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Rebel Magic by Kim Richardson
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy Aunt Beverly is getting married.I should be happy for her. Right? But I’m not. Because I know this Derrick character is bad news. Call it my witchy instincts, but I’m convinced something is seriously off with the guy. So how do I prove it to my aunt?The pressure is on as I only have four days to figure it out before the wedding—yes, four days until Beverly says, “I do,” to that slimy bastard... -
Walking The Razor by Orlando A. Sanchez
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe brightest light casts the darkest shadow.Would you kill to save a life?In order to save those closest to him, Tristan has stepped closer to darkness.In order to save Tristan, Simon must do the impossible.When Monty uses blood magic, he enters a schism—which puts him, and everyone close to him, in mortal danger... -
Druid Arcane by M.D. Massey
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen his ancient druid master falls critically ill, Colin goes on a plane-walking quest to find a cure. Can the journeyman druid rescue the god of healing in time to save his oldest friend?I thought that learning magic from a druid master was tough, but that was before I started taking lessons from an insane quasi-god... -
Witching Whispers by Kim Richardson
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGet ready for this laugh out loud adventure and find out what's brewing next with the Davenport witches!Don't miss the next book in The Witches of Hollow Cove series. If you like fast-paced urban fantasy adventure with a kick-butt heroine and plenty of action, suspense, and humor, you’ll love Witching Whispers... -
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Broken Magic by Orlando A. Sanchez
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnergy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.Tristan Montague has had his ability to cast magic broken.When his confrontation with Edith and Verity leave him unable to access his magic, he must seek out another technique to regain his access.He must learn the Restoring Palm... -
A Rylee Adamson Omnibus, #1-3 by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis omnibus edition contains the first three Rylee Adamson novels; Priceless, Immune and Raising Innocence. PRICELESS (#1) “My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker.”When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I’m the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. I’m on the FBI’s wanted list... -
Tangled Echoes by Meghan Ciana Doidge
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI never got involved in the dirt and the details of an investigation. I never let my preconceptions muddy a reconstruction. And I steadfastly refrained from ever allowing my past to dictate my future.At least until the one person I couldn’t lose went missing... -
Dating with a Vengeance Demon by Lauretta Hignett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA mysterious supernatural assassin is loose in D.C. – a man made of marble, hell-bent on murdering the most popular senator the country has seen in years... -
Out of House and Home by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith his wedding behind him, Fred is looking forward to nightly life finally settling down. Unfortunately, someone from his past has other, far less peaceful, plans in mind. Finding his clan under attack, Fred must scramble to discover who is working against him and how to fight back... -
A Shaman's Power by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe focus of my life as an urban druid is to stand as a guardian of nature. The focus of my life as Fiona Cumhaill to stand as a guardian of my family.Seriously. Don’t screw with my family.It’s a no-brainer, drop everything, and take up the fight topic for me—If you need me, I will come... -
Mystic Madness by Kim Richardson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll I wanted to do was sit back and relax with a certain, hot, very, very hot, panty-melting hot—wereape. But, instead, I’m busy trying to find the queen of hell.Have I found her? Not yet. And I’m running out of places to look. I know it’s only a matter of time before she does something stupid—like obliterate an entire town because they dressed better than her because that’s who she is... -
Fate Unbound by Riley Storm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat am I?The question gnaws at my insides, keeping me up at night. I was never human, not with shifter blood running through my veins. But now I know I’m more than that. I’ve touched magic. Some say I’m a goddess reborn, and that scares me almost as much as not knowing. I don’t want to be that. I want to be me. I want to forge my own destiny, not be forced into one... -
Forever Forty by Tia Didmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA witch. A vampire. An immortal mistake.As a witch, I have a healthy dislike for the undead. While they can turn a human, their venom kills those of us with power. At least that was true until I was attacked by a rogue and transitioned into a vampire.Now the entire supernatural community wants answers, including the vampire overseer who had a surprising reaction to my unnatural rebirth... -
Druid Mystic by M.D. Massey
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsColin McCool has outwitted necromancers, sorcerers, fae assassins, and evil demigods… but can this journeyman druid survive a face-to-face fight with a god? It’s me again—your friendly neighborhood druid, pissing people off everywhere I go in the supernatural world.After killing a psychotic demigod, I just wanted to retreat to my beloved junkyard in peace... -
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Between Frames by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwo fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble.Which is exactly what we’ve got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae.Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart—tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don’t like it when they’re the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners.Owners, you ask?Hi. I’m Pet... -
The Gravedigger’s Son: A Charley Davidson Novella by Darynda Jones
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe 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... -
Magical Mojo by Kim Richardson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHollow Cove was never a dangerous city. Weird and eccentric, maybe. But not dangerous. Until now.A new magic threatens our paranormal community and competes for dominance. Something awakens in the night, and it’s a real stinker. Not kidding.I’m a Merlin now, and my plan is simple: get in, protect my family and friends, and defeat this new evil. But it’s never that simple... -
This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVampires 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... -
Idols and Enemies by Meghan Ciana Doidge
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI knew that opening the letter from the sorcerer Azar would have deadly consequences.So we had prepared.We’d planned.We knew we might have to defend ourselves, our freedom. And that I might finally get a chance to exact the revenge I kept telling myself I wasn’t interested in exacting... -
Boundary Broken by Melissa F. Olson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsYears ago, boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther made a promise to an alpha werewolf. Now, just when the supernatural community in Colorado is enjoying a period of hard-won peace, the alpha turns up at Lex’s door to call in his marker. Two of his pack members have disappeared in the Colorado sand dunes, and he needs safe passage to hunt for them... -
Last Impressions by A.J. Aalto
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen an FBI Internal Affairs investigation lands the Preternatural Crimes Unit in a bureaucratic spank-fest, it feels like the perfect time for Marnie Baranuik to skip town and lend her expertise to a bear-sized Canadian cop who doesn’t want her help with his case, his love life, or his car stereo... -
San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real... -
Divine Hunter by C.N. Crawford
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll’s fair in love and magic. Rosalind is preparing for all-out war with Drew, who wields gods-magic with terrifying skill. But now Rosalind is learning to harness gods-magic, too. When she next encounters her cousin, she wants to destroy him completely. Unfortunately for her, Drew launches a surprise attack on the vampire city... -
Owed A Night by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeeping her nephew safe is her focus, and she applies to an orc clan for protection. The price is set at one night.Jennel is looking to settle down, and Redbird City is the place for it. She and her nephew, Corit, are looking for a place they can be safe from hostile orc clans and a decades-old vision... -
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Secrets and Shadows by Mila Young, Kim Faulks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere’s nothing like a witch storm to unearth a century of dark secrets...and there’s nothing like a best friend with a flaming sword at your back to end them once and for all… The curse which infected those I love is over...and the woman in black is now gone. But Bestias Academy has changed since the Witch storm. Secrets have resurfaced and shadows consume the dorms... -
Tithes by Claire Farrell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAva’s been trying to help her past and her future co-exist, but when it all goes wrong, she’s barely able to take a breath when the next drama begins, and she begins to wonder about her string of bad luck... -
Better the Demon You Know by Deborah Wilde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvil has a scent: lemon.It was supposed to be a routine drug bust. Arrest some magic jerks and move on, but then a fellow operative is murdered, and Aviva is thrust into a perilous black ops mission to disprove corruption charges... -
Vampire Bound: Book Two by R.A. Steffan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy son just vanished into thin air… from a commercial jet cruising at 30,000 feet. The forces that took him aren't of this world.I've barely recovered from the revelations that my boss is a vampire and magic is real. Now my child has been kidnapped by Fae who want to rule humanity, and I've acquired powers I can't control... -
Imp Series Box Set, Books 1-3 by Debra Dunbar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA DEMON BOUND*Samantha Martin is an imp, enjoying an extended vacation from Hel. All she wants to do is drink beer by the pool, play mischievous pranks on the humans, and get her hot neighbor in the sack. It’s a relaxing break from her infernal home as long as she manages to avoid the angels, who won’t hesitate to execute her on sight... -
Witch Trial by Glenn Bullion
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvery witch has his day. Kevin Mishnar is a rare being, even among his own kind. Being a full-blooded witch, he's been hunted by humans and even the supernatural world. With powerful magic, and some help, he's survived every threat. He has a good job, a wonderful sister, an amazing girlfriend, and great friends. He couldn't ask for anything more... -
Game of Witches by Kim Richardson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAfter dealing with Rifts and demons, I thought I’d get a few days off. But I was wrong. Guests avoid The Twilight Hotel like the plague after the teeny-weeny demon invasion. To keep the hotel from financial ruin, management decides to host a Casino Week to get things going again. Sounds great. There’s just one problem. People in our paranormal community turn up dead... -
Family Ties (Crossroads Chronicles, # 1) by B.R. Kingsolver
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a man came into my shop in the Great Marketplace at the Crossroads of the Worlds and tried to kill me, it completely ruined my day. Not only did I have to clean up the blood, but disposing of his body made me late to meet my friends for drinks. A nagging little detail kept bugging me, though. As he died, he said he was hired by my mother’s family—people I hadn’t seen for more than a decade... -
Dirt Nap by A.J. Aalto
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJail probably would have been a better place to spend a Thursday afternoon, but when a preternatural expert is needed, there's no one else who can fill Marnie Baranuik's Keds. Beset by a rampaging stone monster and a furious quarry owner, trapped between a rock and a hard-ass, Marnie faces her biggest challenge yet, and discovers once and for all if size really does matter... -
Drake of Tanith by Heather Killough-Walden
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEons ago, the darkly handsome and infamous bounty hunter Drake of Tanith turned his back on his diabolical heritage in favor of freedom from the infernal influences of his kind. But now his indomitable father has delivered the worst kind of ultimatum: He must give up his soul and return to the life he left behind – or he must give up his love... -
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Dirty Deeds: An Urban Fantasy Collection by Faith Hunter, Diana Pharaoh Francis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen the going gets tough, the tough get their hands dirty. Join NY Times Bestselling author Faith Hunter, USA Today Bestselling author R.J. Blain, and National Bestselling authors Diana Pharaoh Francis and Devon Monk on a wild romp where the damsels bring the distress and what can go wrong will go wrong... -
The Defiant Magician by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsKnowing the truth can be deadly. When the Council suddenly starts assigning Liv Beaufont dangerous cases, she’s automatically suspicious. Do they want her dead? However, she isn’t deterred when they assign her a case that no one would dare to go near. Even though Clark is worried for her, she won’t back down. Liv is determined to prove that she’s a capable and strong Warrior... -
Midnight's Emissary by T.A. White
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAileen has a few rules for her life. Do her job and go home safe. Keep the supernatural world away from her human family. Stay off the vampire radar. And, above all, don’t get involved in spook politics... -
Nightmare by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then, he’s saved his own soul from the devil...but now he is haunted by Sophie’s cries for help... -
Misfit Fortune by Stephanie Foxe
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s the brightest light that casts the deepest shadows… Magic, blood, and politics hide an enemy the pack never saw coming. One with more power than anyone understands. Enemies are closing in on all sides, but they’re nothing more than a distraction to hide the real threat. It isn’t just the pack at risk –– not anymore. Magic itself is being threatened... -
Outwit by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSome secrets are best left buried… I'm a Third Year now at Spellslingers Academy of Magic and my professors worry that I'm not meeting my full potential--that I'm holding back--so I know I've got to prove myself. I'll do anything to keep my place as an Enforcer of the East. It's important that I go as far away as possible, not that I can ever admit the reason why... -
Death Rejoices by A.J. Aalto
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMarnie Baranuik is back, and this time, the Great White Shark of psychic investigations has “people skills” and a new assistant who seems to harbor an unhealthy curiosity about Harry, her revenant companion. Together, they've got a whole lot of questions that need answering... -
Dead Certain by P.S. Power
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDead Certain The world’s most intrepid vampire is tossed from the frying pan into the crucible in this stunning conclusion to the Trilogy. Eve, working her day, and night, job is given a new task by the Vampire Council. If she can survive it, her fortune will be secured. If not, she’ll end up dead for the final time... -
Dead and Everything by P.S. Power
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDead and Everything Eve Benson, the world’s hardest working baby vampire isn’t going to be left to the normal course of things. As a new member of the undead she should be in for years of beatings, starvation, and possibly some other things that her parents wouldn’t be happy to hear about. Thanks to the training she put herself through though, Eve is a different kind of Vamp... -
Demon Marked by Samantha Britt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say keep your friends close and your enemies closer… but my enemies might be a little too close for comfort.My first semester at Shadowguard Academy has not gone how I expected... -
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There'll be Hell to Pay by Sharon Hannaford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHIS TIME IT’S PERSONALJust a few months ago Gabi thought her life was damn near perfect. She could never have imagined that meeting one man would spark a chain of events that would change everything. The only resemblance to her previous life is her relentless hunt for supernatural criminals... -
Blood Bound by M.D. Massey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA thieving slenderman… a dark wizard on a quest to save his favorite comic book store… and a zombie corgi with an axe to grind... Meet all these characters and more in the latest Junkyard Druid urban fantasy short story collection!Best-selling urban fantasy and paranormal suspense author M.D... -
Grim Fate by Izzy Shows
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHell hath no fury like a Wizard wronged The Order has come for me. I am to be weighed, judged, and found wanting by a group of Wizards that want my head more than they want the truth. They don’t know that on my wrist is a mark branding me the possession of a demon.If they find out? I’m dead the moment I walk in the door... -
Stolen Trinket by Alex Steele
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVampires don’t rob banks. Werewolves don’t bust into jewelry stores. And Detective Logan Blackwell doesn’t work with a partner.Too bad all three of those things happened in one day. Supernaturals are getting possessed, wreaking havoc, then turning up dead. Blackwell has been tasked with finding out who is responsible and stopping them before they kill again... -
Hemorrhage by S.A. Magnusson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnly my combination of magic and medicine can save me. No longer afraid of my magic, I’ve begun experimenting with how to use it when working in the ER. While on a surgery rotation, my use of magic reveals a dangerous new threat and a type of magic I had not known about before, making me a target... -
The Children of the Sun by Christopher Buecheler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's been two and a half years since the American council defeated the Burilgi rebel Aros Kreskas and restored order to their world. With the Children of the Sun, the militaristic cult of vampire hunters, in a period of apparent dormancy, the vampires of North America have enjoyed a time of relative peace...
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