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  • Southern Wands by Amy Boyles

    Southern Wands by Amy Boyles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life just won’t settle down for Pepper Dunn. The Head Witch Order has arrived with one mission—secure Pepper’s powers for themselves at any cost.The entire Craple household is on deck to save Pepper. Grandma Betty has formed her own resistance, and even though they’re groaning about it, Amelia and Cordelia jump in to assist her...
  • Witches Under Way by Debora Geary

    Witches Under Way by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lizard and Elsie are under way, but the WitchLight journey isn't an easy one. There are bumps and obstacles inside their own hearts. There are meddling witches, helpful knitters, and a fearsome duo with water pistols.And there is the greatest challenge of all... the one they will pick for each other...
  • 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...
  • Demons Forever by Sarra Cannon

    Demons Forever by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B00ARI22MY Harper has come so far from her life as a foster child. She never imagined what her future would hold when she was first brought to the small town of Peachville. Since that day she’s faced great evil, found some of the answers she’s been looking for, and fallen deeply, madly in love...
  • The Christmas Witch by Amanda M. Lee

    The Christmas Witch by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It’s the winter of 1995, and the Winchester household is more doom and gloom than mistletoe and merriment. Young Bay, Clove and Thistle are anything but happy. They’re facing their first Christmas without their fathers, and no matter how hard their mothers try, they just can’t seem to get the girls to embrace this festive time of year...
  • Fallen Star Series by Jessica Sorensen

    Fallen Star Series by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Books 1-3 of the Fallen Star Series. In Book One, The Fallen Star, eighteen year-old Gemma's life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she’s around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to mention the monsters that haunt her nightmares have crossed over into real-life...
  • Accordance by Shelly Crane

    Accordance by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In the sequel, Maggie learns much more about all the strange things that happened to her, and has to face new ones. She rebels against it, but ultimately, must face it for her new families sake and maybe even her life. Bish went from being her biggest supporter to her biggest pain in the butt and Kyle's intentions to attract her interest may not be so innocent...
  • Spellbinder by C.C. Hunter

    Spellbinder by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When magic, romance and family secrets collide, the result is spellbinding!Miranda Kane has always felt like a screw up–at least when it comes to her ability to wield magic. Her only sanctuary is Shadow Falls camp, where she’s learning to harness her powers as a witch. But thanks to her shapeshifter boyfriend who called it quits and ran off to Paris, both her heart and powers feel broken...
  • Testing Fate by Belinda Boring

    Testing Fate by Belinda Boring

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nothing burns as bright as the flames of the refiner’s fire.Moments after hearing the Council sentence her enemy to life imprisonment for attempted murder and illegal use of magic, Darcy is whisked away by the Fates - accused of tampering with destiny. The cherished dream she shared with Mason has been called into question, placing doubt about whether they are actually true mates...
  • Midnight Hour by C.C. Hunter

    Midnight Hour by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Being a dyslexic witch is a curse in itself, but Miranda Kane’s time at Shadow Falls has helped her harness her magical powers. Now, just as she’s finally mastered them and is preparing to graduate with her friends, a near-death experience threatens to ruin it all.Miranda awakens in the hospital with a mysterious tattoo that no one can explain...
  • Wicked Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Seas by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Ivy Morgan has never been on a vacation. Her fiancé Jack Harker is happy to be the one to provide the experience. With that in mind, the couple embarks on a sea adventure on The Bounding Storm, a cruise ship where sun and fun are the order of the day. Ship photographer Rowan Gray is drawn to Ivy from the moment they meet...
  • Autumn Magic by T.M. Cromer

    Autumn Magic by T.M. Cromer

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Autumn Thorne believed she discovered the perfect love. Yet the moment she revealed she was a witch, her relationship went to hell in a handbasket. Nearly a decade later, in an ironic twist of fate, the man who shunned her shows up on her doorstep and asks for her help to develop his own latent powers...
  • School for Unwitting Wiccans by Auburn Tempest, Carolina Mac

    School for Unwitting Wiccans by Auburn Tempest, Carolina Mac

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Take the chaotic family dynamic of Charmed and cross that with the paranormal magick and mayhem of True Blood and you'll find this New Orleans flavored fun, rollicking read. As Samhain approaches and the veil to the spirit world thins, strange things happen at nine Saint Gillian Street...
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  • The Magick of Dark Root by April Aasheim

    The Magick of Dark Root by April Aasheim

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “There are rules that must be followed, Maggie.” “Even in witchcraft?” “Especially in witchcraft. What someone puts into the world comes back to them.” “You mean karma?” “Like karma, yes. But for a witch it comes back threefold. Never forget that.” “That doesn’t seem fair...
  • Spell Linked by Theresa Kay

    Spell Linked by Theresa Kay

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    School sucks, even for the supernaturally gifted.The fallout from last quarter is worse than I could have ever imagined and hostilities between shifters and witches are intensifying by the day. OSA has practically taken over campus in their search for Bitten witches—and any traitors who didn’t report them. Including... me. But that's not the only secret I have to hide...
  • Ungifted by Kelly Oram

    Ungifted by Kelly Oram

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even though her father is running for President of the United States, Grace St. Claire is as normal a girl as they come. She’s clumsy, shy, and an outcast among her peers. She even manages to nearly die in a freak accident in front of the entire school. But when Grace survives a vampire attack she quickly learns that she is anything but ordinary...
  • Forget Me Not by Belinda Boring

    Forget Me Not by Belinda Boring

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Only a fool would think they could steal from a werewolf...Anticipating a quiet night alone with the man she loves, Darcy’s world is sent into a spin with the arrival of someone from the past - Mason’s. She is further shocked by the intruder’s claim she may not even be the true mate of the Mystic Wolves Alpha...
  • Blood Prophecy by Alyxandra Harvey

    Blood Prophecy by Alyxandra Harvey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Solange Drake has been officially crowned Queen of the Vampires, fulfilling the centuries old prophecy that foretold the rise to power of a daughter born to an ancient vampire line. Except Solange's thoughts and actions are no longer her own-she's been slowly being possessed by the spirit of Viola, the first daughter born into the Drake line, since her bloodchange...
  • 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...
  • Fortune of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Fortune of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Medium Harlow Thane has given up her life as a celebrity paranormal investigator. After her life was turned upside down by a devious and illusive ghost, all she wants is to settle down in Keating Hollow, running the new pub in town. Unfortunately for her, no matter how much she wants to give up ghost hunting, the ghosts won’t quit her. Neither will her ex Cash Moses...
  • Charmed by Nora Roberts

    Charmed by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A young woman hides her talents—and herself—from the world until a man who’s already lost enough for a lifetime reminds her that any broken heart can be healed with hope and love in Charmed, a Donovan Legacy novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.Anastasia Donovan is an empath of powerful sensitivity, feeling the pain and despair of everyone she encounters...
  • Urodzona o północy by C.C. Hunter

    Urodzona o północy by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Kylie Galen przechodzi trudny okres w życiu. Porzucona przez chłopaka dziewczyna przeżywa śmierć ukochanej babci i rozstanie rodziców, a na dodatek widuje dziwną postać, której nie dostrzega nikt inny...Pewien wieczór i nieodpowiednia impreza z nieodpowiednimi ludźmi zmienią życie Kylie na zawsze. Dziewczyna trafi na obóz dla trudnej młodzieży do Wodospadów Cienia...
  • The Underworld by Jessica Sorensen

    The Underworld by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **New Cover, Same Edition**Gemma thought her mind was gone, but she was wrong. And now she is left trying to figure out the truth to what Stephan is planning to do with her and the star, before it's too late.But finding out the truth is hard, especially since Gemma doesn't know who she can trust...
  • Lost Library Collection: Books 1-3 by Kate Baray

    Lost Library Collection: Books 1-3 by Kate Baray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    LOST LIBRARY (Book 1) Lost Library brings together a mysterious, magical book and a quirky heroine to create the adventure of a lifetime! John Braxton arrives unannounced on Lizzie Smith's doorstep looking for answers she doesn't have. She may have a magical book, but she hasn't a clue what to do with it--or even how to read it...
  • Found Objects by Christine Pope

    Found Objects by Christine Pope

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Penny Briggs is a perfectly ordinary woman. Until her life takes a left turn at Albuquerque…I thought my marriage would be a fairy tale. Instead, I’ve put a thousand miles between me and my broken dream, starting over with temp job in Albuquerque. Prop shopping for a TV production takes my mind off my troubles — until I buy an old pair of glasses no one on the set can wear...
  • Burned by Fire by Danielle Annett

    Burned by Fire by Danielle Annett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you ask yourself, “What else can go wrong?” The answer is everything.Aria’s pyrokinetic abilities have always been hard to control, and being pulled in so many directions isn’t making things any easier. Now she has to help Inarus, a foe turned friend who is being targeted by the Human Alliance Corporation—the very organization he once worked for...
  • Loving the Omega by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Loving the Omega by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maddox Jamenson almost lost his mate before he knew she existed, but his life is now exactly how he’d dreamed it. The war with the Centrals is over, and his family is healing one day at a time. Ellie is reveling in the simple perfection that is her life and family now, but that doesn’t mean she can shed the self-doubts and concerns that come with being a new mother, mate, and Redwood...
  • Feudlings in Flames by Wendy Knight

    Feudlings in Flames by Wendy Knight

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ari thought being in love with her prophesied nemesis sucked. But being responsible for her best friend's kidnapping? It sucks worse. Ari and Shane thought they'd beaten Fate and ended the three-hundred year war plagu-ing their people. They thought love had won. But they were so, so wrong...
  • Blonde & Blue by Trina M. Lee

    Blonde & Blue by Trina M. Lee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bloodlust and power. Werewolf Alexa O’Brien is a slave to them both. Due to her bond with her vampire lover, Arys Knight, she struggles to keep the growing bloodlust from consuming her. As she falls deeper into the seductive embrace of blood and death, the deadly desire is encouraged by the forbidden attraction between her and close friend, Kale Sinclair...
  • Only Vampires Cry Blood by Trina M. Lee

    Only Vampires Cry Blood by Trina M. Lee

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alexa O'Brien has more power than she can handle.A werewolf bound to a vampire by a force bigger than the both of them, Alexa is feeling lost. Desperation drives Alexa to make a deal with the one person who can guide her, a man she loathes. Harley Kayson. He also happens to be the sire of her vampire lover, Arys Knight. To say Arys is pissed about this would be putting it lightly...
  • 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...
  • Deathly Still by Elizabeth A. Reeves

    Deathly Still by Elizabeth A. Reeves

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new series in the world of Cindy Eller and Goldie Locke and the Were Bears. Antigone Baehr is almost eighteen when her life takes a bizarre turn. All those feelings she'd had her whole life that she was different from all of her peers were actually true-- she is something called 'unlife'...
  • The Witch's Heart by Iris Kincaid

    The Witch's Heart by Iris Kincaid

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Cozy Witch MysteryMargo Bailey never expected to live long enough to see her thirtieth birthday. A heart defect that she’s had since birth has taught her to live cautiously and expect the worst. On the other hand, Lilith Hazelwood, the most powerful witch in town, expected to live a freakishly long life...
  • Winter Wolf by R.J. Blain

    Winter Wolf by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Hunted Wizard When Nicole dabbled in the occult, she lost it all: Her voice, her family, and her name. Now on the run from the Inquisition, she must prove to herself—and the world—that not all wizards are too dangerous to let live. The savage murder of a bookstore employee throws Nicole into the middle of Inquisition business, like it or not...
  • The Hunted Heart by Carrie Ann Ryan

    The Hunted Heart by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emeline might have been alive hundreds of years, but she’s never really lived. Using her knowledge and research, she helped save the Redwood Pack from devastation. However, she’s never felt whole. Not since she lost her mate so long ago...
  • Frost by Kaitlyn Davis

    Frost by Kaitlyn Davis

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A vampire thief on the run.A tracker determined to catch her.A love not even fate saw coming. Vampire lore meets ancient Greek mythology in this action-packed paranormal romance perfect for fans of Shadowhunters, Fallen, and A Shade of Vampire!All vampire thief Pandora Scott wants to do is put her old life behind her...
  • Magic Rising by Camilla Chafer

    Magic Rising by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Stella, the Witches' Council Summit is supposed to be about getting to know her fellow witches but instead she finds herself on trial for murder. The accusations may be evidence of a sinister plot at work or they may be a ruse to draw attention away from the mounting tensions as the witches vie for supremacy. Reaching out to her boyfriend Evan for help would be reassuring..
  • Fatal Charm by Linda Joy Singleton

    Fatal Charm by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this vivid fifth volume of The Seer series, Sabine Rose is reunited with her ill grandmother Nona and her friends at Sheridan Valley. But the excitement of curing Nona-and discovering love with someone new-doesn't outweigh the burden of her father's dark secret: a daughter no one but Sabine knows about. Riddled with curiosity, Sabine uses astral projection to spy on her half sister Jade...
  • Pushed by Corrine Jackson

    Pushed by Corrine Jackson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She didn’t know how far she’d go—until she was pushed.Remy O’Malley was just learning to harness her uncanny healing power when she discovered the other,darker half of her bloodline. Now she lives trapped between two worlds, uneasy among her fellowHealers—and relentlessly hunted by the Protectors...
  • Eclipse by Cate Tiernan

    Eclipse by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Hunter and Morgan join together with a surprising new ally to fight for the people they love...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Blood Witch by Cate Tiernan

    Blood Witch by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Morgan has found her mother's Wiccan tools, and her relationship with Cal is strong. Everything seems perfect. Except that Cal's half brother, Hunter, is stalking them. Hunter claims to be a Seeker who is investigating Cal for the misuse of magick...
  • The Captive Part II / The Power by L.J. Smith

    The Captive Part II / The Power by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Caught in the struggle between good and evil . . .Cassie has joined the most alluring—and deadly—in-crowd imaginable. But power comes with a price, and it's more dangerous than she knows...
  • Captivated by Nora Roberts

    Captivated by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A classic novel from the enchanting series The Donovan Legacy.Only the phenomenal Nora Roberts could have created the remarkable Donovan clan. Fascinating and irresistible, the mysterious Donovan cousins share a secret that's been handed down through generations -- a secret that sets them apart from ordinary beings.CaptivatedHis interest in her was purely professional . . . Or so he told himself...
  • A Hidden Witch by Debora Geary

    A Hidden Witch by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Elorie Shaw, steeped in the traditions of the Nova Scotia witching community, but not a witch. The fetching spell must have goofed this time... or did it? Travel to Fisher's Cove, Nova Scotia, where Moira is matriarch and the old ways are nurtured and passed to the next generation. Where a crotchety old witch makes small children cry and builds walls around the silent pain in his heart...
  • A Feather of Stone by Cate Tiernan

    A Feather of Stone by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After seventeen-year-old Thais Allard loses her widowed father in a tragic car accident, she is forced to leave the only home she's ever known to live with a total stranger in New Orleans. New Orleans greets Thais with many secrets and mysteries, but none as unbelievable as the moment she comes face to face with the impossible -- an identical twin, Clio...
  • A Circle of Ashes by Cate Tiernan

    A Circle of Ashes by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After seventeen-year-old Thais Allard loses her widowed father in a tragic car accident, she is forced to leave the only home she's ever known to live with a total stranger in New Orleans. New Orleans greets Thais with many secrets and mysteries, but none as unbelievable as the moment she comes face to face with the impossible - an identical twin, Clio...
  • Sword Play by Linda Joy Singleton

    Sword Play by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Help her," insists the spirit of Kip, the jock from her old school who died in a car accident. But his cryptic message is the last thing on Sabine's mind as she packs up to move back home. She's not happy about leaving her friends, her boyfriend, and Nona who's gravely ill, but won't dare challenge her mother's orders...
  • Insidious by Victoria Evers

    Insidious by Victoria Evers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All Kat Montgomery wanted was a fun night out on the town. What she got was a death warrant. As it turns out, the quaint little hamlet of Mystic Harbor, Maine houses more than sandy beaches and adorable B&B’s. Beneath the New England charm rests a deadly world where shifters, demons, vampires, and angelic hunters all vie for power. A world where magic is the greatest weapon...
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