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  • Final Fury by Annabel Chase

    Final Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.I foolishly believed this day would never come, that life in charming Chipping Cheddar would always be pleasant and somewhat predictable—but all good things must come to an end.And it seems the dormant portal is no exception...
  • It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Midlife is madness—magical, messy and one freaking crisis after another.With a new job I didn’t apply for and an extended family I didn’t know I had—midlife has become somewhat problematic. Gluing ghosts back together is easy compared to my new celestial occupation.The Grim Reaper wants to put a ring on it. Tim wants to be a father...
  • Castaways and Longer Days by Trixie Silvertale

    Castaways and Longer Days by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A dangerous tornado. A clever crime. Can this psychic sleuth sift through the rubble to find a murder?Mitzy Moon longs to embrace the warmth of summer at a community-wide celebration. Enjoying a midsummer sailboat regatta, strawberry cake, and bonfires on the beach sounds divine...
  • Asher by T.S. Joyce

    Asher by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ****Don't miss this thrilling final book in the bestselling Wolves of Winter's Edge trilogy**** Asher Striker is full of dark secrets. His brothers think he’s quiet because he’s moody, but Asher had to learn at a young age that if he doesn’t focus on controlling the power within him, he could destroy everything and everyone around him...
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    animals  adult  alpha-mc  book  dangerous-mc  fiction  humor  magic
  • Wakes and High Stakes by Trixie Silvertale

    Wakes and High Stakes by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A flamboyant funeral. A dashing gigolo. Can this psychic sleuth beat the odds on murder?Mitzy Moon is never one to celebrate death. But a compelling invitation to a 1920s themed memorial service, aboard a riverboat casino, entices her to take a gamble. And the only thing hotter than the tables is the newly wealthy widower—until he disappears...
  • Dames and Deadly Games by Trixie Silvertale

    Dames and Deadly Games by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A murder mystery game. A terminal twist. Can this psychic sleuth swap coal for clues?Mitzy Moon hopes to earn some girlfriend points on a scenic weekend getaway. Steaming off on a historic train with her handsome beau seems like the perfect way to outrun fate...
  • Hearts and Dark Arts by Trixie Silvertale

    Hearts and Dark Arts by Trixie Silvertale

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a disappearing dog leads to a decades-old feud, will this psychic sleuth settle the score?Mitzy Moon is bending over backward to be a good big sister. Spending a day at the pet invention convention seems harmless enough...
  • 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...
  • Beguiled by Darynda Jones

    Beguiled by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Newly indoctrinated witch, Defiance Dayne discovers there’s more to life after forty than she'd ever imagined possible. Especially if one is a charmling, one of only three in the world, with enough magics to make her a target for every power-hungry warlock out there. When one of them sends a hunter to town, she knows it’s time to take her talents seriously before the hunter takes her life...
  • A Haunting Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    A Haunting Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ava Harper may be a raiser of the dead and a not-so-famous author, but she isn’t vampire hunter. Not even close.With the decision made to stay in Shipton Harbor, she returns to the home she shared with her deceased husband in Pennsylvania to put it on the market. But saying goodbye to the memories of the home they raised their son in is a lot harder than it had sounded in her head...
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    animals  cozy  adult  audiobook  book  cats  contemporary  demons
  • Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He takes care of other people's kids ... but he craves a family of his own.Enter a single mom waitress with a broken heart and a whole lot of trouble behind her.Army vet Dan is still figuring out how to deal with being a three-legged bear, but it turns out kids don’t care how many limbs he has as long as he’s willing to be a climbing frame...
  • Staked in the Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Staked in the Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Vampire.Bounty Hunter.Middle-aged babe. Maybe?Now that Hailey is solidly settled in Philadelphia and her new vampire life, she's setting roots, tracking down criminals, and taking names. Things have happened so fast starting the moment she moved into her new home.But she's not one to sit on her duff and let life pass her by. Even an undead life.With her best friend, new friends, and her Mr...
  • Magical Midlife Dating by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Dating by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The decision has been made. Jessie has taken the magic, and all the weird that goes with it. Including wings.There's only one problem - she can't figure out how to access them.Through a series of terrible decisions, Jessie realizes she must ask for help. Gargoyle help.But she could've never predicted who answers her call - he's an excellent flier, incredibly patient, and a good trainer...
  • Magical Midlife Invasion by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Invasion by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Jessie is well on her way to learning her new life and settling in. The tough alpha, Austin, has joined her team, and she has painstakingly learned to fly. At the moment, life couldn’t get any better.But it can get a whole lot…more irritating.Her parents have decided to visit...
  • Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter...
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    animals  female-mc  abuse  adult  angst  audiobook  book  children
  • Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter

    Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    She’s feeling the heat. Or it might be a hot flash. Sometimes it’s really hard to tell.It’s been four years since Monica lost the love of her life to a sudden and devastating heart attack. She’s held her family together and picked herself up with the love and help of her two best friends. Now Monica has a new business, a new wardrobe, and a new vision for the future.As in actual psychic visions...
  • Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sarah is looking for love under the covers...of a good book!As a small-town librarian, Sarah has her hands full with projects that range from running an in-library day care to planning her best friend's wedding. Romance is a complication she doesn't need...until he walks in...
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    animals  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  friendship  humor  mystery
  • Bonbons and Broomsticks by H.Y. Hanna

    Bonbons and Broomsticks by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caitlyn is settling into life as a novice witch in an English village chocolate shop - although she's finding the hardest magic to master is making caramel sauce without burning it! When two men are murdered, and a ghostly black hound is seen haunting the countryside, the village gossips are sure dark witchcraft is to blame. Caitlyn decides to do a little magical sleuthing of her own...
  • A Ghoulish Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    A Ghoulish Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Moving home isn’t in the game plan.Ava Harper had aspirations for her forties. None included using her Necromancy powers to solve murders.As much as she doesn’t want to move back to Maine, she can’t spend another day in the empty, depressing house with the memory of her dead husband. It’s time for a new plan. Time to start over and learn to live again...
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    animals  cozy  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  cats  contemporary
  • Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Hexing with a Chance of Tornadoes by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I've been told I'm a force to be reckoned with. That I blow onto the scene like a tornado.At age forty I've stopped caring if that's a compliment or a dig. Now I just wear it like a badge of honor. So when life threw me a curveball and I ended up going from a cushy job in New York City to the tiny Southern town of Grimm Cove I thought I was ready for anything.Ha! Not quite...
  • Sweet Tea and Spirits by Angie Fox

    Sweet Tea and Spirits by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Southern girl Verity Long is about as high society as her pet skunk. Which is why she’s surprised as anyone when the new head of the Sugarland social set invites her to join the "it" girls. But this is no social call. Verity’s new client needs her to go in undercover and investigate strange happenings at the group’s historic headquarters...
  • I'm With Cupid (Witching After Forty, #1.6) by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    I'm With Cupid (Witching After Forty, #1.6) by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction Valentines Day NovellaAva Harper's life has taken more twists and turns over the last few months than a mountain highway. It started when she arrived back home in Shipton Harbor, Maine. She wears many hats: Part-time bookstore clerk, part-time author, necromancer in training, full-time caretaker of a ghoul, soon to be girlfriend to the town sheriff...
  • Shades of Stars by Gina LaManna

    Shades of Stars by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One awkward billionaire. One failed psychic. A tale as old as time... Lola Pink is in all shades of trouble. Her shop is still under construction, she’s sort-of-fired from her job, and her hottest date this week is with a microwave burrito. However, when Dane Clark finds himself at the center of a murder investigation, Lola slips on her gorgeous vintage sunglasses and takes the case...
  • Wrong Side of Forty by Jana Deleon

    Wrong Side of Forty by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For many, midlife is the beginning. It was a day like any other day for Marina Trahan…until she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Before that eye-opening wake-up call, Marina would have described her life as average or uneventful, maybe even boring. But now, chaos and confusion reign supreme...
  • The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **USA Today Bestselling series!**From New York Times bestseller Angie Fox, the second book in the Southern Ghost Hunter mysteriesA haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime...
  • Do You Really Want to Haunt Me by Mandy M. Roth

    Do You Really Want to Haunt Me by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Hedgewitch Cove, Louisiana, where there's no such thing as normal. Shark-shifter and natural-born hunter, New York (York) Peugeot, has been living under a curse placed upon him by his well-meaning grandmother. She only wanted to help her grandchildren find their mates, not drop a spell of chaos upon their heads...
  • A Whale of a Tail by Kathi Daley

    A Whale of a Tail by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Visiting author Winnifred Westminster turns up dead after a speaking engagement at Coffee Cat Books where she tells those in attendance the story of the very real murder her book is based on. A murder she assures them that local law enforcement were never able to solve, but after years of research, she assured them she'd found the answer they couldn't...
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    amateur-sleuth  animals  cozy  culinary  adult  book  cats  family
  • Monster in the Mirror by Kristen Painter

    Monster in the Mirror by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shadowvale isn’t your typical small town America. The sun never shines, the gates decide who enters, magic abounds, and every resident bears some kind of curse.For Isadora Graham, Shadowvale seems like a dream come true. A safe haven where she can hide from the darkness that lives within her, and hopefully, keep everyone else from finding out about it too...
  • A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's holiday time in Firefly Junction but not everything is sweet sugarplums and glittery tinsel.Sunni Taylor has been too busy to get into the holiday spirit, even with her mom coming to town for a visit. Her festive spirit gets a spark when Detective Brady Jackson asks her to attend the town's production of A Christmas Carol...
  • Moody And The Beast by Kristen Painter

    Moody And The Beast by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shadowvale isn’t your typical small town America. The sun never shines, the gates decide who enters, magic abounds, and every resident bears some kind of curse. Exiled king of the goblins, Robin Gallow, has no choice but to live in Shadowvale. That was the deal he made with his ex-wife and current queen of the goblins in exchange for the antidote to the poison she gave him...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cozy  adult  audiobook  book  cats  drama  fae
  • Ax To Grind by Tonya Kappes

    Ax To Grind by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Southerners keep their secrets swept under the rug, but what happens when that rug goes up for sale? Bestselling author Berlye Stone, the most famous citizen to ever come out of Cottonwood, Kentucky, has died and put all her worldly possessions up for auction, but not without leaving one more manuscript behind. A hidden tell-all about Cottonwood that’s got more gossip than a ladies’ luncheon...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cozy  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Sweet Tea & Spells by Bella Falls

    Sweet Tea & Spells by Bella Falls

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Magic and mystery are only part of the Southern Charms of Honeysuckle Hollow...Lots of changes in town and in her life, including her ex-fiancé's upcoming wedding to her cousin, have Charli Goodwin trying to be on her best behavior...
  • Dog Days of Murder by Addison Moore, Bellamy Bloom

    Dog Days of Murder by Addison Moore, Bellamy Bloom

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An innkeeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premier destination for murder.My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cozy  adult  book  cats  crime  dogs  family
  • Total Eclipse of the Hunt by Mandy M. Roth

    Total Eclipse of the Hunt by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Everlasting, Maine, where there's no such thing as normal.As a centaur, Deputy Jake Majoy (Deputy March), is immortal and has seen and done a lot in his five hundred years. Enough to know that Everlasting feels like home. It’s been perfect for him to fade away and blend in, as the town is anything but normal—and they protect their own...
  • 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...
  • Blood, Sweets and Tears by H.Y. Hanna

    Blood, Sweets and Tears by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Magical chocolates, missing jewels and murder...When novice witch Caitlyn Le Fey heads to the outdoor cinema festival at a beautiful Cotswolds manor, the last thing she expects is for the evening to end in murder. But when a dead man is found with fang marks in his neck and her old vampire uncle, Viktor, is arrested, Caitlyn must use all her newfound magic powers to clear his name...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cozy  culinary  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Witch Summer Night's Cream by H.Y. Hanna

    Witch Summer Night's Cream by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Murder, mystery, and a chocolate love potion... Caitlyn is looking forward to Midsummer's Eve in the tiny English village of Tillyhenge...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cozy  culinary  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors by Molly Harper

    Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors by Molly Harper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Just as Jane Jameson's unlife seems to be stabilizing, fate sinks its fangs firmly into her butt. Despite her near-phobia of wedding planning, her no-frills nighttime nuptials to her sexy boyfriend, Gabriel, are coming along smoothly. That is, until she turns a fatally wounded teenage acquaintance, and the Council pronounces her responsible for the newborn vamp until he can control his thirst...
  • The House on Blackberry Hill by Donna Alward

    The House on Blackberry Hill by Donna Alward

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Family secrets, a ghost from the past, and new love will draw readers into this compelling story, first in the Jewell Cove series by NYT Bestselling Author, Donna Alward. Abby Foster arrives in Jewell Cove to take possession of the family mansion she’s inherited from a relative she never knew existed. Her plan is to refurbish it, put it on the market, and head back to Nova Scotia...
  • The Witch and the Dead by Heather Blake

    The Witch and the Dead by Heather Blake

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Darcy moved to Salem, Massachusetts, she never expected her life to change as drastically as it did. But within a short time, the Enchanted Village has become her home, its mystical residents have become her family, and As You Wish, the personal concierge business formerly run by her Aunt Ve, has become her calling...
  • Landon Calling by Amanda M. Lee

    Landon Calling by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Landon Michaels is one busy FBI agent. In addition to a special law enforcement gathering where he has an authoritarian presence, he’s in the midst of moving in with his girlfriend, Bay Winchester. It just so happens that the gathering – a conference where local police officers and agents can learn about new technology – is being hosted in his soon-to-be hometown of Hemlock Cove...
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M. Roth, Allyson Voller

    Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M. Roth, Allyson Voller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance Novel (PWF) When it rains, it pours... On the eve of my fortieth birthday, Fate has given me a second chance at the happiness I once knew in the odd Southern town of Grimm Cove. But only if I can come to terms with some rather eye-opening revelations. Supernaturals are a real thing. I'm a witch...
  • Deader Homes and Gardens by Angie Fox

    Deader Homes and Gardens by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Southern belle Verity Long is back in business--as a ghost hunter. Now all she has to do is visit the town's creepiest mansion and exorcise a family of vengeful spirits. Piece of cake. After all, ghosts love her and need her...that is until she meets the ghosts of Rock Fall mansion...
  • Ghostly Deceits by Lily Harper Hart

    Ghostly Deceits by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe are going on vacation. Sort of. The newly minted couple are in a good place, so when Jared asks Whisper Cove’s favorite ghost hunter to go to Harsens Island to visit an old friend and his family, Harper jumps at the chance. Josh Stoker and Jared have a lot to catch up on, including the hard financial times the Stoker family is struggling to deal with...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  ghosts
  • The Professor Woos The Witch by Kristen Painter

    The Professor Woos The Witch by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cozy  audiobook  book  cats  children  comedy  contemporary
  • Masquerading in the Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Masquerading in the Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forty and fanged.That’s only half of who Hailey Whitfield is. She’s also a bounty hunter and the true mate to the vampire master who made her. The latter is something she isn’t sure she is ready for. She’d previously sworn off marriage. Never again...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  adult  book  fiction  humor  mystery  paranormal  psychics
  • Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another.There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others...
  • Everybody Wants to Rune the World by Mandy M. Roth, B.J. Harrison

    Everybody Wants to Rune the World by Mandy M. Roth, B.J. Harrison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Hedgewitch Cove, Louisiana, where there's no such thing as normal.Sigmund Bails ran from his past straight to a supernatural Louisiana town after coming into his shifting abilities later than most, to dire consequences. With help from the colorful locals, the were-kraken has been working hard to gain some semblance of control...
  • Rattlesnake Road by Amanda McKinney

    Rattlesnake Road by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone hits rock bottom, only the brave escape.Welcome to 1314 Rattlesnake Road.A quaint two-bedroom log cabin nestled deep in the woods of the small, southern town of Berry Springs—the perfect hideaway to escape your past.Tucked inside thick, mahogany walls lay mysterious letters, forgotten and untouched for decades...
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