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  • Like a Fine Magical Wine (Midlife Witchery, #6) by Brenda Trim

    Like a Fine Magical Wine (Midlife Witchery, #6) by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a harrowing visit to the Underworld, I finally shifted into my Phoenix. Flying doesn't stop Fate from insisting that I fight for my life, though. All of these brushes with death are for the birds.Catching the local murderer red-handed should have put a stop to the constant danger I'm in...
  • Consequence by Shelly Crane

    Consequence by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Maggie and Caleb are married, leaders of their people, parents to their children, and happier than they ever dreamed, even with the visions they saw of it to prove it so. The council is still rebelling against Maggie’s changes, but this time it’s different. It’s almost as if something…or someone is behind them, pulling the strings and making decisions for them...
  • The Corners: A Psychic Paranormal Romance by Maggie M. Lily

    The Corners: A Psychic Paranormal Romance by Maggie M. Lily

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Trellis family's plunge into the world of psychic energy and love-ever-after continues in The Corners, book four of six in the Building the Circle Series.Luke has known Talise as long as he's known of circles and energy. After years trapped in her mind, she's free to live her life on her terms. And, she's decided those terms include Luke...
  • Magical Yule Tidings (Midlife Witchery #7) by Brenda Trim

    Magical Yule Tidings (Midlife Witchery #7) by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I've mastered my magic, faced down demons, and killed an evil Fae king. There isn't much I can't do. Except tell my kids I'm a powerful witch-Fae hybrid.My kids return home to Pymm's Pondside for the holidays. Before I can tell them about my magic, a pixie, and a mermaid blow my cover. Their shock is expected, but not their anger...
  • Seeking Crystal by Joss Stirling

    Seeking Crystal by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The hotly anticipated third book from Joss Stirling, featuring the characters from Finding Sky and Stealing Phoenix. Crystal Brook has always been the dud Savant in her family; paranormal powers just aren't her thing. Dropping out of school with a clutch of 'E' grades and no future, she lives in the shadow of her high-flying sister Diamond...
  • The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews

    The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One minute you are doing your make up and making plans, and the next your oldest sister is giving birth to a baby who awakened as a Prime mage while in the womb. You think Exorcist is scary? Connor and Nevada’s baby says, “Hold my milk. You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Timeline: Takes place at the end of Emerald Blaze...
  • The Prophecy by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Prophecy by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    History is on repeat…Seth never thought he’d have a future. But now he’s on the brink of having it all with Josie: A tomorrow. A family. A forever. And all that's standing between him and that forever is the Titans. If he helps Josie entomb them -- without killing them, a nearly impossible task for him -- everything he could ever want will be in reach...
  • When Water Burns by Lani Wendt Young

    When Water Burns by Lani Wendt Young

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Maybe you’re not meant to manipulate fire the way I do. Maybe sparks are all you’re ever going to make.”He snarled, “Or maybe you just need to be a better teacher and give me more.” Before I could reply, he grabbed my hand, twisted and pulled me into a restraining lock. Body pressed against my back, he held me in a chokehold. I struggled. Kicked. Fought. Pain knifed me as I tried to free myself...
  • Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts

    Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    In her new trilogy, New York Times #1 Best Selling author, Nora Roberts returns to the lush, green hills of Ireland, where love is forever touched by magic - And where the Gallagher siblings explore the depth of their fiery hearts...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Hob by Dana Marie Bell

    The Hob by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Robin Goodfellow has met his match.The Gray Court, Book 4When the Black Queen kidnaps one of the White Queen's nephews, Robin Goodfellow is sent to ensure that the young prince safely returns to the bosom of his family. True to his role as Oberon’s Hobgoblin, he is ready for anything…except meeting his truebond, the very delicious, very human Michaela Exton...
    Categorized as:
    family  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fae
  • Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret by Liz Kessler

    Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret by Liz Kessler

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Follow the siren call to Emily's magical new adventure! Can the spunky half-mer girl pass Neptune's test--and help humans and merpeople get along? Emily Windsnap is finally enjoying a swimmingly peaceful life on Allpoints Island, hanging out with her mermaid BFF, Shona, and her new friend Aaron (half-merperson like herself )...
  • Wicked Queen by Megan Montero

    Wicked Queen by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My power, my reign…I thought I knew danger, I was wrong. That wicked potion was just the beginning. I feel strong with Tuck by my side, but we’re in way over our heads. We need heavenly Fire. It’s the only thing that can destroy Alataris’ crown. And we can’t beat him any other way. That crown is the seat of his power…and I’m going to take it from him...
  • East of Ecstasy by Laura Kaye

    East of Ecstasy by Laura Kaye

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Annalise Fallston made peace with postponing her big-city dreams to care for her ill father, but lately she’s been filled with a restlessness not even her beloved painting dispels. Worse, the colors don’t speak to her as they always have, and all her efforts produce dark, foreboding images of a dangerous man and a terrifying future...
    Categorized as:
    family  magic  myths  paranormal  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Siren's Song by Dana Marie Bell

    Siren's Song by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A crescendo of evil could destroy their perfect harmony.The Gray Court, Book 5Oberon is well and truly lost, with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or where he’s going. One woman makes his palms sweat and his heart race, a woman with turquoise eyes and a beautiful voice. Instinct tells him she’s the only one who can save him...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mermaids  myths  paranormal  adult  amnesia  book  contemporary
  • Artistic Vision by Dana Marie Bell

    Artistic Vision by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Desire is the raw material. Lust is the spark…and love will sculpt their destiny.The Gray Court, Book 3Akane Russo, one of the Hob’s top Blades, can’t wait for her current assignment to end. She’s been tasked with protecting Shane Dunne from the Malmayne clan’s scheme to kidnap him once again. But no one—not even her Seer half—warned her she’d have to protect herself from his heated gaze...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • The Law of Stars and Sultans by Samantha Young, S. Young

    The Law of Stars and Sultans by Samantha Young, S. Young

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling author Samantha Young writing as S. YoungPreviously released in 2013 under the title Darkness, Kindled (A Fire Spirits Novel)The Law of Stars and Sultans is the action-packed final installment in the epic romantic fantasy series Seven Kings of Jinn.Ari Johnson wishes adjusting to living with her boyfriend was her only source of excitement and anxiety...
  • 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...
  • Born of Water by A.L. Knorr

    Born of Water by A.L. Knorr

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.A mysterious shipwreck could unlock ancient powers… or send her to a watery grave.Targa MacAuley feels more at home on dry land than in the watery realm of her mermaid ancestors. After 17 years on solid ground, she fears she’ll never grow into the creature her mother hoped she’d become...
  • Eros by Carly Spade

    Eros by Carly Spade

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elani Stewart hasn't believed in "true love" or fairy tale endings since her parents' divorce.It's one of the reasons she developed her dating service "E-romantic",a scientific algorithm based process that matches one person to their most compatible partners...
    Categorized as:
    magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • 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:
    magic  myths  paranormal  book  contemporary  death  fiction  ghosts
  • 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...
  • Broken Dolls by B.R. Kingsolver

    Broken Dolls by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Private investigator RB Kendrick makes her living nailing cheating spouses, digging up other dirt to help in a divorce, finding long-lost relatives, and occasionally sniffing out criminal activity and fraud. When she takes a job to find a missing girl, she has no idea she is headed for the most dangerous case of her career. Usually, her ability to read minds gives her an edge...
  • Frost by Jaclyn Osborn

    Frost by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The first time I met Jack Frost, I was eight years old and lost in the snowy woods.He took my hand and leapt into the air, soaring high above the treetops. Carrying me to safety. He disappeared afterward, leaving me with nothing but a memory.Nineteen years later, I’ve convinced myself Jack was only a dream...
    Categorized as:
    magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  age-gap  amnesia  book
  • Long Ride Home by Elizabeth Hunter, Liisa Ivary

    Long Ride Home by Elizabeth Hunter, Liisa Ivary

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The first story in the new paranormal series by Elizabeth Hunter, acclaimed author of the Elemental Mysteries. Welcome to Cambio Springs.In this small desert town, secrets bubble up from the desert floor, and history is written on the canyon walls. Seven friends will gather at the crossroads, because in Cambio Springs, everything—and everyone—changes.Jena Crowe escaped the Springs ten years ago...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary
  • Telesa: The Covenant Keeper by Lani Wendt Young

    Telesa: The Covenant Keeper by Lani Wendt Young

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Leila moves to her new home, all she wants is a family, a place to belong. Instead she discovers the local ancient myths of the telesa spirit women are more than just scary stories. The more she finds out about her heritage, the more sinister her new home turns out to be...
  • Found by the Lake Monster by Lillian Lark

    Found by the Lake Monster by Lillian Lark

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A lake monster in heat, a lost human in the woods, and the lie that gets her stuffed…Getting lost in the woods was not the adventure Amy had in mind when she jumped at the chance to search for the local lake monster. She just wanted to liven up her steady but boring life, not wonder if every shadow on the ground is a snake and worry that no one will ever find her.Luckily, someone does find her...
    Categorized as:
    family  magic  male-mc  myths  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary
  • Hermes by Alessa Thorn

    Hermes by Alessa Thorn

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The god of magic has lost his mind. Literally. A reluctant nurse with a healing touch may have the power to save him...She only needs to be convinced. HERMES is the fourth book in a new paranormal romance series, based in a dark, sexy city ruled by Hades and his court of gods and monsters...
    Categorized as:
    magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  book  contemporary  demons
  • The Musician and the Monster by Jenya Keefe

    The Musician and the Monster by Jenya Keefe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hatred is a spell only true love can break. Ángel Cruz is a dedicated session musician, until loyalty to his estranged family forces him to work for Oberon: the feared and hated envoy from the Otherworld...
  • The Cupcake Witch: The Witching Hour Collection by Poppy Lawless

    The Cupcake Witch: The Witching Hour Collection by Poppy Lawless

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They say the course of true love never runs smooth. That’s nothing a magical cupcake can’t solve. Julie Buttercream. Vanilla. Fondant. Dark chocolate. Brown sugar. Molasses. Baking has always been my true love, but it wasn’t until my mother’s death, and the unexpected inheritance of Serendipity Gardens, that my bliss called me. Bittersweet...
  • Luna Wolf by G. Bailey, Regan Rosewood

    Luna Wolf by G. Bailey, Regan Rosewood

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’ve been rejected by everyone—but an alpha heir wants me to be his pretend mate.As the only wolf shifter in my pack not to shift, being rejected from my home when I turned eighteen was not unexpected when the shifter war is so close. But being sent to a secret academy full of immortal wolf shifters, demons, and teachers with no morals wasn’t something I planned for...
  • Lost by Alyssa Rose Ivy

    Lost by Alyssa Rose Ivy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When all that you love is left behind, you are lost… Owen is devastated. He was willing to give up everything for Daisy, but she refused. He wants to believe there is a way to bring her back, even if it means getting help from the unlikeliest of sources. Daisy is numb. She has lost any ability to feel human emotion...
  • God of Darkness by Aimee Carter

    God of Darkness by Aimee Carter

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t miss this companion novella to the enthralling Goddess Test series, perfect for fans of the Covenant, Starcrossed and Mortal Instruments series, originally published in 2012 as part of The Goddess Legacy anthology!For millennia, we’ve caught only glimpses of the lives and loves of the gods and goddesses on Olympus...
    Categorized as:
    myths  paranormal  retellings  book  contemporary  death  fiction  gods
  • Love & War by Jennifer Malone Wright

    Love & War by Jennifer Malone Wright

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A war is brewing between the hunters and the vampires and Chloe is determined to strike against the vampires before they have a chance to attack the hunter community...
  • Scions by Josephine Angelini

    Scions by Josephine Angelini

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A prequel to the bestselling Starcrossed series.New York City, 1993. It wasn’t Daphne’s choice to move into the heart of a struggle that has been secretly waging for thirty-three hundred years, but not much in her life has been up to her. Fate has brought Daphne, daughter of Zeus, and Heir to the House of Atreus to where the descendants of the Greek gods can shed blood over her once again...
  • The Twice Lost by Sarah Porter

    The Twice Lost by Sarah Porter

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mermaids have been sinking ships and drowning humans for centuries, and now the government is determined to put an end to the mermaid problem—by slaughtering all of them. Luce, a mermaid with exceptionally threatening abilities, becomes their number-one target, hunted as she flees down the coast toward San Francisco. There she finds hundreds of mermaids living in exile under the docks of the bay...
  • Lost Girl by Chanda Hahn

    Lost Girl by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wendy doesn't remember anything about Neverland—or the experiments done on her there as a child. Seven years later, all she wants is a normal life, but shape-shifting shadows plague her dreams and turn her life into a waking nightmare. When the shadows attack at a football game and a boy disappears right in front of her, she realizes these wraith-like shadows are real...
  • Evergreen by Brenda Pandos

    Evergreen by Brenda Pandos

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A kingdom on the brink of war. A king on the fringes of insanity. A family running for their lives. Ash and Fin's only desire is to be together and dive into their happily ever after, though their conflicting worlds work to pull them apart. Neither is ready to convert to the other's life: become a human or a mer...
  • Jared's Quest by Chanda Hahn

    Jared's Quest by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    *** This short story is part of the "Once in a Lifetime Fractured Fairy Tale Set" ***EVER WONDER WHAT JARED DOES WHEN HE’S NOT SAVING MINA GRIME’S SKIN FROM FAIRY TALE BADDIES?Mina Grime is a Grimm, bent on sending Jared, and his Fae kind back to their own world to end the curse on her family. Jared is her Fae protector, and an all around pain in the neck...
  • Shadow of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne

    Shadow of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I can feel every Shifter's emotions except Daniel's—the only one whose heart I long to know.Hayden was born a werewolf, a Dark Guardian. But her ability to sense the feelings of fellow werewolves has made her life unbearable. She runs away, only to be tracked by charming, mysterious Daniel, a newcomer to the pack and the one Shifter immune to her powers...
  • Seeker by Cate Tiernan

    Seeker by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It's a time of joy for Hunter as he is reunited with his father, who vanished mysteriously years before. Only Morgan senses that something is wrong, that Hunter's father is hiding a dark secret that could threaten them all...
  • The Iron Traitor Special Edition by Julie Kagawa

    The Iron Traitor Special Edition by Julie Kagawa

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the real world, when you vanish into thin air for a week, people tend to notice.After his unexpected journey into the lands of the fey, Ethan Chase just wants to get back to normal. Well, as normal as you can be when you see faeries every day of your life. Suddenly the former loner with the bad reputation has someone to try for; his girlfriend, Kenzie...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  magic  male-mc  myths  romance  fantasy  young-adult  fae
  • High Jinx by Kelley Armstrong

    High Jinx by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Curse weaver Kennedy Bennett has re-settled into her beloved hometown and opened a shop selling previously hexed antiques. When she fails to win an online auction for a notorious cursed painting, Aiden Connolly—the wealthy and swoon-worthy luck worker she is not dating—swoops in to buy it for her.Crying Girl is one of a quartet of haunted legendary paintings...
    Categorized as:
    family  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Hades by Alessa Thorn

    Hades by Alessa Thorn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A demi-goddess with the power over life and death, the God of the Underworld burning for revenge...it's a forbidden obsession waiting to happen.HADES is the third book in a new paranormal romance series, based in a dark, sexy city ruled by Hades and his court of gods and monsters...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • The Cave Of Memory by Elisa S. Amore, Kiera Legend

    The Cave Of Memory by Elisa S. Amore, Kiera Legend

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As Melany tries to figure out where the hell the Queen of Night sent her, she will have to use all of her powers for her most important battle yet... a fight for her life.What is worse, being lost in that unfathomable place will prove to have terrible consequences. Some, which will force her to face an old ally as a powerful enemy...
    Categorized as:
    myths  paranormal  magic  romance  fantasy  young-adult  gods  fiction
  • Afterglow by Karsten Knight

    Afterglow by Karsten Knight

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In this conclusion to the Wildefire trilogy, teen volcano goddess Ashline Wilde learns her former love, Colt Halliday, has an evil plan to kill the Cloak, benevolent beings who oversee the gods. Also, he wants to merge Ash and her two sisters back into a single, too-powerful goddess, Pele. Ash must stop her trickster-god ex-boyfriend once and for all, by feeding a few flames...
  • Dangerous Depths by Karen Amanda Hooper

    Dangerous Depths by Karen Amanda Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Hell hath no fury like a selkie separated from his true love.The gate to the sea creature realm is finally open. Yara wants to bask in the glow of her budding relationship with Treygan and explore Medusa’s world, but as the new leader of Rathe her powers are needed to save a sea creature she’s never met...
  • Goddess of Love by P.C. Cast

    Goddess of Love by P.C. Cast

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The story of the mythical Venus who comes to life to help a nerdy woman find her inner goddess. Pea Chamberlain needs a makeover-shoes, hair, clothes, make-up-if she wants to attract an übersexy fireman...
  • Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs

    Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Triplets narrate, teen descendants of Medusa. Warring factions among the gods of Olympus are coming; creatures of the Abyss are pushing into San Francisco; boys in their lives hide dangerous secrets.Tough Gretchen has fought monsters the longest, trains newfound sisters. Perfectionist Greer keeps her social calendar, faints from visions. Compromising Grace worries about missing brother Thane...
  • Raging Sea by Michael Buckley

    Raging Sea by Michael Buckley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the first book of Michael Buckley’s Undertow trilogy, the Alpha arrived and the world was never the same. At the start of the second book, most of south Brooklyn is in ruins and the nation is terrified. Nearly everyone that Lyric Walker loves is either missing or presumed dead, including the mesmerizing prince Fathom...
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