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  • My Big Fat Witch Wedding by Amanda M. Lee

    My Big Fat Witch Wedding by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The big day is finally here.Bay and Landon’s wedding day has arrived.Unfortunately, a tragedy stands in the way of their happily ever after, and it comes in the form of reports of an armed gunman at the local high school. Bay, ghosts at her side, braves the scene to save the kids … and uncovers something horrific.She. The boy with the gun says he needs to find her...
  • Magic & Marriage by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Marriage by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a television show called Natural Selection decides to film in Starry Hollow, the whole town is abuzz. The paranormal version of The Bachelor is the talk of the nation and the ideal vehicle to show off the town’s charm. Everyone is excited—except the chosen bachelor’s grandmother...
  • Freaky Gifts by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Gifts by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Winter break is upon Mystic Caravan, which is supposed to mean a full month of rest and relaxation. Upon arriving at their destination, however, Poet and company find that murder isn’t far behind.Their off-season park is full of paranormals – something that normally makes Poet comfortable – but the death of a local girl points to one of their own being the culprit...
  • Freaky Mage by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Mage by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The members of Mystic Caravan have Georgia on their minds as they land in Savannah … and immediately find trouble.In a city full of ghosts, Poet Parker expects a few magical things to happen, but when an evil cult sacrifices a young woman on the beach next to their camp, things take a turn nobody was expecting. Thankfully, she’s not alone for this fight...
  • Freaky Reapers by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Reapers by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Poet Parker put the past behind her. At least she thought she did. Life on the streets wasn’t what she had in mind for her forever and she jumped at the chance to join Mystic Caravan Circus when an invitation was extended. She didn’t look back. That was ten years ago, and now Poet is going back to the exact area she used to haunt … and she’s nervous. The friends she left behind are scattered...
  • A Crone to Pick by Amanda M. Lee

    A Crone to Pick by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Scout Randall knows what she is, more than a witch, more powerful than she ever thought imaginable. She’s only hit the tip of the iceberg on what she can do. Now she has to grapple with another problem.When her former partner Evan was believed dead in a vampire attack, she blamed herself, mourned, and tried to move on. Now he’s back, and he’s more than anybody ever imagined, too...
  • Freaky Sights by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Sights by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is on the move after their winter break. First stop? Moonstone Bay. Poet Parker and crew are looking for a permanent location because traveling won’t be an option for much longer. They’re expecting a normal trip.They’re getting so much more … including a mystery...
  • Great Hexpectations by Amanda M. Lee

    Great Hexpectations by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hadley Hunter thought she was getting a grip on the paranormal world she never knew existed until recently. She was wrong. In the shadow of a massive shifter retreat, she finds she knew absolutely nothing.Her live-in love Galen Blackwood has his hands full with the conference...
  • Magic & Misfortune by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Misfortune by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.Misfortunes never come alone.When a valuable jewel goes missing, former newspaper reporter Ember Rose is hired to track it down. She quickly learns that the jewel wasn’t hidden away for its monetary worth but for safety because the jewel has the power to bring misfortune to its possessor...
  • Magic & Misfits by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Misfits by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.Bentley Smith is tired of being the red-headed stepchild in the office of Vox Populi and is determined to prove his mettle by warming up the cold case involving Sheriff’s Nash’s murdered father. The deeper digs, however, the more uncomfortable he becomes when the information he unearths implicates one of Starry Hollow’s very own...
  • The Werewolf Whoops by Amanda M. Lee

    The Werewolf Whoops by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes is back on her feet and ready for action. Luckily for her, The Legacy Foundation officially has its first job in weeks and they’re on the hunt for … werewolves. It seems two campers have gone missing, the campsite littered with strange animal prints. Charlie is excited for adventure but sometimes wishes are more dangerous than they seem...
  • Grease the Wheel by Amanda M. Lee

    Grease the Wheel by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Stormy Morgan is a witch with too much attitude, an old love fueling new fires in her soul, and a talking cat who keeps threatening to give her an ulcer. She’s got a full plate. Things get even busier in her life when a body drops outside her boyfriend Hunter Ryan’s house … and the death looks like more than a standard murder...
  • Witching on the Job by Amanda M. Lee

    Witching on the Job by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hadley Hunter came to Moonstone Bay to find herself. That included finding her passion in life. She just didn’t think it would involve becoming mayor.She has no qualifications, other than being a powerful witch.Half the town is rooting against her.The other half is just sitting back to see what happens.Only a handful of people are rooting for her, but they’re the only ones who matter...
  • The Killer Clown Calamity by Amanda M. Lee

    The Killer Clown Calamity by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes’ life is in turmoil. Her relationship with her boyfriend Jack is going well but Casey, the newest member of the Legacy Foundation, has dropped a bombshell and Charlie feels as if things are spinning out of control. While waiting for DNA results to prove (or disprove, for that matter) Casey’s identity, the team gets called out on a weird case...
  • No Crone Unturned by Amanda M. Lee

    No Crone Unturned by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Scout Randall is on the verge of getting information about her past. Patience has never been one of her virtues, though. As she’s waiting for her source to get settled, a new problem arises … and it has fangs. When she was a kid, a chance encounter in a park left Scout questioning the existence of monsters...
  • The Wendigo Whoop-De-Doo by Amanda M. Lee

    The Wendigo Whoop-De-Doo by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes has the one thing she always wanted but was afraid to admit. The parents who gave her up for adoption are back in her life, but the transition from orphan to adult child isn’t going to be an easy one. Before she can commit to the process, however, a new job pops up for the Legacy Foundation and she’s whisked away to upstate Washington...
  • Cut to the Crone by Amanda M. Lee

    Cut to the Crone by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Scout Randall needs answers on a past she can’t remember … and when an associate introduces her to an individual who claims to have known her family way back when, she believes those answers might finally be accessible. That falls by the wayside, though, when a tanned vampire lands in her backyard in the middle of the night … and he has a magical teenager in tow...
  • The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    For 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...
  • Magic & Monsters by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Monsters by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.Starry Hollow is abuzz when the famously reclusive Creature Hunter, Winston York, emerges from retirement after a rare sighting of an endangered magical creature and Ember Rose is assigned to cover the story...
  • Magic & Malice by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Malice by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. When Ember Rose is tasked with covering the birthday party of a wealthy 200-year-old matriarch for the local paper's society section, she doesn't bank on the guest of honor dying before the cake is served...
  • Freaky Places by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Places by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is heading to the West Coast, and while everyone is happy for the change of scenery there's a pall settling over the group. Poet and Kade are in a good place and planning for a change, but it's something Poet can't focus on because she feels as if someone is watching … and whoever it is has evil in his or her heart...
  • Southern Magic Wedding by Amy Boyles

    Southern Magic Wedding by Amy Boyles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s Pepper's and Axel’s wedding day. Finally, the big day has arrived and the entire town is ready to celebrate. And Pepper is ready, too. She can’t wait to start her new life. The only problem is that suddenly Axel has ex-girlfriends oozing out of the woodwork. Worse, when a spell is cast on Axel the day before the wedding, his future with Pepper becomes murky. Pepper is shattered...
  • The Banshee Brouhaha by Amanda M. Lee

    The Banshee Brouhaha by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes has spent her entire life wondering who her birth parents were, why they abandoned her, and where the magic she’s been learning to hone came from.She’s finally going to get some answers.With proof that the new member of the Legacy Foundation is really her brother, Charlie sets off to visit Salem with him and her boyfriend Jack Hanson...
  • The Chupacabra Catastrophe by Amanda M. Lee

    The Chupacabra Catastrophe by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes has a new life and it’s not exactly what she thought it would be.She’s psychic, telekinetic and eager to learn from her knowledgeable co-workers at The Legacy Foundation. She’s also nervous, frightened and on edge … mostly because she’s exactly the sort of oddity the group is looking to study and she’s desperate to keep her secret from the very people who are searching for her...
  • Witch Confidential by Lily Harper Hart

    Witch Confidential by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The Big Easy is about to be buried in big trouble.Again.For Ofelia Archer, that means she’s knee-deep in an investigation … even though she’s not quite sure how she got there.Zach Sully thinks he’s in for an easy night at Ofelia’s speakeasy – maybe a little flirting as a lead-up to a date included – when a scream in a neighboring abandoned building draws his attention...
  • Magic & Madness by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Madness by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. New Jersey transplant Ember Rose finds herself in the thick of the action when a traveling carnival comes to Starry Hollow. Taking Florian’s advice to be more sociable, she ends up as a member of the Power Puffs—a team of middle school moms who’ve never met a baking competition they haven’t entered...
  • The Dirty Coven by Lily Harper Hart

    The Dirty Coven by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hannah Hickok is at a crossroads in her life. She’s single, out of a job, and living in an apartment she absolutely hates in a suburb of Detroit. All that changes when she receives a registered letter and finds out she’s inherited a performance town.Casper Creek is located in Kentucky, on top of a small mountain, and is fashioned after notorious towns from the old west...
  • Witch in a Crisis by Elle Adams

    Witch in a Crisis by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's time for Blair Wilkes to face her biggest challenge yet.Now the Inquisitor for the paranormal hunters has given her an ultimatum, Blair finds herself in a bind. When information about her jailed father's trial comes to light, Blair is determined to prove he was imprisoned unlawfully...
  • Hex, Drugs & Rock and Roll by Lily Harper Hart

    Hex, Drugs & Rock and Roll by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    There’s a dark shadow hanging over the French Quarter, and Ofelia Archer is constantly looking over her shoulder because of it, waiting for the enemy to strike. While searching for one enemy, however, she finds another.On what was supposed to be a relaxing day on the riverwalk, a knife-wielding man tries to take out a street performer and chaos ensues...
  • Magic & Mercy by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Mercy by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. Ember Rose has her work cut out for her when a butler is murdered at the annual Estate Manager Conference. The former New Jersey resident and descendant of the One True Witch must keep Aunt Hyacinth from marching on the war path in defense of Simon, her butler and right hand...
  • The Megalodon Mix-Up by Amanda M. Lee

    The Megalodon Mix-Up by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Charlie Rhodes’ life has taken a turn. Not only is she working her dream job, but she’s also taken on a dreamy co-worker and is officially dating the office security chief. Yeah, she’s still trying to wrap her head around it, too...
  • Charmed Offense by Annabel Chase

    Charmed Offense by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal.Emma Hart would like to believe she's glowing more than growing, but there's no denying her stomach now has the look of a prize-winning watermelon. Her pregnancy results in more than physical changes, however, as she decides to delve deeper into her family history...
  • Hook, Line, and Murder by Tegan Maher

    Hook, Line, and Murder by Tegan Maher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Moonlight, a handsome man, and… a dead body? Definitely not what Noelle expected when she cast off with Hunter to do a little romantic night fishing. Hunter discovers the girl didn’t exist before moving to Keyhole Lake. A day later, he’s ordered to close the case before he even opens it...
  • Broomsticks and Bones by Misty Bane

    Broomsticks and Bones by Misty Bane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being summoned to attend a mandatory Flyers Education course – aka Broomstick Riding 101 - is bad enough. Immediately being entangled in a web of witchy drama from the moment I arrive? Well, that’s just my luck. Word has it a young woman has mysteriously fallen from the dormitory roof...
  • Angel in Demise by Leanne Leeds

    Angel in Demise by Leanne Leeds

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An electrocuted millionaire at a garden party.One witch under suspicion.Can Fortuna Delphi clear her name before they shut her art gallery down? Fortuna Delphi’s starting to feel like a part of Mystic’s End...
  • Sketchy Charms by Leanne Leeds

    Sketchy Charms by Leanne Leeds

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A body in the woodlands near the crystal field.Smoky quartz that smoked the local mailman.Can Fortuna unearth the truth the authorities won’t? When reporter and Mystic’s End busybody Pepper Stanford discovers a sketched map that professes to reveal what the heck the deal is with mystics in Mystic’s End, Fortuna reluctantly follows her out to the thick forest to hunt for for clues...
  • Vampires & Verses by Elle Adams

    Vampires & Verses by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The summer carnival has arrived at Ivory Beach, and Rory and her magical family are ready to enjoy the festivities.At least until a vampire shows up dead, a stake in his back, and a furious Evangeline sweeps in to take over the murder investigation. Edwin, head of the police, pleads with Rory to make her see reason, but the fearsome head of the local vampires refuses to be taken for a fool...
  • Magic & Mishaps by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Mishaps by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken.Ember Rose is working hard to smooth the path for her relationship with the stoic vampire Alec Hale. She hits a massive bump, however, when a body is discovered drained of blood and Alec is one of the key suspects. Sheriff Nash insists that his interest in Alec isn't personal, but Ember isn't convinced...
  • Wicked Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Wedding by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    You are formally invited to the wedding of Ivy Morgan and Jack Harker.Before they walk down the aisle, though, there’s one more mystery to solve.Ivy, who is finishing up the last days of her community service, inserts herself into a tense situation when the alarm at the domestic violence shelter she is working at sounds and she goes off to make sure all the women and children are accounted for...
  • Magic & Mythos by Annabel Chase

    Magic & Mythos by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. Big changes are afoot for Ember Rose. The descendant of the One True Witch is grappling with the fallout from a recent decision regarding Sheriff Nash and Alec, while also navigating new witchy waters with her daughter, Marley...
  • A Haunted Disappearance by J.A. Whiting

    A Haunted Disappearance by J.A. Whiting

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is book 2 in the Lin Coffin Mystery series. The main mystery is solved in each book but you will enjoy the stories more if they are read in order. Lin Coffin is enjoying her new life on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts...
  • Wicked Whispers by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Whispers by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jack Harker says the honeymoon will never be over, but it’s back to reality for him and his wife Ivy. Unfortunately for them, that means murder is on the menu … and this newest body is dropped in Ivy’s nursery parking lot.Jack is a mess when he realizes a sniper took out a local woman. Ivy, although shocked because it happened right in front of her eyes, is also intrigued...
  • Loved Up by A.A. Albright

    Loved Up by A.A. Albright

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the Wayfair Witches, the romantic season is beginning. Unfortunately, it’s beginning with a murder.When Nancy Berry is killed during spring celebrations, the reason seems clear to her coven leader. Will Berry believes that Nancy was killed as a threat, to force him to vote the right way in an upcoming election.But Wanda thinks there’s a far more fiendish reason for Nancy’s murder...
  • Acting Up by A.A. Albright

    Acting Up by A.A. Albright

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wanda Wayfair does not believe in prophecies… There’s a murderer on the set of Be My Witch, and Wanda is afraid that all the wrong people are being killed. Because in the vision she saw, Mandy Parker was the one who died. With the help of the victims’ familiars, Wanda races to solve the case...
  • Infernum by Wendy Saunders

    Infernum by Wendy Saunders

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Infernum, the Hell book. There have been whispers of it down through the centuries. The most powerful book to have ever existed, so powerful wars have been fought over it, families torn apart and betrayed for it, souls have been lost to it and countless rivers of blood have been spilled for it. It is said whoever possesses it will have limitless power...
  • Solstice Spirits by Erin Johnson

    Solstice Spirits by Erin Johnson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Have yourself a very Merry Witchmas in July in Holiday Haven, where the magic and mystery of Christmas is snow joke!Rudie Hollybrook, here! I love my quaint, magical town of Holiday Haven. It’s basically like living in a snow globe.I’m killing it (oops) directing my family’s funeral home where I work with my two zany sisters and am head over heels for my boyfriend, the editor of the local paper...
  • Mangroves and Murder by Tegan Maher

    Mangroves and Murder by Tegan Maher

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's nothing worse than finding a dead body when you're trying to relax at a magical beach resort.Witch Destiny Maganti loves bartending at the Enchanted Coast, but she's in desperate need of a vacation...
  • Beachside Burglary by Tegan Maher

    Beachside Burglary by Tegan Maher

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life's a beach, at least until a king's crown goes missing.Destiny's been trying to hunt down a thief for a couple of weeks, but up 'til now, it's been all small potatoes - sometimes literally. Since she's certain it's a local and suspects there's a method to the thievery, she's tried to keep it on the down-low in order to flush the petty criminal out...
  • Dead as a Dodo by Jeannie Wycherley

    Dead as a Dodo by Jeannie Wycherley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the Amazon bestselling author of the Wonky Inn books comes a brand-new magical fantasy witch detective series.Dodo was dead. And there the matter should have rested.At least for DS Elise Liddell.Emotionally burnt out, she considers herself retired from police work...
  • Bourbon Street Ghosts by Lily Harper Hart

    Bourbon Street Ghosts by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Harper Harlow-Monroe and Zander Pritchett have been excited for their upcoming ghost conference in New Orleans for years, since before they were involved with their significant others. What was once a trip for two has now become a trip for four … but that doesn’t make them any less excited...
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