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  • Magical Midlife Meeting by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Meeting by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It's time for a magical battle Jessie isn't sure she's prepared for. Elliot Graves has been a thorn in Jessie's side since before she agreed to take the house magic. He has constantly brought the fight to her doorstep.Not this time.With the help of Austin's shifters, the Ivy house crew will meet Elliot Graves in one of the most dangerous places imaginable - his home turf...
  • Midlife Ghost Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Midlife Ghost Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    If you thought being over forty meant the end of adventures, then you're in for a shock as Bree, and her ragtag bunch take you on a side-splitting rollercoaster ride!Stuck with Alan's ghost following her around, Bree is in hot water now with no easy way out as she's been framed for his murder and plunked in the local pokey...
  • Magical Midlife Love by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Love by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The fourth book in the Wall Street Journal bestselling Leveling Up series.The Ivy House team is shaping up, but there are still holes to be filled, and a magical summons outstanding. Jessie needs a teacher. Someone who can fit in with the whacky Ivy House crew. And that was going just fine...until she gets a request to host a powerful, neighboring mage. A teacher isn't going to be enough...
  • Compelling Infinity by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Compelling Infinity by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was a dragon. Dragons didn’t run from any situation. Not even a dragon disguised as a witch. Well … at least not from any situation that involved the archive or my duty, because apparently I fled before anything even remotely personal. Including surprise double dates.A masked gala. A solstice celebration with the werewolves...
  • Resurgence of the Pack by Heather G. Harris

    Resurgence of the Pack by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Queen of Werewolves Never Bows—She Hunts. Being Queen of the British Werewolves means I’m not one to back down, especially when my friend Emory is facing trial on spurious charges. I stormed in, certain that my impassioned speech would help save the king of the dragon shifters – but darker forces prevailed.The Domini, a sinister secret society, is pulling strings from the darkness...
  • Midlife Zombie Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Midlife Zombie Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Good rule of thumb: Don't pick a fight with Bree O'Rylee. She might be over forty and run with a limp, but that doesn't mean she won't track you down and drive the tip of her boot right up your . . .Bree was hoping for a few days off from dealing with monsters, bad guys, or general weirdness that doesn’t fit into a human box of what is supposed to be real...
  • Only the Devout by Amanda M. Lee

    Only the Devout by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Izzy Sage should be on top of the world but the revenant threat has her watching her back. Things only get worse when an oddball cult looking for a door to another world show up on Belle Isle and start circling the parking lot while demanding entrance to the other side...
  • Lost Talismans and a Tequila by Annette Marie

    Lost Talismans and a Tequila by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    You know that squirmy sensation in your gut when you have no idea what you're doing and you're about to screw everything up?Yeah, that feeling.I thought I was a good judge of character, but recent events proved me very wrong. Now, in a brilliant demonstration of my newfound caution, I'm putting all my faith in a demon—a demon who's tried to kill me before...
  • Damned Souls and a Sangria by Annette Marie

    Damned Souls and a Sangria by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Once upon a time, I was your average spunky redhead with the lamest employment history ever, a shaky relationship with my only family member, and no idea what I was doing with my life.Now, I'm a pseudo mythic with the best bartending job in the world, the most amazing (and hot) best friends I never knew I needed, and a guild of misfit magic-users who've become my extended family...
  • Liam by Shannon Mayer

    Liam by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    My name is Liam, and I was an FBI agent, until I stepped into the world of Rylee Adamson. Now, I’m a Guardian, a wolf shifter whose very design is to protect those around him at any cost. The battle against Orion is done, the demons banished. In their wake, there are so many innocents who have lost their lives, their families, and their way.Three of them our now ours to raise—the ogre triplets...
  • Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All Ben Vecchio wanted was a quiet summer before his last semester of university. Was that too much to ask? All Tenzin wanted was a cache of priceless medieval coins that had been missing for several hundred years. And some company. Phrases like “never again” don’t mean much when you’ve been a vampire for several thousand years...
  • Trolled by Lindsay Buroker

    Trolled by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Busy looking for her missing mother and dodging enemies that are after her magical hammer, Matti Puletasi doesn’t need any more problems. She definitely doesn’t need the person who hired an assassin to kill her mother to show up—and target her.As if that wasn’t bad enough, the handsome elven ally she’s falling in love with… may be working for the other side...
  • Two Witches and a Whiskey by Annette Marie

    Two Witches and a Whiskey by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Three months ago, I landed a job as a bartender. But not at a bar—at a guild. Yeah, the magic kind. I'm not a badass mage like my three smokin' hot best friends. I'm not a sorcerer or an alchemist, or even a wussy witch. I'm just a human, slinging drinks like a pro and keeping my non-magical nose out of mythic business. Seriously, I know my limits...
  • Rylee by Shannon Mayer

    Rylee by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    My name is Rylee and I was a Tracker.The final battle is over and The Blood of the Lost was spilled. In the aftermath, the humans still have mysteries they call upon me for. Except I can no longer Track, and my new abilities terrify me. A salvage is offered to me, and with it a chance to redeem myself. A missing girl, her brother desperate to find her...
  • How to Live an Undead Lie by Hailey Edwards

    How to Live an Undead Lie by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When a fledgling vampire arrives at Woolworth House searching for his maker, Grier is forced to relive her time in Atramentous. Most of those years are as dark and empty in her memory as she was in her cell. She can't remember her progeny, or the night she resuscitated him, but she can protect him from the Society. As long as she's willing to barter with her grandfather to do it...
  • Nicole by Teresa Gabelman, Jeffrey Kafer

    Nicole by Teresa Gabelman, Jeffrey Kafer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Listening length: 4 hours, 22 minutesNicole Callahan, mate to fierce and brooding VC Warrior Damon DeMasters, has been trying to find her place in his world. Without a doubt, it’s been interesting, but she believes there’s a lot more she can offer the children she spent so much of her human life fighting for...
  • American Demon by Kim Harrison

    American Demon by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Rachel Morgan is back--and The Hollows will never be the same.What happens after you've saved the world? Well, if you're Rachel Mariana Morgan, witch-born demon, you quickly discover that something might have gone just a little bit wrong. That the very same acts you and your friends took to forge new powers may have released something bound by the old...
  • Magical Midlife Dating by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Dating by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The decision has been made. Jessie has taken the magic, and all the weird that goes with it. Including wings.There's only one problem - she can't figure out how to access them.Through a series of terrible decisions, Jessie realizes she must ask for help. Gargoyle help.But she could've never predicted who answers her call - he's an excellent flier, incredibly patient, and a good trainer...
  • Magical Midlife Invasion by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Invasion by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Jessie is well on her way to learning her new life and settling in. The tough alpha, Austin, has joined her team, and she has painstakingly learned to fly. At the moment, life couldn’t get any better.But it can get a whole lot…more irritating.Her parents have decided to visit...
  • Druid Vices and a Vodka by Annette Marie

    Druid Vices and a Vodka by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    I've said it before, but sometimes I'm a bad person. I cheated on my twelfth grade math final, I've run countless yellow lights, and I gossip about how hot my kickass best friends are. (Good thing my job as a guild bartender doesn't require moral perfection.)But there's bad, and then there's bad. And I'm not sure which applies to a certain dark druid/wanted criminal/reluctant friend of mine...
  • My Warrior by Alanea Alder

    My Warrior by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ari Lionhart is the youngest warrior in Èire Danu, yet despite his lack of years, he is trusted by the queen’s consort Brennus to act as the unit leader for every unit in the fae city. He works hard at balancing his life between being a unit warrior and being a Lionhart, and secretly fears he is failing at both...
  • Stealing Summer by Lexi Blake

    Stealing Summer by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lexi Blake comes a new epic-length story in her Thieves/Hunter world…A daughter lostSummer has spent her whole life wondering about the family she left behind. On the night she came into being she only had a few moments with them. In that brief time, she reached out to her father, looking deep into his soul, and gifted him the will to go on...
  • Hex of the Witch by Heather G. Harris

    Hex of the Witch by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s not paranoia when they are really out to get you…I’m Amber, potion and rune mistress and all round witch extraordinaire. I’ve spent half my life building my career and I finally feel like greatness is within my grasp. I’ve been working on a special potion, a potion that could change everything for witches and wizards everywhere...
  • Bedtime Fury by Annabel Chase

    Bedtime Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight There's been a discovery of demons.Again.The appearance of a strange plant on the Taskers' farm sends Neville and I straight to the Federal Bureau of Magic database, where we discover that deadly demons are snatching bodies all over town...
  • Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When I first landed a bartending job at the local guild, I didn't know a thing about magic. These days, I'm practically an expert on the different magical classes, but there's one nobody ever talks about: Demonica. Turns out they have a good reason for that...
  • Sleeper by Lexi Blake

    Sleeper by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Neil’s past catches up to him, Kelsey must choose between her new family and an old love…With tensions rising between the Council and demonkind, Kelsey finds herself investigating a series of murders that threaten the fragile truce between them. If she can’t stop these killings soon, they could ignite a fire sure to burn the supernatural world down...
  • Tainted Blood by K.N. Banet

    Tainted Blood by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m Everly Abbott, and I work for one of the most dangerous vampires in the world.He’s known as Alexius, the Hunter and he’s also one of the oldest.We’ve been invited to a gathering of ancients like him, and we can’t pass on this opportunity...
  • Family and Honor by K.N. Banet, Kristen Banet

    Family and Honor by K.N. Banet, Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Jacky Leon got away with it. She defended a little human girl, made a few unlikely acquaintances, and survived to tell the tale. Now she’s the only werecat in the supernatural community who can say a small family of werewolves lives in her borders. That isn’t a good thing, though...
  • Broken Loyalty by K.N. Banet, Kristen Banet

    Broken Loyalty by K.N. Banet, Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Jacky Leon is a member of the strongest werecat family alive; a family that commands the loyalty of every werecat that walks the face of the earth. Her family is the definition of power and none have dared challenge that for millennia. It’s not a legacy she’s comfortable with but it’s the one she’s been given and Jacky is resolved to do her best with her new responsibilities...
  • Ravenheart by Dannika Dark

    Ravenheart by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “WE ALL HAVE SECRETS, RAVEN. DARK ONES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.” Two weeks after joining Keystone, Raven Black is ready to take on the world as a criminal hunter for hire. If only her partner wasn’t a bloodsucking Vampire with a penchant for getting under her skin. Despite her lavish surroundings, Raven misses the freedom of life without rules...
  • Shades of Hate by K.N. Banet

    Shades of Hate by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I live a happy life. I have a lover that I am quickly falling for. I have friends and family that rely on me to keep my territory safe and secure for them. My bar’s business is booming.But I’ve made enemies, some that I know and some that I don’t. Hate for me and the life I’m building is creeping in the darkness.Hate can be insidious...
  • Addict by Lexi Blake

    Addict by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In order to destroy a legendary monster and save the royal family, Kelsey must make a deal with a devil…When Kelsey Owens returns home to Dallas, she is a changed woman. After months of training with Marcus Vorenus , she has more control over her abilities. She’s ready to start her new job, even if it means dealing with the King of All Vampire and his partner, Devinshea Quinn...
  • How to Break an Undead Heart by Hailey Edwards

    How to Break an Undead Heart by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Grier finally has the one thing she’s always wanted: Boaz Pritchard. Too bad her dream boyfriend is keeping her up nights, just not in a sweaty or fun way. Boaz has dialed down the Southern charm and stopped returning her calls. His job forces him to keep secrets, but his radio silence is cranking up her suspicions...
  • Elven Doom by Lindsay Buroker

    Elven Doom by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Dragons make life complicated. Extremely complicated.After returning from Idaho, I was hoping to have time to figure things out with Zav—also known as Lord Zavryd, the dragon who claimed me as his mate without asking—but the dark elves are up to their old tricks again.Actually, they’re up to far more deadly tricks, using more powerful magic than I knew existed...
  • Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie

    Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    When I found myself facing down the scariest black-magic felon in the city, practically daring him to abduct me, I had to wonder exactly how I ended up here.It all started when I accidentally landed a job as a bartender--but not at a bar. At a guild, populated by mages, sorcerers, alchemists, witches, and psychics...
  • Lucky Charm by Annabel Chase

    Lucky Charm by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. New witch Emma Hart is at her wit’s end and, this time, it’s not the result of her vampire ghost roommate, her snarky owl, or her feelings for a certain fallen angel. Key members of Spellbound society are acting like children and it’s wreaking havoc on the town’s regulation-happy infrastructure...
  • How to Wake an Undead City by Hailey Edwards

    How to Wake an Undead City by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Savannah has fallen to the vampires, and it’s up to Grier to take out their leader, Gaspard Lacroix, and restore peace. Lacroix might be more powerful and immune to her magic, but she’s got a plan. Too bad it’s got holes big enough for a new threat to waltz through while the city is on her knees...
  • Magic Redeemed by K.M. Shea

    Magic Redeemed by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    I thought life would be easier after I unsealed my magic. Spoiler: it’s not. I want to free my family from my traitorous cousin, but with all the allies he’s got guarding his back, even my new powers won’t be enough to beat him. My best bet is to use my parents’ signet ring to prove my claim of leadership...
  • Change of Heart by Hailey Edwards

    Change of Heart by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When a lethal drug targeting paranormal citizens is unleashed on the streets of Atlanta, Hadley hits the clubs to pin down the dealer. The party is just getting started when a mysterious fae with his own agenda offers her a taste of power she can’t refuse if she wants to purge the evil from her city...
  • The Alchemist and an Amaretto by Annette Marie

    The Alchemist and an Amaretto by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    As a guild bartender, I can handle pretty much anything—mages, sorcerers, witches, the occasional demon. But show me anything family-related and I'd rather run for the hills. It doesn't even have to be my family.So I have no idea why I thought spending the holidays with Aaron's mom and pop was a good idea.Meeting his famous parents is already terrifying enough, but I've got a bigger problem...
  • Raised in Fire by K.F. Breene

    Raised in Fire by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    It is a common truth in my life that when it rains, it pours. The killings that once plagued New Orleans are cropping up again in Seattle. The local office is stumped. I’m called out to lend a fresh set of eyes, and my unique magical touch.It’s only when I get there that I realize the Seattle office isn’t stumped at all...
  • Wrath and Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Wrath and Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marnie Baranuik is confident that her new psychic detective agency will be a great success, and she has eight million business cards to prove it. But before the paint even dries on her open for business sign, she’s summoned to face the Demon King Asmodeus in His own playground, the revenant court, home of the undead nobility, to participate in a conclave of the most powerful immortals on Earth...
  • Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Okay. I’ll admit I’ve got problems. But surrender is word wholly absent from my vocabulary.My grasp on magic is shaky at best and my dependence on spider’s silk is a battle I’m still fighting. But while my heritage and my health might be problematic, I’m certainly not going to roll over and give up.Not me. Not ever...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  vampires  fae  urban  slow-burn  humor  romance
  • Collards & Cauldrons by Bella Falls

    Collards & Cauldrons by Bella Falls

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Magic and mystery are only part of the Southern Charms of Honeysuckle Hollow… Charli Goodwin’s leaving Honeysuckle Hollow again…but only temporarily. Led by her grandmother, she and other ladies from their small Southern supernatural town are headed to Charleston for a special witch convention...
  • Deadly Vows by Keri Arthur

    Deadly Vows by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Evil comes in all forms… and sometimes it wears a human mask. When the body of a newlywed is discovered on the reservation, Lizzie Grace throws herself into the investigation, needing a distraction from what she fears is coming not only for her but also Belle—her best friend and witch familiar...
  • Pack of Lies by Hailey Edwards

    Pack of Lies by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hadley is losing time, and her shadow refuses to shed light on the gaps in her memory. How can she protect her city if she can't remember where she goes or what she does when she ought to be asleep? Her grim history appears to be stuck on repeat, and the only way forward might be a scythe through her back...
  • Natural Witch by K.F. Breene

    Natural Witch by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The explosive new addition to the DDVN World (Fire and Ice Series) by USA Today Bestselling author K.F. Breene! Something has always been missing from my life. A hole that I could never seem to fill. When I accidentally turn a coven of witches into nightmares, I find out what that something is. Magic...
  • A Step into the Dark by Donna Augustine

    A Step into the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ollie Wit is the strongest Shadow Walker born in decades but it’s a gift with a steep price. Walking in the Shadowlands can bring untold powers and spells, and even greater risks. Every step into that other world brings her closer to the monsters that have haunted her since a child, destroyed her family and wreaked havoc all around her...
  • Better than Hex by Annabel Chase

    Better than Hex by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. Struggling to make sense of recent changes in her life, witch-in-training Emma Hart decides to pursue therapy as well as a budding friendship with Markos, the town's most eligible minotaur and a talented architect...
    Categorized as:
    animals  fae  humor  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban  vampires
  • Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some people find power in the light. Others are meant to walk in the dark. Ollie Wit left it all behind: a new home, friends who saw her as something more than a fragile shadow walker and a budding relationship with Kane. She did it all in an effort to shield Asher, who should’ve never been able to escape the Shadowlands...
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