Keep Me Close Elizabeth Cole (The Brothers Salem, #1) Publication date: October 24th 2017 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Dominic Salem is many things: professional ghost hunter, curse breaker, and demon slayer to name a few. If there’s one thing he’s learned, it’s never pick up hitchhikers. Something about this one made him stop, though. Maybe he hasn’t learned his lesson yet. Lavinia “Vinny” Wake doesn’t exactly trust her smoking hot ride. Her music is her sanctuary, the only thing she really believes in. But now, Vinny’s dreams have her all messed up, and the last one seemed too…real. Dom can tell Vinny’s nightmares aren’t just dreams—they’re way worse. Something or someone is drawing her into a trap, and Dom has to stop it. Turns out Vinny’s life isn’t the only thing at stake. Her soul is on the line, too. No pressure. The debut novel in The Brothers Salem, a new contemporary paranormal romance series where a trio of demon hunters–armed with spells and snark–are on...

Review: Zoey and the Witch : A Novella - The Salem Black Hat Society #0.5 - Judy Gloom - 2018 This book grabbed my attention from the cutesy cover, it just sounded like it could be quite fun. The book starts in a voodoo shop in New Orleans it felt like and then jumps to a small town where Zoey lives with her mum and stepfather.  Years ago, Zoey's father vanished and everyone assumed he was dead and he was buried in his family's historic property. Zoey is visiting his grave when she meets a young woman who has just inherited the house that Zoey's father is buried in the graveyard. The pair discover that they are in fact relatives and that their grandfathers were brothers. Anastasia LeDoux is in town and is getting ready to be initiated into a secret coven of witches called the Salem Black Hat Society. Zoey has always felt she was different and loves everything witchy and secretly tags along. Imagine her surprise when they treat her like a celebrity and they all seem to kno...

Lost Talismans and a Tequila Annette Marie (The Guild Codex: Spellbound #7) Published by: Dark Owl Fantasy Inc. Publication date: July 10th 2020 Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy 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. The squirmy feeling is making sense, right? Unfortunately, I don’t have any other options. Ezra’s time is almost up, which means I need answers and I need them fast. So it’s time to toughen up, pack my gear, and find me one of the most illegal, reviled, and scarce mythics out there: a demon-mage summoner. And all I have to do is follow a demon’s instructions on where to look. How could that go wrong? Goodreads / Amazon Author Bio: An...

Advanced Healing Spells L.C. Mawson (Ember Academy for Young Witches, #3) Publication date: April 15th 2020 Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Keeping my head down shouldn’t be too hard… Right? Unhappy with how everything with the Amazons went down, the Slayers are now investigating Ember Academy. But not me. Not as long as I keep my head down. Which would have been a hell of a lot easier if students hadn’t started dropping unconscious. No one knows how to wake them, but I have ways to find answers that they don’t The question is if I risk it with the Slayers watching me so closely… Especially when it would mean reaching out to the very criminal the Slayers are trying to find. ADVANCED HEALING SPELLS is the third book in the Ember Academy for Young Witches YA Urban Fantasy Academy series. If you love kick-ass heroines, Sapphic slow-burn romances, and magical boarding schools, you’ll love this latest fast-paced series in L.C. Mawson’s Snowverse. Goodreads / Amazon ...

Basics of Spellcraft L.C. Mawson (Ember Academy for Young Witches, #1) Publication date: January 15th 2020 Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Ancient curses. Blocked memories. And an Academy for young witches that might just hold the answers. I should have known something was wrong when my weird aunt arrived in town just as I started getting killer headaches. But how was I supposed to know that it was a sign of repressed magic? Or that an ancient witch had escaped her tomb and sent demons after me? Demons who cursed my mother. I wanted to stay with her, even if she wouldn’t wake, but I was sent to Ember Academy for Young Witches instead. Somewhere the demons hopefully can’t get me. I need to find a way to lift the curse, but there’s a block on both my magic and memories that everyone is refusing to lift. A block that might hold the answers as to why an ancient witch is after me in the first place. If I can figure her out, maybe I can figure out this curse. My teache...

The Alchemist and an Amaretto Annette Marie (The Guild Codex: Spellbound #5) Published by: Dark Owl Fantasy Inc. Publication date: October 11th 2019 Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy 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. Students of his family’s renowned mage academy are being attacked on the grounds—and somehow no one has seen a single assailant? Unexplained tracks litter the nearby woods, rumors of forbidden alchemy are circulating the campus…and Ezra has been acting strangely since we arrived. Something deadly is brewing in the shadow of Sinclair Academy, and the longer we take to uncover it, the more dangerous it bec...

Review: Spell Book and Scandal - Jen McConnel - October 2017 I have always loved reading books about witches set in today's world or the world where witches live amongst the normies. Spell Book and Scandal goes into the world of the King family. They are known to be one of the best Witch families around but for Shelby she is the black sheep of the family as her sister Christina is the perfect score Caster and Shelby should be a top scribe, but all her spells keep backfiring and going haywire so much that Christina doesn't even trust her sister to scribe for her. What will happen though when Shelby makes a flier to sell her spells to normies, soon she will discover that her spells are actually working and then one night she is mad at her sister, so she scribes a walk in my shoes spell and says it out loud, and wham bam - the pair have switched places. This is impossible as only a Caster can make the spell. Has Shelby got some hidden talents? I had hoped th...