only stirs an ancient power within him, but who also teaches him to love again. This new life is threatened, however, when a powerful vampire who calls himself the Dark Prince vows to unleash a plague upon the earth...
  • A Fate Unknown by Sinclair Kelly

    A Fate Unknown by Sinclair Kelly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'd love to tell you how I got stuck in a house in the middle of Nowhereville, Illinois. Or how many years I've spent with no memory of the person I used to be. But I can't. Those details are locked down tight inside the chaos of my mind, and I don't have the key.The only thing I do know - I’m dead...
  • Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a misty cliffside, mystery and romance await. . . .Ivy Calhoun's life has been turned upside down. Her new stepdad has uprooted Ivy and her mom, bringing them to live in an actual castle in the misty Scottish countryside. There are stone-faced servants and shadowy corridors, and the ancient walls seem full of secrets. Ivy is at once frightened and intrigued...
  • An Alpha's Choice by Carrie Ann Ryan

    An Alpha's Choice by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brynn Brentwood has spent the whole of her life protecting the Talon Pack through terrors only she will ever know. She’s never asked for more in life other than to live to take her next breath and to ensure her family is safe. Regardless of her selfless wishes and the atrocities the former Alpha committed, she has always known that fate would provide for her as it had countless others...
  • Darkest Powers Bonus Pack 1 by Kelley Armstrong

    Darkest Powers Bonus Pack 1 by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Contains three companion stories to the #1 NYT bestselling Darkest Powers trilogy. Dangerous (prequel to The Summoning) The story of how Derek and Simon came to Lyle House, told from Derek’s point-of-view Divided (set between The Summoning and The Awakening) Derek and Simon’s adventures while separated from Chloe and Rae in the factory. Also told from Derek’s point of view...
  • Divided by Kelley Armstrong

    Divided by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This novella is no longer published online but can be found inDarkest Powers Bonus Pack 1"..the story filled in exactly the portion from where Derek left Chloe to when he found her again...
  • The Phantom King by Heather Killough-Walden

    The Phantom King by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Phantom King by Heather Killough-Waldenis book two in the Big Bad Wolf spinoff series, The Kingsand sequel to The Vampire King.Siobhan Ashdown was born of magic; it rides her blood like a phantom, tainted and dark and unpredictable. She is a warlock, and the power within her is unlike any before known to her kind...
  • Soul Screamers Volume One by Rachel Vincent

    Soul Screamers Volume One by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It starts with a scream….New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent's compelling Soul Screamers series keeps getting better—here, for the first time, the original stories are compiled into one special volume…. My Soul to Lose —The prequel: never before in print!—Kaylee is just your average girl shopping at the mall with friends—until a terrified scream bursts from her that cannot be stopped...
  • Challenging Zed by Joss Stirling

    Challenging Zed by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Want to know what Zed Benedict was thinking when he met his soulmate Sky Bright for the first time? Find out for FREE in this compelling short story. The Benedict brothers all have different abilities and powers. One can move things with his mind, another can heal...
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