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  • Maze Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Maze Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    My name is Pamela, and I am the most powerful witch the world has ever seen. Only my magic is completely bound away from me, rendering me next to useless. I’m about to face a witch who makes me look like a child fighting a seasoned general in battle. A witch whose strength lies within the dead, and whose magic I unleashed during my part of destroying the world...
  • Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

    Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote and fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them...
  • Midnight Sky by McKenzie Hunter

    Midnight Sky by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Being part of the Midwest Pack isn’t easy—especially now. Sky’s life has never been simple—and it only gets more complicated. The Alphas, Ethan, and several key players in the otherworld go missing, thrusting Sky into the position of Elite Alpha and tasking her with finding them. The list of suspects grows as Sky realizes that her mating with Ethan has caused allies to become enemies...
  • The Sundering by Vanessa Nelson

    The Sundering by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nowhere and no one is safe. Stripped of her rank and her calling by some of her most trusted friends, Yvonne is left shocked and bleeding. Worse is to come. Not only are children still going missing, but she learns that the death of an old friend might not have been natural. With old friendships torn apart, Yvonne must work out who she can trust if she is to find the truth...
  • Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire

    Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The twelfth installment of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy series!Things are not okay.In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October "Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the verge of coming apart at the seams...
  • Darkness Unleashed by McKenzie Hunter

    Darkness Unleashed by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Midwest Pack stands together—and they might fall together.We’ve always kept our existence hidden from humans, but when a video of a were-animal in a violent confrontation goes viral, the other denizens take drastic measures to protect themselves from exposure. Alliances are broken and friendships strained as the vampires, witches, and elves all work to protect their own interests...
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    fae  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Secrets of the Sword II by Lindsay Buroker

    Secrets of the Sword II by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    For ten years, I’ve been using a magical sword that I won in battle to ruthlessly slay enemies, break evil artifacts, and open stubborn pickle jars, but I don’t know much about it.That’s about to change.Thanks to the fact that I’m dating a powerful dragon, I can get a ride to the dwarven home world, and we’re going to research the sword's roots...
  • Moon Cursed by McKenzie Hunter

    Moon Cursed by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Between life and death – there’s magic. Friends of the Midwest Pack are missing, alliances are forming between enemies whose sole intent is to destroy the pack, and a mysterious group is trying to make a power grab using any means possible. With her pack and its allies in danger, and her love life threatened by secrets, Sky doesn’t think things could possibly get worse...
  • Bloodline Academy by Lan Chan

    Bloodline Academy by Lan Chan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Nephilim, a demon and a mage walk into a psychiatric hospital. This isn't a joke. There's no punch line. My name is Alessia Hastings. Welcome to my personal hell.My weekly visit to Nanna's psychiatric hospital ends with me in a celestial jail cell. Now an impossibly gorgeous Nephilim with a face I want to kiss, and an attitude I want to punch, tells me I'm not quite human...
  • The Faerie Plague by Michelle Madow

    The Faerie Plague by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Zombies. The fae realm is overrun with ZOMBIES.Against all odds, I mastered the magic gifted to me by the gods and won the Faerie Games—a twisted, televised game to the death.After winning the Games, I was supposed to be free to return home to Earth. But that was a lie.Now a deadly plague is rampaging the realm. The Otherworld is dying, and I might have the power to save it...
  • Heretic Spellblade 3 by K.D. Robertson

    Heretic Spellblade 3 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The time for secrets is coming to an end. Nathan has changed history and stopped the end of the world, but the future is more uncertain than ever. He can't rely on his knowledge of the future anymore.Conquering the Federation has turned Nathan into a national hero, but also earned him countless enemies. The peace he has won looks short-lived...
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    epic  fae  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  audiobook
  • Chaos by Sarah Fine

    Chaos by Sarah Fine

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    With Juri in control and everything in absolute chaos, Lela plunges into the depths of hell to free Malachi from creatures that have waited decades to exact their revenge. But the Judge has her own way of doing things, and Lela must work with Ana, the new Captain, who has a very personal mission of her own...
  • Heritage by S.M. Boyce

    Heritage by S.M. Boyce

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kara Magari isn't normal, even by Ourea's standards--and in a world of shape-shifters and soul stealers, that's saying something. To the royalty, she's a loose cannon. To the masses, she's a failure. But Kara doesn't have a home to go back to anymore. This war-torn world is all she has left, and she'll save it even if she dies trying...
  • Running Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Running Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's not about the cards you're dealt... Mistress of the House of Swords Sara Wilde finds herself the rising star of Interpol's Most Wanted list--accused of acts of supernatural terrorism and psychic manipulation, a new category of offenses clearly created just for her...
  • Faerie Hunt by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Faerie Hunt by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm Ivy Lane, and lately, my life has been suspiciously free of faerie-related drama. But there's a storm coming.Now, the lords of Faerie know I have their magic. What they don't know is that I killed a powerful faerie, and might just have doomed both our worlds in the process...
  • Silverfall by McKenzie Hunter

    Silverfall by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A spell revealed I was marked by the raven. Now what?Well, I already know day drinking isn’t the answer. And Mephisto, with his increasing interest in me and my magic, isn’t either. But what is?The secrets behind the mark keep unfolding, revealing that I’m more dangerous than anyone ever suspected and that I’m the only person preventing the demise of several powerful and dangerous magical beings...
    Categorized as:
    fae  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Nightsoul by McKenzie Hunter

    Nightsoul by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Who would have thought that a mysterious and powerful man who chose to go by the name Mephisto would be more than meets the eye? I did! And yet I still wasn’t prepared for what I discovered about him.He’s a wildcard. But with so many people wanting me dead, I need all the friends I can get.My life is quickly becoming a cornucopia of crap, and I don’t need any more enemies or any more trouble...
  • Shadows of Betrayal by Brenda K. Davies

    Shadows of Betrayal by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As Cole plunges into war against the rebellion in the Gloaming, his enemies aren’t the only things to fear on the battlefield. The Shadow Realms hold more monstrous secrets than Cole or Lexi ever knew, and some of them are about to break free. When allies become enemies and betrayals unfold, Lexi and Cole will learn who they can trust and who wants them dead...
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    epic  fae  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult
  • Visions by Kelley Armstrong

    Visions by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of notorious serial killers, and Gabriel Walsh, the self-serving, morally ambiguous lawyer became unlikely allies. Together, they've chased down a devious killer and partially cleared her parents of their horrifying crimes.Their success, however, is short-lived...
  • Red Rain by R.S. Black

    Red Rain by R.S. Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Red Rain Pandora has been through hell and back. Literally. She’s been kidnapped and tortured, found freedom, and then lost it all over again. She’s now the newest pawn in the age-old war between Heaven and Hell. The Triad owns her mark, Asher owns her heart, but the demon Wrath might just own her soul. Death—aka Dean—is her constant companion in these final days...
  • Embrace by Stacey Rourke

    Embrace by Stacey Rourke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Whether she likes it or not, eighteen year old Celeste Garrett has come to terms with being the Chosen One. She knew having a "normal life" would be tricky, between intense training sessions and epic demonic battles, but she didn't know at what cost it would come. That is, until a dear friend is harmed by the malicious forces hunting her...
  • Faerie Curse by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Faerie Curse by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the leader of the local witch coven is murdered, all evidence suggests foul play of the faerie variety. With a group of anti-supernatural assassins running around town, I have to figure out their connection with the dark faeries before my best friend Isabel, the new coven leader, becomes the killer's next target...
  • Illusion by S.M. Boyce

    Illusion by S.M. Boyce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The final chapter in the war for Ourea ends with blood. Kara Magari is an icon. A hero. The people love her. The royalty tolerates her. She has everything—an army, allies, and a close circle of chosen family. They believe she will end the war, and they shouldn’t. She’s as scared as they are. She just can’t show it...
  • Shadowmark by McKenzie Hunter

    Shadowmark by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When a god wants you dead, it’s safe to assume life can’t get any worse. Wrong. I’m enemy-number-one to a powerful fae and I’ve ticked off the Master of the vampires one too many times. Life—or rather, death—is coming at me fast. I definitely didn’t expect a demon placing a bounty on me to be added to the what-the-hell-else-could-go-wrong Bingo card...
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    fae  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Rituals by Kelley Armstrong

    Rituals by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The fifth book and the exciting conclusion to bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series, in which she mixes hard-hitting crime writing with phenomenal world-building to create a brand of fiction all her own.Olivia Jones must make a choice. Caught between two rival supernatural forces, Liv was granted a brief period in which to make her decision...
  • The Vampire War by Michelle Madow

    The Vampire War by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Find the Holy Grail. Win the war. Save the world.A lot has changed for Annika since being kidnapped by vampires to become a blood slave in their hidden kingdom of the Vale. Not only has she learned she’s a Nephilim—a race that’s supposedly extinct—but she’s found herself on a dangerous quest for the Holy Grail...
  • The Vampire Trick by Michelle Madow

    The Vampire Trick by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In a kingdom full of secrets, no one can be trusted.Annika’s life was flipped upside down when she was kidnapped by vampires to become a blood slave in their hidden kingdom of the Vale. Now, the powerful witch Geneva has disguised her as a vampire princess, and Annika’s living in the palace to compete for Prince Jacen’s hand in marriage. But her quest to become his bride is just a facade...
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    fae  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  audiobook  book  dark
  • Rogue Fae by C.N. Crawford

    Rogue Fae by C.N. Crawford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After venturing into the underworld, I have some badass goddess powers. In fact, I used them to rid the earth of the angelic scourge. Only problem is, the gods I stole the magic from are kind of pissed. They keep trying to kill me when I summon their power. Worse, the angels are back on earth, harder to kill than ever...
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    fae  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  angels  book
  • Lunar Marked by McKenzie Hunter

    Lunar Marked by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes the penalty for magic is death.The Midwest Pack used the Clostra to perform a powerful and dangerous spell to save me. Now the pack is dealing with the aftermath and doing damage control. But they can’t hide how the magic has changed the dynamics of the otherworld—or that they are responsible.Ethan has dangerous secrets and so do I...
  • The World of All Souls: A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness, Colleen Madden

    The World of All Souls: A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness, Colleen Madden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy--"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People)A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life carried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion...
  • Damnation Marked by S.M. Reine

    Damnation Marked by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's something in the earth deep below Elise Kavanagh's territory. A shadow is falling upon local demons to devour their flesh and harvest their souls. And it's coming for Elise next.The Union has an easy way out. They want to send Elise into hiding again with her former partner, James Faulkner...
  • Paradise Damned by S.M. Reine

    Paradise Damned by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The final book in The Descent Series.Elise Kavanagh is being held captive without weapons or allies. The only way out of the garden is to kill God Himself.James Faulkner's son has been taken by Metaraon, but James is caught in Limbo and helpless to save him.An army of half-angel, half-demon hybrids is converging on the gates of Heaven, where the Union prepares for a final battle...
  • Unhinged by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    Unhinged by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of...
  • Bad Vampire by Lauren Dawes

    Bad Vampire by Lauren Dawes

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A rookie cop. A team of supernatural misfits. Recalcitrant baby vampires on the loose.My name is Cat McKenzie, and I’ve been a very bad girl…No, not in the I-need-a-spanking way...pervert.Nope, my kind of bad got my partner killed on my first day of the job. And now I’m getting punished by being thrown in as human liaison to PIG — the Paranormal Investigative Group...
  • Dragon Ashes by Debbie Cassidy

    Dragon Ashes by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dragon Blood's took everything from us. Now it's time to take it all back.Allies become enemies and enemies become allies. Love blooms in the unlikeliest places and even the iciest heart can be thawed.But every victory comes with a price.Anya's Adventure continues in Dragon Ashes. A kick-ass fantasy with a slow burn whychoose romance...
  • Shee Willow by Claudy Conn

    Shee Willow by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Willow Lang has been a loner all her young life. She is an artist working in a famous museum in New York City, restoring classic canvas paintings...
  • Blood Gifts by Becca Andre

    Blood Gifts by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Ian is used to pressure. Born into a necromancer family, he and his twin brother Lex exhibited uncommon magical potential at an early age that led their father to expect great things—from them both. That is until Lex’s blood gift fails to manifest. Or so everyone believes. For the past five years, Ian has been keeping a secret...
  • Dragon War by Debbie Cassidy

    Dragon War by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Threat hovers on the horizon, and it's time to meet it head on.An unexpected betrayal, revelations, and a reunion that I didn't know I needed. But there is no time to revel in what I've gained because there is too much to lose.Anya's Journey continues in Dragon War, the thrilling finale to the Dragon Guard series...
  • Betrayals by Kelley Armstrong

    Betrayals by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois...
  • Faerie Wrath by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Faerie Wrath by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When ghosts start appearing all over town, my witch friend Isabel and I are pulled in to help the necromancers exorcise the wayward spirits. With the dead refusing to stay dead, it's easier said than done.And there's something worse hiding on the wrong side of the grave...
  • Promise the Moon by Hailey Edwards

    Promise the Moon by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lorimar Pack, Book 1War is a constant threat on Dell Preston's horizon. As beta of the Lorimar pack, her job is to maintain the peace on the new border between Faerie and Earth at all costs...
  • Undead on Arrival by L.A. Banks

    Undead on Arrival by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Just one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought she'd tasted victory. Orchestrating détente between the warring factions of the supernatural world had nearly cost her life—but it also opened the door to a future with Max Hunter, her mate and fellow Shadow Wolf.Until now. A poisonous virus is wreaking havoc on Hunter's immune system...
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    fae  female-mc  magic  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  dark
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent.‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!'There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't...
  • Faerie Realm by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Faerie Realm by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I feared that using my magic would bring me closer to the faerie realm I tried so desperately to escape. I was right.I made a promise to a faerie, and they've come to deliver. A powerful talisman has disappeared, and without it, the faeries in this realm are losing their magic. Getting involved wasn't in my plan, but if I refuse to help the faeries find the talisman, I'll die...
  • Elemental Rising by Maddy Edwards

    Elemental Rising by Maddy Edwards

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Summary Taken from Amazon.comCharlotte returns to Paranormal Public for her second semester knowing that she must embrace yet another new destiny.She wasn’t expecting it to be easy, and it isn’t...
  • Bad Fae by Lauren Dawes

    Bad Fae by Lauren Dawes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A rookie cop. A team of supernatural detectives. Warring fae queens out for blood.My name is Cat McKenzie, and I need a vacation.It’s almost Christmas—-my favorite time of the year—-at least it would be if it weren’t for the psychotic fae assassin trying to hunt me down and permanently punish me with a dirt-bed for interfering in his plot for revenge...
  • The Vampire Prince by Michelle Madow

    The Vampire Prince by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    To destroy the enemy, she will become the enemy.Everything has been taken from Annika — her family, her friends, and even her freedom — by the vampires who enslaved her in the hidden kingdom of The Vale. But now she possesses a magical ring that contains Geneva, the most powerful witch in the world, and she’s ready for revenge...
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    fae  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  audiobook  book  dark
  • Skye by Kimberly Loth

    Skye by Kimberly Loth

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rowan Winters is completely in love. With a shifter dragon. But the drop-dead gorgeous Skye only thinks of Rowan as her best friend. But when she turns up in his room in the middle of the night in tears, he yearns to do whatever he can to help her. Even if that means running away and letting his family think he’s dead. Skye’s entire world turns upside down the day her scales turns black...
  • Billow by Emma Raveling

    Billow by Emma Raveling

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An Impossible War. An Explosive Magic. An Inescapable Destiny. - The world of water elementals - It has been six months since ondine Kendra Irisavie arrived in Haverleau, the hidden capital of the water elemental world. Six months since she discovered her destiny as the sondaleur and a series of devastating events left behind their mark...
  • The Last Remnant by Pam Brondos

    The Last Remnant by Pam Brondos

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Following her forced departure from Fourline, Natalie Barns has been aching to rejoin the struggle to overthrow its evil dictator. With Soris and those she left behind constantly on her mind, Nat bides her time, determined to find a cure for the duozi—those infected by the terrifying Nala...
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