Urban Fantasy Magic

Sarah... "She looked almost like any typical teenage girl that you might see congregating at the mall or movie theater. She had an innocent ‘girl next door’ beauty with a smattering of tiny freckles across her nose overlooked by sparkling gem-like sapphire blue eyes. It was only when you looked closer that the Barbie image wavered a bit. First of all, this girl was ripped. She had the muscle tone of an Olympic athlete. The long legs barely covered by her brief pink pleated skirt rippled with muscle. And the arms shown off by her short sleeved white silk blouse displayed the hard, dense ...

Shamus "Shame" Flynn is a Death magic user with a smart mouth and a bad attitude. His job riding a desk while keeping an eye on the city's humdrum magic users isn't making his mood any better. Sure, the most dangerous magic was locked away for good three years ago, but that doesn't mean people have stopped trying to access the old, deadly powers.

The Beechwood Inn for paranormal beings is opening its doors once again, and the first event following the hiatus is a fairy godmother conference. When the godmothers arrive, I expect them to bust out their knitting projects and sip tea, while they swap recipes and sweet stories of their cherubic charges. So, when the sitting room turns into a defensive magic combat zone and a boot camp style obstacle course is erected in the manor's backyard, I'm more than a little thrown off. Then the curse gets unleashed.

Born to a wealthy Virginian family, privileged Jordan's got her life all planned out. Get her PhD, find the perfect Virginian man to marry, pop out a few more Kacys, and make her state senator father proud. If only Jordan could let the past rest. When your mother disappears without a trace, it carves a gash that bleeds a long time. Jordan has never given up hope that her mother is alive. So when Jordan's old nanny shows up with a mysterious locket containing a portrait of Jordan's mother, Jordan believes her hope was not in vain.

The only good vampire is a dead vampire – until one saves your sister's life. As a rebellious witch who hunts vampires for profit rather than duty, Kori has always been the black sheep of her coven. But when her sister Grace is turned into a vampire, her mother gives her an impossible command: kill her own sister to preserve their family's honor. Tracking Grace will also mean facing the vampire that turned her. Alaric, a powerful, ancient knight determined to protect his family. Trapped between Alaric's lethal protection of his blood and her own conflicted heart, Kori hesitates--and that ...

Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to Western European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories that have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the 20th century.

I'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. Can I put out another supernatural fire before it spreads or am I doomed to watch the town go up in flames?

Jumping out of a helicopter without a parachute is bad enough, but what do you do when you run into a monster in the woods? Dr. Frederick Burns, werewolf and cryptozoologist, did not expect to find a new creature today. He planned to trek back to his friends and his plane—if he survived his foolish jump out of a doomed helicopter. Instead he gets a snarky swan and an Inuit monster. What else could possibly go wrong?

After Grand-mere Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her. Even so, the Orchires fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival. And when their youngest daughter comes of age, magic flows anew. The lineage continues, though new generations struggle not only to master their power, but also to keep it hidden. But when World War II looms on the horizon, magic is needed more urgently than ever.

Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after a decade, her carefully structured life begins to unravel.

If they can’t turn me, they’ll kill me. After a high-stakes robbery accidentally ended up with a dead vampire elder, I barely escaped with my life… and the ancient treaty I’d been hired to steal. With the entire supernatural community after me, I go into hiding with my best friend (a witch) my boss (a vampire) and my handsome police escort (wolf). All I want to do is keep my little brother safe. But when a vicious spider-demon catches up with us, I’m forced to go deep underground to learn a forbidden secret from a troll mediator. The Treaty was forged. The history is a lie. And ...

Becka Rowan thought the hardest part of returning to her fae family would be mastering her unpredictable magic and living up to her twin sister's legacy. She didn't count on becoming the target of a shadowy assassin. When a poisoner strikes at the heart of House Rowan, Becka barely survives, and her father is left clinging to life. Suddenly, the home she's fought so hard to rebuild feels more dangerous than ever. With enemies lurking in every shadow, Becka must decide who she can trust—and fast. The attack brings Enforcer Quinn, her forbidden desire, back into her life, and Becka can't ...

As a bookish, introverted database programmer, Morgen Keller never thought she was a candidate for a midlife crisis. That was before her husband divorced her, her boss let her go, and her grandmother died. Forty wasn’t supposed to look like this. When Morgen heads up to the small town of Bellrock, Washington, to settle the estate, she looks forward to taking a peaceful break from life and figuring out what she’s going to do next. But peace isn’t to be had.

Death holds no rest for the weary Demigoddess. At least I think this was death I passed through? My mother Lady Clare formerly of the Irish Vampyr Tribe came to me. My powers emerging might hold the only possible restitution to several lives hanging in the balance. Even after all I have endured, all that has been sacrificed, still I fight on. I must fight my way beyond the limits of my original self. The ultimate battle and the ultimate prize hang heavily in the scales of fate. By the end of this struggle, two youthful immortal lives could be restored. I will fight like the devils ...

The world has changed. In the wake of the Fae uprising, Infernal power has waned and Raven now finds herself estranged from her old city, her old crew, and her closest friend. Struggling to come to terms with a new life without Mia, Harry's betrayal, and her work with the Bureau, Raven is visited by an old acquaintance and a new threat to the twin cities emerges. The Fae might once more be in ascendence, but they are not the greatest threat to stability within the twin cities, nor the world beyond. Something darker and much more insidious now stalks the streets of Dusk.

Anita Blake is engaged to Jean-Claude, the new vampire king of America. Humans think she’s gone over to the side of the monsters. The vampires fear that their new king has fallen under the spell of the most powerful necromancer in a thousand years.

She lost her heart to a vampire. Will she lose her life too? Juniper is a witch, hidden amid the gas lamps of Victorian society, who knows the bloody shape of the future. When she is imprisoned in a vampire's lair alongside an officer from Scotland Yard, she faces his interrogation about a murder that rocked the front page of newspapers around the globe. She knows that he sees her as a courtesan with dangerous social ambitions, but the truth would scandalize him more. It is a story of outcasts, warlocks, werewolves, finishing schools, dark prophecies, and supernatural threats that he won't ...

Remember that old line about how the only way out of the organization is in a pine box? Well, Rue Hollis spent 10 years thinking she had escaped the Black Hat Bureau, no coffin required. Then her former partner had to go and shatter the illusion by showing up on her doorstep with grim tidings.

Arrietty in Underland, A Warped Alice in Wonderland Reimagining. First book in a new standalone series in the Darkly Sweet world! Arrietty Lovecraft, Penny’s hacker, put all her unhealthy and unethical adventures behind her and is a quiet potions witch in Darkside until a killer with her face, her tech, and her genetics frames her for a murder and a kidnapping. The Dragonlord of Death comes with a deal, and while Arrietty knows better than to make a deal with death or a dragon, someone has to rescue her good friend from the Spider of Underland before she becomes another mad inhabitant of ...

Where the Marble Arch stands today in London was once the Tyburn gallows - also known as The Hanging Tree. The walk toward those gallows along Oxford Street and past the Mayfair mansions has a bloody and haunted history as the last trip of the condemned. Some things never change. For both blood and ghosts have returned to those mansions of the super-rich. And it's up to Peter Grant - England's last wizard and the Metropolitan Police's reluctant investigator of all things supernatural - to get to the bottom of the sinister doings.