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  • Bad Omens by Wendy Wang

    Bad Omens by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 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...
  • Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. Ritz

    Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. Ritz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to be one of them. One night he buys a journal, its pages blank. The woman who sells him the journal extracts his promise to record his deeds for study. “Lo, the steps of your life mark the journey of your soul...
  • Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A dark magic seeks to rise even as the dust settles...It's been more than a year since Jess and Hannah Ballard fought to return the power of the Gateways where it rightfully belongs, and the Durupinen world is slowly adjusting to its altered relationship with the spirit world...
  • Awakening of the Seer by E.E. Holmes

    Awakening of the Seer by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She can already see the dead...but is she starting to see the future? Spurred by the injustices that nearly destroyed their family, Jess and Hannah Ballard are preparing to win back a seat on the powerful Durupinen Council. The odds are stacked against them, but that’s never stopped them before...
  • Plague of the Shattered by E.E. Holmes

    Plague of the Shattered by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a spirit Shatters, no one is safe... Once every five years, the Northern Clans of the Durupinen gather at Fairhaven Hall. There at the ancient castle, surrounded by the very spirits they are bound to protect and serve, the clans settle disputes and shape the laws that govern the Gateways to the spirit world. For the first time, Jess and Hannah Ballard have to represent their clan...
  • Daylighters by Rachel Caine

    Daylighters by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    While Morganville, Texas, is often a troubled town, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to coming home. But the Morganville they return to isn’t the one they know; it’s become a different place—a deadly one…Something drastic has happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away...
  • Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Deep in the heart of Texas, Morganville is a small college town full of laid-back students and eccentric townies, not to mention the sort of creatures you wouldn't want to run into after dark. Despite their obvious differences, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have learned to coexist, but that doesn't stop genius student Claire Danvers from keeping up her guard...
  • City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A malevolent force lurks beneath the streets of Scotland...Jess and Hannah Ballard's determination to protect the Gateways brings them to Edinburgh's Old Town, where a strange phenomenon threatens to disturb the delicate balance between the worlds of the living and the dead. Spirits who wish to cross over are vanishing, and it is up to the Ballard sisters to discover why...
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack 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...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  demons
  • Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts

    Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a compelling trilogy about three brothers bound by fate, blood, and a timeless enemy. In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys--Caleb, Fox, and Gage--went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone.
  • Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Power, passion, and politics collide in an Elemental World that is ruled by the ancients.For a thousand years, earth vampire Carwyn ap Bryn has sacrificed for the good of others: God, his family, his friends. But tragedy rips his world apart, causing him to question everything about his eternity...
  • Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

    Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”—a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage...
  • Valhalla Beckons by Alex Steele, Stephanie Foxe

    Valhalla Beckons by Alex Steele, Stephanie Foxe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The things we do not control, control us instead...Corruption plagues Detectives Blackwell and Swift as they are caught between two impossible cases - a conspiracy that stretches further than they imagined and an attack that strikes at the very heart of their world.An attack that shouldn't be possible...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  gods  horror
  • The Shadow Court by Jenn Stark

    The Shadow Court by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don’t you forget about me… She’s a Tarot-reading artifact hunter finally willing to own her supernatural abilities. He’s the all-powerful Magician of the Arcana Council who once loved her…but now doesn’t remember her, the result of a battle to defeat a terrifying enemy...
  • Legion by Shani Struthers

    Legion by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Legion is the sixth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!What if evil won't let go?Along a sheltered lane, deep in the Sussex countryside, sits a house that is sometimes called home, the tenants it has held unable to forget it...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trent's heart may belong to Tina, but a shadow demon is after his soul…Trent Austin is a successful, big-city lawyer. The last thing he needs is the burden of a run-down house in the suburbs. But when his crazy uncle dies and leaves his estate to Trent, he soon learns he's inherited a lot more than a Victorian mansion...
  • Bringing up the bodies by Tim McGregor

    Bringing up the bodies by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The book you've been waiting for... With Kaitlin in critical condition after a fatal stab wound, reluctant psychic Billie Culpepper has learned that the body she found in the Murder House is actually her own father...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  book  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts, Dan John Miller

    The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts, Dan John Miller

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ electrifying trilogy comes to an end, as three men and three women join forces—and hearts—to battle the ultimate evil.Years ago, after their blood brother ritual, Gage, Fox, and Caleb each emerged from the woods with a piece of bloodstone. Now, it will become their weapon in the final fight against the demon they awakened...
  • Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Mia Devlin knows what it is like to love with your whole heart—and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared—and determined to live without love...
    Categorized as:
    drama  friendship  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Strangers by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    The Strangers by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Olive thought she'd uncovered all the house's secrets. She was wrong.It's Halloween night when strangers come to Linden Street...and something dear to Olive goes missing...
  • Nightmare by Stephen Leather

    Nightmare by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 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...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  demons
  • Grave Decisions by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Decisions by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Halloween has always been one of Maddie Graves’ favorite days, and this season things are going to be more special than ever because it’s her first big holiday with her live-in love Nick Winters. Nick is keen to make sure Maddie has the time of her life, but the arrival of a popular author and purported psychic in Blackstone Bay has him working overtime to provide protection...
    Categorized as:
    drama  magic  paranormal  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  cozy
  • From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alexis is the last girl you'd expect to sell her soul. She already has everything she needs--an adorable boyfriend, the perfect best friend, and a little sister who's finally recovering after being possessed by an evil spirit, then institutionalized. Alexis is thrilled when her sister joins a club; new friends are just what Kasey needs...
  • The Eternal Dawn by Christopher Pike

    The Eternal Dawn by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alisa has spent the past five thousand years as a vampire, living alone and fighting for survival. In her loneliness, Alisa cannot resist bringing Teri—a descendant of her human family—into her life. But Alisa is surrounded by death and destruction, and just by knowing Alisa, Teri’s life is at risk. Alisa’s guilt grows when she becomes involved in a dangerous conspiracy...
  • The Hollow by Nora Roberts

    The Hollow by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For Fox, Caleb, Gage, and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom - ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon the Pagan Stone.Their innocent bonding ritual led to seven days of madness, every seven years. And now, as the dreaded seventh month looms before them, the men can feel the storm brewing...
  • Vampire Princess Rising by Jami Brumfield

    Vampire Princess Rising by Jami Brumfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Savannah Winters went from homecoming queen to vampire princess in one terrifying night. Now she must find a way to survive the dark world she lives without letting the anger and depression overwhelm and destroy her. Maintaining a balance between her supernatural identity and human cover is more difficult then she could ever imagine...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  angels  book  demons  fiction  horror
  • Bayou Kings by Luanne Bennett

    Bayou Kings by Luanne Bennett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is Katie Bishop living with a warlock? Savannah is about to become a former city on the map if Katie can’t figure out how to get rid of the warlocks who just blew into town. Equally disturbing are their deep ties to Jackson’s father, the man who brought them. Randall Hunter is hell-bent on bringing Jackson into the family business...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dragons  fiction  horror
  • Retaliation by Imogen Rose

    Retaliation by Imogen Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ever since Bloody Fall, humans have lived in fear. Even though the apparently senseless massacres have ended, President Elizabeth Ryan's administration has been under a cloud of disapproval for failing to bring the terrorists to justice. She braces herself as a new spate of carnage is unleashed. Cordelia and Faustine are recruited back into action as the supernatural agencies go on high alert...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  book  demons  fae  fiction  horror
  • Smoke Show by D.N. Erikson

    Smoke Show by D.N. Erikson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emmy Davis, the world’s most famous fox shifter, went missing two years ago.And I’ve just been hired to find her.If only things were that simple. The cops have no leads. Other PIs haven’t fared any better. The trail is colder than an arctic winter. And to make matters worse, a mysterious creature from Javy Diaz's past has taken an alarming interest in the case...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  supernatural
  • Holiday Spirits by Yasmine Galenorn

    Holiday Spirits by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kip gets himself in serious trouble, a strange spirit enters the house—one that at first poses as Santa Claus. But beneath that jolly exterior, lies a dark creature from legend and lore. Join Emerald O’Brien for the holidays, as she battles both psychic turbulence as well as the demons every mother faces when her child lands in trouble with the law...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  cozy  culinary  fiction
  • The Candidate and other stories by Samuel R. George

    The Candidate and other stories by Samuel R. George

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Meet Professor Alfred Jules Ayer, a famous philosopher noted for his atheism, his disdain of all things metaphysical, and his reverence for logic, in “The Candidate.” After suffering a heart attack, he finds himself in the Greek Underworld...
  • Shee Willow by Claudy Conn

    Shee Willow by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Willow Lang has been a loner all her young life. She is an artist working in a famous museum in New York City, restoring classic canvas paintings...
    Categorized as:
    drama  magic  paranormal  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fae
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • Awakened: Hidden Series Book Four by M. Lathan

    Awakened: Hidden Series Book Four by M. Lathan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After killing the biggest threat to their family and the world, Christine and Nathan are eager to move on with their lives, but Christine is sensing death stronger than she’s ever sensed it before. With Nate constantly threatened with losing himself again and a deranged girl with a motive to kill on the loose, a number of things can drive their happily ever after painfully out of reach...
  • School for Saucy Sorceresses by Carolina Mac, Auburn Tempest

    School for Saucy Sorceresses by Carolina Mac, Auburn Tempest

    Rated: 4.33 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 Misty's house fills with friends, family, and guests, the magical situations compound and Luke and Misty scramble to keep everyone safe...
  • The Blood Thief by Luanne Bennett

    The Blood Thief by Luanne Bennett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B01GD9GHBM Alex Kelley may have found the answers she was looking for when she came back to New York, but that was just a taste of things to come, a primer for the future. The window to her family history has just been shattered, and the secrets of the Fitheach clan have been unleashed...
  • Hades Academy: Third Semester by Abbie Lyons

    Hades Academy: Third Semester by Abbie Lyons

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The third book in the explosive Hades Academy series...When Nova's first year at Hades Academy concluded, everything had changed. But now that she's back on campus, it turns out the changes were just beginning...starting with who she really is...
  • In Your Dreams by Robert Sanborn

    In Your Dreams by Robert Sanborn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He moved to the Witch City to start a new life, but everything about Salem feels eerily familiar. Henry Trank is scared. Terrified by nightmares plaguing him since his arrival in Salem, he decides he's had enough. But when he records himself screaming out the last thoughts of a dying woman as he sleeps, he ends up wishing he'd left his GoPro in the closet...
  • Spells of Breath and Blade by Sarah Piper

    Spells of Breath and Blade by Sarah Piper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I spent my whole life believing magick was a curse—and that I didn't have enough of it to worry about, anyway.Turns out I was wrong on both counts.I'm so much more than a magick-blessed Academy student. I'm an Arcana Witch, bound to a sacred order whose sole duty is to protect magick—and one another—at all costs.Thankfully, I'm not alone...
    Categorized as:
    drama  magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Welcome to the Spookshow by Tim McGregor

    Welcome to the Spookshow by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Drifting through life while her peers move on with careers and marriage, Billie Culpepper fears she will never discover what she was meant to do with her life. Fate intercedes when she's injured during a pursuit between a mysterious Englishman and the police detective determined to apprehend him...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Vours: Evil demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hour of the winter solstice.It's been a year since Reggie first discovered the Vours, and the winter solstice is approaching once again. It will be another night of unspeakable horror for those unlucky enough to be taken by the Vours, because this time, she won't be able to stop them...
  • The Destiny Thief by Luanne Bennett

    The Destiny Thief by Luanne Bennett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The stunning conclusion of The Fitheach Trilogy.A bargain has been struck, and a shattering decision must be made.The Destiny Thief picks up where The Blood Thief left us – staring at the last page and asking . . . how?Alex Kelley and Greer Sinclair have become an inseparable pair, but the choice she’ll have to make for the sake of love could destroy them both...
  • Joe by H.D. Gordon

    Joe by H.D. Gordon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of The Alexa Montgomery Saga comes a story that will take you into the mind of a genuine psychopath, the lives of six ordinary people, and the world of a very special girl named Joe. Joe is seemingly an ordinary college student. She works, studies and reads. But in between these activities, Joe has a gift that promises to add a dose of color into her life at any given moment...
  • Savage by B.N. Toler

    Savage by B.N. Toler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Before reading Savage it is strongly recommended that you read Healer and Hybrid first. A savage is barbaric. It attacks without restraint or pity. It is fierce, merciless, and brutal. Aldo has let that part of herself take over, drive her actions. I thought saving her from Bridge was my biggest problem.I was wrong. Something happened while she was missing...
  • Secrets by H.K. Savage

    Secrets by H.K. Savage

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Paris, everyone is together and forgets for one night about the looming threat of war between the races for a wedding. But no sooner are their vows exchanged than the newlyweds are called upon to serve the Court. Stateside, an old photograph turns up with a member of the vampire's Court and several other men linked to an organization called Nightshade Holdings, LLC...
    Categorized as:
    drama  magic  paranormal  book  fiction  horror  mystery  new-adult
  • Uprising by Imogen Rose

    Uprising by Imogen Rose

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The global infrastructure that allows humans and supernaturals to coexist is under threat. A breakdown of this carefully maintained system erupts into worldwide chaos and could eventually lead to Armageddon.Code Uprising is activated.The power of the supernatural world shifts from the city councils to Bonfire Academy and the other elite paranormal preps...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  book  demons  fae  fiction  horror
  • Shadow Burns by S.M. Reine

    Shadow Burns by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When more than a dozen people die at a retirement home, the official story is carbon monoxide poisoning. Cèsar Hawke is convinced the reason is less mundane and more infernal. But that’s his job. As an agent working for the Office of Preternatural Affairs, he’s always looking for supernatural answers to deadly questions.Isobel Stonecrow agrees to help him find the truth...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  demons  fiction
  • Inner Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Inner Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B004GXAZ0C Becoming a Demons cheerleader was the last thing Harper Madison expected when she moved to the small town of Peachville. Now that she's an official member of the squad, her training can begin. Only, this is no normal group of cheerleaders. Harper isn't there to learn dances and cheers...
  • 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...
  • The Mortal Bone by Marjorie M. Liu

    The Mortal Bone by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When the bond Maxine Kiss shares with the demons tattooed on her skin is deliberately severed, the demon hunter is left vulnerable and unprotected. For the first time in ten thousand years, the demons have a taste of freedom. And as the little demons grow more violent and unpredictable, Maxine starts to fear they will lose their minds without her...
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