KristinD
September 1, 2015
Reviews, Urban Fantasy

Maurin Kincaide certainly has led an interesting life-from unloved troubled child to Regulator for the Council (the collective heads of the supernatural community in Salem) and daughter of the Lord of the Wild Hunt-she has been dealt a complicated hand. Now, when things seem to be calming down, Maurin finds herself the object of an assassination order. To complicate matters, it seems the Dark Court is also hunting Maurin, and her father, magic dog, and boyfriend have all disappeared.
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Lori
July 4, 2015
Paranormal, Reviews, Young Adult

When Reece and her two best friends are in a serious car accident, Reece feels herself die. She does not stay dead. Miraculously, she survives and she wishes she had not. Nothing is the same without her two best friends. She hears things and has horrible nightmares. And no one believes her when she talks about the black panther that caused the accident. After all,
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Carol
July 4, 2015
Reviews, Urban Fantasy

When
The Loss opens, forty-four years after the events of book one, The Rise, the Mikaelson siblings run New Orleans, creating new vampires to increase their ranks, rebuilding the city after the devastating hurricane summoned by the witches in 1722. While Elijah and Rebekah have worked to solidify their power and make their home comfortable, Klaus has had a completely different and secret agenda-to somehow bring back to life his beloved Vivianne who died in the siege of their home at the end of the previous book.
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Carol
April 30, 2015
Fantasy, Reviews
Witches with the Enemy, the riveting third installment in the Mist-Torn witches series, begins just a few months after the events of book two. After a period of calm, dealing primarily with physical complaints from their apothecary customers, sisters Celine and Amelie get called to the castle to see Prince Anton, their benefactor, for whom they also work as seers when needed. Upon their arrival at
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Mary
April 24, 2015
Paranormal, Reviews, Young Adult

On the run after her disastrous wedding, Jane Boyle Doran is doing her best to hide in plain sight, right under her mother-in-law’s nose, in the middle of Manhattan. Discovering that her mother-in-law, Lynne, only wanted her to produce an heir to pass the family’s magic on was enough to make both Jane and Malcolm, her husband, run in separate directions to save themselves.
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Mary
April 22, 2015
Paranormal, Reviews

After surviving a fire at her cousin Cinnamon’s bar, Stacy Justice reluctantly accepts the fact that she is the heiress-apparent to the family business-witchcraft. Her three aunts show up at the Black Opal, Cinnamon’s bar, dressed and ready to hold an Imbolc ceremony in the midst of the investigation, her dog Thor will not leave her side, and her boyfriend is the Chief of Police, who has questions of his own about the fire.
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Carol
April 22, 2015
Reviews, Urban Fantasy

When Elijah made his first appearance on The Vampire Diaries in Season Two, viewers immediately became enthralled with the concept of the Original vampires-enough so that the often vicious but always intriguing family got their own show. The Originals:
The Rise, first in a trilogy, provides a background for the trio’s early years in New Orleans.
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Lolita
April 17, 2015
Paranormal, Reviews
Wulfe Untamed is Pamela Palmer’s final installment in her Feral Warriors series. Readers will be entertained from the beginning of the story to the final page. This is Wulfe’s and Natalie Cash’s story, and takes place just outside Washington, D.C., present day. Wulfe is a wolf shape-shifter who takes the job of protecting Natalie from enemies she does not know she has. It turns out to be more than just a job as they both find their connection and attraction growing.
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Mary
April 6, 2015
Paranormal, Reviews

Fleeing her abusive husband and mourning the suicide of her father, Sandrine bravely travels from New York to Paris, alone and without the protection expected of a young woman in the 1890’s. Knowing her grandmother will take her in, Sandrine arrives at Maison de la Lune during a rainstorm, only to find her grandmother has closed up the house, supposedly for renovations. With the help of the next-door neighbor, Sandrine finds her grandmother, and is stunned when her grandmother is not happy to see her, telling her that she should never have returned to Paris.
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Lori
April 3, 2015
Fantasy, Kids, Reviews

In the final book of the Rowan of the Wood series, the Freak Squad is desperately trying to make sense of Cullen’s inheritance, a text written in an ancient language. They know it provides the secret for not only separating Rowan and Cullen, but also defeating Fiana once and for all.
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AJ
March 11, 2015
Paranormal, Reviews

Her name is Oddly Normal. Really. That is her name. Kids are cruel but the kids at her school have a special knack for bullying. Her green hair and pointed ears only add fuel to their abuse. Having a witch for a Mom didn’t help either. Literally. When she makes a wish and blows out the candles on her 10th birthday, the unthinkable happens. Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. When her wish goes awry, Oddly’s Aunt takes her back to her home in Fignation. When Oddly
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AJ
February 26, 2015
Reviews, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult

Twig has a big secret hidden in her attic. She lives isolated from the real world, unnoticed, like a twig. She can never have friends over to her house and has begun to believe that no one would ever want to be her friend, anyway. Her life feels like a painting that is only made up of shades of grey.
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Carol
January 27, 2015
Reviews, Urban Fantasy
The Witches of Echo Park, first in an intriguing new series, grabs the reader’s attention with its first sentence. Lyse MacCallister does not react well to the news that her great-aunt, Eleanora, has terminal cancer. The shock results in an evening of drinking, and the snap decision to buy a plane ticket from her home in Athens, Georgia to Echo Park, California, in the Los Angeles area. Once her plane lands, Lyse feels pleasantly surprised to find Eleanora waiting for her at the airport, especially as she had not told her great-aunt she was coming at that time.
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Lori
December 9, 2014
Paranormal, Reviews, Young Adult

After working a disturbing and emotional missing person’s case that destroys her marriage, psychic Mira Tejedor is relieved to be asked to help with a boy who has stopped talking. Anthony Faircloth has not spoken in over a month, and doctors can find nothing wrong with him but his condition is worsening. Anthony’s mother decides that maybe Mira can help where doctors have failed. On her first meeting with Anthony, Mira finds herself actually inside Anthony’s mind, something that has never happened to her before.
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KristinD
November 20, 2014
Paranormal, Reviews

It has been years since Akasha tried to destroy the vampire nation descended from her, but was thwarted by Lestat, the other vampires of the Coven of the Articulate, and the ancient twins, Maharet and Mekare. Now, a new Voice is rousing old vampires from their sleep, pushing them to destroy the younger generations the world over.
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KristinD
October 27, 2014
Reviews, Urban Fantasy

Jane Yellowrock is a force to be reckoned with now, but before she was the Enforcer, Jane was just a girl breaking into the private security field. Snafu is a glimpse of Jane at the beginning. A bad neighborhood and some sketchy characters force Jane to use her newly-discovered Beast magic to save herself.
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Carol
October 24, 2014
Reviews, Urban Fantasy

Fans of the ground-breaking Otherworld series will appreciate this return visit with some of the characters via six stories and two novellas.
“Demonology” opens with Talia Lyndsay in a waiting room with her young son, Adam, there to see a doctor who may be able to help her understand Adam’s fascination with fire, and how he can almost burn things or people with his touch. Read More »
Lori
October 12, 2014
Paranormal, Reviews, Young Adult

Talisman, or Tali as she prefers to be called, is very used to moving but is still not happy when her mother tells her it is time to leave Chicago. She is happy in the big city and being dragged across the country to Mystic Falls, a small town with seemingly no redeeming qualities, is not her idea of fun. When they pull up to the huge house where they will be staying, she starts to change her mind. Not used to living in the lap of luxury, the Salvatore mansion is easy to get used to and the
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Danielle
September 16, 2014
Reviews, Urban Fantasy

Marnie Baranuik is back to solve more paranormal crimes in her usual wacky, bumbling way in
Last Impressions. She has barely recovered from a case chockful of exploding zombies, and is dealing with her Paranormal Crimes Unit of the FBI getting suspended for an Internal Affairs investigation, when she gets a call from Constable Patrick Schenk in the sleepy town of her origin in Ontario, Canada. A missing woman had Marnie’s business card, and the detective asks for her help.
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Virginia
August 28, 2014
Reviews, Urban Fantasy

Merit is just trying to adjust to life as a vampire. But in the short time that she has been one, her House, Cadogan, has faced many tribulations. Being immortal is not all it is cracked up to be. When riots begin against the vampires, Merit and Ethan have to track down the source of the discontent.
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