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  • Only the Buried by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Buried by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Izzy Sage was looking for answers when she took a job as keeper of the death gate in Detroit. Unfortunately, the answers being delivered aren’t what she was hoping for. Personal worries have to take a backseat, though, because the reaper world is in an uproar...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  book  demons
  • 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...
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    cozy  fae  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts
  • Witch Is Where Magic Lives Now by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is Where Magic Lives Now by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There have been many changes to Jill's life during the last six years, but she's just as busy as ever. A family heirloom has disappeared from Tweaking Manor, and a man claims he saw a woman being shot, but the police insist no such shooting ever took place. Meanwhile, Winky is up to his old tricks...
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    cozy  female-mc  paranormal  adult  animals  book  cats  fiction
  • 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...
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    cozy  fae  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • Ripple of Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Ripple of Secrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rose Gardner novella #6.5 in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series.After her assistant DA boyfriend’s near brush with death, Rose Gardner hopes to make it through the holiday season with a minimal amount of drama. But she can’t forget the promise she made to the king of the Fenton County underworld in exchange for Mason’s life...
  • Marked for Murder by Colleen Helme

    Marked for Murder by Colleen Helme

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trouble follows Shelby Nichols Why wouldn't it?She works for a mob boss.And the police.A desperate call from a friend in need turns Shelby’s life upside down. Someone is out to prove that Shelby is a fake, marking her for murder. How far will they go?As the clock ticks down, she realizes no one is safe, and it’s up to her to stop them. Will she succeed? Let’s hope so, because time is running out...
  • Romancing the Crone by Amanda M. Lee

    Romancing the Crone by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Scout Randall has lived her life in the shadows, always wondering who abandoned her when she was a child and where the magic she boasts came from. Finally, she is about to get some answers.It won’t be easy, though.After a wild fight that saw shifters and vampires joining together to battle under an eclipse, things in Hawthorne Hollow are relatively quiet...
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    cozy  fae  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  humor
  • Gone Haunting in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Gone Haunting in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trespassers will be gutted and hung!—Slagton’s Town Motto Normally, not even drunk on a bet would Violet Parker go to Slagton, a creepy ghost town inhabited by those too stubborn—or deranged—to leave. But a certain bullheaded Deadwood detective has a problem—his informant from Slagton has gone missing...
  • Southern Wands by Amy Boyles

    Southern Wands by Amy Boyles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life just won’t settle down for Pepper Dunn. The Head Witch Order has arrived with one mission—secure Pepper’s powers for themselves at any cost.The entire Craple household is on deck to save Pepper. Grandma Betty has formed her own resistance, and even though they’re groaning about it, Amelia and Cordelia jump in to assist her...
  • Witch Is Why The Owl Returned: Volume 21 by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is Why The Owl Returned: Volume 21 by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A picture is worth… The clock is ticking. A dark shadow descends over Candlefield, and everyone looks to Jill for help. But where is she? …precisely no custard creams...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction
  • You Only Witch Once by Amanda M. Lee

    You Only Witch Once by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s the summer of 2002, and Winnie Winchester is a normal mother. She has the same highs, the same lows, and the same fears as any other mother of a fourteen-year-old girl. Of course, since she’s a witch – and her daughter can talk to ghosts – those fears are amplified to an unnatural degree...
  • Everlasting Covenant by Amanda M. Lee

    Everlasting Covenant by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deep down inside, Zoe Lake-Winters knew that she hadn’t yet bid goodbye to Covenant College. The realization that the final fight will be fought at the place she thought she would never see again isn’t lost on her. Still … she has no choice. Her family comes first and she’s out of options. Another attack on Sami Winters forces Zoe and Aric to embrace the inevitable...
  • Growing Alpha by Erin R. Flynn

    Growing Alpha by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Division Chief Seraphine Thomas knows that progress isn’t made without sacrifices. Their side has lost people, and the cost to her own life is sometimes too high.But now that the political climate for supes shifts widely back the wrong way, everyone is scrambling to secure the protections supes desperately need. It’s simply impossible to play a fair game when the other side cheats...
  • Hexed on Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

    Hexed on Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author, Deanna Chase, the eighth book in the Jade Calhoun series. Between enjoying her first pregnancy and helping her two besties plan their weddings, Jade Calhoun’s life is just about perfect. But when two novice magical TV stars walk into her life, suddenly her magic goes haywire...
  • Night Work by Steve Higgs

    Night Work by Steve Higgs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When other people’s weird is your normal, what do you do when your life gets weird? For Jane Butterworth the paranormal is just a day job. She works at the Blue Moon Investigation Agency, a firm that specialises in cases that no one else will take, cases that start at strange and unexplainable and tier rapidly south from there...
  • Rattling the Heat in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rattling the Heat in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A scrappy, hot-blooded woman can only take so much! Violet Parker is on fire… or rather under fire yet again. New evidence has fanned the embers of a cold murder case, and her alibi is smoldering at the corners. While battling a dogged detective determined to pin the murder on her, Violet scrambles to find the real killer...
  • Southern Fortunes by Amy Boyles

    Southern Fortunes by Amy Boyles

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Pepper teaches a class at the Southern School of Magic, she expects a run of the mill experience. But when a gaggle of mean teachers invades her classroom, Pepper is on high alert.These women are nasty and they make no bones about disliking Pepper...
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    cozy  paranormal  fae  female-mc  romance  magic  mystery  fantasy
  • Witch is why the music stopped by Adele Abbott

    Witch is why the music stopped by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A custard cream shared… Just when Jill doesn’t think anything else could surprise her, something does. And not in a good way. …is half a custard cream I don’t get to eat...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • Miss Frost Says I Do by Kristen Painter

    Miss Frost Says I Do by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to the North Pole, the town where Christmas is everyone’s job. Jayne Frost is a lot of things. Winter elf, Jack Frost's daughter, Santa Claus's niece, heir to the Winter Throne and soon to be newlywed. Now that she and fiancé Sinclair (and their cats, Spider and Sugar) have moved back to the North Pole, they’re firmly entrenched in planning their wedding...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  animals  audiobook  book
  • Witch Is Why Two Became One by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is Why Two Became One by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you can’t beat ’em… Jill realises that the only way to move forward is to re-visit her past. But which one? …steal their custard creams...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • Outlast by Annabel Chase

    Outlast by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Where there's a wand, there's a way. My secret is out, yet I'm still welcome at the academy, training for a future as a warden for the Agency of Magical Forces. For the first time in my life, I feel like I belong. Until one of my roommates goes missing, and it's all my fault...
  • Ghostly Business by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Business by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Every “quiet” town has secrets. The one nobody expected is about to rock Whisper Cove.During what should’ve been a romantic double date, a fire breaks out at a historic home. Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe race to the scene to make sure nobody is trapped or in danger … and discover one heck of a secret...
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    cozy  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  humor
  • Psychic on the Rocks by Annabel Chase

    Psychic on the Rocks by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Rebecca Angelos prefers the company of animals to people, which is why she spends the majority of her time at her job at the animal shelter. Animals are simple—they appreciate her and don’t see her through the critical lens that she sees herself...
  • Wicked Respite by Lily Harper Hart

    Wicked Respite by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ivy Morgan and Jack Harker are going camping … again.It’s meant to be a romantic vacation, a time when they can simply lay under the stars and enjoy one another before plans for their wedding begin in earnest.It doesn’t quite turn out that way.When Ivy’s brother Max invites himself along for the ride – along with his new girlfriend, who he’s trying to impress – Jack isn’t happy...
  • Witch Is When Things Fell Apart by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is When Things Fell Apart by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    People in glass houses... A mysterious murder in a lift has everyone baffled, including P.I. (and witch extraordinaire), Jill Gooder. Meanwhile, her love life might be falling apart, but at least Winky, her one-eyed cat has a date. ...should hide their custard creams...
  • Pig Little Lies by Erin Johnson

    Pig Little Lies by Erin Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An elixir party gone sour. An expired entrepreneur. Can a cursed shifter discover what’s in love potion number crime? After confessing her dark secret, Jolene is left devastated when her cop-crush, Peter, ghosts her. But when a popular potion maker drinks her last draught, Jolene and Peter are forced to team up to find the butcher behind the brew...
  • Witch Swindled in Westerham by Dionne Lister

    Witch Swindled in Westerham by Dionne Lister

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Just when Lily’s settling into life in Westerham and making new friends, the Paranormal Investigation Bureau needs her help again. A witch has been misappropriating millions from unsuspecting retirees, but she’s destroyed all the evidence. Lily’s unique witchy skills are the only thing that can uncover the past and get the PIB the evidence it needs...
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    cozy  female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  comedy  fiction  humor
  • Wishful Wisteria by Angela Pepper

    Wishful Wisteria by Angela Pepper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What goes around comes around, so be careful who you bite.It's September, which is a rainy month in Wisteria, and a storm is brewing.When a magic mechanic takes The Big Nap in a comfy chair at the library, suspicion turns to the local librarian witch...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Whoops! We're In Big Trouble Now. by Adele Abbott

    Whoops! We're In Big Trouble Now. by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Things are starting to look up for Dorothy, Charlie and Neil. But not for long. A series of catastrophic events leads them into more trouble that they ever dreamed possible. This is the final book in the Susan Hall Investigates series...
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    cozy  fae  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  magic
  • The Grim & The Dead: A Grimlock Family Short by Amanda M. Lee

    The Grim & The Dead: A Grimlock Family Short by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Braden Grimlock likes being in charge … in theory. When his father announces that he’s going to a reaper conference with three of his siblings, Braden is disappointed to miss out on the trip but excited about being the boss. That is until he finds out which sibling is staying behind with him. Braden and his only sister Aisling have never gotten along. Still, Braden has seniority...
  • Dragons of Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

    Dragons of Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    White witch Jade Calhoun is seven months pregnant. All she wants to do is sink into domestic bliss while enjoying planning wedding and baby showers. But when a new acquaintance is arrested by the Witches Council and then mysteriously disappears, Jade is pulled into the thick of things...
  • A Fairy Good Brew by Samantha Silver

    A Fairy Good Brew by Samantha Silver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Enchanted Enclave, where coffee, chaos and cauldrons are a way of life.Invited to the paranormal world at last, Tina and Kaillie's trip gets off on the wrong foot - literally - when they stumble on a fairy's body just after arriving in Palm Rings.Between navigating this whole new world, meeting relatives they didn't know they had, and being accused of murder, Eliza has her hands full...
  • Grimoires and Where to Find Them by Honor Raconteur

    Grimoires and Where to Find Them by Honor Raconteur

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    How do you catch an elusive thief?There is nothing more delightful than a bookfaire with his lady love. At least, until Henri learns that a grimoire belonging to the dangerous Reaper’s Set has been stolen without its protective box. When Henri and Jamie go looking for answers, they are horrified to discover more than one volume has been stolen without its protective box...
  • Happy Witchgiving by Amanda M. Lee

    Happy Witchgiving by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Terry Davenport is new to the job as Walkerville’s chief of police, but he takes his position seriously – even though very few things of note happen in the small hamlet. Walkerville may be boring, but Terry’s personal life is anything but. When termites infest his house, Terry has no choice but to check into a local inn while his home is being tented...
  • Sorcery & Stories by Elle Adams

    Sorcery & Stories by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's the holiday season in the town of Ivory Beach, and Rory Hawthorn and her new magical family are preparing for the festivities. But when a group of strange werewolves materialises in the library, it kicks off a series of bizarre events which appear to be lifted directly from her aunt's bestselling novels...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  animals  book  family
  • Witches & Words by Elle Adams

    Witches & Words by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's the new year in Ivory Beach, and Rory is nursing a broken heart after the Reaper's abrupt departure from town. A distraction comes in the form of a batch of new tourists visiting the library, but when a holidaying stranger returns a rare book to her family and is then found dead, Rory finds herself in hot water again...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  animals  book  family
  • Coven Mitt by Rebecca Regnier

    Coven Mitt by Rebecca Regnier

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An icy stretch of farmland becomes one hot property after its owner turns up murdered. Reporter Marzie Nowak must dodge a hungry vampire, face off with a sexy gypsy king, and rely on her new coven of witches to catch the killer! Between her job as the only reporter in town, her werewolf home renovation contractor, and her new coven of empty nested witches, Marzie Nowak has her hands full...
  • Whoops! Someone Is On Our Case  (Susan Hall Investigates) by Adele Abbott

    Whoops! Someone Is On Our Case (Susan Hall Investigates) by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Susan Hall is still resisting the notion that there may be paranormal creatures living amongst us, but as she works on three different leads, one of them with the head of Paranormal Activity Watch (P.A.W), Greg Lewis, the evidence becomes harder and harder to ignore. Life may soon become a lot more difficult for the other three flatmates...
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    cozy  fae  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • Catnip & Curses by Emigh Cannaday

    Catnip & Curses by Emigh Cannaday

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have one rule: Never mix business with pleasure.I was never much good at following rules.Alright, so my new partner isn’t the worst. It doesn’t hurt that Logan is big, tall, and smokin’ hot. I started out hating him, but this human hunk is starting to grow on me…when we’re not fighting like cats and dogs. Even our co-worker thinks there’s something going on between us...
  • Don't Let it Snow in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Caroline Shaffer

    Don't Let it Snow in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Caroline Shaffer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I laughed (a lot), cried (a little), and wanted to stab a certain family member. This story brings all the feels!” --Renee George, USA Today Bestselling Author It’s Christmas Eve and Violet Parker has one request on her list for Santa—to make it home to her kids. Unfortunately, “home” is also the lair of her life-long nemesis, her sister Susan (aka the devil’s concubine)...
  • Sense and Scent Ability by Renee George

    Sense and Scent Ability by Renee George

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My name is Nora Black, and I'm fifty-one-years young. At least that's what I tell myself, when I'm not having hot flashes, my knees don't hurt, and I can find my reading glasses.I’m also the proud owner of a salon called Scents & Scentsability in the small resort town of Garden Cove, where I make a cozy living selling handmade bath and beauty products. All in all, my life is pretty good...
  • Ghostly Charms by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Charms by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Harper Harlow thought the only thing she was going to have to worry about in the shadow of spring was planning her wedding. She was wrong.A string of break-ins in Whisper Cove have caught the attention of the cops, including her fiancé Jared Monroe. Things take a turn for the worse when one of those break-ins results in the death of a local barber...
  • Obsidian Curse by Barbra Annino

    Obsidian Curse by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Reporter Stacy Justice has finally stopped resisting who she really is—a powerfully gifted witch. And now that the Council has appointed her Seeker of Justice, she feels stronger and more attuned to her magic than ever before.But Samhain—the night when the veil between the worlds thins—is approaching and something strange is brewing. First, a fairy with a sweet tooth appears in town unexpectedly...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Bigfoot Blunder by Amanda M. Lee

    The Bigfoot Blunder by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The truth is out there … maybe. Charlie Rhodes has a lot going on. The recent college graduate just landed her dream job. That’s right. She’s a bona fide monster hunter. No, you read that right. Charlie has joined the Legacy Foundation, and her actual job is to find something new, wonderful and scientifically unique. Her first job as the junior member of the team involves a biggie...
  • Witch Is Why The Moon Disappeared by Adele Abbott

    Witch Is Why The Moon Disappeared by Adele Abbott

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A penny saved is… Everything is going just great for Jill Gooder. Whoops! Spoke too soon. What’s in the black box? …a penny towards my next custard cream...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • Freaky Seas by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Seas by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mystic Caravan Circus is heading to Charleston and – per usual – trouble is not far behind.For Poet Parker, who is grappling with saying goodbye to her assistant, she’s looking forward to quiet nights on the beach and quality time with her boyfriend. All that changes when the sea starts giving up its dead … and they appear to be hungry.Under normal circumstances, zombies wouldn’t be a big deal...
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    cozy  fae  law-enforcement  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Falling to Pieces by Denise Grover Swank

    Falling to Pieces by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **137 page novella following Thirty and a Half Excuses in the USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series** When Joe walks out of Rose’s life, she can’t imagine life without him. But with support from her friends—and an unexpected person—Rose finds her way to climb out of her despair...
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    cozy  female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Poetry in Potion by Annabel Chase

    Poetry in Potion by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. Thanks to Daniel's efforts as the director of tourism, the World Market is visiting Spellbound, giving residents of the formerly cursed town the chance to purchase merchandise they didn't know existed. When a bad-tempered werecougar ends up dead at the market, the fortune teller that predicted her death is the main suspect...
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    cozy  fae  female-mc  paranormal  adult  angels  animals  book
  • Infinite Moon by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Infinite Moon by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book #20 in the bestselling "Vampire for Hire" series!Dealing with one's greatest nemesis can be frustrating, but Samantha Moon is literally beside herself.From the moment Elizabeth escaped her mind prison, Sam and her family braced for the worst. With the plan now set in motion, only two things are known for sure: the plan is big, and it's going to be horrible...
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    cozy  female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • War of the Noses by Renee George

    War of the Noses by Renee George

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Nora Black. I'm turning fifty-two, but I don't feel a day over thirty-nine. That is, when I can find my glasses, my feet don't hurt, and my scent-induced psychic ability isn't showing me crimes.For my birthday, my best friends Gilly and Pippa signed us up for a weekend at the Central Midwest Spa Convention. Yay...
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