Books like 'Samantha Watkins: Chronicles of an Extraordinary Ordinary Life'

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  • Lights, Cameras, Witches by Amanda M. Lee

    Lights, Cameras, Witches by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Bay Winchester isn’t in the mood for trouble. It seems to continually find her, however, and this time it’s coming in the form of a television production crew.Haunted Traditions has made a name for itself as the premiere reality television show catering to paranormal enthusiasts. Of course Hemlock Cove pops up on their radar...
  • Dial W For Witch by Amanda M. Lee

    Dial W For Witch by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Happy Holidays Players—a renowned acting troupe—is coming to town and Hemlock Cove is bursting with excited residents who want parts in the winter festival. That includes the three Winchester matriarchs, who are vying with one another for top billing.Bay Winchester doesn’t care about the pageant, but she’s more than happy to sit back and watch the shenanigans...
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  • Undead Urges by Amanda M. Lee

    Undead Urges by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Luna Thorn is a witch about town. She likes to fancy herself a loner, but the truth is, she has the weight of the world resting on her shoulders.Gorgons are infiltrating Detroit, and they’ve set their sights on Luna. They want her. The question why? Luna is determined to find out. It won’t be easy...
  • Beach Blanket Wendigo by Amanda M. Lee

    Beach Blanket Wendigo by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Moonstone Bay is in an uproar. The DDA is on the run, but they’re not going down without a fight. While all that’s going on, Hadley Hunter is practicing her magic. She managed to join with her elemental friends for a huge wins—and feels that’s important for the DDA fight—but she needs practice.Nothing is perfect, however...
  • Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 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...
  • Friday The Witchteenth by Amanda M. Lee

    Friday The Witchteenth by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bay Winchester is newly married and happy. Things have been quiet since she returned from her honeymoon, which means trouble is just around the corner. When it comes, it takes the form of a despondent man on a bridge. Despite her best efforts, Bay and the hostage negotiator can’t save him, and death is swift...
  • Crone Cold Dead by Amanda M. Lee

    Crone Cold Dead by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Scout Randall’s life has taken more turns than she was ready for, and it’s a new dawn in Hawthorne Hollow.Her parents have arrived on the scene, and it turns out, they’ve been hiding in the shadows for years waiting for her.The prophecy that foretold her winning what should be an unwinnable war, has enemies crawling out of the woodwork...
  • Afterlife by Dannika Dark

    Afterlife by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Another addicting installment of the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series.Only a week after solving their last case, Raven is itching for a new assignment. In her downtime, she’s focusing on the two most important men in her life: her father and Christian. But there’s no rest for the wicked.When an old friend seeks Raven’s expertise on a delicate matter, Viktor reluctantly accepts the case...
  • We All Scream by Amanda M. Lee

    We All Scream by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Stormy Morgan has accepted her life as a witch, and is even looking forward to the future. That means training with the most powerful witches in the Midwest. She’s determined to follow through on her destiny. Despite her best intentions though, not everything is going to be as easy as she hoped.When Stormy steps in and uses her magic following a bus accident, she’s almost killed in the process...
  • Dawn's Envoy by T.A. White

    Dawn's Envoy by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A favor owed, a hunt like no other. A courier for the shadow world no more, Aileen’s former protection is gone. Alone but still defiant, she survives one night at a time. Sure, working a dead-end job isn’t part of every young vampire’s dreams, but it pays the bills...
  • Paladin's Kiss by Elizabeth Hunter

    Paladin's Kiss by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s the vampire wedding of the century… and maybe the end of an empire.The upper echelons of immortal society have gathered in New Orleans, all of them curious to witness the joining of Gavin Wallace, the immortal business mogul, to the human woman who captured his heart...
  • Cold as a Witch's Tequila Sunrise by Lily Harper Hart

    Cold as a Witch's Tequila Sunrise by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The big day has arrived. Hali Waverly is finally getting the surgery she so desperately needs. Her boyfriend Gray Hunter is determined to be by her side for it. She thinks she’s ready for it. Is she, though?The surgery itself goes off without a hitch. Hali’s recovery is another story. Ceding control of her beloved tiki bar to her brother and her boyfriend’s brother only amps up her anxiety...
  • A Little Slice of Death by Amanda M. Lee

    A Little Slice of Death by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Stormy Morgan thought coming home to Shadow Hills would break her. Instead, she’s found strength, and only part of it is because she’s discovered that she’s a witch. Now, with her great-grandmother coming to town, she’s finally in line for some answers. Now she just has to solve a pesky little murder before she’s free to cast and curse...
  • Fury and Ice by Annabel Chase

    Fury and Ice by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.When a woman is murdered behind the library, Chief Fox realizes the victim was more than she seemed and enlists the aid of Chipping Cheddar’s resident Federal Bureau of Magic agent, Eden Fury...
  • Sweetwater and the Witch by Jayne Castle

    Sweetwater and the Witch by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Welcome to the world of Harmony, where—despite its name, things are anything but—danger lurks just beneath the surface in this new novel by New York Times bestselling author, Jayne Castle.If there’s something Ravenna Chastain knows, it’s when to end things...
  • Birds of a Fury by Annabel Chase

    Birds of a Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Agent Eden Fury is currently building a bridge over troubled waters and she's not sure if she has the tools to finish the job.The truth about her personal life is out and Eden wants nothing more than to put the genie back in the bottle. Unfortunately that won’t happen without the type of magic she refuses to touch...
  • Gray Days by Hailey Edwards

    Gray Days by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Black Hat Bureau, Book 9The Black Hat compound is rubble on the ocean floor, the director hasn’t been seen since the explosion that demolished his life’s work, and old enemies have decided it’s open season on the remaining agents. Oh. And Arden has decided now is a great time for a surprise visit to force a confrontation with Rue...
  • Finch Merlin and the Djinn's Curse by Bella Forrest

    Finch Merlin and the Djinn's Curse by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The lost city lies beyond a locked gateway. But the key is not what it seems…Now a map-maker extraordinaire, Finch must find the place Erebus so desperately seeks—although the “how” and “why” remain unclear. And a certain vengeful Necromancer is bent on beating Erebus to the punch, and he’d be more than happy to make Finch collateral damage...
  • Devil Days in Deadwood by Ann Charles, C.S. Kunkle

    Devil Days in Deadwood by Ann Charles, C.S. Kunkle

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Violet Parker knows better than to play with devils. They always cheat, especially when lives are at stake. Deadwood’s charming, troublemaking, and soul-sucking devils are no different, and they’re biting at her heels.But the clock is ticking and Violet has no choice—she must risk her life to save her treasured Aunt Zoe...
  • Fun and Fury by Annabel Chase

    Fun and Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.Federal Bureau of Magic Agent Eden Fury spends her days catching demons and returning them to Otherworld where they belong. Grandma spends her days catching Little Critters on her favorite game and never the twain shall meet.Until they do...
  • Bedtime Fury by Annabel Chase

    Bedtime Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
  • The Vampire's Sunny Sweetheart by Kristen Painter

    The Vampire's Sunny Sweetheart by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town where Halloween is celebrated 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all...
  • Chilled to the Bone by Amanda M. Lee

    Chilled to the Bone by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Stormy Morgan is flying high. She’s engaged. She’s used to her new routine. She’s even learning about being a witch. All of that changes when a local podcaster’s house goes up in flames and a body is found inside. Carl Winslow was not a nice man. He spent his time stalking local family vloggers so he could cast aspersions on their life choices...
  • Every Picture Tells a Fury by Annabel Chase

    Every Picture Tells a Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.When an artist in Chipping Cheddar disappears under mysterious circumstances, Chief Fox enlists my help to solve the case. An inspection of the artist's most recent paintings reveals there's magic at work and I have to get in touch with my inner Rembrandt in order to access it...
  • Client from Hell by R.J. Blain

    Client from Hell by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Step one: add some gasoline.Step two: light a match.Step three: watch the devil’s house burn.As far as plans go, Sandra Moore rather likes hers. It’s simple. It gets the job done. It reduces the devil’s house to smoldering ruins.Life is good—at least for the year she has left of it, assuming the devil doesn’t kill her first...
  • An Ex to Grind in Deadwood by Ann Charles, C.S. Kunkle

    An Ex to Grind in Deadwood by Ann Charles, C.S. Kunkle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Something has gone foul in the Black Hills … something gravely unnatural. Leave it to Violet Parker to stumble into the middle of it. A creepy phone call. A dead body. Two meddling detectives. A glut of trouble-making ex-partners. Can things get any worse? Violet swears to keep her nose out of police business this time...
  • Death Dates The Oracle by Kristen Painter

    Death Dates The Oracle by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year.The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better.Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all.Eamon Underwood isn’t what you’d call a social butterfly...
  • Gray Seas by Hailey Edwards

    Gray Seas by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    After the challenge for the throne of Hael went sideways, Rue expected Stavros to place a bounty on Asa’s head, but she didn’t expect him to pin an even bigger target on her back. Then again, it was her fault he was forced to turn tail and run from the fight during a live broadcast to the entire kingdom. That had to sting his pride...
  • Hell Hath No Fury by Annabel Chase

    Hell Hath No Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.When residents start turning into animals, I know there's more than shifting at work. Unfortunately, the animals aren't speaking up and I don't have a clue where to start...
  • Three Alarm Fury by Annabel Chase

    Three Alarm Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sightI've finally taken a big step in my personal life when my professional life heats up with a spate of behavioral issues that seem unrelated. When some of the issues become life-threatening, I know that time is running out, but I'm no closer to identifying the root cause...
  • Starry with a Chance of Nightshade by Mandy M. Roth

    Starry with a Chance of Nightshade by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Grimm Cove, Book FourDetective Stratton Bright is a man with many secrets. He came to Grimm Cove on the hunt for a killer who is anything but human. Not only is he duty-bound by birth to protect those who cannot protect themselves, he’s got a personal stake in the matter. So when the trail went cold, his gut told him to remain in the South Carolina town and lay down roots...
  • The Shade of Things by Deborah Wilde

    The Shade of Things by Deborah Wilde

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Miriam Feldman’s life has become Running Man with a side of Squid Game when she’d much prefer The Great British Bake Off. When Miri partners up with her detective ex-husband on an off-the-books magical missing persons operation, she expects buddy cop adventures galore. Instead, she gets more than she bargained for, starting with a mouthy golem who’s forced onto the team...
  • The Detective Wins The Witch by Kristen Painter

    The Detective Wins The Witch by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all...
  • The Viper’s Nest Roadhouse & Cafe by Seana Kelly

    The Viper’s Nest Roadhouse & Cafe by Seana Kelly

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m Sam, the werewolf book nerd owner of The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore & Bar. Clive, Fergus, and I are moving into our new home, the business is going well, and our folly is taking shape. The problem? Clive’s maker Garyn is coming to San Francisco for a visit, and this reunion has been a thousand years in the making...
  • Better than Hex by Annabel Chase

    Better than Hex by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 18 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...
  • Valley of the Shadow by Elizabeth Hunter

    Valley of the Shadow by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I’m sure of you. Everything else, we’ll figure out along the way.” For eight years, Baojia and Natalie have pursued their goals: family, career, friendship and love—trying to carve out an ordinary life in an immortal world. And for eight years they’ve been mostly successful save for a world-bending adventure every now and then. Except that their life was never ordinary...
  • The Dirty Coven by Lily Harper Hart

    The Dirty Coven by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hannah Hickok is at a crossroads in her life. She’s single, out of a job, and living in an apartment she absolutely hates in a suburb of Detroit. All that changes when she receives a registered letter and finds out she’s inherited a performance town.Casper Creek is located in Kentucky, on top of a small mountain, and is fashioned after notorious towns from the old west...
  • Witch at Odds by Juliette Harper

    Witch at Odds by Juliette Harper

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Resigned to her new life as a witch and determined to make a success of both that and her business, Jinx has a lot to learn. She sets out to both study her craft and get a real direction for her aunt’s haphazard approach to inventory. Not to mention the fact that she wouldn’t mind getting to know neighboring business owner Chase McGregor a lot better...
  • Hell on Heels by Robyn Peterman

    Hell on Heels by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Where does a Demon go when she gets deported from Hell? Kentucky. Eden, Kentucky to be more specific—where nothing is exactly as it seems. My name is Dixie. I’m a Demon—a lousy Demon. I’m a twenty-one year old virgin and I have a battery operated boyfriend. My magic is iffy at best and downright dangerous at worst. Leaving Hell to represent my race is not high on my list of things to do...
  • Fashionably Dead in Diapers by Robyn Peterman

    Fashionably Dead in Diapers by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    And I thought being half Vampyre/half Demon was hard…That’s nothing compared to being a mother. Sweet baby Moses in a boob tube, there aren’t any books on raising True Immortals so let me give you a few tips… ~Make a map of every closet and bathroom in your home if you enjoy having sex...
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  • Ribbing and Runes by Nancy Warren

    Ribbing and Runes by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Can a secret runic message lead to murder?There's a lot happening in Cardinal Woolsey's knitting shop in Oxford. Witches, vampires, a knowing cat, romance and murder. Join Lucy and her undead knitting club as they solve another crime.There's no violence, sex or bad language, just quirky characters, humor—and murder...
  • Dervishes Don't Dance by Kim McDougall

    Dervishes Don't Dance by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Guardian is dead. Fae are missing. And someone has let a golem loose in town. Ride along with Kyra Greene, the only pest controller qualified to deal with the strange and wonderful creatures that come out the shadows when magic flares.Dervishes Don’t Dance is the second book in the Valkyrie Bestiary series...
  • No Guts, No Fury by Annabel Chase

    No Guts, No Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sightI'm less than thrilled when the Federal Bureau of Magic sends a training instructor to make sure my skills are up to snuff. Agent Quinn Redmond is an uptight fae with a rigid approach to rules and regulations that even a do-gooder like me finds stifling...
  • Dark Secrets by Linsey Hall

    Dark Secrets by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Some secrets change the worldThe good news: I have a new life in a crazy city full of actual magic. Wild, right? The bad news: I still don’t have a guild, which means I’m halfway to being an outlaw. My days here are numbered.When an enchanted book reveals dark secrets from Guild City’s past, a dangerous threat rises. Worse, it has stained my friend Mac with a deadly curse...
  • Miss Frost Says I Do by Kristen Painter

    Miss Frost Says I Do by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to the North Pole, the town where Christmas is everyone’s job.Jayne Frost is a lot of things. Winter elf, Jack Frost's daughter, Santa Claus's niece, heir to the Winter Throne and soon to be newlywed. Now that she and fiancé Sinclair (and their cats, Spider and Sugar) have moved back to the North Pole, they’re firmly entrenched in planning their wedding...
  • Herringbones and Hexes by Nancy Warren

    Herringbones and Hexes by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    What the hex is going on?Life at Cardinal Woolsey’s knitting and yarn shop is about as smooth as shop owner Lucy’s knitting. In other words, lumpy, tangled and prone to disaster. Much like her spell-casting. But things get worse when her cousin and shop assistant Violet shows alarming symptoms of a hex...
  • Immortal by Lauretta Hignett

    Immortal by Lauretta Hignett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Immortality sucks.Just ask Imogen Gray – over two-hundred thousand years old and teetering on the edge of total insanity.All throughout history, she’s been hunted by an ancient creature who finds her and rips her to pieces every time she dares to access her deepest powers. But Imogen always regenerates. Slowly. Painfully.She’s on a mission to find answers. She’s almost found them...
  • Spell's Bells by Annabel Chase

    Spell's Bells by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. When a sleeping dwarf is found entombed in a glass coffin and remedial witch Sophie is blamed, Emma Hart must defend her friend while trying to get to the bottom of the enchantment...
  • Grace Under Fury by Annabel Chase

    Grace Under Fury by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sightResidents are sneezing and coughing all over town and it seems like a brutal allergy season is upon us--until someone dies. When Dr...
  • Lana  (The Mate Series) Book #17.5 by Teresa Gabelman

    Lana (The Mate Series) Book #17.5 by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After the bombing at the Guardian wedding tension within the VC ranks intensifies. Word on the street is that the deaths were a warning to the Warriors. Already on edge and overworked the Warriors and Guardians work together to find those responsible.Sources have informed the Warriors that the police as well as the government may have some involvement...
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