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Midlife in Gretna Green by Linzi Day
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s never too late to learn how to stand up for yourselfNiki McKnight has spent her entire adult life being bullied—first by her husband and then by her boss. Recently widowed, she’s in dire need of an extreme life makeover... -
Requiem by Orlando A. Sanchez
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo matter how fast you are, you can’t outrun your past.When Ramirez receives a call from Shadow Company, he uncovers secrets from Simon’s covert operative days and an instruction: contact Simon. An agent Simon thought dead, has resurfaced, looking for vengeance and his help.Now, together with Monty, Simon must stop this agent from exacting revenge before it’s too late and countless lives are lost... -
Christmas Eve by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJim wrote a new short story, Christmas Eve, as a gift for his fans on December 24, 2018. It is posted to his website and Facebook page. The story is set after Peace Talks and Battle Ground and depicts Harry's first Christmas Eve as a dad, as well as a few other familiar faces... -
Wicked Lies by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy power doesn’t lie but everyone else does…Ever since Beckett Dustwick walked into my life, I’ve only wanted one thing…him. To bad he doesn’t feel the same way. Our soulmate mark tells me we are destined to be together an important fact he lied about. But a broken heart won’t stop me from showing him exactly what I think. He may have started this game, but I will finish it... -
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Sorcery in San Francisco by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYe screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.With the magical veil between our world and the fae realm down, the life we live has gotten weirder by the day.Imagine cloud shape bawdiness, venomous invaders sneaking through tears in the fabric between worlds, and waking up to realize San Francisco isn't where it was the night before.Yeah, lost a city? Call 1-800-Team-Trouble... -
Like a Fine Magical Wine (Midlife Witchery, #6) by Brenda Trim
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a harrowing visit to the Underworld, I finally shifted into my Phoenix. Flying doesn't stop Fate from insisting that I fight for my life, though. All of these brushes with death are for the birds.Catching the local murderer red-handed should have put a stop to the constant danger I'm in... -
My Magical Life to Live (Midlife Witchery, #4) by Brenda Trim
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere's no magic in any realm that can fix this mess. I've just got to dig in and get to work.One day I'm fighting beside my best friends in the Fae realm, and the next I can't light a candle without burning down my house.I always thought witches weren't supposed to have hot flashes unless we were cursed.But then the day came when I discovered that I'm cursed... -
Reaping Wind by Orlando A. Sanchez
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou reap what you sow, and when you sow death...vengeance comes to collect. The Dark Council threatens everything Simon holds dear. They want to erase Monty, kill Peaches and remove Simon's immortality—permanently. When Michiko goes missing, Simon realizes there is more at stake than he realizes. When Ken, Michiko's brother asks the Montague & Strong Detective Agency to find her... -
Magic Uncorked by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWitches are created, not born.The only magic word Libbie Stark seems to know these days is ‘ibuprofen’ thanks to a headache-inducing job, two teenagers, one ex-husband, and a deadbeat boyfriend—until the death of a friend brings unexpected consequences... -
Courage of the Witch by Deanna Chase
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to Keating Hollow, the magical village full of love, family, and spirit. After Hanna Pelsh lost her sister over a decade ago, she vowed to live her life to the fullest. And she does just that. When she’s not running the family coffee shop and volunteering her body to research for the mysterious disease that took her sister, Hanna dives head first into every adventure she can find... -
Crazy For Brew by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWelcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. It's the first annual Spellbound Day and the community has come together to celebrate recent seismic changes. Local lawyer Emma Hart is on top of the world, reveling in her new marriage and her promotion within the coven's academy. When residents begin acting strangely, the entire town is thrown for a loop... -
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The Hob by Dana Marie Bell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRobin Goodfellow has met his match.The Gray Court, Book 4When the Black Queen kidnaps one of the White Queen's nephews, Robin Goodfellow is sent to ensure that the young prince safely returns to the bosom of his family. True to his role as Oberon’s Hobgoblin, he is ready for anything…except meeting his truebond, the very delicious, very human Michaela Exton... -
Unspeakable Magic by Iris Beaglehole
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the winter solstice approaches in Myrtlewood, the Yuletide festivities are in underway, but the cheer is overshadowed by mysterious winter deaths.Athena and Rosemary must embark on a perilous journey to the Underworld. Along the way, they uncover clues about a prophecy and encounter allies and adversaries in the dreamrealm... -
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Brother Bear Mated by P. Jameson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThames, the eldest brother bear of the Ursa Gemini twins—the only remaining members of the Deadclaw bear shifter clan—has spent the last ten years of his life working as a bouncer at a shifter bar and trying to forget the brutal life he was born into. Now his brawling bear is ready to settle down and catch a mate... -
Excantation by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeing an adult is the dumbest thing I have ever done.Our Heroine: still me. A sleep-deprived me, which, considering I’m a murder and ten cups of coffee away from showing my displeasure to the world, and there’re clans to save, is not a good combination... -
The Morrigan's Curse by Dianne K. Salerni
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this third and final book in the series that VOYA recommends “for fans of Percy Jackson and Harry Potter,” the war over the Eighth Day continues—and there’s more at stake than ever before.The battle between Kin and Transitioners that’s been brewing for centuries has come to a head... -
Imagineer by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagination has no limit… Our Heroine: Me. And boy, are we all in trouble. A seventeen-year-old with a love of fantasy and unmanageable hair? Hardly anyone’s idea of the knight in shining armor. I went about life with no idea the world around me was not as it seemed, until one dark night I saw glimpses of things I knew shouldn’t exist... -
Hidden by Night by Jada Storm, Emma Stark
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Ace Bisset, and after a lifetime of proving magic doesn’t exist, I’m learning how to be a witch.If you’d told me a few months ago that I’d be burning sage and staking vampires, I would have laughed in your face. And yet here I am, casting spells and brewing potions while I relentlessly search for a way to lift the curse that binds my four lovers to the night... -
Scattered Ashes by Jessica Sorensen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy name is Gemma Lucas and my life’s a wreck. Alex, the guy I just might be falling in love with, and the father of my unborn child, left me. Not to mention if I do admit I’m in love with him, it could potentially kill us both. My father’s trapped in his own mind and my mom’s working for the dark side... -
Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint, Charles Vess
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWorld Fantasy Award-winning author of The Onion GirlThe city of Newford could be any contemporary North American city...except that magic lurks in its music, in its art, in the shadows of its grittiest streets, where mythic beings walk disguised. And its people are like you and me, each looking for a bit of magic to shape their lives and transform their fate... -
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the old century, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou and other such names by the Native tribes... -
Shadow by Adrienne Woods
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChastity Blake discovered the hard way what she was. A modern day Sandman. But things aren't looking up for Chastity. She is guarding a secret deep within her, her dark sand, or what Reverans would call, her Shadow. Shadow Casters are known for their dark dreams, the nightmares they create, and for Chastity landing up in the Oblivian with all the other Shadow Casters is so not on her list... -
Lost Souls Paraagency and the Three Witches of Burberry by K.M. Waller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFamily legacies are a curse! Welcome to the Lost Souls ParaAgency, where agents work together to ensure the safety of humans and to prevent exposure of the paranormal community. The Assignment-stop witches from creating magical chaos in the small town of Burberry, South Carolina. There's no dead body... yet. And there won't be if Lex Dimas takes this assignment... -
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Wolf Keeper by Yumoyori Wilson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree Chosen Paths. One Destined Future. A Finale Only She Can Face. After a traumatic accident, amnesiac Harper Blake wakes up in unfamiliar surroundings and being tended to by a stranger — an important stranger she should have met long ago. Her new friend helps provide answers, but as a foreign side of her power awakens, even more questions unfold... -
Fate Of The Minotaur by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFin's story - Fin is the Minotaur from the Her Dragon's Bane series - my wonderful readers thought he deserved a happy ever after of his own, so here it is. After centuries of living alone in his Labyrinth, Fin, the Minotaur, is offered a chance to lead a different life. With a different face, all thanks to a magic potion given to him by Serena and Charlotte... -
A Mixture of Mischief by Anna Meriano
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe third book in the acclaimed, delightful, character-driven middle grade series about a family of Mexican American bakers who also happen to be brujas—witches!Leo Logroño may have discovered the true nature of her magical abilities, but her education in how to use them in her family’s magical bakery has only just begun... -
Kingdom of Embers by Tricia Copeland
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer pale skin and weird diet make her a target at school. If only they knew the truth about her feeding habits…Seventeen-year-old Alena Scott is tired of pretending to be something she’s not. As an outlawed vampire-witch hybrid, she’s forced to abide by the oppressive secrecy imposed by her Vampire Chancellor mother... -
Bewitched By Moonlight by Deanna Chase
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*Prequel to the Last Witch Standing Series* The last thing Phoebe Kilsen, vampire tracker and witch extraordinaire, expects to be doing is hunting shifters. But when innocent vampires start to go missing in the city of New Orleans, she’s asked to do just that. It doesn’t take long before she has a shifter in her sights. The problem? It seems she’d rather kiss him than fight him...Categorized as:
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Accidentally Divine by Dakota Cassidy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHeaven ain’t missin’ this angel…At a fateful New Year’s Eve party, Georgina Maverick, a little bit drunk, a lot mired in guilt from her tortured past, trips and falls off a rooftop, tumbling ten stories to her almost death.Little does George know, her friend and co-worker, Dexter Bridger, the man she discovers also happens to be her guardian angel, is on the case... -
A Court Where I'm Freezing My A** Off by Marianne A. Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhile Katie and crew are securing allies in the mortal realm, I'm sent on a freaking side quest to Faerie.My mission? Get help from the Fae army, meet my birth mother, and get a handle on my powers. All before the war gets too out of hand.Simple.A Court Where I'm Freezing My A** Off is a novella in the Made from Magic Series and should be read after Made to Conquer... -
The Witch, the Wolf and the Vampire, Book 2 by A.K. Michaels
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPeri has finally stopped running and found safety with Gabe and Josef ... her Wolf and her Vampire. Now she is getting strong, physically and magically, and she is ecstatic with her two mates. She is not about to let anyone take that away and she surprises even herself with her power. However, a psycho sect has been hunting her for over six years, and they are closing in... -
WitchLove by Emma Mills
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 3 in the WitchBlood Series.With the reappearance of a lost love, Jess flees to the only people who can help her control her increasing powers and gain independence – her family’s coven... -
Blood Moon by Michelle Madow
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStep into a world of rejected mates, wolf shifters, and dangerous secrets in Blood Moon, the captivating first book in USA Today bestselling author Michelle Madow’s Wolf Born series.Ruby Grace is just an ordinary girl. Or so she thought.During a ski trip in the Adirondack Mountains, she discovers just how different she is... -
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The Devil's Angel by Rachel McClellan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucien, a centuries old vampire, lives a solitary life with his mind and heart blocked to the past. But all that changes when he meets Eve, a witch who not only stirs an ancient power within him, but who also teaches him to love again. This new life is threatened, however, when a powerful vampire who calls himself the Dark Prince vows to unleash a plague upon the earth... -
Possession of Souls by Lacey Weatherford
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings5 Stars!Lacey Weatherford is truly a Wordsmith, a story teller at heart. Hold on tight when you sit down with this last installment of the Of Witches and Warlocks series because it will twist you around, raise you up and throw you down! This is a one-of-a-kind emotional roller coaster that knows no mercy... -
Stefan by V.A. Dold
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBeautiful, successful, and plus-sized El suffered a violent attack that has left her hating all handsome, wealthy men. Unfortunately for Stefan, he’s exactly what she hates. Stefan is a playboy to the extreme with one hard and fast rule: date a woman once, take her to bed, and be gone before morning. Until El... -
The Three Furies by Kaza Kingsley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnother task, even more dangerous than the previous ones, befalls Erec in the fourth book in the series. He must literally face his worst nightmares to succeed, but he isn’t sure if he can overcome his fears. On top of a contest he must win to continue his rise to King, he must also save Bethany, who has been entranced by Baskania, and deal with his inevitable transformation into a dragon... -
The Dark Rising by Lacey Weatherford
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Portia Mullins discovers the love of her life is still alive her heart soars. But reality sets in immediately causing it to plummet when she realizes he doesn’t remember his past life with her. Unwilling to give up, she embarks on a loving quest to restore his life to him...Categorized as:
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The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the city of Newford, when the stars and the vibes are right, you can touch magic. Mermaids sing in the murky harbor, desert spirits crowd the night, and dreams are more real than waking. Charles de Lint began his chronicles of the extraordinary city of Newford in "Memory & Dream" and the short-story collection "Dreams Underfoot... -
Holier Than Thou by Rick Gualtieri
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere are reasons the undead fear the night... Bill Ryder - gamer, geek, and legendary vampire - has woman troubles. The girl he wants is deadly to him. The girl who wants him is deadly to everyone else. He's trapped in the most lethal love triangle he can imagine and it's only going to get worse.On the eve of war, The Icon - ancient foe of the vampire race - has arisen... -
Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 21 ratings"Muse and Reverie "is an all-new collection of short fiction in Charles de Lint's "Newford" universe--the fifth such collection since 1993, and the first since 2002. Previous collections are "Dreams Underfoot," "The Ivory and the Horn," the World Fantasy Award-winning "Memory and Dream," and "Tapping the Dream Tree... -
Zero Sum by B. Justin Shier
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMy name is Dieter Resnick. I was planning to turn eighteen in May, but I don't think I'm gonna make it. I've just been drafted into a war. And this war isn't usual. It's kinda sorta fought with spells.Six months ago today, I was my high school's valedictorian. Now I'm Elliot College's newest combat-certified mage, and one of the few to survive a Talmax raid...Categorized as:
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Queen of Nothing by T.A. Pratt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a vile spirit awakens in the underworld, only sorcerer (and part-time death god) Marla Mason can save the world from devastation... -
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The Shadow's Son by Nicole R. Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a mysterious stranger from Aya's past shows up in Ashburton it's not all good news. Tristan, a man she saved almost a thousand years ago, brings a warning that will affect not just her, but her new family.Regulus is coming.To protect Zac, Aya has to destroy the best thing that has ever happened to her. She has to pretend that their love has been a lie... -
The Awakening by Nicole R. Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Coven has finally managed to awaken an ancient horror after thousands of years searching for the key. The Romans thought they were the first of their kind. But, they might just learn that there are older and more evil things in the world. Things that should have remained buried and forgotten. Things that should have been left alone.Aya, Zac and the few left they can call friends are scattered... -
Interesting People by Matthew Storm
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's been six months since Sally Rain shattered Earth's timeline and was banished by Artemis to the Island, a mystical prison, to live out the rest of her days alone. Oliver Jones, once called the most dangerous man in the world, still hasn't forgiven Artemis for her decision. Things are bad enough at the office when Oliver is sent to investigate two killings that seem oddly familiar to Artemis... -
Fearless by Scott Prussing
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFearless is the fourth book in the paranormal romance series The Blue Fire Saga. Books one, two and three are Breathless, Deathless and Helpless.Fearless continues the story of college freshman Leesa Nyland and her supernatural vampire hunter boyfriend Rave. After rescuing her brother from the clutches of vampire coven in Breathless, Leesa was hoping to return to her normal, boring life...Categorized as:
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Phoenix Child by Alica McKenna-Johnson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere should be a law, a Universal Rule, as to how much weirdness can happen to a person. Fifteen-year-old Sara walks into the San Francisco Center for the Circus Arts determined to ignore the freaky things happening to her. As powers she doesn't want and can't control overwhelm her, Sara must decide if she can trust the strangers who say they are her family .. -
The Siren and the Scholar by J.M. Stengl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan true love survive when memories are stolen away? When Kamoana the siren is transformed into human shape, she knows that her mother, the powerful sahira Queen Pukai, laid the spell on her, but she can't remember why...
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