Paranormal

In this episode, we discuss An Easter Demon for Eloise by Chloe Alice Balkin. Bouquet of basil, yellow carnation, and butterfly weed anyone? Florist Eloise would love to give her demonic captors the arrangement of hatred, disdain, and let me go, but unfortunately she’ll have to settle for breaking out of her confinement and rescuing herself.
Almost immediately, she is found by Killian, a loathsome demon who has come to save her. You see, they’ve met before. And, they didn’t like each other before. But, now they have to work together if they want to get out of this hellacious landscape or else they’ll be captured, tortured, and killed by his family.
Content warning: Descriptions of past torture, character experiences episodes of trauma, panic, and anxiety 
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In this episode, we discuss Seven Years by Dannika Dark.
Seven years after disappearing, Austin Cole returns along with his grumpiness and sexiness. Lexi Knight is trying to not appreciate either as she attempts to learn why he left after Wes, his best friend and her brother, died under mysterious circumstances. However, things escalate when her mother is abducted, and Lexi learns a secret about her past, which forces Lexi and Austin under one roof so he can protect her and they can sort out their feelings. 
Content warning: Obsessive exes, rapey dudes, other man drama
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In this episode, we discuss Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh.
Sascha is a Psy who is experiencing a problematic flare up of emotion, which could get her sent to ‘rehabilitation’ to have her feelings/personality removed. To avoid this fate, she suppresses her emotions to pass as a normal Psy – nothing to see here. That all changes when she meets Lucus, a Changeling who’s used to expressing all of his feels and getting his own way. Lucus is trying to catch a serial killer. He senses that Sascha is different and hopes she can help. 
Exposure to the Changeling way of life has Sascha questioning everything. While they try to stop the murderer from starting an all-out war, Sascha must also decide if she wants to continue to control her emotions.
Content warning: Mind rape, elements of dubious consent
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In this episode, we discuss Spellbound by Allie Therin.
In 1925 New York, booze and non-heterosexuality were illegal. A magical disaster is threatening the city, and New York’s mightiest heroes are attempting to prevent the atrocity. Two of these champions are Arthur Kenzie, a wealthy veteran of The Great War, and Rory Brodigan, a poor orphan hiding a secret identity. When Arthur’s past returns to threaten the future, they work together to save the city and themselves.
Content warning: Racist and homophobic laws and social conventions of the past.
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In this episode, we discuss Am I the Asshole? by Cassie Alexander.
While blackout drunk at a party, Becky’s fiancé Logan gets her to agree to summon a demon for a threesome. The demon they summon is Quenalith, who is more than Logan bargained for. But, before he can dispel the summoning magic, Becky and Quen form a connection that is too powerful for either woman to ignore.
When Quen later tracks her down, Becky has to decide whether to ignore their undeniable chemistry or give up her safe life and take a chance on Quen.
Content warning: Cheating and emotional abuse (but not between the main couple), alcoholism, sex trafficking. 
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In this episode, we discuss Easy Magic by Kristen Proby.
After her grandmother dies, Mallory decides to eschew her psychic gifts in favor of a ‘normal’ life with as little connection to the dearly departed as possible. However, one fateful night, her shop in the French Quarter gets waterlogged, which forces her to interact with her landlord, serious CEO Beau.
The chemistry is amazing and things seem so easy, but can she adjust to his affluent lifestyle? And can he accept her spooky side and the dangers it brings?
Content warning: Kidnapping and child murder referenced but off the page.
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In this episode, we discuss Firelight by Kristen Callihan.
Miranda Ellis is a woman with a powerful secret but no social power. Lord Benjamin Archer is a man with all sorts of power and yet he is doomed to cover himself so he doesn’t shock society.
For this couple, marriage and murder intertwine, but only when they learn to trust and communicate will they see the truth.
Content warning: Threats of rape.
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In this episode, we discuss Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs by Molly Harper.
After having one of ‘those days,’ Jane is mistaken for a deer, shot, and then gets better when Gabriel transforms her into a vampire. While trying to navigate the world as an undead person, she also is trying to figure out what she and her sire are to one another. It’s complicated.
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In this episode, we discuss Bitter Spirits by Jenn Bennett. 
Spirit medium Aida Palmer uses her gift for summoning and speaking with the dead at the Gris-Gris speakeasy in Chinatown. She’s summoned to help the infamous bootlegger Winter Magnusson, who is haunted metaphorically and actually by ghosts.
They work together to uncover the identity of the hexer cursing Winter. At the same time, they help each other exorcise their own haunted pasts. Can Winter and Aida find their happily ever after before they begin their afterlife? The spirit board has said nothing so far…

In this episode, we discuss Dark Lover by J.R. Ward.
Although Beth doesn’t know it yet, she’s the product of a vampire-human relationship, and will soon be going through her own transition to become a vampire. Her unknown vampire father secures the word of Wrath, the last full-blood vampire, to help her through this transition. Once they meet, they form an instant connection and bond. However, vampires aren’t the only ones on the hunt, and Wrath and Beth must now protect each other.
Content warning: Attempted rape.
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In this episode, we discuss Can’t Fix Cupid by Raven Kennedy.
Trix Valentine is a cupid whose powers don’t work. She hasn’t been meeting her love match quotas, and may get popped out of existence if she can’t manage to fix herself. In a last ditch effort to do just that, she ends up partially human.
Warren is a savvy businessman who refuses to fall in love. Unfortunately for him, Trix has decided that he needs her help. And she will do anything to help him... and hopefully help herself in the process.

In this episode, we discuss The Vampire’s Mail Order Bride by Kristen Painter.
Delaney is on the run after witnessing a mafia-related crime. She pretends to be a mail order bride and heads to Nocturne Falls to hide out with her groom-to-be.
That groom is Hugh, a vampire with his own agenda for the set up. Hugh’s sworn off love completely, until he meets Delaney.
But, after they discover each other’s secrets, will love be enough to keep them together?

In this episode, we discuss Tallulah's Temptation by Robyn Peterman.
In his quest for booty, the vampire pirate Doug gets more than he bargained for when he's sent to help a group of mermaids defend their home.
Tallulah is a mermaid who still hates Doug from the last time he loved her, left her, and took all her gold.
Doug wants Tallulah back, but will he be able to win this feisty mermaid's heart?