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  • Whispers of the Walker by E.E. Holmes

    Whispers of the Walker by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Something whispers in the shadows... From E.E. Holmes, author of the award-winning Gateway Trilogy, comes the first in the highly anticipated companion series The Gateway Trackers...
  • Rage by Shayne Silvers

    Rage by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hell hath no fury like Callie Penrose… Ever since Callie – the Vatican’s rookie monster hunter – killed a demon a few weeks ago, Kansas City’s been eerily quiet.But she soon learns it’s just the calm before the storm.Because werewolves begin abducting young women in Kansas City, and a new church opens its doors, pronouncing death to all idols, including these ‘make-believe’ monsters and wizards...
  • Whispers by Shayne Silvers

    Whispers by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Vatican is broken… And Callie’s hearing Whispers in the dark corners of her mind… One of the Vatican’s most infamous Shepherds has been murdered, and Callie’s friends are the prime suspects. To prove them innocent, Roland and Callie must risk their very souls…Because Callie can’t reveal that she’s hearing strange Whispers when she uses her magic, or that she’s harboring an Angel’s Grace...
  • Sinner by Shayne Silvers

    Sinner by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If you want to get to Heaven, you’ve got to raise a little Hell…Callie Penrose is struggling to find her special purpose in life. Rather than allying with any of the powerful supernatural groups begging to sign her up—the Vatican, the vampires, the shifters, or the Armies of both Heaven and Hell—Callie has been picking fights with all of them...
  • Angel's Roar by Shayne Silvers

    Angel's Roar by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Callie Penrose must die… Callie Penrose – a wizard with a splash of Angel’s blood flowing through her veins – kind of broke the Vatican and their band of Holy-warrior, wizard-priests, the Shepherds...
  • Southern Bred and Dead by Angie Fox

    Southern Bred and Dead by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A haunted church. A ghastly death. Can Verity clear up the case before she’s buried way over her head?Verity Long would really like a day off. Between uncovering the culprit who capped her gangster ghost housemate and dodging the bomb her boyfriend just dropped on their relationship, her spiritual calling has gotten complicated...
  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official enforcer to Leo Pellisier, Master of the City. But Leo’s reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official enforcer to Leo Pellisier, Master of the City. But Leo’s reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
  • Pecan Pies and Dead Guys by Angie Fox

    Pecan Pies and Dead Guys by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes Verity Long would like to forget that she lives with the ghost of a 1920s gangster. But the reluctant housemates must once again work together when a dead detective blackmails Frankie into helping him solve a Great Gatsby-era cold case. Before she can say “bathtub gin,” Verity is dragged straight into a raging, otherworldly house party. Worse, every guest is hiding something...
  • Dead Statues by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Statues by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With the Skin-walkers closing in, Kiera and her friends flee across the English countryside. Learning Potter has been keeping secrets from her, Kiera makes the painful decision to split from the group and leave her friends behind to go in search of her father...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  paranormal  alpha-mc  book  fiction  horror  magic  mystery
  • Lost in Las Vegas by Kristen Painter

    Lost in Las Vegas by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this new Jayne Frost and Sinclair Crowe mystery, a royal road trip takes the Princess and Prince Consort of the North Pole all the way to Las Vegas.And even though they’re in Sin City on official business, it doesn’t take long for trouble to find them. Trouble that’s very close to home...
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    animals  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  fae
  • Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Slaying vampires is child’s play for skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. But handling the complicated politics of New Orleans’ supernatural players is another story... Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep...
  • Demons Forever by Sarra Cannon

    Demons Forever by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B00ARI22MY Harper has come so far from her life as a foster child. She never imagined what her future would hold when she was first brought to the small town of Peachville. Since that day she’s faced great evil, found some of the answers she’s been looking for, and fallen deeply, madly in love...
  • 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...
  • The Keeper by J.L. Bryan

    The Keeper by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The South Channel lighthouse is a crumbling antique at the mouth of the Savannah River, abandoned and forgotten for generations. Local stories still tell of a mysterious woman in white who often stood at the old lighthouse, watching the sailors come into port...even long after she died...
  • 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...
  • A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

    A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When October is informed that Simon Torquill—legally her father, due to Faerie's archaic marriage traditions—must be invited to her wedding or risk the ceremony throwing the Kingdom in the Mists into political turmoil, she finds herself setting out on a quest she was not yet prepared to undertake for the sake of her future.... and the man who represents her family's past...
  • Dark Heir by Faith Hunter

    Dark Heir by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock is the best in the business when it comes to slaying vampires. But her latest fanged foe may be above her pay grade…For centuries, the extremely powerful and ruthless vampire witches of the European Council have wandered the Earth, controlling governments, fostering war, creating political conflict, and often leaving absolute destruction in their wake...
  • What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

    What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker.It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been left to her own devices. This might, by those who know her, be considered a mistake. While her cousin, police constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant, is off in the sticks, chasing unicorns, Abigail is chasing her own mystery...
  • What to Expect When Your Demon Slayer is Expecting by Angie Fox

    What to Expect When Your Demon Slayer is Expecting by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They say you can’t go home again, but demon slayer Lizzie Brown sure is going to try. However, when she rolls into town with her friends in tow, Lizzie finds her mom in the clutches of a demonic entity they accidentally left behind all those years ago. Now, it’s up to Lizzie, her talking dog, and the Red Skull biker witches to make things right...
  • Dead Water by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Water by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With Sam and Kayla missing, Kiera, Potter and Murphy head for the Dead Waters. Here they hope to find their missing friends and the answers to why their flesh keeps cracking like that of a statue. Knowing Potter has lied to her, Kiera is struggling with her feelings for him. Therefore, Kiera tries to keep Potter at a distance, scared that she might get hurt again...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  paranormal  alpha-mc  book  fiction  horror  magic  mystery
  • Dead Wolf by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Wolf by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Learning the painful secrets of her past, Kiera must understand why the truth had been kept from her. When confronting Murphy, Kiera soon discovers he has been keeping his own terrible secret. With Kiera's and her friend's past lives coming back to haunt them, Jack Seth tells her, she must discover the identity of the hooded photographer if she is to push her life back and save those she loves...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  paranormal  alpha-mc  angels  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Rival Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rival Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    An alternate cover edition can be found here.After narrowly escaping death at the hand of the Order of Shadows, Harper finds herself thrust into the strange and beautiful world of the shadow demons. But crossing through the portal doesn't mean she is safe. The Order of Shadows is determined to bring her home and transfer the Prima line to the Harris family...
  • Death's Rival by Faith Hunter

    Death's Rival by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker you don’t want to cross—especially if you’re one of the undead…For a vampire killer like Jane, having Leo Pellisier as a boss took some getting used to. But now, someone is out to take his place as Master Vampire of the city of New Orleans, and is not afraid to go through Jane to do it...
  • Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Saria Boudreaux finds a dead body in the Louisiana bayou near her home, her first instinct is to go to the police. But there's a problem: it looks like the victim may have been killed by a big cat - and her brothers are all shape-shifting leopards...
  • Dead Angels by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Angels by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fleeing Hallowed Manor and being hunted by the Skinwalkers, Kiera and her friends take shelter from a storm in a deserted railway station set in a remote valley. As they spend the night hiding from those who are hunting them, Isidor tells his friends a story about how he had come across the word PUSH some years before on his first journeys above ground...
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    female-mc  paranormal  alpha-mc  book  fiction  horror  magic  mystery
  • Dead Seth by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Seth by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Held hostage by Jack Seth, Kiera Hudson must not only find a way to escape, but save Potter and her father before she turns to stone. With Jack becoming ever more unstable and dangerous, Kiera soon realises the choice he is forcing her to make has far more terrifying consequences than she first believed...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  paranormal  alpha-mc  angels  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Blood Trade by Faith Hunter

    Blood Trade by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who’s always up for a fight—even if it means putting her life on the line... The Master of Natchez, Mississippi has a nasty problem on his hands. Rogue vampires—those who follow the Naturaleza and believe that humans should be nothing more than prey to be hunted—are terrorizing his city...
  • Dead City by James Ponti

    Dead City by James Ponti

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Most kids have enough to deal with between school, homework, extracurricular activities, and friends, but Molly Bigelow isn’t your typical tween. By day, Molly attends MIST—the Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology—but it’s what she’s learning outside of school that sets her apart from her classmates. Molly is a zombie hunter, just like her mother. This, however, is news to Molly...
  • 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...
  • The Haunted Heist by Angie Fox

    The Haunted Heist by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **USA TODAY Bestselling Series!**Just because she can see the dead doesn't mean Verity Long wants to spend her days hunting ghosts. Instead, she's over the moon to land a marketing job at the local bank...until she finds her new boss dead in the vault. Even her ghost friend, Frankie, knows that's no way to start a career...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Hexes and Exes by Sarina Dorie

    Hexes and Exes by Sarina Dorie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You think you know the world of magical boarding schools? Not from a teacher’s perspective at a school for at-risk youth. The series WOMBY’S SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD WITCHES is a whimsical urban fantasy set in a contemporary subculture of magical beings and monsters. The ghosts of boyfriends past are haunting Clarissa Lawrence, the most unmagical teacher at Womby’s School for Wayward Witches...
    Categorized as:
    animals  paranormal  book  comedy  cozy  fiction  horror  humor
  • Gram Croakies by Sam Cheever

    Gram Croakies by Sam Cheever

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sticks and stones can break my bones, but wrinkles can actually kill me! Just when I think I understand life, the Universe flings a magic booger at me. It just doesn’t pay to think you’ve got a handle on things. For example, my favorite customer, Mrs. Foxladle, got into a simple disagreement with her book club friends over their obsession with youth and beauty...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cats  paranormal  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  cozy  fiction
  • Gobbelino London & A Complication of Unicorns by Kim M. Watt

    Gobbelino London & A Complication of Unicorns by Kim M. Watt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Unicorns never were that bright,” I said. “That’s why they’re the only kind to stab their own entire species into extinction.”“Not quite the entire species,” Callum said.When a man from Callum’s past turns up at our door claiming to have lost both the last herd of unicorns in England and his sister, I knew it should be a hard pass. The past has teeth...
  • Miracle Mountain by J.L. Bryan

    Miracle Mountain by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the early nineteenth century, hungry gold prospectors descended on Miracle Mountain in north Georgia, ripping open the ancient wilderness, driven by dreams of glittering fortunes. Local legends tell of mysterious events, like a young girl who defied death after toppling from the mountain's treacherous waterfall...
  • Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

    Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic...
  • Shadow Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Shadow Demons by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An alternate cover edition can be found here. Book 4 of the Peachville High Demons series:In Peachville, there's a fine line between good and evil.That line is about to be crossed...
  • Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter

    Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world, and revived the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies: vampires. As a trusted employee of Leo Pellissier, Blood Master of the City, Jane finds herself caught in the cross fire...
  • Night of the Living Demon Slayer by Angie Fox

    Night of the Living Demon Slayer by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling series!Lizzie Brown is all for letting the good times roll…until a dark voodoo church rises up in the bayou outside of New Orleans. Now the ritual fires are burning long into the night and the dead are having a hard time staying that way.Lizzie goes in undercover to put a stop to the madness...
  • The Strangers by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    The Strangers by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Olive thought she'd uncovered all the house's secrets. She was wrong.It's Halloween night when strangers come to Linden Street...and something dear to Olive goes missing...
  • The Second Spy by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    The Second Spy by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Olive's third adventure, what lurks below the house could be as dangerous as what's hidden inside . . . Some terrifying things have happened to Olive in the old stone house, but none as scary as starting junior high. Or so she thinks. When she plummets through a hole in her backyard, though, she realizes two things that may change her mind: First, the wicked Annabelle McMartin is back...
  • Ghost of a Chance by Angie Fox, Tavia Gilbert

    Ghost of a Chance by Angie Fox, Tavia Gilbert

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tis the season...for ghosts. Verity Long has come to terms with the fact that she can see spirits, and talk to them, and...she's actually making cookies for one of them. But she's drawing the line at any more ghost hunting or mystery solving. Until a dear friend needs help locating a missing antique at the party of the year...
  • Ghost of a Potion by Heather Blake

    Ghost of a Potion by Heather Blake

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s Halloween in Hitching Post, Alabama, and potion shop owner Carly Bell Hartwell has an especially spooky customer to handle…With all the ghosts that haunt her at this time of year, Carly doesn’t exactly rush to celebrate Halloween.  Even a costume ball organized by her boyfriend Dylan's mother, Patricia Davis Jackson, holds little allure...
  • Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    May Bird has always been a bit. . . different. While most of her classmates were riding their bikes, she was running around the West Virginia woods, dressed as a warrior princess with her hairless cat at her side...
  • Family Secrets by Shawn McGuire

    Family Secrets by Shawn McGuire

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Whispering Pines, Wisconsin. A place for those who don’t belong. Sixteen years after a family feud drove her from the cozy Northwoods village of Whispering Pines, Wisconsin, former detective Jayne O’Shea returns to prepare her grandparents’ lake house for sale. Once there, not only does she find that the house has been trashed, her dog discovers a dead body in the backyard...
    Categorized as:
    animals  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  crime
  • Marked by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Marked by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    With the rebellion now in full swing, shifter-mage hybrid Sunaya Baine has no time for distractions. She must find out the true identity of the Benefactor and pull the plug on the Resistance's funding before they succeed in their grand plans for genocide and destruction. But the heat is upon Sunaya now, and it demands to be sated...
  • Vampire Destiny by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Vampire Destiny by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Samantha Moon isn’t prepared to handle the scariest moment of her life—her daughter’s turning eighteen.Facing the truth her children are powerful in their own right is the door to a scary new reality, worse than her dread of what Elizabeth is planning. The dark masters are still out there, but it almost feels trivial compared to having an empty house… at least until the phone rings..
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Amazing Grace by John G. Hartness

    Amazing Grace by John G. Hartness

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jessica Fletcher meets Aunt Bea meets Odd Thomas in this Southern Gothic Paranormal Mystery with a dose of romance from award-winning novelist John G. Hartness. Lila Grace Carter is your favorite new detective, you just don’t know it yet. She’s determined, smart, caring, and sassy as the day is long. She also talks to dead people. Of course, as she puts it, “I’m Southern...
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