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  • Blood of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Blood of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I thought that going after those who'd destroyed my life would help me move on. At the very least, that it would ease the thirst for vengeance singing in my blood. I was wrong. With my guns at my side, I continue to search for ways to punish the one man who took everything from me. The man who killed my family. Death is far too good for him...
  • Rise of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Rise of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    To save my son, I would give up my soul. To survive this journey and stop those who face us I may have to do just that. My son is waiting for me to bring him home, to rescue him from the horrors he’s faced on his own. I won’t take the chance I will find him only to fail him again. Which means I must unearth a way to kill his captor, a man who is immortal...
  • Captive Souls by Wendy Wang

    Captive Souls by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Taken in the night.Kidnapped for her light.Keeley Moore is just trying to survive.After thirteen-year-old Keeley Moore disappears during a camping trip with her parents, psychic Charlie Payne is invited to work the case by the local deputy. But the connection Charlie makes with the girl is a gossamer thread...
  • The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    The Green Witch by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    For psychic Charlie Payne, gruesome visions of death are just a normal Tuesday—but when she investigates the murders of two green witches, her usual methods lead nowhere. With her options to save the next victim dwindling, she must test a dangerous new form of astral projection to find the killer.Meanwhile, Charlie's cousin Lisa has her own set of problems...
    Categorized as:
    crime  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  mystery
  • The Law by Jim Butcher

    The Law by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set after Battle Ground, that thrusts Chicago’s only professional Wizard, Harry Dresden, back into battle–both a legal one… and the kind with explosions.Not every danger comes in the form of a mega-threat like a Titan. Some predators are a lot cozier... more personal...
  • The Harbinger: Witches of Palmetto Point Series Book 5 by Wendy Wang

    The Harbinger: Witches of Palmetto Point Series Book 5 by Wendy Wang

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil comes in many forms. Not all of them are human. They call her the Blue Lady, the harbinger of storms and destruction...
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    crime  paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  audiobook  book  cozy
  • Paws of the Yeti by Steve Higgs

    Paws of the Yeti by Steve Higgs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The paranormal? It’s all nonsense, but proving it might get him killed. When he is called to investigate a Yeti attack in the French Alps, Tempest Michaels is certain it will just be another fool in a costume - He’s going to solve the case in five minutes and spend a few days skiing. Yay! Guess again. The mountain, the locals, and above all, the Yeti, have other plans in mind...
  • Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi

    Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He’s losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out...
  • The Belial Origins by R.D. Brady

    The Belial Origins by R.D. Brady

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Revelations, death, and destiny The three forces have ruled Delaney's McPhearson's life for the last two years. But the greatest revelation is yet to come . . . And the greatest sacrifice. ____________________________________________ A powerful relic was hidden eons ago to protect mankind. If it’s uncovered, our world will change forever. But the Fallen are on its trail...
  • 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...
  • The Gravedigger’s Son: A Charley Davidson Novella by Darynda Jones

    The Gravedigger’s Son: A Charley Davidson Novella by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The job should have been easy.Get in. Assess the situation. Get out. But for veteran tracker Quentin Rutherford, things get sticky when the girl he’s loved since puberty shows up, conducting her own investigation into the strange occurrences of the small, New Mexico town...
  • Heart of Ice by Lisa Edmonds

    Heart of Ice by Lisa Edmonds

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Discover Alice. Private Investigator of the Supernatural. Even the coldest hearts can burn... After closing a big case for the Vampire Court, mage private investigator Alice Worth is relieved to be back solving magical mysteries with her ghost sidekick Malcolm and spending quality time with sexy alpha werewolf Sean...
  • Forged by Benedict Jacka

    Forged by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Alex Verus faces his dark side in this return to the bestselling urban fantasy series about a London-based mage.To protect his friends, Mage Alex Verus has had to change--and embrace his dark side. But the life mage Anne has changed too, and made a bond with a dangerous power. She's going after everyone she's got a grudge against--and it's a long list...
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
    Categorized as:
    crime  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell

    This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . .Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life...
    Categorized as:
    crime  humor  paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  audiobook  book
  • Death's Refrain by Terri Reid

    Death's Refrain by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A distinct chill went up Professor Elaine Wright’s spine. She slowly turned around and her heart dropped when she saw the ghost of a young girl standing near the road. Like the other ghosts Elaine had encountered, the girl was translucent. Elaine could make out her features, but if she looked closely she could see through her to the woods beyond...
    Categorized as:
    crime  humor  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • Fatal [Family] Traditions by Ann Charles

    Fatal [Family] Traditions by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s a real trick to catching a soul-stealing Hungarian devil made of shadow and smoke. Unfortunately, Violet Parker doesn’t know what that trick is and her aunt’s life depends on her figuring it out. But killing is an old family tradition for her ... or rather a fatal tradition...
  • The Belial Guard by R.D. Brady

    The Belial Guard by R.D. Brady

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Delaney McPhearson has faced danger after danger. And along the way she’s lost a great deal. Some would say too much. But for the first time, she has fully embraced who she is—and what’s expected of her. She’s ready to take on whatever her destiny puts in her path. But at the same time, another power rises with a plan of its own. A plan that will have worldwide ramifications...
  • Blood Bond: 7 by Helen Hardt

    Blood Bond: 7 by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Breaking into a cemetery isn’t anything Dante Gabriel ever thought he’d do, but he has no choice. He must recover his father’s body so he can claim his estate. Help arrives from two unexpected sources, but their plan is interrupted. Erin Hamilton’s best friend is a wolf shifter. The man she loves is a vampire. His father is a ghost. She can deal with all of that, but new worries have surfaced...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  book  fiction  mystery  steamy
  • Blood Bond: 8 by Helen Hardt

    Blood Bond: 8 by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dante Gabriel has developed some abilities never before seen in a vampire his age. Without Erin Hamilton, he’d be on the brink of insanity, but she’s always there, always willing to give him what he needs, and he’s determined to keep her safe from the vampire thugs who want her. His questions are still unanswered, and he considers turning to an evil source for results...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  book  fiction  mystery  steamy
  • In the Doodoo with Voodoo by Steve Higgs

    In the Doodoo with Voodoo by Steve Higgs

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Paranormal investigation takes balls. Amanda will just have to wing it then. What was she thinking? Quitting her steady job in the Police for an uncertain future at a paranormal investigation agency? No time to dwell on it though as she has a new client with a surprising problem – Kimberly Kousins has been cursed by a voodoo priest...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  crime  humor  suspense  urban  mystery  fiction  fantasy
  • The Belial Children by R.D. Brady

    The Belial Children by R.D. Brady

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All children should be safe from harm . . .Someone didn't get the message.___________________________________________________Life has not calmed down for Delaney McPhearson now that she has become the ring bearer. For the last few months, she, Henry Chandler, and Jake Rogan have been finding the camps of the teenage potentials left behind by Amar...
  • The Magpie Key by Sarah Painter

    The Magpie Key by Sarah Painter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Black water, dark skies, a reckoning like no otherA new threat has sailed in on the tide and is haunting the waterways of London.DCI Fleet is struggling to control his gift and can no longer tell reality from illusion.Meanwhile, Uncle Charlie is making trouble from his prison cell, proving how hard it is to keep a Crow caged...
  • The Last Raven by Steve McHugh

    The Last Raven by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucas is a riftborn fighter bent on vengeance in this thrilling urban fantasy/detective noir series from the bestselling author of the Hellequin Chronicles.The peace between the rift and humanity has always been tenuous. It’s up to the Guilds to protect it, removing whomever—or whatever—poses a threat, whether human or rift-fused. Lucas Rurik used to be part of the Raven Guild...
  • Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi

    Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “Quick, clean action, solid character work and pacing. This series is worth your time.” — Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden FilesAnother day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying...
    Categorized as:
    crime  paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • Flash Point by C.L. Schneider

    Flash Point by C.L. Schneider

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Slated for execution, shapeshifting assassin, Dahlia Nite, flees her world to hide in the human realm. As payment for the shelter they unknowingly provide, Dahlia dedicates herself to protecting humans from what truly lives in the shadows. Moving from town to town, she hunts the creatures that threaten an unsuspecting human race; burying the truth that could destroy them all...
  • Blood Bond: 14 by Helen Hardt

    Blood Bond: 14 by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Erin Hamilton follows Dante Gabriel back into hell—the underground compound where he was held for a decade—to confront the woman who held him captive. Finally unmasked, she seems to hold Dante under her influence. Erin has faith in Dante’s strength and determination, though, especially when the mysterious Vampyre Texts reveal their first secret...
    Categorized as:
    humor  paranormal  urban  adult  book  fiction  mystery  steamy
  • In Black We Trust by J.C. Andrijeski

    In Black We Trust by J.C. Andrijeski

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “This strike you as a particularly wise idea, brother?” Manny asked under his breath. “Striking a deal with vampires?”Black gave him a look. “No. But all my other ideas were worse.” * *A coup is underway.That coup threatens the entire United States––possibly the whole of the human race.Psychic detective, Quentin Black, has no idea who’s behind it, what their goal is, or what they want with him...
  • Shadow Land by Adam J. Wright

    Shadow Land by Adam J. Wright

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a child goes missing, his mother asks me to help. After all, she believes he was taken by a monster and that’s my field of expertise. The search leads to the storm drains of Dearmont; not a good place to be when you’ve seen as many horror movies as I have. Turns out the monstrous kidnapper is also responsible for the mysterious disappearance of a patient from a psychiatric hospital nearby...
  • Dead Ground by Adam J. Wright

    Dead Ground by Adam J. Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When my old friend Jim Walker asks me to fly up to Canada and take a look at a strange murder case, it sounds like a good excuse for barbecue and brewskis. But the party gets crashed by a pit-load of demons and things take a turn for the worse. Throw a faerie queen and a couple of ancient vampires into the mix and you’ve got a recipe for disaster...
  • Mind Games by Dan Willis

    Mind Games by Dan Willis

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What do a murderous housewife and a wayward heiress have in common?  If Alex Lockerby is right, someone is manipulating them against their will.  Now all he has to do is unravel a dark tapestry of family, politics, wine, money, love, and murder before the people behind it put an end to him...
  • Feared by Hell by Michael Anderle

    Feared by Hell by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    You never mess with a young girl around James Brownstone. It doesn't matter what crime syndicate you belong to, that just doesn't sit well with him.The world has changed since the news of Oriceran came out twenty years before. Now, countries all over the world have agreed to using a bounty system for dangerous criminals using advanced magic or advanced technology...
  • Odd Interlude #2 by Dean Koontz

    Odd Interlude #2 by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Leading up to the highly anticipated arrival of "Odd Apocalypse "this summer, catch up with Odd Thomas in "Odd Interlude, " a special three-part eBook series by #1 bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz Here is the spine-tingling 72-page second installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure. THERE'S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT...
  • With a Charm on Top: Spellford Cove Mystery, Book 4 by Samantha Silver

    With a Charm on Top: Spellford Cove Mystery, Book 4 by Samantha Silver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to Spellford Cove, where the baking is sweet and the witches are wild.Things are flowing smoothly for Robin in Spellford Cove. She’s got a support network she loves, business is going great - she’s even thinking of hiring another employee - and things with Hunter areheating up both literally and figuratively...
  • Snared by Jennifer Estep

    Snared by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    If you don’t know Gin “the Spider” Blanco, you don’t know dangerous female heroines.Irony 101—The Spider herself snared in someone else’s web… Another week, another few clues trickling in about the Circle, the mysterious group that supposedly runs the city’s underworld...
  • Bitter Bite by Jennifer Estep

    Bitter Bite by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Which is stronger: blood ties or a battle-tested friendship?It’s not easy being queen bee of an underworld abuzz with crooks and killers. Wielding my potent Ice and Stone elemental magic will only get me so far—my real secret is my tight-knit makeshift family, a motley crew of cops and criminals, dwarves and playboys...
  • The Shadow Wing by Sarah Painter

    The Shadow Wing by Sarah Painter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After the explosive events of The Copper Heart, Lydia must deal with a secret service operative with murder in his heart.The mysterious Mr Smith has sent a professional assassin after Lydia and the bonds of blood are stretched to breaking point when it turns out to be someone very close to home...
  • Last Strand by Jennifer Estep

    Last Strand by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Every bloody thread has been leading to this . . .I’ve battled a lot of bad guys in my time, both as Gin Blanco and as the notorious assassin the Spider. But I’ve never faced off against anyone quite as powerful and deadly as the dastardly leader of the Circle secret society...
  • Dragon & Detective by Layla Lawlor

    Dragon & Detective by Layla Lawlor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hard boiled? More like hard luck.It's not easy being a human private detective in a city with dragons, shapeshifters, and fae.James Keeley has a magic gun (that never does what he wants) and a 1920s flapper's ghost haunting the basement of his office, and the first decent case he's had in a long time is a dragon hiring him to solve a locked-room mystery...
    Categorized as:
    investigator  noir  paranormal  urban  adult  book  dragons  fae
  • Tell Me a Secret by Chloe Garner

    Tell Me a Secret by Chloe Garner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tina's old life ended the day she discovered her parents, murdered.Her new life began the day she walked into Tell's office, looking for someone who could do something about it...
  • Between a Witch and a Hard Place by Celia Roman

    Between a Witch and a Hard Place by Celia Roman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Twelve years ago, my mother, a powerful chaos witch, walked out on me and my twin brother without a backward glance. We didn't hear another word out of her until a vampire walked into my brother Nick's bar wanting me to track her down. She'd disappeared into thin air, and he insisted that I was the only one who could find her.Of course, I refused...
  • The Ghost Who Said Goodbye by Scott William Carter

    The Ghost Who Said Goodbye by Scott William Carter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Even the dead can die . . . the second in the riveting series about the private investigator who bridges both sides of the great divide. Charles Manson. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Known for their cunning and savagery. In the late eighties, another infamous serial killer sent seventeen innocent people to early graves...
  • Arcane Magic by Camilla Chafer

    Arcane Magic by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All is well in Stella’s world... For the first time in a very long time she feels safe and secure in the knowledge that she’s put the Brotherhood behind her. However, she’s desperately searching for an answer that will set her ex-boyfriend free from a dangerous pact he agreed to in order to protect her, and ensure the survival of the witches...
  • The Phantom of Barker Mill by Steve Higgs

    The Phantom of Barker Mill by Steve Higgs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tempest Michaels never could refuse a woman in distress. The owner of Barker Steel Mill has died. The coroner says natural causes, but the tearful widow is convinced otherwise and the Mill has a Phantom that has been held responsible for accidents and deaths dating back to 1912...
  • Magical Probi by T.S. Paul

    Magical Probi by T.S. Paul

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Probitionary FBI Agent Agatha Blackmore has just finished three grueling years at the FBI Academy at Quantico. She mastered every skill and task they laid before her. She now begins an Internship of sorts working for the Magical Crimes Division. Assassination, Murder, and Betrayal await her...
    Categorized as:
    crime  humor  paranormal  suspense  urban  adult  book  dragons
  • Cold Company by A.J. Aalto

    Cold Company by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Before she vanished, few people knew what paralyzing fear Rachel Houseton battled every single day...
    Categorized as:
    crime  humor  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  mystery  supernatural
  • The Corpse Whisperer by H.R. Boldwood

    The Corpse Whisperer by H.R. Boldwood

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the world of Allie Nighthawk, corpse whisperer and bad ass zombie hunter. “If you raise deadheads, you’d better be able to put ‘em down. Nobody said it was pretty. But in this day, when vampires aren’t just for breakfast anymore, and the dead are disposable pawns for necromancers, someone has to ante up. Looks like I won the lotto. Imagine my delight...
  • Dark Magic by Adam J. Wright

    Dark Magic by Adam J. Wright

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Zombies on Main Street. Not my finest moment. The police aren’t exactly thrilled with me, but when a cold case heats up and starts to stink of the supernatural, suddenly the sheriff is in my office offering me a job. When the case hits boiling point, I’m dealing with monsters, black magic, and ritual killings. I even have to call on the two craziest witches in town for help...
  • The Belial Recruit by R.D. Brady

    The Belial Recruit by R.D. Brady

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lou thought she had lost everything important to her.She didn't realize there was one thing left for her to lose. . .Her life.Life has not been easy for fifteen-year old Lou Thomas. In the last few years, her once happy family has been whittled down to just herself and her unreliable older sister Charlotte. It's been a daily struggle to make it through.And it's about to get worse...
  • Gilded Latten Bones by Glen Cook

    Gilded Latten Bones by Glen Cook

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For Garrett, P.I., loyalty and love come a close second to survival... Garrett's attempt at domestic bliss with the fiery Tinnie Tate is sidetracked when he waylays a pair of home intruders and learns they've been paid by an unknown source to kidnap Tinnie. But as Garrett rushes to find out who is trying to push his buttons, his best friend is attacked...
A Talon's Wrath by Steve McHugh
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