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  • Liam by Shannon Mayer

    Liam by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    My name is Liam, and I was an FBI agent, until I stepped into the world of Rylee Adamson. Now, I’m a Guardian, a wolf shifter whose very design is to protect those around him at any cost. The battle against Orion is done, the demons banished. In their wake, there are so many innocents who have lost their lives, their families, and their way.Three of them our now ours to raise—the ogre triplets...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  book  contemporary  demons  dragons
  • Gift of the Darkness by E.E. Holmes

    Gift of the Darkness by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A warning from the past, an uncertain future, an impossible choice... For hundreds of years, the Durupinen have carried the power of the Gateway in their bloodlines. Now, a dire warning from the past might mean that power must come to an end...
  • Murder Mittens by R.J. Blain

    Murder Mittens by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Becoming a bounty hunter and taking on the call sign of Murder Mittens wasn’t Harri’s brightest move, but what’s a lynx to do with millions of debt while working a customer service gig? The scars deforming her face won’t remove themselves, and she’ll bag and tag every criminal in the United States to get rid of them if necessary...
  • Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The first novella in the Elemental Legacy series:SHADOWS AND GOLDFailing grades. Misleading wind vampires. And a fortune in forgotten gold...
  • Heart of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Heart of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Keating Hollow, the enchanted village where love, cupcakes, and magic collide. There are only three things that were ever important to Noel Townsend—love, family, and magic. Two out of three aren’t bad. She’s blessed with a large close-knit family and her magic has never been stronger...
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    magic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Dead Weight by G.P. Robbins

    Dead Weight by G.P. Robbins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Newly promoted Detective Jace Smithson has his hands full with solving the murders of ten men and the kidnapping of a unicorn capable of producing diamonds. On the surface, the crime appears to be a classic tale of greed and violence, but digging deeper reveals something sinister has come to Cauldron City...
  • Hypnos by R.J. Blain

    Hypnos by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Following the devastation of World War III, nuclear radiation has spawned magic, ranging from nuisance koppa oni plaguing the Golden Gate to masters of the elements. It falls to the FBI's supernatural quads and their supervisors to protect those who can't protect themselves...
  • Wrath and Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Wrath and Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marnie Baranuik is confident that her new psychic detective agency will be a great success, and she has eight million business cards to prove it. But before the paint even dries on her open for business sign, she’s summoned to face the Demon King Asmodeus in His own playground, the revenant court, home of the undead nobility, to participate in a conclave of the most powerful immortals on Earth...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  demons
  • Catnapped by R.J. Blain

    Catnapped by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When someone steals Diana’s cat, a former lab animal rescued from death’s door, she calls on one of the most dangerous beings in the universe for help. Cutting a deal with the devil isn’t the smartest move, but there’s no way in hell she’ll abandon Mr. Flooferson the Magnificent to his fate...
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    dystopia  magic  paranormal  urban  adult  angels  audiobook  book
  • Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Okay. I’ll admit I’ve got problems. But surrender is word wholly absent from my vocabulary.My grasp on magic is shaky at best and my dependence on spider’s silk is a battle I’m still fighting. But while my heritage and my health might be problematic, I’m certainly not going to roll over and give up.Not me. Not ever...
  • Last Impressions by A.J. Aalto

    Last Impressions by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When an FBI Internal Affairs investigation lands the Preternatural Crimes Unit in a bureaucratic spank-fest, it feels like the perfect time for Marnie Baranuik to skip town and lend her expertise to a bear-sized Canadian cop who doesn’t want her help with his case, his love life, or his car stereo...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Awakening by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    The Awakening by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "I can't go home. It's not safe. Nowhere is." Tess Eckhart isn’t crazy. She’s not suffering from psychosis. She and Luka Williams are part of The Gifting. Before they can find out what that means, the man with all the answers turns up dead. The only thing he left behind? A few patient files that lead to the nation’s most lawless city...
  • Bonds by Susan Copperfield

    Bonds by Susan Copperfield

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the Royal States of America, magic rules all, but life—and love—always finds a way. When a sinking oil tanker threatens to destroy the picturesque coastline of France, search and rescue diver Jack Alders and his waveweaving talent stand between France and a record-breaking oil spill...
  • Cold Flame by Susan Copperfield

    Cold Flame by Susan Copperfield

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Leaving behind her royal life should have solved most problems for Rachel of New York. While wandering the Royal States buys her peace for a while, her sister’s suicide drags her back into the cutthroat world she’d left behind. The RPS hunting her down to deal with her sister’s body is bad enough, but one nameless bachelor at a wedding in Illinois changes everything. Again...
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    dystopia  magic  paranormal  urban  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • Fowl Play by R.J. Blain

    Fowl Play by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B07F6Y9M9BInstead of a quiet dance retreat where she could escape the insanity of being the daughter of an angel, a succubus, and a lycanthrope, Emma Sansaul plummets into the middle of murder, mayhem, and mischief...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary
  • Rough Justice by Kelley Armstrong

    Rough Justice by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mallt-y-Nos. Matilda of the Hunt. The lone woman who rides with the Wild Hunt, tasked with finding killers who’ve escaped justice and letting the hounds reap their souls. For Olivia Taylor-Jones, Matilda isn’t just a legendary figure from Welsh lore. She is Olivia’s past, and her future, one she’s finally embraced. Having accepted her role as Matilda, Olivia must now lead her first Hunt...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Last but not Leashed by R.J. Blain

    Last but not Leashed by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Warning: This novella contains humor, romance, magic, a temporary escape from life, bodies, and puns. No plots were severely harmed during testing but they were put in time out due to hysterics...
  • Hoofin' It by R.J. Blain

    Hoofin' It by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All Shane wanted was to get away from the wreckage of his career for a while. He picked New York City to provide him with a distraction from his early, unwanted retirement from the police force. New York City delivered, distracting him with three corpses and a miniature llama with a spitting problem and an attitude...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Atoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Atoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Chloe's POV set after The Darkness Rising trilogy.Chloe and Derek have adjusted to life in Badger Lake. It’s not perfect, but it’s safe and they’re learning the skills they’ll need when it comes time to make a decision about their futures. They’re comfortable and they’re settled . . . until a weekend camping trip with Maya and Daniel reunites them with someone they thought they’d left in the past...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  book  contemporary  demons  fiction  ghosts
  • Ignited by Corrine Jackson

    Ignited by Corrine Jackson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nobody hides forever.Ever since Remy O'Malley discovered her dual identity as a Healer and a Protector, she's kept alive by staying one step ahead of both sides in this centuries-old war. Now someone's trying to draw her out of hiding, using her kidnapped father as bait. To save him, Remy will need every friend she's got. But as new alliances form, old bonds fray...
  • Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane

    Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It’s a thin line between right and wrong. It’s an even thinner one between wrong and dead…Terrible has always been on the wrong side of the law, living up to the only name anyone ever gave him. As the chief enforcer for Downside’s most powerful criminal, it’s his job to collect debts and protection money by any means necessary. And he’s very good at his job...
  • Magic for a Price by Devon Monk

    Magic for a Price by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    For most of her life, Allison Beckstrom has used magic and accepted the heavy price it exacts. But now that all magic is poisoned, it’s no longer just using people—it’s killing them.With Portland about to descend into chaos, Allie needs to find a way to purify the wells of tainted magic beneath the city...
  • Rogue Community College by David R. Slayton

    Rogue Community College by David R. Slayton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Set in the same universe as the Adam Binder series, Rogue Community College is a delightful fantasy with lots of magic and mayhem … and more than a few dinosaurs.Isaac Frost is an Undertaker, a magical assassin sent to infiltrate and destroy the elves’ new school for wayward practitioners...
  • Hisses and Honey by Shannon Mayer

    Hisses and Honey by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The climactic final volume of The Venom Trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Shannon Mayer. Humble baker turned supernatural Alena Budrene is lovely and lethal, and for the first time, she’s owning it. Finally rid of her low-life ex-husband, she’s free to date sexy vampire mob boss Remo, who respects her as both a Supe and a woman...
  • Huntress by Susan Copperfield

    Huntress by Susan Copperfield

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the Royal States of America, magic rules all, but life—and love—always finds a way. Like the other men in Prince Kelvin’s line, only the love of another can free him from his family’s curse, but it’s hard finding the perfect woman able to love him despite all his flaws—and his tendency to transform into a white turkey during the spring...
  • A Guiding Light by Susan Copperfield

    A Guiding Light by Susan Copperfield

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the Royal States of America, magic rules all, but life—and love—always finds a way. Once upon a time, Adam had been betrothed to North Dakota’s heir, and she’d been his everything, his reason for living. Failing to develop his parents’ talents, he’s stripped of his rank and shipped to a remote corner of the kingdom to live out the rest of his life as a shamed outcast...
  • Eye of Danger by Alyssa Day

    Eye of Danger by Alyssa Day

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's a PI who turns into a tiger. She can see how you'll die. The bad guys never stood a chance. EYE OF DANGER: The longest and most twisty installment of the Tiger's Eye mysteries yet! When Tess Callahan's long-lost and presumed-dead father comes back to town, running from the mob, she's not sure how to feel...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc
  • Portents by Kelley Armstrong

    Portents by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Collection of Cainsville TalesCainsville, Illinois. A town founded by fae escaping the Old World. A town both part of the world and cut off from it. A town that a young woman will run to, fleeing her past, only to discover that her past extends further than she ever imagined, into the distant history of Cainville itself...
  • Shadow Silence by Yasmine Galenorn

    Shadow Silence by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn invites readers to Whisper Hollow, where spirits walk among the living and the lake never gives up her dead…Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I'm Kerris Fellwater, and I'm a spirit shaman...
  • How [Not] to Kiss a Gargoyle by Elizabeth A. Reeves

    How [Not] to Kiss a Gargoyle by Elizabeth A. Reeves

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cindy Eller just wants to get her life back. Instead of focusing her energy on her bakery and her relationship, she keeps getting distracted by the hubbub surrounding the upcoming case-- where she and her family will be put on trial for contact with Faerie...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fae
  • Five Mornings by Elizabeth Hunter

    Five Mornings by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One morning can change everything. Five mornings can change a life. Friends. Lovers. Enemies. Allies. Alex McCann and Teodora ‘Ted’ Vasquez never had a simple relationship. But you couldn’t call it a boring one, either. Five mornings in their past shape who they will become to each other. To their families. And to the mysterious town they call home...
  • One Hex of a Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn

    One Hex of a Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wedding bells turn to sour notes for Emerald O'Brien. Her fiancé is wounded by gunfire, her ex-husband becomes the prime suspect, and her maid of honor is being stalked. Now it's up to Emerald to divine if the incidents are related...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc
  • War Witch by Layla Nash

    War Witch by Layla Nash

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hustling as a waitress is a far cry from being the most feared witch in the world. But after surviving ten years of war between humans and supernaturals, Lily finds anonymity a relief. Even a request for help from an old coven friend can’t bring Lily out of hiding -- until her friend disappears, along with the entire coven...
  • Tremble by Jus Accardo

    Tremble by Jus Accardo

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dez Cross has problems. She’s almost eighteen and on the verge of losing her mind thanks to the drug Denazen used to enhance her abilities. People close to her have turned their back on the underground and are now fighting for the wrong side. And then there’s Kale... Things couldn’t get any worse.Until of course, they do...
  • Shadowland by Karen Chance

    Shadowland by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A John Pritkin short, available for free on Karen Chance’s website and Smashwords.com."Shadowland" is a novella set between Curse the Dawn (Cassie Palmer #4) and Hunt the Moon (Cassie Palmer #5). It should be read after "A Family Affair".* Contains spoilers for the first four Cassandra Palmer books...
  • Servant of the Blood by K.N. Banet

    Servant of the Blood by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I grew up with them, the creatures of the night, the blood suckers, the monsters.The vampires.I knew vampires before I could walk, not that I knew what they really were. Just that they weren’t really like me. I was human, just like my parents, and when I turned eighteen, I decided to work for the vampires after college, too...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  abuse  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Buried Magic by T.J. Green

    Buried Magic by T.J. Green

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Witchcraft, dark secrets, and demons. No one is safe in White Haven.White Haven has a history of witchcraft, but the locals don't know that there are real witches living among them, and Avery is one of them...
  • Magic Without Mercy by Devon Monk

    Magic Without Mercy by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Allison Beckstrom’s talent for tracking spells has put her up against some of the darkest elements in the world of magic, but she’s never faced anything like this.Magic itself has been poisoned, and Allie’s undead father may have left the only cure in the hands of a madman...
  • Death Undone by Richard Amos

    Death Undone by Richard Amos

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, the crap really hits the fan.Now what? How do you clear up a mess as big as this?Is there any coming back from absolute chaos?I have to believe in hope. I have to believe in my love for Death, for a future beyond this pain and drama.But why does hope feel like such a foolish dream at this point?Damn.An ending is coming…I just hope I survive it...
  • Magic Binds [Dramatized Adaptation] by Ilona Andrews, Nora Sofyan

    Magic Binds [Dramatized Adaptation] by Ilona Andrews, Nora Sofyan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she’s faced could have prepared her for what’s to come in this heart-stopping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official...
  • Binding the Shadows by Jenn Bennett

    Binding the Shadows by Jenn Bennett

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the third book in this beloved and “riveting” (Romantic Times) urban fantasy series, demon-friendly tiki bar owner Arcadia Bell discovers more about her own evolving, and possibly destructive, magical abilities when her bar is the target of a demonic crime wave.Renegade mage and bartender Arcadia Bell has had a rough year, but now the door to her already unstable world is unhinging...
  • Shades of Memory by Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Shades of Memory by Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Riley's lost the last damned thing she's willing to lose. She's declaring war and prisoners are optional.After escaping the FBI, Riley and her family have become fugitives, and not just from the law. Every bad guy on the planet wants a piece of Riley. Gregg has been kidnapped. Worse than that, Price's newly discovered magic is dangerously out of control, and her own is trying to kill her...
  • The Line That Binds by J.M. Miller

    The Line That Binds by J.M. Miller

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stained with heartache and cursed with vengeance, a stone well lies on a nineteenth-century estate, waiting for the Stockton line to wish again. When seventeen-year-old Lila Wayde's father loses his high-paying job in Las Vegas, the family relocates to a Pennsylvania estate bequeathed by an estranged aunt. Lila begins a new life there, one not corrupted by wealth and fake friends...
  • A Lonely Magic by Sarah Wynde

    A Lonely Magic by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing is what it seems…Fen, a street-smart orphan with anxiety issues, thinks she has her life under control. Then a gorgeous stranger tries to kill her. WTF?A mysterious boy and his sexy older brother come to her rescue, whisking her off to a glamorous Caribbean island and supposed safety. But the island’s atmosphere simmers with unnerving undercurrents...
  • Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake

    Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this exciting novel in the Veiled Magic series, Witch and police officer Donata Santori travels to Maine to help solve a deadly mystery, where her magical abilities are tested like never before...
  • Three Wishes by Debra Dunbar

    Three Wishes by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dar helped his foster sister become the ruler of Hel, and helped her free the enslaved humans from the elves. It’s about time he helped himself – to a fun week of mayhem in the Windy City. Collapsing a few buildings and corrupting politicians is an ideal vacation for a demon in Chicago, but Dar didn’t count on a beautiful angel sabotaging his fun and putting him to work...
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    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  angels  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Whisper of Shadows by Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Whisper of Shadows by Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    War is coming . . .When the FBI uses an anti-magic law to arrest and torture Riley's boyfriend, they have no idea what hell they are about to unleash. If Riley can't rescue Clay before he breaks, the result will be a disaster of epic proportions.With time running out, Riley and her family must rely on two people more likely to stab them in the back than actually help...
  • Putting the Fun in Funeral by Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Putting the Fun in Funeral by Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beck Wyatt has always hated her mother—enough to kill her. As luck would have it, someone beats her to murdering Mommy Dearest and now Beck gets to plan the tackiest funeral the world has ever seen for the worst woman she’s ever known. But first, Beck has a few minor problems to deal with. First on the list? Avoid getting kidnapped. She also has to convince the police she didn’t kill her mother...
  • Last Breath by Debra Dunbar

    Last Breath by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What do a dead cosplayer and a ritual murder have in common? Plenty. Solaria Ainsworth isn’t a paladin, she’s not even an ordained Templar Knight, but she can’t resist poking her nose into police business when magicians are found murdered in Baltimore. When the murders spread to include those of the magical group Haul Du, she rethinks her participation in the investigation...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  urban  adult  alpha-mc  angels  audiobook  book
  • Cruel Fate by Kelley Armstrong

    Cruel Fate by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three years after discovering that her biological parents are convicted serial killers, Olivia finally has her life back, and it’s better than ever. She loves her new job, as investigator for notorious defense attorney Gabriel Walsh. She has Gabriel, too, as they settle in together, dividing their time between Chicago and Cainsville...
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