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  • Legacy by Shannon Messenger

    Legacy by Shannon Messenger

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Illusions shatter—and Sophie and her friends face impossible choices—in this astonishing eighth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth is the most dangerous discovery. Even the smallest secret comes with terrifying new responsibilities...
  • Hazards in the Hidden City by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Hazards in the Hidden City by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.A wedding on an enchanted island of magic. A guest list of gods, immortals, shifters, dragons, and druids. And a sentient city waking after centuries…What could go wrong?When Fiona’s magnet for mayhem weighs in on her special day, there’s no escaping the fallout…or the island...
  • Compelling Infinity by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Compelling Infinity by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was a dragon. Dragons didn’t run from any situation. Not even a dragon disguised as a witch. Well … at least not from any situation that involved the archive or my duty, because apparently I fled before anything even remotely personal. Including surprise double dates.A masked gala. A solstice celebration with the werewolves...
  • Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All Ben Vecchio wanted was a quiet summer before his last semester of university. Was that too much to ask? All Tenzin wanted was a cache of priceless medieval coins that had been missing for several hundred years. And some company. Phrases like “never again” don’t mean much when you’ve been a vampire for several thousand years...
  • Wisteria Warned by Angela Pepper

    Wisteria Warned by Angela Pepper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Zara Riddle is another year older, and busier than ever. She's a powerful witch, a skilled librarian, and the World's Best Mom - according to her coffee mug. It's no wonder the town's detective keeps seeking her help. If you want something done, ask a busy person!Zara partners again with Detective Bentley to investigate a call about a missing person...
  • Midnight Labyrinth by Elizabeth Hunter

    Midnight Labyrinth by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    He's one human caught in a tangled maze of theft, politics, magic, and blood.
In other words, it's just another night.Benjamin Vecchio escaped a chaotic childhood and grew to adulthood under the protection and training of one of the Elemental world's most feared vampire assassins. He's traveled the world and battled immortal enemies.But everyone has to go home sometime...
  • 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...
  • The Dancer and the Dark by Elizabeth Hunter

    The Dancer and the Dark by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A single wrong step could mean their end.Gavin Wallace has a problem, and her name is Chloe Reardon.For years, Gavin and Chloe have built a life together, skirting the vampire world as much as possible. Chloe has continued dancing, and Gavin has continued building a business empire.But for a vampire in love with a mortal, nothing about the future is certain...
  • Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She had her life all planned out; fate had other ideas.How did an accomplished Southern businesswoman, wife, and mother end up living on California’s Central Coast, working for a stubborn wine-maker, newly divorced, and wrestling with sudden psychic powers?Megan Carpenter asks herself that same question nearly every day...
  • Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Fate Interrupted by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She had her life all planned out; fate had other ideas.How did an accomplished Southern businesswoman, wife, and mother end up living on California’s Central Coast, working for a stubborn wine-maker, newly divorced, and wrestling with sudden psychic powers?Megan Carpenter asks herself that same question nearly every day...
  • Thirty-One and a Half Regrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Thirty-One and a Half Regrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book Four in the USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery Series! While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister—and business partner—Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work, but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In the meantime, Fenton County assistant D.A...
  • The Power by Maggie M. Lily

    The Power by Maggie M. Lily

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What does the physical embodiment of rage look like? He's six-two with light brown hair, blue eyes, and an absolutely ripped body.  He's also a really nice guy; you can't help but like him. A pediatrician and philanthropist, Adrian Trellis runs his wealthy family's charitable foundation while also treating terminally sick kids...
  • Wisteria Woven by Angela Pepper, Tiffany Williams

    Wisteria Woven by Angela Pepper, Tiffany Williams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book 11 in the sensational Wisteria Witches Mysteries series by USA Today Bestselling author Angela Pepper!Zara Riddle was looking forward to her first Halloween as a witch.Then the little girl ghost showed up.Zara puts costume shopping on hold, rolls up her sleeves, and does her usual witcher-i-doo.But nothing works as planned. Mistakes are made. Dinner parties are ruined. (More than usual...
  • Phantom Quartz by Barbra Annino

    Phantom Quartz by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s nearing Yule in Amethyst, and the witchy reporter, Stacy Justice, is consumed with only one thing—getting through her cousin Cinnamon’s baby shower. Everyone is anticipating the arrival of the newest, tiniest Geraghty. Even Stacy's familiar, Thor, is searching for the perfect gift...
  • Secret Hollows by Terri Reid

    Secret Hollows by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The man smiled at Timmy. “That would be nice of you. Why don’t you lead the way?” Timmy moved past the man and started back up the hill. He heard the whoosh of something moving quickly through the air, but it hit him before he had time to react. He felt the impact against his head and his whole body flew sideways through the air...
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    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • 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...
  • Client from Hell by R.J. Blain

    Client from Hell by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Step one: add some gasoline.Step two: light a match.Step three: watch the devil’s house burn.As far as plans go, Sandra Moore rather likes hers. It’s simple. It gets the job done. It reduces the devil’s house to smoldering ruins.Life is good—at least for the year she has left of it, assuming the devil doesn’t kill her first...
  • A Witch of a Time by Amanda M. Lee

    A Witch of a Time by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Winchester witches are all about love and family – and, well, snark and sarcasm – and no one knows that better than the family members themselves, plus the people who love them. Follow Clove, Thistle, Landon, Winnie and Aunt Tillie as they share their lives – and innermost thoughts – through a series of short novellas that take you from the present, to the past, and then back again...
    Categorized as:
    humor  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  magic
  • Dog Gone Ghost by Angie Fox, Tavia Gilbert

    Dog Gone Ghost by Angie Fox, Tavia Gilbert

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who let the dogs...and cats...out?Verity Long's new ghost-hunting career has gone to the dogs - literally. A spirit is releasing animals from their cages at the Sugarland Animal Rescue Center. It's an unusual haunting that gets even more bizarre when she uncovers a new clue in a case of a missing child. Verity vows to reunite the lost boy with his family...
  • Ribbing and Runes by Nancy Warren

    Ribbing and Runes by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Can a secret runic message lead to murder?There's a lot happening in Cardinal Woolsey's knitting shop in Oxford. Witches, vampires, a knowing cat, romance and murder. Join Lucy and her undead knitting club as they solve another crime.There's no violence, sex or bad language, just quirky characters, humor—and murder...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  humor  female-mc  romance  mystery  fantasy  cozy  vampires
  • Mosaics and Magic by Nancy Warren

    Mosaics and Magic by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beware the crystal ball...When Lucy and Rafe are given a crystal ball as a wedding present, she’s shocked when it foretells doom. For the newlyweds, this was supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. But when a terrible accident befalls one of their wedding guests, Lucy and Rafe must postpone their honeymoon. And as the evidence begins to unravel, it becomes clear this was no accident...
  • The Mint Julep Murders by Angie Fox

    The Mint Julep Murders by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    For Southern girl Verity Long, friendship means sitting down to stories and sweet tea on the front porch. For her gangster ghost housemate, it means dragging Verity out to a remote haunted asylum during a raging thunderstorm to do a favor for a long-dead mob boss. But Verity is always ready to help out a friend, even one as eternally eccentric as Frankie...
  • 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...
  • Moonlight and Magic by Darynda Jones

    Moonlight and Magic by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fortysomething Annette Osmund always knew she was psychic. She's not, but that didn't stop her from giving those nonexistent abilities her all. What she is, however, is a very powerful witch who has just inherited magics she never dreamed possible.Starting over in a new town with her BFF has been an adventure. Defiance's status as a powerful type of witch called a charmling has kept Annette busy...
  • Moonshine & Mayhem by Kathleen Brooks

    Moonshine & Mayhem by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zoey Mathers was a witch. Not on purpose. It had happened accidently. But as Zoey was finding out, maybe this had been her fate all along. Luckily the potential witch hunter, Slade, had turned out to be on her side and had found a place in her heart. With the War of the Witches heating up, it's not just Zoey's life on the line, but all the witches fighting for good...
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    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  cozy
  • Moonshine & Malice by Kathleen Brooks

    Moonshine & Malice by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What was an accidental witch to do when fate sends a sexy witch on a motorcycle, only to find out he might be there to kill her?Zoey Mathers was adjusting to life as a witch- a real finger wiggling, magic casting, talk to spirits witch who was thrown into the middle of a war between good and evil...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  cozy
  • A Solstice Celebration by Amanda M. Lee

    A Solstice Celebration by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    It’s the summer of 2005, and Marnie Winchester is in charge. That’s right, her sister Winnie is out of town for a week and Marnie is officially the boss. It’s everything she’s always wanted. Kind of...
  • Murder on the Sugarland Express by Angie Fox

    Murder on the Sugarland Express by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ghost hunter Verity Long is overdue for a little R&R (rest and romance) with her boyfriend, Ellis, and a vintage train trip through the Tennessee mountains seems like just the ticket. The Sugarland Express carries history and nostalgia in every compartment, and Verity is determined to enjoy it—without ghostly interference...
  • Runaway Fate by Elizabeth Hunter

    Runaway Fate by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It's paranormal women's fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in.)Katherine wasn't looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove...
  • 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...
  • Ghostly Worries by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Worries by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Whisper Cove is stuck in a heat wave, although it’s nothing compared to the fire stoking between Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe. They’re happy and enjoying themselves … until a face from the past resurfaces.Jason Thurman and Harper had a brief fling in high school, and when he returns to town to open a restaurant he’s hoping they can revisit their relationship as adults...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • 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)...
  • 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...
  • Herringbones and Hexes by Nancy Warren

    Herringbones and Hexes by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What the hex is going on?Life at Cardinal Woolsey’s knitting and yarn shop is about as smooth as shop owner Lucy’s knitting. In other words, lumpy, tangled and prone to disaster. Much like her spell-casting. But things get worse when her cousin and shop assistant Violet shows alarming symptoms of a hex...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  humor  female-mc  romance  mystery  fantasy  cozy  vampires
  • Unlocked by Shannon Messenger

    Unlocked by Shannon Messenger

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Book 8...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime  fiction
  • The Something Girl by Jodi Taylor

    The Something Girl by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Chronicles of St Mary's. The Nothing Girl has grown up… It’s life as usual at Frogmorton Farm – which is to say that events have passed the merely eccentric and are now galloping headlong towards the completely bizarre...
  • Mountain Echoes by C.E. Murphy

    Mountain Echoes by C.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    You can never go home again.Joanne Walker has survived an encounter with the Master at great personal cost, but now her father is missing - stolen from the timeline. She must finally return to North Carolina to find him - and to meet Aidan, the son she left behind long ago...
  • A Madness Most Discreet by Nichole Van

    A Madness Most Discreet by Nichole Van

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TENNYSON D'ANGELO . . .Darkness lives within each of us. Shadows. We are each capable of great goodness and unbelievable evil. It is the duality of being human. I want to live in the light. I don’t enjoy the shadows. But I’m not sure I’ve been given a choice in the matter. The shadows own me. They dance at my edges and tangle in my light. They torment my days and make my nights an anguished hell...
  • Lightning Struck by Nichole Van, P.J. Ochlan

    Lightning Struck by Nichole Van, P.J. Ochlan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jack Knight-Snow has had a bad year for losing things. So far he has lost a ship full of ancient treasure, his family, his friends, his title, his lands and money, his fianc�, the century into which he was born...oh, and his physical body. Worse, feisty Chiara D'Angelo might just finish the job and make him lose his mind...
  • 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...
  • 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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    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  family
  • Private Eye by Alyssa Day

    Private Eye by Alyssa Day

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Tess Callahan, new owner of Dead End Pawn, meets her grandmother the banshee, life is about to get complicated. When Tess's partner Jack Shepherd, tiger shapeshifter and P.I., gets involved to help them investigate a banshee-kidnapping spree, life is about to get deadly. Because nothing is ever simple in Dead End, Florida, and sometimes it takes a tiger's eye to see the truth...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Love's Shadow by Nichole Van

    Love's Shadow by Nichole Van

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **A WHITNEY AWARD FINALIST 2016** Branwell D’Angelo . . . Six years ago, I fell in love with Lucy—my brother’s girlfriend. Stupid of me, I know, but sometimes the heart doesn’t listen to reason. Six years, I’ve lived on the sidelines. Seeing him love her, be with her, bask in her sunshine . . . I watched her break his heart and then cleaned up the shattered pieces of him she left behind...
  • White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland

    White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Angel Crawford has finally pulled herself together (literally!) after her disastrous dismemberment on Mardi Gras. She’s putting the pieces of her life back in order and is ready to tackle whatever the future holds.Too bad the future is a nasty bitch. There’s a new kind of zombie in town: mindless shamblers, infectious and ravenous...
  • Woof at the Door by Laura Morrigan

    Woof at the Door by Laura Morrigan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Animal behaviorist Grace Wilde keeps her ability to psychically communicate with furry and feathered critters under wraps. But when a Doberman turns out to be the only witness to a crime, Grace will have to let the cat out of the bag in order to catch a killer. Grace Wilde’s job is anything but normal...
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    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  animals  book  cats  contemporary
  • Further Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman by J.B. Lynn

    Further Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman by J.B. Lynn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Take three wacky aunts, two talking animals, one nervous bride, and an upcoming hit,and you've got the follow-up to JB Lynn's wickedly funny Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic HitwomanKnocking off a drug kingpin was the last thing on Maggie Lee's to-do list, but when a tragic accident leaves her beloved niece orphaned and in the hospital, Maggie will go to desperate lengths to land the money...
  • Queen Witch by Amy Boyles, Angela Dawe

    Queen Witch by Amy Boyles, Angela Dawe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dylan Apel just wants to run her dress-design shop, spend time with sexy witch detective Roman Bane, and do her best to keep her crazy family out of trouble...
  • 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:
    female-mc  humor  paranormal  adult  book  breakup  contemporary  cozy
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