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Natural Born Witch by Wendy Wang
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey looked like the perfect family. Perfect couple with their perfect kids. Perfect darkness lurking within. Day One of her new job and psychic witch Charlie Payne is already in danger. When she and her team are called in to investigate the disappearance of the Cochran family from their home it looks like a straightforward demon abduction... -
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Captive Souls by Wendy Wang
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTaken in the night.Kidnapped for her light.Keeley Moore is just trying to survive.After thirteen-year-old Keeley Moore disappears during a camping trip with her parents, psychic Charlie Payne is invited to work the case by the local deputy. But the connection Charlie makes with the girl is a gossamer thread... -
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The Green Witch by Wendy Wang
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFor psychic Charlie Payne, gruesome visions of death are just a normal Tuesday—but when she investigates the murders of two green witches, her usual methods lead nowhere. With her options to save the next victim dwindling, she must test a dangerous new form of astral projection to find the killer.Meanwhile, Charlie's cousin Lisa has her own set of problems... -
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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... -
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![The Harbinger: Witches of Palmetto Point Series Book 5 by Wendy Wang]()
The Harbinger: Witches of Palmetto Point Series Book 5 by Wendy Wang
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvil comes in many forms. Not all of them are human. They call her the Blue Lady, the harbinger of storms and destruction... -
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A Talon's Wrath by Steve McHugh
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLucas Rurik faces unwanted celebrity, ancient enemies, and dangerous zealots in a thrilling urban-fantasy noir from the author of the Hellequin Chronicles.Centuries of life experience inside and outside the Rift couldn’t prepare former Raven Guild member and riftborn detective Lucas Rurik for his latest set of challenges... -
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Bad Omens by Wendy Wang
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe dead leave signs...if you know where to look.After recovering from a near-death experience, Charlie Payne's connection to the dead seems to dry up overnight. But that doesn't stop old ghosts from trying to commune with her. Or a clever serial killer from targeting her and the whole witch community... -
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Paws of the Yeti by Steve Higgs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe paranormal? It’s all nonsense, but proving it might get him killed. When he is called to investigate a Yeti attack in the French Alps, Tempest Michaels is certain it will just be another fool in a costume - He’s going to solve the case in five minutes and spend a few days skiing. Yay! Guess again. The mountain, the locals, and above all, the Yeti, have other plans in mind... -
![Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi]()
Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhat do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He’s losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out... -
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The Keeper by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe South Channel lighthouse is a crumbling antique at the mouth of the Savannah River, abandoned and forgotten for generations. Local stories still tell of a mysterious woman in white who often stood at the old lighthouse, watching the sailors come into port...even long after she died... -
![The Gravedigger’s Son: A Charley Davidson Novella by Darynda Jones]()
The Gravedigger’s Son: A Charley Davidson Novella by Darynda Jones
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe job should have been easy.Get in. Assess the situation. Get out. But for veteran tracker Quentin Rutherford, things get sticky when the girl he’s loved since puberty shows up, conducting her own investigation into the strange occurrences of the small, New Mexico town... -
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Forged by Benedict Jacka
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAlex Verus faces his dark side in this return to the bestselling urban fantasy series about a London-based mage.To protect his friends, Mage Alex Verus has had to change--and embrace his dark side. But the life mage Anne has changed too, and made a bond with a dangerous power. She's going after everyone she's got a grudge against--and it's a long list... -
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Crawl by H.P. Bayne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFour years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder... -
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The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him... -
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Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help... -
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This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . .Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life... -
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Death's Refrain by Terri Reid
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA distinct chill went up Professor Elaine Wright’s spine. She slowly turned around and her heart dropped when she saw the ghost of a young girl standing near the road. Like the other ghosts Elaine had encountered, the girl was translucent. Elaine could make out her features, but if she looked closely she could see through her to the woods beyond... -
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The Ghost Who Stayed Home by Bobbi Holmes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLeft alone at Marlow House with Sadie and Max, Walt expects Danielle and Lily to return by the end of the week. When they don’t, he begins to wonder what happened to them. The ghost of Marlow House doesn’t scare six-year-old Evan MacDonald. When the child sneaks into the house in the middle of the night, seeking Walt’s help, the resident spirit learns something has happened to Danielle and Lily... -
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Blood Bond: 9 by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsErin Hamilton and Dante Gabriel are living together and are more in love than ever, but the mysteries surrounding them continue to evolve. When two more women go missing—Dante’s sister and Erin’s best friend—they dive in more deeply, recruiting Erin’s brother to help. Despite his quest for information, Dante resists falling prey to his former captor’s drive to control his mind... -
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Blood Bond: 7 by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBreaking into a cemetery isn’t anything Dante Gabriel ever thought he’d do, but he has no choice. He must recover his father’s body so he can claim his estate. Help arrives from two unexpected sources, but their plan is interrupted. Erin Hamilton’s best friend is a wolf shifter. The man she loves is a vampire. His father is a ghost. She can deal with all of that, but new worries have surfaced... -
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Blood Bond: 8 by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDante Gabriel has developed some abilities never before seen in a vampire his age. Without Erin Hamilton, he’d be on the brink of insanity, but she’s always there, always willing to give him what he needs, and he’s determined to keep her safe from the vampire thugs who want her. His questions are still unanswered, and he considers turning to an evil source for results... -
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Boundary Broken by Melissa F. Olson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsYears ago, boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther made a promise to an alpha werewolf. Now, just when the supernatural community in Colorado is enjoying a period of hard-won peace, the alpha turns up at Lex’s door to call in his marker. Two of his pack members have disappeared in the Colorado sand dunes, and he needs safe passage to hunt for them... -
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San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real... -
![The Magpie Key by Sarah Painter]()
The Magpie Key by Sarah Painter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBlack water, dark skies, a reckoning like no otherA new threat has sailed in on the tide and is haunting the waterways of London.DCI Fleet is struggling to control his gift and can no longer tell reality from illusion.Meanwhile, Uncle Charlie is making trouble from his prison cell, proving how hard it is to keep a Crow caged... -
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![The Last Raven by Steve McHugh]()
The Last Raven by Steve McHugh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucas is a riftborn fighter bent on vengeance in this thrilling urban fantasy/detective noir series from the bestselling author of the Hellequin Chronicles.The peace between the rift and humanity has always been tenuous. It’s up to the Guilds to protect it, removing whomever—or whatever—poses a threat, whether human or rift-fused. Lucas Rurik used to be part of the Raven Guild... -
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The Pearl King by Sarah Painter, Kate Rawson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTradition. Loyalty. Respect. Murder. Normal Family stuff. Don't miss the exciting fourth instalment in the best-selling urban fantasy mystery series Crow Investigations.Lydia is pulled into the Crow Family business by her shady uncle Charlie. He has decided that Lydia needs to learn the truth about her infamous Family and to step into her role within it - whether she likes it or not... -
![Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi]()
Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“Quick, clean action, solid character work and pacing. This series is worth your time.” — Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden FilesAnother day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying... -
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The Elf Beside Himself by K.M. Avery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNothing can prepare you for the phone call from your best friend telling you his dad was murdered. Not even if you’re a former homicide cop.But here I am, getting on a plane to fly halfway across the country to hold his hand and hope to hell that I’m not walking into a complete disaster... -
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Shadow Land by Adam J. Wright
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a child goes missing, his mother asks me to help. After all, she believes he was taken by a monster and that’s my field of expertise. The search leads to the storm drains of Dearmont; not a good place to be when you’ve seen as many horror movies as I have. Turns out the monstrous kidnapper is also responsible for the mysterious disappearance of a patient from a psychiatric hospital nearby... -
![The Ghost of Valentine Past by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre]()
The Ghost of Valentine Past by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA romantic weekend at Marlow House Bed and Breakfast turns deadly when Earthbound Spirits founder, Peter Morris, is murdered. Plenty of people had a reason to want the man dead-especially Danielle's current guests. But it isn't Morris's ghost distracting Danielle on this deadly Valentine's Day weekend, it's her late husband Lucas... -
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Dead Ground by Adam J. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen my old friend Jim Walker asks me to fly up to Canada and take a look at a strange murder case, it sounds like a good excuse for barbecue and brewskis. But the party gets crashed by a pit-load of demons and things take a turn for the worse. Throw a faerie queen and a couple of ancient vampires into the mix and you’ve got a recipe for disaster... -
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A Lovely Drop by Darynda Jones
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA woman who claims to do the impossible…Andrea Grace comes from a long line of women who can do the impossible: They can eavesdrop on the past. But ever since her mother’s suspicious death, Andrea has led a half-life, guarding herself from those who would kill to get their hands on her... -
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Dead & Buried by T.K. Eldridge
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDetectives Kennedy and Donovan were partners for years. Then one of them died. And yet, they're still partners. Kennedy has to solve Donovan's death while his partner's ghost helps him. Sort of... -
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Mind Games by Dan Willis
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat do a murderous housewife and a wayward heiress have in common? If Alex Lockerby is right, someone is manipulating them against their will. Now all he has to do is unravel a dark tapestry of family, politics, wine, money, love, and murder before the people behind it put an end to him... -
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Desert Bound by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCan you turn the clock back on your first love? Would you even want to try?Alex McCann and Teodora "Ted" Vasquez left Cambio Springs together. Ted came back. Alex didn't.Now, years later, the future alpha of the McCann wolves has returned with plans to bring new life to the dying desert community... -
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Nightmare by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then, he’s saved his own soul from the devil...but now he is haunted by Sophie’s cries for help... -
![Shadows in the Water by Kory M. Shrum]()
Shadows in the Water by Kory M. Shrum
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Louie Thorne. They didn't kill her — and they'll soon regret it.When DEA agent Jack Thorne's house is stormed by vengeful drug lords, both he and his wife are shot dead. Only his daughter Louie survives — by using a terrifying power that defies reason.Piecing together a life in his absence, Louie embraces her gift and her rage under the force of a single need: revenge... -
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The Cormorant by Chuck Wendig
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMiriam is on the road again, having transitioned from "thief" to "killer".Hired by a wealthy businessman, she heads down to Florida to practice the one thing she's good at, but in her vision she sees him die by another's hand and on the wall written in blood is a message just for Miriam. She's expected.. -
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The Shadow Wing by Sarah Painter
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter the explosive events of The Copper Heart, Lydia must deal with a secret service operative with murder in his heart.The mysterious Mr Smith has sent a professional assassin after Lydia and the bonds of blood are stretched to breaking point when it turns out to be someone very close to home... -
![Last Strand by Jennifer Estep]()
Last Strand by Jennifer Estep
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEvery bloody thread has been leading to this . . .I’ve battled a lot of bad guys in my time, both as Gin Blanco and as the notorious assassin the Spider. But I’ve never faced off against anyone quite as powerful and deadly as the dastardly leader of the Circle secret society... -
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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... -
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Masked by M. Greenhill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone is manufacturing and distributing a new drug that is killing Werewolves. Those responsible need to be found before the epidemic gets out of control and the human population discover their existence. The Alliance have put their hope in two broken individuals... -
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Dragon & Detective by Layla Lawlor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHard boiled? More like hard luck.It's not easy being a human private detective in a city with dragons, shapeshifters, and fae.James Keeley has a magic gun (that never does what he wants) and a 1920s flapper's ghost haunting the basement of his office, and the first decent case he's had in a long time is a dragon hiring him to solve a locked-room mystery... -
![Shades of Magic by Heather Renee]()
Shades of Magic by Heather Renee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Taya is faced with deciding who will live or die, she struggles to accept the outcome when the choice is made for her.As Raven Point mourns the loss of one of their own, they band together with the witches to seek vengeance. Not only for their fallen pack mate, but for anyone who has suffered from Declan's decisions.Though the battle looms near, Taya finds herself continually drawn to Liam... -
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![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 ratingsLOST 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... -
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Betrayal by Jennifer Blackstream
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShade’s Unseelie master has a new case for her. Someone is stealing Unseelie artifacts, piecing together the tools to perform a lost ritual. Shade must recover the artifacts and return them to their rightful owners—But only after the thief has finished the spell.Shade’s contract is clear, but her conscience isn’t... -
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Caged by Jennifer Blackstream
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a murder investigation starts with a mutilated corpse and a savage, newly-turned werewolf, it’s normal to hope things improve from there.But in Shade's experience, it’s more likely things will get worse.Much worse... -
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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... -
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Between a Witch and a Hard Place by Celia Roman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve years ago, my mother, a powerful chaos witch, walked out on me and my twin brother without a backward glance. We didn't hear another word out of her until a vampire walked into my brother Nick's bar wanting me to track her down. She'd disappeared into thin air, and he insisted that I was the only one who could find her.Of course, I refused...Categorized as:
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![The Given by Vicki Pettersson]()
The Given by Vicki Pettersson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Vicki Pettersson continues her breakout new supernatural noir mystery series as a fallen angel and a reporter team up to stop a drug cartelAfter learning his wife survived the attack that killed him fifty years earlier, angel/PI Griffin Shaw is determined to find Evelyn Shaw, no matter the cost. Yet his obsession comes at a price...
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