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  • Lodestar by Shannon Messenger

    Lodestar by Shannon Messenger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Dark schemes unfold--and Sophie's loyalty is pushed to the limit--in this thrilling fifth book in the best-selling KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES SERIES. Sophie Foster is back in the Lost Cities--but the Lost Cities have changed. The threat of war hangs heavy over her glittering world, and the Neverseen are wreaking havoc...
  • Burning Secrets by Shawn McGuire

    Burning Secrets by Shawn McGuire

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things are heating up in Whispering Pines, and it’s not just the weather. Sheriff Jayne O’Shea is on edge. Hopeful applicants have taken over the commons area, all of them begging to become residents. Villagers who left long ago have returned, causing an uproar among the locals. The slow burn feud between the sister witches has reached the boiling point...
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    family  female-mc  magic  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
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    dark  family  female-mc  magic  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Embrace the seductive call of the latest novel in Christine Feehan’s #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva is a Lycan of royal blood. She knows what is expected of her, but all she wants is to be out from under her family’s watchful eyes. There is a fire inside her that is building. A restlessness coupled with a sense of growing dread...
  • Flashback by Shannon Messenger

    Flashback by Shannon Messenger

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In this unforgettable seventh book, Sophie must let the past and present blur together, because the deadliest secrets are always the ones that get erased.Sophie Foster doesn’t know what—or whom—to believe. And in a game with this many players, the worst mistake can be focusing on the wrong threat...
  • Silver Fox by Zoe Chant

    Silver Fox by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She thinks life — and love — have passed her by. He can fix everyone's love life except his own. Until a freak snowstorm gives them a chance ... Sensible Aunt Doris. That's what Doris Lebowitz's family thinks of her. And she really can't argue. At age 62, she's resigned to being the level-headed one in her sprawling, boisterous family. A state of permanent spinsterhood suits her just fine...
  • Fallen by Benedict Jacka

    Fallen by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    For Mage Alex Verus, everything is on the line in the tenth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Marked.Once Alex Verus was a diviner trying to live quietly under the radar. Now he's a member of the Light Council who's found success, friends...and love. But it's come with a price--the Council is investigating him, and if they find out the truth, he'll lose everything...
  • Magic Uncorked by Annabel Chase

    Magic Uncorked by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Witches are created, not born.The only magic word Libbie Stark seems to know these days is ‘ibuprofen’ thanks to a headache-inducing job, two teenagers, one ex-husband, and a deadbeat boyfriend—until the death of a friend brings unexpected consequences...
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    family  female-mc  magic  adult  book  breakup  contemporary  cozy
  • Seeking Crystal by Joss Stirling

    Seeking Crystal by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The hotly anticipated third book from Joss Stirling, featuring the characters from Finding Sky and Stealing Phoenix. Crystal Brook has always been the dud Savant in her family; paranormal powers just aren't her thing. Dropping out of school with a clutch of 'E' grades and no future, she lives in the shadow of her high-flying sister Diamond...
  • Pawsitively Betrayed by Melissa Erin Jackson

    Pawsitively Betrayed by Melissa Erin Jackson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enemies wear many faces.The Here and Meow Festival has finally arrived! Amber Blackwood and her fellow festival committee members still have plenty to do before the celebration of all things feline begins. Even though Amber’s witchy past keeps interfering, she knows the show must go on. Edgehill’s livelihood depends on the festival’s success...
  • Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino

    Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Stacy Justice is a young reporter who lives in Chicago, far away from the kooky small town of Amethyst, Illinois, where she was raised by a family of witches. She’s perfectly content with her career, her cat, and her lack of a love life until her cousin informs her that their grandfather is deathly ill...
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    family  female-mc  magic  animals  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Witching For Joy by Deanna Chase

    Witching For Joy by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number! Joy Lansing is at a crossroads. Her kids have all flown the nest and just when she thought she was going to spend her golden years with her husband of thirty years, she finds herself single again and looking to rebuilt a life she no longer recognizes...
  • 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)...
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    family  female-mc  magic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

    Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    THINGS FINLEY HART DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT• Her parents, who are having problems. (But they pretend like they’re not.)• Being sent to her grandparents’ house for the summer.• Never having met said grandparents.• Her blue days—when life feels overwhelming, and it’s hard to keep her head up. (This happens a lot...
  • Born in Fire by Nora Roberts

    Born in Fire by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Three modern sisters bound by the timeless beauty of Ireland...The eldest Concannon sister, Maggie, is a reclusive, stubborn and free-spirited glassmaker—with a heart worth winning.Margaret Mary is a glass artist with an independent streak as fierce as her volatile temper...
  • Unlocked by Shannon Messenger

    Unlocked by Shannon Messenger

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Book 8...
  • South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber

    South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree...
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    family  female-mc  magic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Witching For Grace by Deanna Chase

    Witching For Grace by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number! Welcome to Premonition Pointe, where witches take care of their own. Grace Valentine had the perfect marriage and a great career managing her husband’s real estate office. Or so she thought until three months ago when she was served with divorce papers...
  • Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    (New to this angsty, sexy, scary romance series? Start with book #1, Darkhouse, and work your way up through all the slow-burn spookiness) Perry Palomino and Dex Foray. On their own, they’re uniquely brilliant. Together, they’re an unstoppable team. Until now. Because after everything the duo has encountered, they haven’t come across an evil quite like this...
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    dark  family  female-mc  magic  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Vintage Spirits by Annabel Chase

    Vintage Spirits by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sometimes the dead aren't so silentJulie Duncan never expected to be a fifty-year-old widow living with her domineering mother in the same lakeside house she grew up in. Winters in Lake Cloverleaf are a gloomy time for Julie. Christmas and New Year’s Eve remind her of her late husband and she isn’t looking forward to yet another holiday season without him...
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    family  female-mc  magic  adult  book  breakup  contemporary  cozy
  • Breakwater by Shannon Mayer

    Breakwater by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. As an Ender, one of my father’s Elite guards, it’s my job to do as I’m told...
  • Shoes on the Stairs by Jan Steele

    Shoes on the Stairs by Jan Steele

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Inspired by the many frustrations of parenthood and the ever-present fear of failure, SHOES ON THE STAIRS centers around a mother's struggle to accept what she has left behind after her death. She takes the reader on a journey of both laughter and tears while learning even the smallest of gestures can make a significant and lasting impact.* * *Claire Blackwell can't find that damn white light...
  • The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . .
  • A Valentine's Chase by Layla Nash

    A Valentine's Chase by Layla Nash

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meadow Crawford sees things that no one else does. When a blind date goes badly wrong, she discovers that the world of fae and a city full of shifters actually exist. And that Rafe O'Shea isn't the kind of man to let a disastrous first date deter him from asking for a second...
  • Portrait of Death: Unforgotten by Isabel Wroth

    Portrait of Death: Unforgotten by Isabel Wroth

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three years ago, I held her pink silk toe shoe in my hand, helplessly watching the cab drive away before I could give it back to her. The next morning when I stood in front of the portrait drying on my easel, I knew the beautiful ballerina would soon die. Her portrait is one of two hundred and twenty-seven. Each one of the subjects is the victim of murder, and I’ve painted them all...
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    dark  family  female-mc  adult  alpha-mc  betrayal  book  contemporary
  • Eye of the Storm by Alyssa Day

    Eye of the Storm by Alyssa Day

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A monster hurricane, a long-lost father, the Irish mob, and a rogue vampire are all trying their darndest to smash Dead End, Florida into pieces -- and then another dead body shows up...
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    family  female-mc  magic  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Innocent Prey by Maggie Shayne

    Innocent Prey by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To save innocent lives, they'll have to risk their own. Self-help superstar Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown have finally given in to their overwhelming attraction to each other, but neither of them is ready to let physical passion turn into full-blown romance, so they carefully maintain an emotional distance...
  • Bewitching Bitters by Annabel Chase

    Bewitching Bitters by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Be careful what you wish for…Kate Golden is living the dream in Lake Cloverleaf—a handsome husband, three wonderful kids, and a career she loves. As a motivational speaker, she devotes her time to helping people achieve their goals, to become the best versions of themselves.Apparently, the best version of Kate now includes being a witch...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  magic  adult  book  breakup  contemporary  cozy
  • Black Widow by Jennifer Estep

    Black Widow by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    There’s nothing worse than a cruel, cunning enemy with time to kill—and my murder to plan.With wicked Fire elemental Mab Monroe long gone, you’d think I could finally catch a break. But someone’s always trying to take me down, either as Gin Blanco or my assassin alter-ago. Now along comes the Spider’s new arch-nemesis, the mysteriously named M. M...
  • Sweet Secrets by J.A. Whiting

    Sweet Secrets by J.A. Whiting

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is Book 3 in the Sweet Cove Cozy Mystery SeriesRenovations begin on the Victorian mansion and lead to revelations about Professor Marion Linden and why she left the house to Angie in her will, while questions surface about the Robin's Point land...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  magic  animals  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb

    The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An investigative journalist uncovers the haunting secret history of her own ancestors in a bewitching novel by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Lake.When Cassie Graves discovers her husband’s affair, it’s enough to chip away at the foundation of her life. But after researching her family’s Italian ancestry, it completely crumbles beneath her...
  • Hearts of Fire by L.H. Cosway

    Hearts of Fire by L.H. Cosway

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Circus Spektakulär is proud to present Jack McCabe: Fire-breather, knife-thrower, risk-taker. By night Jack McCabe captivates audiences. He is a fire-breather, a spectacle desired by women and envied by men. But by day Jack is a loner few people truly know...
  • Lost Souls Paraagency and the Three Witches of Burberry by K.M. Waller

    Lost Souls Paraagency and the Three Witches of Burberry by K.M. Waller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Family legacies are a curse! Welcome to the Lost Souls ParaAgency, where agents work together to ensure the safety of humans and to prevent exposure of the paranormal community. The Assignment-stop witches from creating magical chaos in the small town of Burberry, South Carolina. There's no dead body... yet. And there won't be if Lex Dimas takes this assignment...
    Categorized as:
    family  magic  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  humor
  • Hummingbird by Helen Harper

    Hummingbird by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The best way to live in the Mage ruled city of Glasgow is to keep your head down and your mouth closed.That’s not usually a problem for Mairi Wallace. By day she works at a small shop selling tartan and by night she studies to become an apothecary. She knows her place and her limitations...
  • The Iron Gate by Harry Connolly

    The Iron Gate by Harry Connolly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stormy Bay is a dying town nestled against an eerily placid ocean, and Ray Lilly is trapped in it. He can barely remember his name let alone his mission for the Twenty Palace society. Worse, he realizes that for some time now he’s been living as a puppet, his body and mind under the complete domination of an unknown power, and the townsfolk think this puppet is his real identity...
  • Potions and Pajamas by Keira Blackwood

    Potions and Pajamas by Keira Blackwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger, and hungrier, and a whole lot weirder.The ring on my finger was supposed to be a promise to spend our lives together. But my fiancé decided that wasn’t what he wanted.So he buried me alive.To my fiancé’s dismay, I’m not dead, or at least mostly not. I’m starting over.I’ll do things differently this time...
    Categorized as:
    magic  female-mc  romance  paranormal  fiction  mystery  humor  death
  • Broken Dolls by B.R. Kingsolver

    Broken Dolls by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Private investigator RB Kendrick makes her living nailing cheating spouses, digging up other dirt to help in a divorce, finding long-lost relatives, and occasionally sniffing out criminal activity and fraud. When she takes a job to find a missing girl, she has no idea she is headed for the most dangerous case of her career. Usually, her ability to read minds gives her an edge...
  • Cupid's Christmas by Bette Lee Crosby

    Cupid's Christmas by Bette Lee Crosby

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a fun Christmas Romance, Cupid is charged with making certain an older couple gets the love they've been waiting for and a young woman who’s far too attracted to handsome men with sexy eyes finds her perfect match. And, he has to make it happen by Christmas...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  adult  animals  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • The Secret of Ashona by Kaza Kingsley, James Ng

    The Secret of Ashona by Kaza Kingsley, James Ng

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Erec Rex might still become king—but the closer he gets, the more dangerous his tasks become.Given his romance brewing with Bethany, the discovery that his siblings are secretly king and queen of the Fairy world, and the knowledge that the Stain brothers are growing more and more underhanded, Erec Rex isn’t exactly in an ideal state of mind to face his next two tasks...
  • Endgame by Jaye Pratt

    Endgame by Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even after the death of Mr. Z, he still manages to screw me from the grave.One letter was all it took to irrevocably change my life forever. It not only changes the course of my future, but also for those I am close to.Ending Mr. Z’s life should have made things easier, yet his death has revealed so many more secrets and lies, and unleashed new enemies that were once allies...
  • A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson

    A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A promise broken. Her future torn up. But she still has a job to do.Betrayed by her blood family, all Hallie's plans for her future are in ruins. She has no time to lick her wounds as Special Investigator Girard wants her help looking for some members of the elite who have gone missing in Hallie's territory...
  • Lucas by D.B. Reynolds

    Lucas by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Book SIX of the award-winning Vampires in America.THE BADLANDS of SOUTH DAKOTA . . . haunting landscapes, legendary outlaws, and . . . vampires? LUCAS DONLON, Vampire Lord, is one of the most powerful vampires in North America and beyond. Charming and irreverent to his friends and lovers, he enjoys everything about his life as a vampire...
  • Long Ride Home by Elizabeth Hunter, Liisa Ivary

    Long Ride Home by Elizabeth Hunter, Liisa Ivary

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The first story in the new paranormal series by Elizabeth Hunter, acclaimed author of the Elemental Mysteries. Welcome to Cambio Springs.In this small desert town, secrets bubble up from the desert floor, and history is written on the canyon walls. Seven friends will gather at the crossroads, because in Cambio Springs, everything—and everyone—changes.Jena Crowe escaped the Springs ten years ago...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  magic  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts
  • Verse and Vengeance by Amanda Flower

    Verse and Vengeance by Amanda Flower

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author and Agatha Award winner Amanda Flower turns the charm up to ten in her fourth Magical Bookshop mystery. With the help of Walt Whitman's works, magical bookshop owner Violet Waverly puts her pedal to the metal to sleuth a bicycle-race murder that tests her mettle. A bicycle race is not Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly's idea of a pleasant pastime...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  magic  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Steeped in Secrets by Lauren Elliott

    Steeped in Secrets by Lauren Elliott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Flat broke and divorced, intuitive gemologist Shay Myers has changed since leaving her artsy hometown of coastal Bray Harbor sixteen years ago. But when she moves back under strange circumstances, old instincts may be the only key to spilling the tea on a deadly mystery...
    Categorized as:
    magic  family  female-mc  mystery  cozy  paranormal  fantasy  fiction
  • Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Morgan knows that a great battle is to come. More immediately, she senses that someone is out to harm Hunter...
  • Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks

    Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog, Baxterr, discover that Tuesday's mother—the famous author Serendipity Smith—has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from...
  • The Book Smugglers by Anna James

    The Book Smugglers by Anna James

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fourth in the modern-classic and bestselling bookwandering series for ages eight to twelve that celebrates all that is best in life: books, adventure, friendship – and cake.Milo lives on board the Sesquipedalian, or “Quip” – a magical train that uses the power of imagination to travel through both Story and the real world...
  • Colorblind by Siera Maley

    Colorblind by Siera Maley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Harper has a secret...and it's not that she likes girls. She has a rare and special gift: she can see how old other people will be when they pass away. Nothing she does changes this number, and that becomes especially clear when her mother dies in a car crash. With only one other person in the world who knows about and shares her gift, Harper is determined to keep her distance from everyone...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  female-mc  magic  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Reckoning by Cate Tiernan

    Reckoning by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Alisa meets her mother's family, she finds comfort, conflict, and a greater understanding of Wicca. And she must make a choice that could change her future...
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