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  • The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some well-earned rest.So naturally they break into the Fittes Mausoleum, on a perilous mission to discover the truth about London's top ghost-hunting agency, and its sinister leader.What they discover will change everything.But there's little time to ponder...
  • The Frozen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Frozen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    My magic runs ice cold.I am Judgement.I’ve gone from human to witch…to now Coven member. It’s amazing, awesome, and entirely overwhelming. I’m scared out of my mind right now. I shouldn’t be, I know that. I finally have real magic. I have elemental magic. I have ice at my fingertips and its the deadliest weapon I’ve ever seen.But now I can’t run from Joseph...
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  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The truth is out there... The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • The Eternal Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Eternal Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    All is fair in war and magic.I’m the Aether Witch. I have power no other witch has had in thousands of years.But even I can’t do this job alone. Salem’s Prophecy says the fate of the world lies on mine and my twin’s hands. Despite our Coven-mates thriving power and Heavenly intentions...In the end, the decision is ours. And ours alone...
  • Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 60 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...
  • Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When someone tries to threaten me by telling me they know my name, I take that personally.G’day. I’m not really a pet anymore, but you might as well keep calling me Pet. It’s not like I’m gunna tell you my name anyway. And if I sound stroppy, well, I am. First, I was threatened. Now, someone has cut off my house from the human world and left my emotional support vampire on the human side...
  • The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

    The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    Chloe Saunders is on the runand raising hell. Literally. Chloe Saunders is not your average supernatural teenager. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister team of scientists, she can barely control her terrifying powers. Now the team that created her has decided it's time to end the experiment. Permanently...
  • Between Kings by W.R. Gingell

    Between Kings by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    G’day. I’m Pet. Heirling. Biter of fae lords. Trouble.I have a lot of names these days—including my own, real name. Unfortunately for me, someone else knows that name too; not to mention the names of my other heirling friends. Now those heirling friends have disappeared, stolen by the current King Behind for a fight to the death where only one contender to the throne remains...
  • The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...
  • The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

    The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them...
  • The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 81 ratings
    Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way...
  • Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    My parents were brutally murdered when I was five years old. Their killer has spent the last twenty five years in prison for his terrible crimes - but I still have unanswered questions. After all, I am the phoenix. When I die, I am reborn in fire and brimstone. It happens again and again and again. I have no idea where my strange ability came from and nobody to ask...
  • The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Desperate times, desperate magic. I finally have the Book of Shadows. The pages call to me, begging me to devour their hidden power. There are more than just spells inside, and there are things only the High Priestess can see. And Now I know everything I wasn’t supposed to.My Coven likes to keep secrets...well they’re about to get a taste of their own medicine...
  • The Rebel Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Rebel Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I’m finally in control of my magic…and it’s much stronger than my Coven realizes.That’s not the only secret I’m keeping. I made a deal with a fairy: her secrets for some of mine. Except I have no idea how to deliver on my oath and crossing the Fae is suicidal. Tennessee knows I’m up to something, but not even my soulmate can help me now, especially when being together is against the law...
  • Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by Annette Marie

    Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 86 ratings
    I'm bound to a demon. For my entire life, I avoided magic at all costs. Now, I'm responsible for a demon who wields magic more powerful than the toughest mage or sorcerer. Demons are evil. That's what my textbooks say. That's what I see. He's ruthless, he's temperamental, he's cold. But he protects me without fail. I wonder if he's hiding a heart behind his hostility. My demon is a monster...
  • On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there’s nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You’ve done this before.But what happens when you no longer feel like yourself anymore? When fires spontaneously start-up around you, when you hear growling coming from underneath your bed, and you no longer recognize your face in the mirror...
  • Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Perry Palomino has fought her demons – and won – but the battle is far from over. She’s now left broken and on her own, leaving behind her life and family in Portland to focus on giving Dex Foray – and the Experiment in Terror show – a second chance. But their past mistakes continue to tease and test their relationship, as does the wild and desolate terrain of the Canadian Rockies...
  • The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 115 ratings
    The second installment in the all-new series from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life...
  • The Brave Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Brave Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Be careful what you wish for…because magic comes with a price.I’m a witch. All of my dreams finally came true. But now, so are my nightmares.There’s a new monster in town and no one knows how to kill it or where it came from. It lurks in the shadows, preying on our every move. For some reason, it seems to be targeting me.I desperately need Tennessee’s help. Only he is strong enough to train me...
  • The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

    The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic.Everyone has secrets. Mags’s has teeth.Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl who has a boyfriend...
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    mystery  horror  new adult  magic  demons  fantasy  young adult  queer
  • The One and Only Crystal Druid by Annette Marie

    The One and Only Crystal Druid by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 42 ratings
    Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia.I forgot everything about that boy, and now I'm out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile...
  • The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow by Annette Marie

    The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    I'm learning to embrace who and what I am, but there's one thing I can't face: the night Zak betrayed me. But even with the mysteries of our shared past hanging between us, I can't turn Zak away when he asks for my help.Powerful fae are going missing, and when he tried to investigate, Lallakai vanished too...
  • Taming Demons for Beginners by Annette Marie

    Taming Demons for Beginners by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 114 ratings
    Rule one: Don't look at the demon. When I arrived at my uncle's house, I expected my relatives to be like me—outcast sorcerers who don't practice magic. I was right about the sorcery, but wrong about everything else. Rule two: Don't listen to the demon. My uncle chose a far deadlier power...
  • Watercolour Smile by Jane Washington

    Watercolour Smile by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    “Maybe I was stupid to have agreed to this, but when all of the options that you have in life are dangerous ones, you can only choose to do something reckless, or turn a blind eye and allow the cards to fall as they may… and I was sick of being blind...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war...
  • Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. In a world of lava and fire, I am about to face my hardest trial yet. Not one of strength, or power, but intrigue and manipulation...
  • Bespelled by Laura Thalassa

    Bespelled by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    “Neither magic, nor time, can keep us apart. We are like the stars. Eternal.” No one told witch Selene Bowers having a soul mate would be so difficult. Nor did they warn her that he might be a vengeful, ancient sorcerer who would frame her for murder, force her to remember a past life he swears she lived, and then coerce her into an unbreakable marriage pact...
  • Blood Beyond Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Blood Beyond Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Sword of Light, the only weapon capable of killing Queen Aneira, has been found. Ember’s destiny is to end her reign and become the new Queen.Or so she thought.When Eli and Ember are taken by Aneira, she is forced to make a deal to save the man she loves. A curse is placed on Ember that if she uses the sword against the Seelie Queen, Eli Dies.A price she might not be willing to make...
  • Between Floors by W.R. Gingell

    Between Floors by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I’m not supposed to push through the boundaries of reality without supervision. I’m definitely not meant to drag a cop Between with me. But stuff happens, you know? Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not Pet, exactly. I am a pet. Nothing too hard; I just cook and clean for the Behindkind who took over my house. Easy. But now one of my owners has gone missing...
  • Breakwater by Shannon Mayer

    Breakwater by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. As an Ender, one of my father’s Elite guards, it’s my job to do as I’m told...
  • Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

    Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 23 ratings
    They are my harvest, and I will reap them all. Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago—a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock...
  • Fire In The Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Fire In The Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Ember discovers she is not only fae, but is one of the most feared type in existence—a Dae—considered an abomination among their kind. Her race is hunted down and killed because of their power.After her magic causes an electrical storm which destroys Seattle, Ember is on the run, pursued by the both the light and dark fae...
  • Dwellers Of Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Dwellers Of Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Three years have passed in Earth’s realm when Ember and her friends finally return from the Otherworld.Eli feels her the moment she steps back, and the beast is far from delighted. Believing for the last three years she was dead, he has become violent and cruel in her absence.Eli’s anger isn’t the only thing she should fear...
  • Brimstone Bound by Helen Harper

    Brimstone Bound by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 33 ratings
    A werewolf killer. A paranormal murder. How many times can Emma Bellamy cheat death?I’m one placement away from becoming a fully fledged London detective. It’s bad enough that my last assignment before I qualify is with Supernatural Squad. But that’s nothing compared to what happens next...
  • Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    There’s a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager’s office. And there’s definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms. Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet. I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody’s gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures...
  • Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Vours: Evil demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hour of the winter solstice. It's been a year since Reggie first discovered the Vours, and the winter solstice is approaching once again. It will be another night of unspeakable horror for those unlucky enough to be taken by the Vours, because this time, she won't be able to stop them...
  • Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Book two in the slow-burn horror romance series, Experiment in Terror, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Forbidden Man and The Pact In the for­got­ten town of Red Fox, a Navajo cou­ple is tor­tured by things unseen and by motives unknown...
  • Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice. Six month... Since Reggie first discovered the existence of the Vours in a tattered journal. Since she learned to overcome her fear and destroyed a Vour to save Henry...
  • Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 82 ratings
    Will love conquer all? Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch...
  • Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

    Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 61 ratings
    She could save the world—or destroy it. Sixteen-year-old Evangeline "Evie" Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they're still happening...
  • Monster Mine by Meg Collett

    Monster Mine by Meg Collett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I, Sunny Lyons, am chasing my best friend’s ghost. Or at least I thought I was until Ollie calls me on the phone and tells me to come to Anchorage, Alaska. We find her in a renovated warehouse surrounded by halflings and Hex, her father and the greatest aswang warrior who has ever lived...
  • Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    This electrifying conclusion to the Nevermore trilogy takes one last trip to the dream world of Edgar Allan Poe to reveal the intertwined fates of Isobel and Varen.The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? —Edgar Allan PoeThe fine line between life and death blurred long ago for Isobel Lanley...
  • Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From NYT and USAT bestselling authors Denise Grover Swank and Shannon Mayer comes a new twist on the world of vampires . . .In the city that never sleeps, nightmares live in the darkness . . .A series of grisly murders begin to pile up in New York City, murders that have no rhyme or reason and no leads. Unless one chooses to believe that the supernatural is possible...
  • The Long-Forgotten Winter King by Annette Marie

    The Long-Forgotten Winter King by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 35 ratings
    Everyone is keeping secrets.Zak won't reveal what really happened between us ten years ago. Ríkr's been hiding so much I scarcely recognize him anymore. But the biggest secret belongs to my parents, and it's the one I'm most desperate to unravel. Finding out who they really were, and who I am, means solving their eighteen-year-old murders...
  • The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

    The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . .
    Categorized as:
    horror  mystery  magic  demons  suspense  fantasy  young adult  witches
  • Web of Lies by Jennifer Estep

    Web of Lies by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 47 ratings
    Curiosity is definitely going to get me dead one of these days. Probably real soon.I'm Gin Blanco. You might know me as the Spider, the most feared assassin in the South. I’m retired now, but trouble still has a way of finding me. Like the other day when two punks tried to rob my popular barbecue joint, the Pork Pit. Then there was the barrage of gunfire on the restaurant...
  • Magic Games by Ella Summers

    Magic Games by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Dragon Born mage Sera Dering was sentenced to death before she was even born. Condemned as an abomination by the world’s supernatural council, she has escaped her fate for twenty-four years by pretending to be human. Until now. When the council finds out Sera has been hiding her magic, they’re determined to find out why...
  • The Killing Season by Meg Collett

    The Killing Season by Meg Collett

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the far Alaskan north, there are places the winter sun cannot reach. Places where light won't shine for months. These are the places we hunt the monsters who feed on fear. So begins the Killing Season. For the next sixty-five days, we will face the darkness. Some will hunt the aswangs in the ever night, but I, Ollie Andrews, am here for one purpose: to search for answers to my past...
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    He sold her the game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom’s birthday party, she chills to the warning: “Entering the Shadow World can be deadly. Do so at your own risk.” Spellbound, they piece together the rooms with their darkest nightmares...
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